Set AD Level Against the Dialogue
AD that ducks the whole mix is unusable; AD under the music is inaudible. Match description to dialogue, keep HI and VI mixes apart, and check on a phone speaker.
Every guide, comparison and workflow we’ve published on Audio Description.
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AD that ducks the whole mix is unusable; AD under the music is inaudible. Match description to dialogue, keep HI and VI mixes apart, and check on a phone speaker.
Rules for reading supers, prices, and URLs in audio description without hitting the VO, and when a textless-plus-VO cut is the cleaner deliverable.
When a social cut has no silence for standard AD: freeze, extend, or ship a second described cut, and brief the editor so both versions stay in sync.
Present tense, character IDs, and dialogue-gap timing for audio description, plus a timed script template you can fill for a 30-second spot.
Audio description got expensive because it needed a specialist. Most brand videos already have the script, the voice pipeline and the mix step it needs.