Sound in Editing

Sound in editing (or just sound editing) is a process that's used in mainly all television shows, video games, movies or media that requires sound mixing. As the title almost says it all, sound editing is going through the (we'll say movie) and completing the final stages of editing with sound. Sound editing is rather essential in today's popular films, for it creates very smooth transitions from shot to shot, making the audio and conversation clearer, and the background noise not as noticeable. This is a very delicate process, because the audience hears everything in the theatre (while there's dead silence). If the editing isn't done well (or correctly) everyone will be able to hear the lack of smooth transition, and the film wont get as much praise. Like any specific role someone has in making a movie well done, the sound editing is by far one of the most important.

The sound in editing is a specific role that is taken on by someone called the "sound editor." It's this person's job to accomplish these smooth transitions. Within the role of film editor, there are three different "divisions of sound". Those are, dialogue, effects and music. According to wikipedia, big filming areas such as California and New York's sound editors are given the role of just one of those divisions, because it's such a big project to work on. However, in smaller filming locations, sound editors are expected to do all three divisions. Editing can often be challenging for in addition, sound editors are sometimes expected to use mixing skill as well. "Editing effects is likened to creating the sonic world from scratch, while dialogue editing is likened to taking the existing sonic world and fixing it" (Wikipedia). Usually the program for sound editing for Mac computers is called pro tools.