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What does a music editor deliver to the dub stage (track grouping, cue sheet, sync check), and what happens to the music there?

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The same TV music editor (S5, S6) integrates the recorded cues into the editing session, checks sync, sends the session to the dub stage and prepares a hand-drawn-style dubbing cue sheet "road map". Cues are grouped onto MUSIC-A to MUSIC-D track groups so overlapping cues sit on separate faders (34 music faders in his example). At the dub, dialogue is described as king, music is fitted around it, producers take notes in a final playback and the editors make fixes; mixers then make the 5.1 and stereo masters, an M&E and a DME master. Music-editor deliverables and dub practice here are from one US animated series in 2011.

The same TV music editor (S5, S6) integrates the recorded cues into the editing session, checks sync, sends the session to the dub stage and prepares a hand-drawn-style dubbing cue sheet "road map". Cues are grouped onto MUSIC-A to MUSIC-D track groups so overlapping cues sit on separate faders (34 music faders in his example). At the dub, dialogue is described as king, music is fitted around it, producers take notes in a final playback and the editors make fixes; mixers then make the 5.1 and stereo masters, an M&E and a DME master. Music-editor deliverables and dub practice here are from one US animated series in 2011. Curator qualifications: Curator located all evidence excerpts in the work copies (automated case-insensitive prefix match). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/music-editing-101-dubbing/",
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      "url": "https://simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/music-editing-101-the-scoring-session-2/",
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Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] The same TV music editor (S5, S6) integrates the recorded cues into the editing session, checks sync, sends the session to the dub stage and prepares a hand-drawn-style dubbing cue sheet "road map". Cues are grouped onto MUSIC-A to MUSIC-D track groups so overlapping cues sit on separate faders (34 music faders in his example). At the dub, dialogue is described as king, music is fitted around it, producers take notes in a final playback and the editors make fixes; mixers then make the 5.1 and stereo masters, an M&E and a DME master. Music-editor deliverables and dub practice here are from one US animated series in 2011. · locator: dub stage source

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