Some of Adelman's earliest sound editing work was for the Sugar & Spice direct-to-video parodies of popular children's tales such as Snow White and Cinderella which were released in the early 1990s. During the 1992-93 TV season, she worked on the NBC series I'll Fly Away, along with fellow Star Trek sound engineers Wilson Dyer, Steffan Falesitch, T. Ashley Harvey, Miguel Rivera, and Guy Tsujimoto. She then worked as dialogue editor on the 1993 feature film Joshua Tree, along with Dyer, Falesitch, Harvey, and Rivera.