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I'm equally amazed by the effort that goes into foreign dubbing. Staying in Chennai, India and channel surfing, Sky TV had dozens of US channels (TLC, Discovery
by oasisbob 8y ago
I'm equally amazed by the effort that goes into foreign dubbing. Staying in Chennai, India and channel surfing, Sky TV had dozens of US channels (TLC, Discovery channel, etc) which not only had English/Hindi/Tamil subtitles - but foreign language dubs too!
Not just movies, but full overdubbing for 20-episode season disposable reality TV shows. Think, "Storage Wars" etc. Spent over an hour channel surfing and flipping languages.
I would /love/ to know how they take the original subtitle tracks and translate/dub them efficiently.
- MagnumOpus 8y agoDubbing is a major industry in many non-English-speaking countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy etc), employing more than half of voice actors -- so it's generally not some DIY cottage industry, but professional audio engineers and voice actors. They don't just use subtitles, they use the original video/audio to lip-sync as well as possible. Wikipedia has some more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#Methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#Methods