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TELEVISION
Show me your HDTV TankboyShow me your HDTV Tankboy
Tankboy is fast turnaround, reality based
television series for the international HDTV market.
Due to the extreme filming conditions of the show,
the Next Generation in Destruction TV, we were presented with a lot of
challenges.
Our first mission was to clean up the dialog. Each
of the characters had their own radio mic, so we had dialogue tracks
everywhere. And to make it worse, they were quite often all talking at once.
It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle against the clock.
And then, the hours of clean up work, to remove
heavy background noises such As extremely loud vehicle engines, marauding
Romans, intense explosions, supersonic rockets as well as the usual wind and
cicadas.
Many international networks have stringent dialog
level requirements so we had to ensure the final dialog had a constant level
through out the show.
Our next mission, music and effects, required us to
run through the music and effects tracks adding additional effects and music
cues as we went.
Then the final Dolby Digital mix was output to
HDcamSR and also to 5.1 compliant AC3 files for DVD release. A standard
stereo DVD output was just not going to make the grade.
International HD delivery also required us to
create all the Dialog, SFX and Music stems as part of the mix.
Having a full spec Dolby Digital ProTools suite
with enough horse power to launch the space shuttle, enabled us to record all
the deliverables (fullmix and stems in one pass), which saved an immense
amount of time (and money for the client) on this project.
One of the big challengers for television is
creating all the different deliverables that the networks and international
sales require. As well as a 5.1 and Dolby stereo mix most international
networks are also requiring M&E mix’s and splits for promo departments
and reversioning. One international network requests 36 tracks (6 stem mixes,
all in 5.1) in addition to the 2 full mixes.
Moving from stereo to 5.1 multiplies the number of
tracks required by three, so it is easy for things to get out of hand. The
standard D, M and E requires 18 tracks if they are all supplied in 5.1.
Thanks in part to the quality of the sound track, the
Tankboy TV series has now sold worldwide and has been dubbed into a multitude
of languages.
And in the words of Tankboy himself Mission Successful, we will be working with this sound team again for Tankboy Season 2, Hooooaaahhh. |
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