A few seconds of darkness is fine. For example - the character wakes up and turns on the light. But the current trend is that sometimes entire scenes are too dark.

  • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    Sometimes they're too dark and sometimes they're too quiet I've had shows where I had to use headphones because the audio mixing was done so badly I couldn't hear the actors talking

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      audio

      Man, I really hate audio problems too. I finally spent about an hour messing around with compression to try to solve as many problems as I could. I found a sweet spot that normalized the overly loud parts and the overly quiet parts. My compression setting usually works to greatly improve the dialog problem too.

      Still, there are the rare movies or tv shows that force me to change with the volume setting from scene to scene.

      SOME DIRECTORS REALLY WANT YOU TO FEEL LIKE YOU'RE IN A CLUB WITH SUPER LOUD MUSIC AND YOU CAN BARELY HEAR THE CHARACTERS EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE YELLING!

      Andthere'sthewhisperingproblemtoo.

      Spare me all of that nonsense.

    • CoconutOctopus [it/its]
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      3 years ago

      I turn on the closed captions for this. I'm old, I don't have the time or hearing for this shit.