Special thanks to @izzybell for supplying me with the DTS ISOs.

Title: Speed Racer
Format: Cinema DTS CD
Synced to: 2008 USBD
Source: .AUD, 24fps, 44.1kHz, 16bit, 5.0
Output: DTS-HD Master Audio, 23.976, 48kHz, 24bit,  5.1

PM for a link if interested. Always willing to hear feedback. Will be doing a v2 and UHD sync once that disc is out in May as this is my first time ever dealing with Cinema DTS and I'm not fully confident in how I handled LFE in particular.

I just stumbled upon this site and I'm so glad I did.

This guy here just found out about this forum. Which is nice. I'm a huge fan of retro television, so I'm hoping I will get into fruitful conversations with everybody on here! Cheers!

Hi, 
 
 Still poking around and exited to see so many passionate fans and projects!

- Concept

These popped up on trackers and I cannot find a source, anyone know where they came from?

I previously made a thread in the proposal section but I decided to fully commit to the project and now it's entering near it's final stages.

Edit Goal: Remove (almost) all fluff and errors from the official Extended Cut using while maintaining the charm of & restoring uncensored content from the original Theatrical Cut, as well as continuity fixes from the Spicediver Edit

Current Runtime: 2h 53m

Planned Sound Formats: LPCM 2.0 Surround, DTS-HD MA 5.1, Dolby Atmos 7.1.
(all surround tracks will be upmixed from the stereo master with care)

A trailer will be released soon. My current assembly is in a QC phase so expect this edit sooner rather than later.

Hello everyone, I heard you were interested in capturing the DTS LD track of Armageddon. A friend of mine will be sending me a bit-perfect capture tomorrow, and I'd be happy to share it with you. I've heard about a project with a Dolby Headphones track, I would  like to know how to create one for my projects, if possible. Do you know how ? Thanks.

Hey!
Nice to be here.
Another resource to dig the cinephile community!

StudioCanal has announced that T2 will be returning to theaters for it's 35th anniversary today at CinemaCon.

"Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Restoration): James Cameron’s defining 1991 sci-fi action landmark returns in a meticulously restored presentation."
Source: https://filmthreat.com/news/cinemacon-20...tar-power/

There's already a few screenings set for May at high profile venues.
IFC Center: https://www.ifccenter.com/films/terminat...gment-day/
AFI: https://silver.afi.com/movies/detail/0100005493/
Academy Museum: https://www.academymuseum.org/programs/d...862eb8a547

Of course the big talk of this forum will be whether or not this will be a "new" 4K master or just the old one showing yet again. Personally I think it's just going to be the old master but either way I'm excited to see it if it comes near me. Thoughts from yall?

In 2010, Disney re-released Kiki’s Delivery Service on DVD. The English dub was reworked to be closer to the original Japanese audio, with the music and sound effects changed back. Unfortunately, it was very poorly executed. While I feel removing Phil Hartman’s ad-libs was a bit disrespectful, given it was one of his last roles before he was murdered, I can fully understand why they did that, as Jiji didn’t talk as much in the Japanese version. However, a bigger issue was how it made everyone’s voices sound like they were talking through an electric fan. It’s most noticeable with Kiki as Kirsten Dunst’s performance has a higher pitched voice. Every release since has used this version, even the GKIDS Blu-ray and 4K remaster.

I speculate that this is because Disney lost the original masters, so instead they used a pre-existing dub mix and violently ripped the vocals off of it with 2010-era audio extraction technology.

Needless to say, in the past decade and a half, audio extraction technology has jumped leaps and bounds, to the point the best ones out today are some serious CSI stuff. With stuff like UVR out there today that allows people with just home computers to make near-flawless instrumentals of songs, I thought to myself “why not fix the major issue Kiki had?”

The idea behind the 2010 audio mix, Hartman removal aside, isn’t a bad one. If done right, it would have been a “best of both worlds” dub with the Japanese score and the English dub audio. Indeed, the soundtrack alterations go against how Hayao Miyazaki intended the film to sound.

The models I used for stem extraction are MVSEP’s state of the art “Ensemble” models which mix and match various models to create the best possible vocal and instrument separation tracks.

The first release is a “purist” version with the ad-libs removed, effectively giving the 2010 mix without the “electric fan” artefacts. A “restorationist” version with the ad-libs reinserted will be released later.

When I first embarked on this project, I thought it was gonna just be removing a few lines here and there. What surprised me is that in the 2010 mix, some lines were retimed. For example, “Look Jiji, aren’t they beautiful?” when Kiki looks at the red heels happens a bit earlier.

This audio track is synced to the 2014 “Hayao Miyazaki Collection” MGVC Japanese Blu-ray, currently the best looking release.

PM me if you want a link to the FLAC file.

Sources used:

• 1998 Disney NTSC LaserDisc (for the 1998 dub, which was the best possible source as it has the English dub in Dolby Stereo without 5.1 upmixing)
  
• 2014 Studio Ghibli MGVC JPN “Hayao Miyazaki Collection” Blu-ray (for the original Japanese audio)
  
• Soundtrack CD (to patch in bits of the soundtrack)