Excellent Remote Working Workflow For Recording Original Dialog, ADR And Dubbing
As a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, post-production house, Bigmouth Audio has produced an infographic showing how they are able to continue working remotely, and showing the steps they go through to record original dialog, ADR and dubbing. We thought it would be good to share this, with their permission, to help others see the workflow Bigmouth Audio has developed and the tools they are using to make it possible.
What Does Bigmouth Audio Do?
Bigmouth Audio provides a complete voice production & ADR service for animated content. They specialise in US & UK English voice dubbing and have an established network of dubbing partners in Europe & Latin America.
They are now taking active steps to make sure that they can play their part in enabling their clients to continue to be able to tell their stories during these uncertain times. Like many businesses, they have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and they like many are well aware of the unique set of challenges that need to be overcome.
They have always embraced remote working, whether it be their staff working from home or recording voices remotely and the infographic was designed to provide an outline of their remote recording and cloud dubbing process.
Original Dialogue
The scripts are shared securely with voice actors and the VO Director.
They set up a Source-Connect Now Session to enable broadcast-quality audio streaming with multiple guests, all able to log in using Google Chrome, headphones and a laptop or computer.
The voice actor with an approved home studio records the audio in their own studio.
The VO Director, Audio Producer and client are all able to virtually attend the recording session taking place in the voice actor’s home studio using Source-Connect Now.
The raw audio is then sent by the voice actor to the engineer for editing, QC and file labelling.
Finally a radio edit, marked up takes, alt takes and marked up scripts are sent to the client.
Dubbing Or ADR
Dialogue lists are generated from the scripts and used to create VoiceQ sessions.
A video file is exported from VoiceQ, which contains all the required data for the voice actor including on-screen text and timecode.
The voice actor with an approved home studio records the audio in their own studio.
The Engineer, VO Director and client are all able to virtually attend the session in the actor’s studio using Source-Connect Now, Skype or Zoom to provide direction.
The raw audio is then sent by the voice actor to the engineer for editing, QC and file labelling.
More On Source-Connect Now From Source Elements
More On Using VoiceQ From KIWA Digital
Alternative Workflow
Mike came across some excellent free help guides including one entitled Pro Tools with Zoom from a post-production facility called Final Final V2.
They say…
“This guide shows you how to play Pro Tools sessions through Zoom on MacOS, sharing both the video and the audio! It fixes sample rate problems found in other methods.
Ever needed to show a colleague in a different city something from a Pro Tools session? Perhaps you often do edits over the phone, bounce quick mp3s to send back and forth, or you share entire sessions on Dropbox. There’s a better way! “
You can download this free help guide as a Google document using the link above.
Rob Byers, Johnny Vince Evans, and Michael Raphael make up creative audio storytelling post-production team known as Final Final V2. They provide training, workflow consultation, mixing, and sound design services and they have worked on some of the top narrative podcasts and radio programs.