Okay, it’s time to talk about sound. Listen up. This is a big topic and an important one. Even in the days of silent pictures, there was sound. Someone played the organ or piano offstage, in the dark, giving life, emotion, energy and flow to quiet images. These folks could be called the first film sound composers.
Audio Sweetening
Taking your production audio and finalizing it with enhancements, looping, music, sound effects and various cleanup procedures is called audio sweetening.
Audio sweetening includes the manipulation of the production sound track on many levels. Extra sound “material” can be added, production tracks cleaned up, existing sound enhanced, music bridged between scenes, M&E added, and ADR or looping combined ...
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