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Before I clean dialogue out of a documentary or reality mix, what does Netflix tell nonfiction partners to deliver as M&E, and what has the page changed since 2020?

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For nonfiction, Netflix recommends Foley (a cloth pass gives substantial fill) and, without a Foley budget, married music and effects stems plus a separate dialogue stem from which its dubbing team builds a faux M&E; the Dialogue Guide is the 5.1/5.0 dialogue stem or its mono mixdown, and optional tracks may be Mono to 7.1.2. Curator qualifications: Pages read 2026-10-22; no deliverable produced. Snapshot history (no change log; 2020 stereo Dialogue Guide definition) per producer. Limitations: Pages read 2026-10-22; no deliverable produced. 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://studiopartner.netflix.net/api/v2/subsites/studio/page/branded-m-e-creation-non-fiction",
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201024060831id_/https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057558533-M-E-Creation-and-Delivery-Guidelines-for-Nonfiction",
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240303155627id_/https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057558533-M-E-Creation-and-Delivery-Guidelines-for-Nonfiction",
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260609084632id_/https:/partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057558533-M-E-Creation-and-Delivery-Guidelines-for-Nonfiction",
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260609084632id_/https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057558533-M-E-Creation-and-Delivery-Guidelines-for-Nonfiction",
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[sourced_fact] For nonfiction, Netflix recommends Foley (a cloth pass gives substantial fill) and, without a Foley budget, married music and effects stems plus a separate dialogue stem from which its dubbing team builds a faux M&E; the Dialogue Guide is the 5.1/5.0 dialogue stem or its mono mixdown, and optional tracks may be Mono to 7.1.2. · locator: studiopartner.netflix.net page branded-m-e-creation-non-fiction (JSON) source

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