How To Process & Treat Dialogue For Films & Games

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:

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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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[teresaliu]

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!!

[ryanloftus]

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!

[eureitz]

wow, one of the best I've ever seen on the subject, great work!

[AlexNiedt]

Hunting for random frequencies is a fast way to over-process, especially if you're just starting out. Practically everything will start sounding like you should cut it if you're listening with a sharp 10dB boost. You should only seek out and cut ringing frequencies if they're audible enough to bother you in the first place.

[CourseWare-xgwq]

❤ such a compact and to the point video . Thnx man

[GlenReed]

Just what I needed! Thanks for sharing your process!

[noah]

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.

[octaviosilva]

Idk much about audio mixing but isnt doing those sharpe pointed cut in 3:14 generally not recommended?

Because in any freq, when you do a sharpe bell curve, it sounds like there is a problem because you are hearing single freq over amplified

[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.

[dspoet]

Two questions. You said to bring each clip up to -24 or -23.
1. What about a dialogue part where the the actor is whispering but then talks loud?
2. Can you a tutorial on doing ADR in Nuendo, using the ADR Panel?

[thehattedhedgehog]

Big thanks, i have no idea how to apply plugins on a small clip in fl studio tho

[oscarcorral]

Encouraging to see that others are using Nuendo on a pro level. Makes me feel good about myself.

[johnadjeman]

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.

[OhayoMacchiato]

Wow, thank you for this video! Some of your analogies were very helpful in understanding some things like subtractive EQ.

[SuperHitman]

This didn't help much. You didn't explain how to help with DRC for movies. Audio sfx is too high but low voice sounds

[HACIDSOUNDS]

You should win some awards for this video

[WallaceLH]

an update to this video would be great!!

[GauravSound-tehj]

i saw someone video he told that we should always use noise reduction before compression but you did exact opposite of that! Please could you explain why should we use noise reduction after compression??

[Andrew-vkfy]

This is invaluable! One question, if we have a spec of -23 and gain stage like the first step to -23, after processing it'll be louder? do we just turn it down or should we gain stage to say -26? thank you

[davidelaurito]

Just discovered your channel, great videos! I have a question, after you set the lufs on the dialogue clips, when you start the processing with plugins, I guess you still keep an eye on the lufs? In order to keep the 23 lufs. Like what's your workflow, you gain stage each single time you add something? Hope it makes sense :) thank you!