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Organize your audio files

Organize your audio files

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Organize your audio files

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- Proper naming of your audio files can save you a huge amount of time in the edit suite. Now, I'm a stickler for organization. It saves time in every step of production and in post. When a script is ready for recording, you need to number the lines of dialogue. And programs like Final Draft make that look really easy. When you record and edit your audio takes, number them according to the dialogue line numbers. Always use two or three-digit numbers so all the files will line up numerically. You can see how all of mine line up perfectly in this sample folder of audio files. It's also handy to have them organized this way in my storyboard and animatics software Storyboard Pro. You can see here all my audio files lined up in my library. They're all in perfect order that I'm going to need them. So I simply click and drag the next one that I need and I can quickly build my animatic. I start each file with a dialogue line number. Then I add the character name for visual reference. And I…

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