Audio Mixing & Mastering

Audio mixing and mastering for shoots finishing in China runs through a tight network of calibrated rooms across Beijing and Shanghai. The capital's post chain holds Beijing Film Group Audio and Mango Sound Beijing. The in-house mix bays at iQIYI Audio and Tencent Audio Studio serve the streaming platforms directly, and Bird Audio Beijing covers indie and festival features. Shanghai Film Studio Audio and Pacific Audio Visual sit on the Yangtze, while the Wanda Studios audio rooms at Hengdian and Qingdao handle domestic tentpole work.

Our supervising mixers walk into picture-lock sessions with premixed dialogue, music, and effects stems ready to balance against the cut. They track on ITU-R BS.1770-calibrated systems at -85 dBC theatrical reference. Mandarin centre-channel dialogue carries most Chinese-language features and series. We place Cantonese, Sichuanese, Shanghainese, and Beijing-accent regional dialect tracks where the production needs them, and we prep English or co-production language stems in parallel for global versioning.

Mastering targets the full range of outlets Chinese post houses ship into. That means NRTA delivery specs for CCTV and provincial TV networks, and ATSC A/85 and EBU R128 loudness for global broadcast. We hit platform targets for iQIYI, Tencent Video, Youku, and Mango TV streaming masters. The list also covers Netflix at -27 LKFS, Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Disney+ when content licenses out, plus theatrical DCP masters for CFA-released features.

We deliver organised stem packages — dialogue, music, effects, and foley split by type. Alongside them we build full M&E tracks for dubbing into English, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian-market languages, all without re-cutting the music or effects beds. When a project ships to Chinese TV networks, NRTA dialogue and lyric review folds into the mastering schedule. Any needed script changes then flow back into the final pass without moving the delivery date. Global clients join final mix reviews from afar through Source-Connect or matching IP workflows on GMT+8 schedules, with frame-accurate picture, talkback, and clip approval to the stage.