midyouth-crisis apocaholics anonymous

government worker (comic below)

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(crop from january’s patreon illust, the sequel to last june’s)

just the ol' nine-to-five

If your hot take about the movie industry involves the blaming of artists, I am begging you to resist that instinct. Because they are rarely at fault.

I have been working on an essay about subtitles and cinematic audio mixing for probably 6 months. It is about 80% complete. It's a complicated, multifactorial issue.

"Audio guys" are asked to take a cinematic timeline that looks like this...

And then make it sound good on a system like this...

While also making that same mult-track cinematic mix sound good on speakers like this...

And then people hate on these artists because they can't violate the laws of physics.

Could studios invest in a second audio mix that is more suited to tiny speakers?

Absolutely.

They literally did it for years on DVDs and Blu-ray discs. You could select a basic stereo mix or a surround mix.

Why don't they do that anymore?

I'm going to try and dedicate any future writing energy I have to finishing the subtitle essay.