Schubin Cafe: The Impossible Dream of Perfect Lip Sync

There is definitely plenty that can be done to improve lip sync.  Making it perfect, however, might not be possible, says Mark Schubin in this week’s post. Perhaps it would be best to start with a definition. Lip sync is the synchronization of the sounds emerging from moving lips with the images of those moving lips.  No moving images, no lip-sync issues, per se. There are many creation myths, and one associated with moving images and sound is that The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first sound movie.  It wasn’t.