| name | video-audio-finishing |
| description | Clean and mix dialogue, system audio, ambience/music, and transitions for intelligibility, consistent loudness, and platform translation. |
Video Audio Finishing
Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.
Procedure
- Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
- Establish the evidence baseline using isolated audio tracks, loudness target, music/SFX assets, dialogue, and platform specs. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
- Remove noise/clicks conservatively, level dialogue, manage masking, automate transitions, respect music/license intent, and check headphones/speakers.
- Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
- Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
- Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.
Quality gate
Speech remains intelligible, peaks/loudness meet delivery requirements, and audio edits do not misrepresent the captured product.
