Voices locked before picture and before the cut

Record and lock every line before the picture that needs it, and cut the assembly to the real voiceover [official guidance].

• Lock first. Use the lines already locked with the anchors; record the rest now with the approved voices. The takes per line and their checks (the transcript, the native ear) are as Voice and Arabic dialects → Voice takes and the delivered file and Voice and Arabic dialects → Measured checks and the back-check set out.

• One speaker, one shot, one take. Consecutive lines of one speaker in one shot are recorded and locked as one take, with the timed pause inside it.

• A line too long for its beat is rewritten, never time-stretched. You approve the new wording, and the client does too if approved copy changes.

• The voiceover is locked before the cut and before the music. The assembly is cut to the real voiceover, not a guide read.

• A music-first film (a song, a jingle, a sung voiceover, or a film cut to its music) locked its guide track, lyrics and tempo map with the anchors (see Music → The music-first route). The shots sit on its bar lines, and the real singer's final vocal replaces the guide when it is recorded.

Sources

• ElevenLabs' and Suno's own guidance on voiceover before the cut.