Re:Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]
by seanp2k2 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @11:58AM
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This. These are largely mixing decisions, although it would be kinda weird to have a whispering actor boosted to sound as loud as a train in a scene.
The technical term for this is “Dialogue LRA” measured in LU: https://s3.amazonaws.com/izotopedownloads/docs/insight200/en... - this link also mentions some of the standards around this and now to use their software to adhere to those standards.
LUFS is also relevant here as a measure of loudness: https://blog.landr.com/lufs-loudness-metering/
https://auphonic.com/blog/2020/10/08/dialog-loudness-normali...
and
https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2018/11/10/is-dol...
Give some insight into how this works.
Re:Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]
by elevaet on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:40PM
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Are lines ever recorded live? I imagined that they almost always re-record them in a sound booth later, it just seems like it would be so hard to get good sound on-set in most circumstances.
Re:Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]
by detaro on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:53PM
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Yes, on-set audio is often used if possible. Re-recording is a bunch of extra work (you need to pay your potentially quite expensive actors for), needs matching, might not be as "in-the-moment" as the original, ... But re-recording is of course done where needed.
There's zero correlation between how loud someone says their lines and how loud they are in the resulting mix when ADR is used.
There is a limit to how far you can push this for lines recorded live because of environmental noise, but in that case there's more control than ever before because of software like iZotope RX (which is close to magic).