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• Fully filled international tracks: Often, key production sound effects (for example, a door
slamming or footsteps) occur underneath sections of dialogue. If you’re asked to provide
“fully filled international tracks,” that means all sound effects lost when the dialogue
tracks are isolated need to be re-created by recording Foley effects and doing additional
sound design to “fill in the holes.”
Creating stems, M&E mixes, and fully filled international tracks generally involves good
organization and some additional sound design. There are two specific features in
Soundtrack Pro that can help you facilitate this process.
• Submixes: Soundtrack Pro supports routing audio tracks to submixes. It’s a common
practice to create separate submixes for dialogue, effects, and music, in order to simplify
the final mixing process. Fortunately, this also makes it quite easy to output stems and
M & E mixes.
• Ambient noise addition and replacement: This feature helps you to fill in the “holes”
created when you move dialogue into a separate set of tracks, by sampling sections
of ambient noise from a scene (sometimes called room tone) that can then be used to
automatically replace the missing audio. This is usually a first step that precedes
additional sound design to place (or spot) sound effects and Foley sound over whatever
was removed.
For more information about these features, see the Soundtrack Pro documentation.
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