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Old 03-12-03, 03:33 PM
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How many movie lines are looped?

The more and more I see/watch/learn, the more I realize that most movies are dubbed, or looped.

What percent of old/new movies actually have their dialoge looped?
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Listening to the director/writer commentary on the Fellowship of the Ring EE, I get the feeling almost all of it was looped. Anything shot in the outdoors is going to have problems. They mention having a lookout at the nearby airport to call them whenever a plane was about to come their way.
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Most dialogue in films is looped. Studio stuff less so than location stuff.
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When dialog is looped well, it's really sort of seamless. Other times it isn't properly lip-synced, and it almost looks like English-dubbed from a foreign language.

And also, almost any sound you hear in a movie is also put in post-production by foley artists.

Footsteps, doors closing, pages of a book being turned.
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A former professor and profession sound designer told us that 70-75% of film dialogue is looped, and 90-95% of it is "tweaked."

And the instances where 100% of it is altered in some fashion isn't a rare occurence.
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