How To Process & Treat Dialogue For Films & Games

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Published 2021-09-30
Post Audio is one of the most forgotten pieces in a quality production within the freelancer market. In this video, I'm breaking down my process on getting clean and consistent dialogue. We will be talking about compressors, EQ, DSers, Noise Reduction, Gain Staging, Reverb, & Harmonic Exciters/Saturation.

Dialogue is on of the most important elements in your soundtrack and making sure it cuts through your mix and is intelligible is highly important to the success of your film.

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Plugins: I used in the video:
You Lean Loudness Meter: youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/
WLM Plus: www.waves.com/plugins/wlm-loudness-meter?gclid=Cj0…
Dorrough: www.waves.com/plugins/dorrough-surround
VisLM: nugenaudio.com/vislm/
Fabfilter Bundle: www.fabfilter.com/shop?currency=usd&vat=0
Era Bundle: accusonus.com/products/audio-repair/era-bundle
iZotope RX: www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html
UF8 Mixer: www.long-mcquade.com/213685/Pro-Audio---Recording/…

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⏱Time Stamps⏱

0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Stage 1
1:11 - Stage 2
2:24 - Stage 3
3:21 - Stage 4
4:28 - Stage 5
4:51 - Stage 6
5:26 - Stage 7
6:35 - Stage 8
7:06 - Stage 9
7:19 - Stage 10
7:56 - Stage 11

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All the clips in this video are protected from copyright law under fair use for educational purposes.

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All Comments (21)
  • I have been scouring youtube for weeks educating mysef about dialogue editing for my short film, and all I've needed is something that lists the step by step process as succinctly as this does. Thank you!
  • @GlenReed
    Just what I needed! Thanks for sharing your process!
  • @teresa4liu15
    Can't tell you how much I've learned from this brief yet very informative tutorials. I've been processing dialogues so blindly and randomly without any ideas what to do for my projects and this has just made me realize how much can be done by just playing with dialogue!!
  • @eureitz7490
    wow, one of the best I've ever seen on the subject, great work!
  • @NOLJAK
    I’ve heard of this channel from Jessie and you helping with some of the audio for Total Drama oskay island great work and that’s so nice of you to help out the the beloved fan made season of total drama that a lot of people as well As myself are really interested in it’s Gonna be great and I just wanted to let you know I was one of his fans and cool video by the why it could help some people as creators for certain projects.
  • @OhayoMacchiato
    Wow, thank you for this video! Some of your analogies were very helpful in understanding some things like subtractive EQ.
  • @ili6065
    Good, very usefull video. Thank You for sharing your knowledges ))
  • It's so nice when someone who knows what they are doing and makes a video for the rest of us. Thank you.
  • @podpathpro
    an update to this video would be great!!
  • Love your content!🔥 Question.... You used brickwall EQ cuts. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that introduce problems with phase shifts in your audio? Especially since you're using the "zero latency" setting in the plugin.
  • @noah6694
    I much prefer doing manual spectral noise reduction in the RX editor. I haven't found any real time noise reduction plugin that stands up to the level of detail you can get manually denoising clip by clip using the editor. Also - I find multiband compression can be a a very useful dialogue shaping tool in conjuction with broad EQ.
  • Encouraging to see that others are using Nuendo on a pro level. Makes me feel good about myself.