Suppose you’re shooting a movie. The actors do their work, and you also record their voices while they’re acting. Additional audio stuff like music and sound effects is added later.
But now suppose you want to dub the movie in another language. You can’t just slap music and stuff onto the project, but you (somehow) need to remove the voices of the original actors and then slap those of the new voice actors onto the film. Except if you cut that out, you’d also have to cut out all environmental noise, etc. And if you do that, you’d basically have to recreate every single sound required.
So how exactly does this work? Are movies shot with and without sound simultaneously? Or is there some technological means to separate the sound from the image?
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There are sounds that were recorded in camera, sounds added in post like explosions, and sounds that are mimicking what was recorded on set.
There is a whole process where post production sound crews mimic all the sounds that were filmed on set to be used as a bed for the dubbed dialogue to play on top of.
When dubbing you use all the sounds added in post like music and effects, you add in your new dialogue, and you add in your mimicked sounds.
These mimicked sounds are commonly referred to as “MnE”
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