dubbing

[Taylor]

What program does the scriptwriters use at the anime companies to match the english scripts with the original lip movements?

[Shift]

They use a totally cool device; a pair of "ocular sensors".

[Taylor]

I wonder what's ocular sensors?

[The Weed Of Cri]

He's talking about eyes. The scriptwriters don't use any program, they just eyeball the mouth movements on the screen and write dialogue of the same approximately length. In recent years, there's been increasing use of an editing process called ADR, or Automatic Dialogue Replacement that can speed up, slow down, or loop an animated character's mouth movements to get a closer approximation of the dialogue time if it's off by a fraction of a second.

Don't mess with the kid, Shift. It's a perfectly valid question for someone who doesn't know a lot about the technical aspects of animation productions.

[Shift]

Aw, man; there goes my plan to boost my self esteem by belittling others...:sweat:

[Shawn Hopkins]

I have very old animes that say they use something called the Wordfit system. I found this on Anime on DVD.com:

"The Wordfit? System is basically a computer program used in looping in movies and television shows. Often it becomes necessary for editors to re-record various lines in a studio due to various problems while recording on the set. The program basically matches spoken lines to the movement of mouths on the screen. It does this without distorting the words being said, so they sound natural. In anime, it is used to match up lines to the lip flaps of the characters on screen.

The complaint that most people have with this system is it seems to make the ADR Director and the actors lazy. Instead of working a line until it fits the lip flaps, they can do 1 or 2 takes and use the program to match up to the lip flaps. Many feel that this takes away any potential for an actual acting performance in the delivery of the lines."

[Weatherman]

I have very old animes that say they use something called the Wordfit system. I found this on Anime on DVD.com:

"The Wordfit? System is basically a computer program used in looping in movies and television shows. Often it becomes necessary for editors to re-record various lines in a studio due to various problems while recording on the set. The program basically matches spoken lines to the movement of mouths on the screen. It does this without distorting the words being said, so they sound natural. In anime, it is used to match up lines to the lip flaps of the characters on screen.

The complaint that most people have with this system is it seems to make the ADR Director and the actors lazy. Instead of working a line until it fits the lip flaps, they can do 1 or 2 takes and use the program to match up to the lip flaps. Many feel that this takes away any potential for an actual acting performance in the delivery of the lines."


It's also not very natural sounding anyway. It chops the dialogue up even worse than eyeballing it to get it right.