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This is why I’ve cancelled all movie subscriptions.
Spacing a tired-ass joke over several shittily drawn panels does not magically make it funny again
But it’s funny because it’s true.
Just run the audio through a dynamic range compressor. Then everything will be just as loud as the commercials.
Yes. And stop fucking mumbling. And use a proper lighting for fuck sake, I don’t care if it is middle of the night in a forest, I want to be able to see what’s going on.
I prefer for actors to mumble then their character is supposed to mumble, and just use subtitles. Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten too used to subtitles from all the anime I watch but I always enable it for anything on YouTube or any other video content I consume.
Agree on the lightning part though, at least for action scenes, bad lighting is often used to cover for bad CGI. For narration scenes of the place is actually dark, I don’t really mind for me to basically only see silhouettes, it’s appropriate.
And please stabilise the camera. I’m not in this car chase, I’m trying to watch it without getting a migraine.
Shakey cam to cover up a limited budget for a car chase, instead of getting creative … so if the rapid cuts and wobble wasn’t there you’d see that they only had one street and couldn’t exceed 30mph
I swear there was a phase where shakey-cam had just become the in-thing.
I remember watching a TV series or a movie or something where shooting had clearly wrapped before shakey-cam was popularised. And it looked like they had just added it in post. It was unnatural movement (so, not like someone was holding the camera), and there was too much of it. I had to skip a lot of the shakey-cam scenesMe when I feed the false memories of strangers and myself onlineI swear I’ve made that exact same complaint about a show or movie! I like when I can see whats going on when I’m watching something
Good luck getting actors and directors to understand hyperealistic and method acting are not ideal on every instance.
#High Dynamic Range™
Alot of it is… pretentiousness?
Like, there’s a lot of high-brow thinking in the movie industry where stuff is mixed for movie theaters. You know, theaters that have good surround speaker setups, but also turn the volume way too loud. It’s “as its meant to be experienced” if you ask the Hollywood producers. I think Netflix and more small-screen oriented producers are better about this, where even surround mixes are much more reasonable.
I’ve made similar experiences in movie theatres. And streaming services continuously disappoint on that front too.
Subtitles!
Sometimes there’s also a random high pitched buzz in the background that’s louder than anything else for one whole scene. How heard would it be to just remove that frequency range or maybe see that it is louder than every other scene?
Solve guy went to music school instead of law to add that in there. He’s keeping it in there if it’s the last thing he does
Commercial: DO YOU OR A LOVED ONE HAVE MESOTHELIOMA!!!
Exactly why I use subtitles. Seem to recall Interstellar was horrible like this.
It was great in cinema. It’s terrible at home.
Frankly annoying as hell that shows and movies can basically only be enjoyed in a cinema or with headphones.
Where’s the audio equivalent of HDR?
192kHZ/24bit audio vs 44.1kHZ/16bit
It’s funny because I understood what you meant, but I think it’s the exact opposite of HDR. You want to reduce the range with a compressor.
There’s HDR for displays, which increases the dynamic range, but there’s also HDR for photos, where the dynamic range is compressed. So maybe they meant the latter? Very not confusing naming…
What about the HDR on my HDR TV that just makes all colors darker when enabling HDR?
And some home cinema receivers do offer this option. Often labeled something like “night listening mode”.
I’ve found upgrading my front center speaker has greatly improved dialogue. I had my speakers from a home cinema kit and the center front was a puny crappy speaker.
It’s called dynamic compression, often labeled as night mode. Makes quiet stuff louder and loud stuff more quiet. My AVR has it as a feature and probably most TVs as well.
Have no shame in using subtitle, because american movie is either horribly sound balanced or spoken in unintelligible accent.
Subtitles on, dumbass.
Blind people don’t exist.
If subtitles are on I may as well be deaf because I’m no longer watching with those damn words getting in the way. That’s what books are for.
Some of us can’t use subtitles. I want to actually watch the cinematography and the actors. If text is on-screen I can’t not read it
Well since you’re obviously into film, you should invest in a proper Dolby Atmos/DTS:X surround setup to give you options. You can either turn up the center channel, put it in “dialog” mode, or enable dynamic range compression (night mode).
Regardless, tou’re not getting the full experience if you don’t have a surround sound setup. Ideally you should buy a receiver and hand pick your component speakers, but even a sound bar is better than TV speakers, so long as it’s from a well-known brand and has up firing drivers in both the front and rear. If the third number in the number of speakers is 4 or higher (ex 5.1.4), then you’re good to go.
This applies to everybody reading this, not just lagoon8622. All your dialog problems are being caused by your TV speakers.
I shouldn’t have to invest hundreds of dollars into a whole separate sound system just because the sound designers of a movie can’t properly balance to audio for stereo sound, the single most common audio set up in the entire world.
It would be nice if TVs came with a proper sound system, but since they don’t, you should factor audio into the cost of your home entertainment system. That’s like going to a restaurant and ordering food without a drink.
Adjust the audio stream settings. It’s probably on 5.1 surround sound if you have this issue, and that means terrible audio on stereo speakers.
Sure, modern stereo mixes are still awful, but in a lot of cases, switching to an audio stream appropriate for your setup fixed a lot of ambiguity.
For anyone who might find this useful:
Kodi is great for normalising volume and I try to use Kodi for Plex and YouTube on the TV:
Try adjusting the Volume to about -20 dB and the Volume Amplification to +30 dB. The latter will compress the audio as it increases volume to avoid peaks, and will effectively “flatten” the volume contour a bit. Adjust the values to your taste.
The other thing that has really helped is having a good Bluetooth speaker. If the kids are playing and being noisy in the room while I’m trying to watch TV, then sound is much clearer if the speaker is right next to me rather than trying to turn up the volume to drown out other noises.
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