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Originally Posted by joenovice  Philip... for us Newb's here.... Could you define M+Es? I've guessed music and editing but don't know for sure. |
On commercial US features part of the deal is usually a separate "fully-filled" M+E (music and effects) track in which all the sounds, ambiences, foley etc that were originally part of the production sound used in the film are replaced w/ new, similar sounds WITHOUT the original language dialog (in addition to all the original score and source music). This is to facilitate dubbing the film into a foreign language(s). On larger movies the whole film is covered by sound editing and Foley, on smaller indie films often the production sound is used whenever possible in the original version of the film. It is very important to be clear with the people you are contracting with (and equally important for THEM to be clear with the distributors THEY are contracting with) about whether the very considerable work of making a fully-filled M+E is part of the deal you are making or not.
Philip Perkins