video-audio-finishing

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

1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. 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.
3. Remove noise/clicks conservatively, level dialogue, manage masking, automate transitions, respect music/license intent, and check headphones/speakers.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. 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.