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Automated Dialogue Replacement: re-recording dialogue in a studio in sync with picture after production.

A sound element that carries across a picture cut, connecting two scenes through continuous audio.

Sound whose source exists within the story world and can be heard by the characters on screen.

A sound professional who performs and records custom sound effects in sync with picture.

A split edit where the outgoing audio continues after the video cuts to the next scene.

The process of re-recording dialogue in post-production in sync with the picture; an older term for ADR.

The final stage of audio post-production where all sound elements are balanced and positioned into the finished soundtrack.

Sound heard only by the audience, not by characters, with no source within the story world.

Original music composed specifically for a film, forming the non-diegetic musical layer of the soundtrack.

All audio elements in a film, including dialogue, music, effects, and ambience, forming the complete audio track.

The complete audio track of a film, or the commercial album of music from that film released separately.