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Matthew Lawrence

4 years, 11 months ago - Matthew Lawrence

Hi,

I wanted to get some advice on delivering M&E tracks for a foreign dub.

I’m working with a distributor who has put my film up on the main VOD platforms in the US, UK etc…

They now want to do a German dub and asked for the following: “separate audio stripes, music in stereo, efx in stereo and dialogue in stereo all in separate tracks”.

My sound mixer supplied me with 3 separate tracks (music, FX/ambiance and dialogue).

I’d heard that it is best to put the non-language “mouth sounds”: groaning, screaming, baby crying, grunting, heavy breathing etc… onto the FX/ambience track to save these having to be re-dubbed.

However, the sound mixer thinks these “mouth sounds” should be counted as dialogue and re-dubbed, hence why he put them on the dialogue track.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

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Alex Gregson

4 years, 11 months ago - Alex Gregson

Hi Matt,

You should speak to the distributor, as their QC team should be able to answer this for you.

You may also need fully filled Foley tracks in your M&E.

We have lots of info about Audio Post on our blog too which may be helpful: 344audio.com/blog

Alex

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Matthew Lawrence

4 years, 11 months ago - Matthew Lawrence

Hi Alex,

Thanks for getting back to me. I'll take a look through the info on your blog.

Matt

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