The Video Studio, 3rd Edition

 

Sound Dubbing

Because almost all television recordings are shot out of sequence, subsequent editing is needed and the final sound track must be largely put together as a post-production operation. Typically the studio dialogue is recorded on the videotape but music, sound effects and, where appropriate, narration are dubbed later. Note that only a limited amount of dubbing can be carried out in the edit suite. This is partly because VTRs carry only a few sound tracks and some of these are ‘hidden’ (i.e. integral with the vision tracks) and so cannot be manipulated separately from the pictures. The sound tracks available on the most common formats are given below.

The best way of producing anything other than the simplest sound track is to ...