Mark is correct of course. Much of the sound for motion pictures and high-end commercials is created in post. Back in the day when budgets of over a million dollars for a 30 second commercial were fairly common, almost anything was possible. This commercial was made on a budget of only 300K, but all of the sound was done in post at a Hollywood post house. The restaurant ambience used five or six different tracks. http://stenquist.org/Paul/Dodge.htm
Frequently, actors voices are dubbed in after the fact as well. I shot some commercials with Ed Herrmann for Dodge, where he had to read a 24 second script while hitting about five marks on a stage where a car was being assembled. Of course Ed was working on a stage in Hollywood and the car was being assembled digitally at RGA in NY, so he was working on an empty stage. What's more, he was shooting episodes of The Practice the same day and hadn't even looked at the script. He couldn't get it right, and after 20 takes, he threw up his hands in surrender and defamed the memory of his mother. I brought him into a sound studio the next week and we overdubbed half of his lines. There's software designed just for that purpose that helps the operator sync copy with lip movements, and Ed, being the consummate pro, did some perfect reads that were closely matched to picture. When it was finished, I couldn't tell which lines were dubbed. I'm not particularly proud of the commercial. In fact, it sucks. But it was budgeted at close to a million. I never uploaded it to the web, but there's a crappy copy of the spot on the web that someone must have recorded off a very bad TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtuqsKkPGW8 Paul On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Walt wrote: > >> Thanks for all the info, Steve. >> >> I do think it's strange that ambient sound isn't usually recorded in >> stereo. I always just assumed that chirping birds, passing vehicles, >> etc. were recorded in stereo to give a more life-like feel. > > Keep in mind that Cotty is talking about news video production. For > movies, etc. not only are the chirping birds and passing trucks in > stereo, they're added in post-production with stock recordings and > foley artists. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
