Why are there different audio levels for different languages?
I was watching the Star Trek Into Darkness trailers on Apple's trailer site. I watched the Announcement in English (US) and then the UK and AU versions and I noticed that the background audio was at different levels in each of them. The most prominent example is the blond girl screaming at about the 40 second mark. When I noticed this I watched most of the other language versions as well. It's not just that the US version is louder and more pronounced than the others but in each language the scream is different.What is the point of this? I would have thought the same video and audio would have been used with just the voice over being different but it seems as though a separate audio track for each language was used even though there is no speaking other than the voice over. I wonder if in the released versions of the film will the scream be muted for other languages as it is in the Announcements?
I would most likely assume that these tracks were just mixed by different people! Whoever is doing the audio probably has different preferences for the mix. If a totally different sound effect was used it could also be due to getting the rights to the sound in different countries. Maybe the scream was licensed for only certain countries.
