Meaning of lip flap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A failure in audio-video synchronization, so that an actor's lips move but no sound is heard.
   countable, uncountable
2. A movement of an actor's lips, which is to be matched as closely as possible in a dubbed version of the film.
   countable, uncountable
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lip, flap.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“[…] pick⟳ it up earlier or later where there is no lip-flap. But if you must take⟳ it there, then you must precede it with another shot of the same speaker at a different angle, hopefully closer.”

““So when we translate⟳,” Lam was saying, “it's all about what we call⟳ lip flaps. Like⟳, how many times does mouth move⟳? We match⟳ translation more to mouth than to what words really mean⟳.”

“For the dubbed version, we would start⟳ with this translated script and then work⟳ to create⟳ a new script, which would closely match⟳ the lip flaps and intonations of the character onscreen”

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