Voice dubbing in Fairlight using ADR

Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) is a particularly useful tool used in the film industry to rerecord actors’ voices to get a better take or performance. The ADR tool can also be used to dub over your video to add dialogue in another language.

Let us walk through the different options of the ADR interface as if we were going to record additional dialogue in a different language.

To understand how ADR works, we are going to walk through a practical example where we will add spoken audio to a short clip from a Buster Keaton silent comedy called One Week. You can download the original film here so that you can follow along: https://archive.org/details/OneWeek512kb.

We will also use this footage in Chapter 6.

Practice what you learned in Chapter 1 by creating a new project for this exercise:

1. Create a new project and name it Chapter_4_ADR.
2. Import the OneWeek512kb file into the Media Pool.
3. Drag OneWeek512kb from the...