Hall's first sound editing project for Paramount was the 1979 science fiction film Prophecy, starring Robert Foxworth. This was followed immediately by Star Trek: The Motion Picture. She went on to supervise the sound effects editing for such Paramount films as Airplane II: The Sequel (1982, starring William Shatner), Flashdance (1983, starring Michael Nouri), Terms of Endearment (1983, featuring art direction by Harold Michelson), Beverly Hills Cop (1984, starring Eddie Murphy and featuring Jonathan Banks, Steven Berkoff, and Ronny Cox), and Witness (1985), and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, again starring Murphy and Cox, along with Dean Stockwell).