lip synchronization
Noun: The technical process of precisely aligning an audio recording (especially spoken dialogue or song vocals) with a video recording so that the sound appears to be perfectly timed with the on-screen action, most specifically with the visible movements of a speaker's or singer's lips.
This term is used to describe the technical achievement or the process itself in film, television, animation, and music video production. It is a compound noun typically used in a technical or critical context. - The film's lip synchronization was so flawless that the dubbing was undetectable. - A key challenge in animation is achieving accurate lip synchronization for character dialogue. - The software is designed to assist with lip synchronization in post-production.
- "Lip-sync" (verb/noun): A common informal shortening of "lip synchronization" or "lip synchronisation." As a verb, it means to perform or match lip movements to a pre-recorded audio track.
- The singer was accused of lip-syncing during the live concert.
- "Out of sync": A phrase describing when the audio and video, particularly lip movements, are not correctly aligned.
- The poor dubbing left the actor's mouth movements out of sync with the dialogue.
- Lip synchronisation (noun): The British English spelling variant.
- Lip sync (noun/verb): The common abbreviated form.
- Dubbing (noun): The process of replacing the original voice track with a recording in another language, which requires precise lip synchronization to be effective.
- ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) (noun): A post-production process where actors re-record dialogue to improve audio quality or achieve synchronization.
- Audio-video synchronization: A broader technical term.
- Lip matching: A more descriptive, less technical synonym.
- "To lip-sync for one's life": An idiom originating from drag culture and popularized by the television show , meaning to perform a lip-sync performance with extreme effort and skill, as if one's career depends on it.
- In the final round, the two contestants had to lip-sync for their life.
- combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker's lips with the sound of his speech