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Dubbing delivery spec

One folder. Every file named.

A finished dub comes back as ordinary files, named after your recording and its language, ready for an editor, a player or an archive.

Recorded from Tolkr™ Studio.

  • 01Named for youafter your recording and its language
  • 02Standard filesfor an editor, a player or an archive
  • 03Save againanother format, nothing dubbed again

The folder

Seven files to choose from.

An interview in Spanish, dubbed into English. Choose a file to see what is in it.

The file with the dubbed sound

Your video, with the dub as its first sound track

The labels are Tolkr™ Studio's own. "interview" stands for the name of your recording.

The video

The picture stays. The sound gets a choice.

Inside the dubbed video, as a player shows it.

  1. PictureCopied as it was, never encoded again
  2. Sound 1, EnglishThe dub, played by default
  3. Sound 2, SpanishThe original, one switch away
  4. SubtitlesNone, the translation, the original or both, switchable, never burnt into the picture

MP4 or MOV, with the original as the second sound track.

Sentence list

Every sentence, one row each.

A file that opens in a spreadsheet, for checking a dub line by line or for the next step of your work.

The columns
ColumnWhat it holds
SentenceIts number in the programme
Start, endWhere the original sentence starts and ends, in seconds
Voice start, voice endWhere the dubbed voice starts and ends
Original, translationWhat was said, and the dub
Speaker, man or womanWho speaks, as Tolkr™ told them apart
Said toWho the sentence is addressed to
VoiceThe voice that speaks it

Sound values

Set once, kept for every dub.

  • -23 LUFSLoudness

    The whole mix, with peaks under -1 dBTP.

  • 48 kHzOr 44.1 kHz

    The rate of the sound files; Opus is always 48 kHz.

  • 24 bitOr 16 bit

    For WAV and FLAC.

  • 320 kb/sMP3

    The default for sound files.

  • 256 kb/sIn the video

    The dub track, in AAC by default.

Names

Named your way, replaced only if you say.

Files take the name of the recording and the language by default. Change the pattern once, and every dub follows it.

  • WhereNext to the recording, or in a folder you choose
  • PatternThe name of the recording, the language, the date and the time, in the order you set
  • If a file existsKeep both, the new one numbered, or replace it
  • Save the files againAnother format or another choice, from the finished dub, with nothing dubbed again

Asked first.

Not answered here? Ask the people who build it

Can I have only the sound?

Yes. Choose any of the files, alone or together.

Can I change the format later?

Yes. Save the files again from the finished dub, without dubbing again.

Will my editor open them?

They are standard files: MP4 or MOV, MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, Opus, SRT, WebVTT and a spreadsheet file.

Is the original kept?

Yes, as the second track of the video and as its own file under the voice.

See the folder of your own dub.

We dub a short clip of yours in a demo, so you judge the files yourself.

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