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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 01:42:25 JST Warner Crocker

   Sound and Fury with Apple TV Enhance Dialogue

   Apple TV's Enhance Dialogue works well until it doesn't.

   http://warnercrocker.com/2024/11/21/sound-and-fury-with-apple-tv-enhance-dialogue/

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 05:59:21 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Beardy Star Stuff

     @dennyhenke Wish it had been that simple for us.

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     Beardy Star Stuff (dennyhenke@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 05:59:22 JST Beardy Star Stuff

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     @WarnerCrocker Yeah, I had the exact same thing in the same spot that you highlighted in your post. I ended up rewinding it and it worked without changing settings.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 08:22:20 JST Chancerubbage

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     @WarnerCrocker my bet even with tweaking out dialog with modern techniques like neural engines and such, that there are still some films that would give it a hard time.

     Have you tried it with any Christopher Nolan films, which have quite a bad reputation for bearable dialog?

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 08:23:21 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Chancerubbage

     @Chancerubbage I have not. I may be wrong on this, but I think it only works on Apple TV+ content in the OS version I have and will work with other content in a future release.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 08:29:49 JST Chancerubbage

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     @WarnerCrocker I have a confession to make- I have watched more Hollywood films via Apple TV+ that their original content. Perhaps it doesn’t do a thing with outside films, although one might hope it would. Some clarifying techniques depend on certain habits of sound design anyway.

     Of course even with surround channels I think most directors could make dialog clear if they wanted to, wherever their film is watched.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 08:31:31 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Chancerubbage

     @Chancerubbage As to your last point, yes they could. My view is that is actually their job.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 08:43:28 JST Chancerubbage

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     @WarnerCrocker Sometimes the storytelling may intentionally hang on the lack of clarity or ambiguity, as if it were something like Coppola’s The Conversation, but otherwise, maybe don’t make the audience work too much.

     I have friends who leave a film thinking actions supported and inferred by dialog didn’t happen because they didn’t see it on screen. I haven’t point out that logically that indeed did happen in the story, as the characters clearly and truthfully referenced it.