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  1. El Dobro

    El Dobro A Member

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    The latest Avengers movie has Audi EVs in it and for effect, the EVs have, with Audi's help, engine sounds added for dramatic effect! Audi says they helped, since their EVs are to have sounds due to government edict. One of the article commenters said that he thought the cars weren't electric because of the engine sounds. To me, this doesn't sound like much help to the EV cause. I guess you have to give a little to take a little.

    With the forthcoming James Bond movie having an EV Aston Martin, makes me wonder if it too will have a growling V12 sound emitting from the theatre speakers. Next, EVs in the Fast And Furious movies.:p

    Avengers movie adds gas engine sound to Audi's electric e-tron in product placement fail - Electrek
     
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    I face this same dilemma with my car as well as my electric bike. Think I'm going to have to get one of these ...... you know .... so everyone will consider me to be more of a macho driver;



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    just like tesla acceleration, if it takes ear numbing noise to onboard gear heads, then so be it.

    me, i like things nice and quiet :sleep:
     
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    Leadfoot J. McCoalroller Senior Member

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    No SFX editor worth his/her salt would have let it roll with its own sound anyway. That just isn't done.
     
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  5. a_gray_prius

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    Not SFX editor. Foley artists - here's a really good video about "The Secret World of Foley".
     
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    If the production can afford a good foley, sure. If not, a sound editor will be working out of a collection of self-produced and licensed recordings. Either way it's the sound (or even an SFX specialty) editor deciding what goes in.
     
    #6 Leadfoot J. McCoalroller, May 1, 2019
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    If only I could get my Prime to emit the Jetson's flying car sounds.
     
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    It's not just sound.... I still can't get over how cheesy the digital tire smoke looked in "Ronin." Otherwise one of the best car chases put to film.

     
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    Ya know ... you should warn people. Good thing I had swallowed the Dr. Pepper before I played that video or my sinuses would be burning and my laptop might be shot. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
     
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  11. a_gray_prius

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    Not as bad as all the movies when you hear screeching tires when the car is on gravel. SMH.
     
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    Or bullets that ricochet off of grass on the old Avengers TV show.
     
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    Or digital cameras with film winding motors.
     
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    Ever see Bullit? one of my favorite chase scenes, but the wrong car survives. And no fake smoke there. Amazing what 50 years of progress achieved !?!?


     
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    Ricochets and tire screeching galore.

     
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    Oh yeah. And, IIRC, 007 with a license to kill, always had to chamber a round before he was ready to shoot.
     
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    You'd think that they would just use the actual DSLR sound since the mirror slap and shutter click on the full-frame bodies sound very characteristically camera-like.
     
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  18. Leadfoot J. McCoalroller

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    Is this still a car chase popcorn thread?

    Because if it is...



    I lived near that neighborhood in NYC for a while. Always loved seeing how it looked back then.

    Edit: Hey, can I get bonus points for the giant, multi-car EV on the tracks overhead leading for much of the race?
     
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  19. a_gray_prius

    a_gray_prius Rare Non-Old-Blowhard Priuschat Member

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    I'm an import guy, so....

    MONICAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!11!!!!!

     
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  20. El Dobro

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    The Seven UPs car chase. You'll notice that the Ventura sounds like a certain Mustang.
     
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