Film/Movie Dubbing

[koder]

I've been searching and reading the forums for a while now and can not find anything to my question or problem. My team has been working on a low budget film. We just are near the end of completing the first video editing. After doing review of the video, we found that many of the sounds does not sound clear enough. We have to go back through and record all the vocal and edit that in. I've been searching and so far was wondering how large studios' able to dubb film of different language? Do they record all the sounds? or do they use some type of mixers to channel out the stereo signal and cut off the vocal channel? Please help push me in the right direction.

I also stumble upon XDubber but there's not much detail on that device if there is anyone that has any experience in working with the device please let me know how it works, thanks.

Best regards,
Mike

[Geert van den Berg]

There are many elements that make up a TV show or a Film.

You can divide them into:

-Dialogue, which will either production sound (sound recorded on the set) or ADR, which is replacement audio for sections where the production sound is unusable. This will be recorded in a studio and the aim is to match that part of the production dialogue that will be used (for this it's handy to use the same microphone unless it's a crappy mic offcourse), so you hope you won't hear any difference going between them. Sometimes only a couple of lines will need to be replaced and sometimes a whole scene. The aim is to get good production sound offcourse, but this can be impossible at some places.

-FX. Which can be divided into sounds recorded outside and things that come from FX libraries or Foley, which are FX that are made by a Foley artist, someone that follows the movement on screen and records sounds for these movement in sync with the picture, think about footsteps, clothing, hits etc. When the production dialogue is used it can be that there are sounds other than dialogue on those tracks as well, the quality depends if those are used. For a foreign version where the sound FX can't be cut from the dialogue track, it's either filled in with stock sounds or with Foley (depending on the budget)

-Music, this speaks for itself I guess.

[Henchman]

Yet another post from someone who is in way over their head.
No, you don't have te re-record all the dialog.
If you think That's what is done in even major movies, you're wrong.

What you need to do is get a local audio-post facility involved. As the knowledge, skillset and talent needed to get the job done are way beyong what you will learn on any forum.