Comment by washadjeffmad
2 years ago
The Netflix show model is highly formulaic. Same cameras and mics, 8 episode budget contract, sent to the same post houses. If you want to work with Netflix, you don't mull over choices or do auteur film, you have an expedient, generic pipeline for mixing, color, etc that produces consistent results.
It's 98% business, just a race to see how much they can make using their method before Amazon or HBO can catch up.
Now I'm peeved about what a low effort crapshoot their mixing is is. I've made a few profiles for my receiver to help with levels and clarity, and we still end up needing subtitles. Oh, this is an action scene? I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't compressed the range out of it and then flat amplified it 12db. An intimate scene follows? Good thing you again compressed the shit out of that hot ass mic mix so we're fighting to pick out words over every rustle of fabric and hair right after we had to turn down the volume. It's atrocious.
No worries, I'm sure the next generation of shows will sprinkle some AI pixie dust over their pipeline to artificially "uncompress" the range again at the end (and generically sort everything that sounds like a voice into one channel, everything that sounds like background noise in another, etc, without context-awareness)