ABSTRACT
Only seasoned directors and producers know the loss that occurs of both real money and of the magic of on-camera performance, rarely recaptured and seldom improved. Some actors have it written into their contracts that they will do no postproduction looping. The vast majority agree that sound is one of the most important components of a film, and many actually rate sound as more important than the visual photography itself-yet most craftspeople not working in sound do not understand their own contributions to the success-or failure-of the production soundtrack. Responsible for the quality of the sound recordings on the set, the head of the recording team is the sound mixer. Simple projects may have fairly straightforward requirements, so it might be agreed to record the dialog on a less expensive 2-channel digital recorder, most likely direct-to-hard disk within the machine or flash technology.
