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Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A Guide to the Invisible Art
Produce professional level dialogue tracks with industry-proven techniques and insights from an Emmy Award winning sound editor. Gain innovative solutions to common dialogue editing challenges such as room tone balancing, noise removal, perspective control, finding and using alternative takes, and even time management and postproduction politics.
In Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, Second Edition veteran film sound editor John Purcell arms you with classic as well as cutting-edge practices to effectively edit dialogue for film, TV, and video. This new edition
A fresh look at production workflows, from celluloid to Digital Cinema, to help you streamline your editing
Expanded sections on new software tools, workstations, and dialogue mixing, including mixing "in the box"
Fresh approaches to working with digital video and to moving projects from one workstation to another
An insider’s analysis of what happens on the set, and how that affects the dialogue editor
Discussions about the interweaving histories of film sound technology and film storytelling
Eye-opening tips, tricks, and insights from film professionals around the globe
A companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/purcell) with project files and video examples demonstrating editing techniques discussed in the book
Don’t allow your dialogue to become messy, distracting, and uncinematic! Do dialogue right with John Purcell’s all-inclusive guide to this essential yet invisible art.
In Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, Second Edition veteran film sound editor John Purcell arms you with classic as well as cutting-edge practices to effectively edit dialogue for film, TV, and video. This new edition
A fresh look at production workflows, from celluloid to Digital Cinema, to help you streamline your editing
Expanded sections on new software tools, workstations, and dialogue mixing, including mixing "in the box"
Fresh approaches to working with digital video and to moving projects from one workstation to another
An insider’s analysis of what happens on the set, and how that affects the dialogue editor
Discussions about the interweaving histories of film sound technology and film storytelling
Eye-opening tips, tricks, and insights from film professionals around the globe
A companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/purcell) with project files and video examples demonstrating editing techniques discussed in the book
Don’t allow your dialogue to become messy, distracting, and uncinematic! Do dialogue right with John Purcell’s all-inclusive guide to this essential yet invisible art.
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450 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2007
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April 4, 2009
Excellent! Covers the subject well. I read this now know anything about dialogue editing and when I was finished reading it I knew everything I needed to know to edit my feature documentary enough so that my sound guy didn't have weeks of work to do. He just had to follow up what already did.
September 25, 2020
This is a masterpiece. I was very lucky that the library of Brasília University had a copy of this book so I could read it in the end of my graduation course. 'Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A Guide to the Invisible Art' is something that everyone who works in post-production should read, even those in the picture department. I wish every book about film production were written like this one.
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