20  Audio post-production

Audio post-production is the final stage involved in putting our programme together. With so many different video formats, and the increasingly affordable option of non-linear editing, it is impossible to do more than look at the concepts involved in this ‘basics’ book. We will assume that the tape has come to audio post-production to have the audio track, which should be complementary to the picture track, cleaned up and finished off with music and/or effects and ambient sound.

We have been given the master tape which has all the sync audio on one track, leaving one other audio track for us to record onto. Hopefully, we also have an audio log to help find the bits of buzz track we will need from the various original ...

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