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Solaria Entertainment

Measured business impact across production velocity and audience retention

Case Study

Overview

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Solaria Entertainment, a cross-border content syndicator, needed to localize a top-grossing 100-episode Chinese vertical drama into Spanish, English, and Japanese — but traditional studio dubbing was too expensive and destroyed the original actors' emotional delivery.

Solaria ingested the master video files into Excyan's Contextual Dubbing Engine, using automated voice cloning and sub-pixel facial lip-syncing across all target languages. The localized slate shipped simultaneously, retaining the original series' dramatic impact in every market.

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  • Client
    Solaria Entertainment
  • Categories
    Cross-Border Syndication · Dubbing
  • Budgets
    $180,000 Saved
  • Location
    Cross-Border
  • Project Url
    http://www.example.com
Case Study

Challenge

Localize 100 episodes into three languages without losing the performances.

Standard translation strips out the dramatic melodrama essential to vertical drama, and traditional re-dubbing studios replaced the original cast's emotional delivery with flat, robotic reads.

The 100-episode volume made per-episode studio dubbing costs prohibitive for a syndication deal with three target markets.

Ship all three languages on the same release date.

The syndication strategy required day-and-date releases across markets; sequential localization would have given the first market a months-long exclusivity window and killed momentum elsewhere.

Keep localized dialogue visually native, not overdubbed.

Audiences notice mismatched mouth movement instantly. The localized cut needed lip-sync aligned to each language track at sub-pixel precision.

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Solution

Solaria ingested the master files into Excyan's Contextual Dubbing Engine, translating script contextually while preserving dramatic idioms and emotional cadence.

Automated voice cloning replicated the original actors' timbres for every target language, and sub-pixel facial lip-syncing aligned each performance to its new audio track.

Automated multi-lingual subtitle burn-in with mobile-optimized styling completed each localized master, ready for platform upload.

Results

Solaria retained 92% of the original viewer retention scores across all international markets — unprecedented for a dubbed vertical slate.

72 hrs

100 episodes localized into Spanish, English, and Japanese simultaneously

$180k

Saved in voice actor and studio mixing costs versus legacy localization

92%

Original viewer retention retained across all international markets