Making the Recording

To make proper use of them, your sound files are going to have to be as organized as the other assets in your production. The easiest way to keep track of what dialog is in which file is to take notes with paper and pencil. Here are some guidelines for recording your dialog:

  • Do several readings of any piece of dialog.

  • Multiple readings can be recorded into the same sound file with a small bit of silence before and after each one. This will make it easy to listen to the different readings when you are trying to decide which to use.

  • In a single reading, group any phrases or lines that naturally occur together in speech. You don’t want your voice actor to have to break what would normally be several sentences delivered together ...

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