So I came to this thread to help me understand post terminology, and now I feel like I am left with more questions than answers!
I jest, I actually have learned a lot from this thread as I am trying to absorb as much as I can.
What I don't understand is this, re-recording. My experience so far is I have done lots of free work for SCAD student projects (max 15 minute films) and have done a feature length film.
What I get sent on a GOOD project is a Final Cut project where someone else has placed in all the audio they have so far. Typically it's all the audio from the shotgun, fight noises the fight coordinator has put in, some foley that they added, and sometimes even song suggestions.
I take this and export it and bring it into whatever DAW I am using (PT now, was DP).
Everything I get is 'recorded' digital. I just manipulate it, or add to it.
I don't understand those concepts of what maybe in this small capacity has not been done. Just trying to understand as my projects get bigger, where all these things AND terminology fit in.
Since at this time I am not at a 5.1 system (working on it!) I did what I would have considered I guess a stereo printmaster and also provided a bunch of stems (the term the other mixing house involved used). I provided Dialog, SFX, Foley, Background Noise and Music. The reason, a third party was doing the 5.1 mix on what I did.
These stems were mixing so that at unity gain, summed, they provided my final stereo mix.
Did I somehow do rerecording? dubbing?
I did learn about academy leaders at 2-pops!
So at least I am making progress. Just trying to fill in all the gaps and make sure I understand the nomenclature as I continue to pass my work on to other studios for the parts I cannot do.
Thanks!
Rick
Asylum Studio Productions