Thread: тонировка - movie business, anyone?

This is not what you probably thought it was. In movie business, this word means the stage of sound post-production when actors "dub" their own voices. Nowadays, most film studios avoid using the "real-life" sound recorded while shooting the movie on the set, because it considered to be too "dirty" with the outside noise, background noise etc. So, after the shooting and cutting has been done, the actors listen to "live" recording of their voices and try to pronounce their lines with the same intonations, in the same tempo (to match the articulation) etc.

The 64-dollar question is: what is the English (US) term for this? Pretty please, I need it ASAP .

The person who tells me what they call it in Hollywood gets my warmest hug or heartiest handshake, depending on your personal preferences

(Lindsay, joysof, please no rotten tomatoes for the "gets") :P

It's called "looping," I believe. But you may wish to wait for confirmation on that; I'm no great film expert.

Oh, I'd never rotten-tomato your lovely English...probably.

Originally Posted by Линдзи

It's called "looping," I believe. But you may wish to wait for confirmation on that; I'm no great film expert.

Линдзи, you are a gem! Now that I knew what word to search for, validating it was a matter of minutes:

http://www.imdb.com/Glossary/L#looping

which refers you to another entry:

http://www.imdb.com/Glossary/A#adr

It appears that looping is indeed one of the synonym terms used to describe this activity.

So what's your choice? A hug? A handshake? Both? Take your pick

Hee. I'll take the e-handshake. I'm a formal gal.

translations.nm.ru gives Lindsay his heartiest, warmest, most electronic handshake

There you go!

Looping is correct. It is also sometimes called "post dubbing." By way, doing the same in a post production context for non-speech sounds is "foley" work done by "foley artists."

This has nothing to do with the insertion of a catheter into one's penis, by the way. That's a different sort of "foley" and it would be best not to confuse the two.