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tim... wrote:
Having not got useful answers from the TV group, I'm going to try asking
this here

I'm currently watching reruns of Zen on Drama

and the sound is decidedly off

There's no sync between lip movements and the actual spoken dialogue

Sometimes it's off by a small amount and other times it's completely
wrong.

And there's lots of panning away from peoples faces whilst they are
continuing to talk.

It's like they didn't record the sound from the original action, just
got the actors to mumble a bit of the dialogue and then dubbed it all in
afterwards

It's a multi-country production so they may have decided that if the are
going to have to dub in multiple languages, they might just as well dub
the English in as well

Is this a known form of TV production, sometimes used, frequently used,
or never used?

Very unusual to totally post sync dialogue on a TV prog made originally in
English. Although common at one time on feature films.

Only time it's usually done is if shooting in a very noisy place where
location recording of the dialogue impossible. Or to fix a fault found
subsequently. It's rather an expensive thing to do properly.

I'm also intending watching it. I'll have a better idea after that.


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