Tooltip Tags: Sound

Room Tone

The ‘noise’ of a room, set or location where dialog is recorded during Production. Used by film and dialog editors as a ‘bed’ to form a continuous tone through a particular scene. This is often confused with ambience, which might be sound effects and/or reverberation added when the dialog is mixed.

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Sensitivity

An indication of recording or playback efficiency as might be measure of a microphone or audio tape recorder.

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Prescoring

Recording of music or other sound prior to the shooting of the picture which is to accompany it. The most common usage is in animated film.

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Pilot Tone

A sine wave signal, recorded by various field audio recorders at a known frequency, which is used to resolve the tape speed on playback to retain sync with film camera footage.

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Pink Noise

A sound signal that has an equal amount of energy per octave or fraction of an octave.

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Pitch

The distance between two successive perforations along a strip of film. The frequency of audible sound.

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Playback

A technique of filming music action first, the playing the music through loudspeakers while performers dance, sing, etc.

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