Cue prompts used in post production?

[lalalandguy]

I'm working at a studio where ADR and orchestral style music is recorded for film. Before each take there's a countdown of 5...4...3..2 a yellow stripe followed by a white dot, a green stripe followed by another white dot in which the talent simultaneously begins their dialogue/music cue.

why does the countdown skip the number 1?

what are the names of the stripes and dots and what is their purpose?


thanks in advance for your help

[imgoinmad]

the countdown is generally used to help sync audio and video. The countdown at the beginning generally has an audio que at the 2 second point (2 seconds before the beginning of the film). We regularly do projects where we'll be given a quicktime, we do the sound necessary and then send just the audio back to the editor who syncs our audio back into their editing software for final output.

[DynaForte]

The visual cue you see is meant to cue the artist to know when to start. The reason it is visual is because sometimes no audio cue is used so that know audio bleeds through to the recording, through the artists headphones for example.

Is the artist starting where the 1 would be? If there was an audio cue at that moment it to would bleed through the headphones at the same moment the artist began a line, which could render all takes useless.

The cues are yellow and then green just like a street light, in opposite. Get ready....and go...

But those colors are not standardized - there's so many ways a visual cue could appear, each manufacturer can create their own.

[nucelar]

Hi!
If you work there, why not just ask?
Btw, these visul cues are called streamers. It can be done with hardware of software:

Streamers
Video Streamer, VS-1. Timecode Display and Video Cueing

Inside your DAW, you program midi notes or sysex commands at the cue points and the streamer overlays the visual cues on the video that goes to the monitor or projector.
Hope this helps

[ergalthema]

I believe the op is referring to the countoff for each ADR section. I'm curious if there are terms for the lines.

It might skip "1" just to avoid any possibility of sound before the recording.

[Jfriah]

MOD-- can you combine the two threads or delete one? Makes it hard to follow.

[Jules]

The two posts were due to a forum software bug..

They have been merged into one now!

[hadoco]

is ther any visual cue software work's with sonar for adr ?
on pc