| All's forgiven Rob.
The a is for automatic- dialog replacement used to be done with a system called "parrot looping"- in the studio the recordist would run a loop of the bad dialog, with an equal amount of blank space and a little extra, on optical sound film or single stripe mag, and a seperate machine recording the actor. The actor would hear the line, then repeat what they heard, trying to match performance & cadence. When someone figured out a way to do it in sync with picture, it became "automatic". I often think that a lot of actors would do better the old way, focusing on the sound of their performance rather than trying to sync their lips to what they see on screen. But since I rarely have anything to do with the dialog side of things I haven't been able to push this idea- and a lot of people would probably think me heretical for suggesting it.
Then again, a lot of people think that anyways. |