Hi everyone, long time no see 🙂

Is anyone here intimately familiar with The Ten Commandments (1956)? I have it on Blu-ray and it features intermission music that comes to around 2:15.

However, I also have a copy of the projectionists' notes, which say:
"INTERMISSION MUSIC: An optical sound track, with the picture area black, has been provided for use during the intermission. It runs 4 minutes 40 seconds. It should be played through the screen speaker, with the scrim and douser closed.
In theatre screenings of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS it has been found that people return from the lobby when the intermission music is heard. It is suggested that this music be started approximately 3 minutes before the time established for the start of Part II of the picture."

I can't find any other reference to intermission music that runs for 4:40. There are a number of different soundtrack releases, but they all seem to either sit between 2:06 and 2:16, or omit the intermission music entirely.

I wondered whether the 4:40 claim in the notes was a typo, but that doesn't seem to mesh with the second paragraph: you'd want the 3-minute "buffer" to be shorter than the music, otherwise Part II would start before the published time. This implies that the music would be no less than 3 minutes long.

Does anyone know what's going on here?

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Bit of a random question, but I've been trying to find a bit more info on the mix history of this movie on home video, and I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge on whether or not the discrete surround mix ever changed over the years?

It seems that a 5.1 mix was available on DVD all the way back in 2001, and I have zero clue if the mix itself ever changed over the years or if the only thing that changed was just the encoding itself?

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

I cut together an audio track that should work with the current blu-ray releases.

It's a mix of a compatibility track that is Dolby Surround EX 5.1 with 48 kHz and 640 kbps but when it goes to the credits, it has the original credits song from the Bandai Namco Japanese UHD Blu-ray.

I didn't upmix it, so the music only comes from the left and right channels.

I only re-encoded the credits music from lossless stereo to a matching format so they could be cut together without re-encoding the compatibility track.

This may not be the most genius way to do this, so I'm open to suggestions.

Hello. I am new to this forum. I am interested in watching some of the preservations that several members here have worked on, and I may possibly have some ideas for projects of my own, even though I currently lack the experience or the tools to achieve it. However I am still awaiting approval from the moderators to allow me access to PM chat so that I may ask with kind permission for those projects despite the fact that I have already entered my activation code.

Thank you for taking the time to read my introductory post.

Hey, guys.

It's done.
This is the V2.0 regrade of the film. For the Nepal scene, I went with the cooler grading. According to people, and the ancient Litemakr scan, that's how the original prints look. So be it.
Except for that particular scene, the UHD is already accurate to the 4K 35mm scan floating around (not the Litemakr scan, the other one). I just removed a bit of the warmth from the UHD, making it incidentally closer to the wowow, but honestly, I could live with the UHD just fine.
CGI "fixes" removed (those shots of Indy and Satipo in the cave with the spiders, and those two shots of the lamp in the finale). I also replaced the snake reflection shot, with the previous version (no, the original 35mm one is not coming back, sorry), and the wider shots at night when they are excavating the well of souls.  All other vfx shots are just recomposited from the original film elements, so we are good.

Audio.
Included the 1992 Laserdisc Remix,  the 5.1 from the DVD and the Atmos.

Multisubs.


Gallery: (postimages doesn't seem to work anymore. I'm trying to find an alternative. Any suggestions? )
The gallery in the link below compresses the pictures, but at least it shows them!
https://imgpile.com/m/YmWMoC0



Miniatures from MPC
 

Quote:82.4 GB
Video: HVC1 3840x2160 23.976fps [V: hevc main 10 L5.1, yuv420p10le, 3840x2160 [default]]
Audio: PCM 44100Hz stereo 1411kbps [A: '92 LD Remix (pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1411 kb/s) [default]]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 448kbps [A: DVD 5.1 (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), 448 kb/s) [default]]
Audio: TrueHD 48000Hz 8ch 9216kbps [A: English [eng] (truehd atmos, 48000 Hz, 7.1, s24) [default]]
Multisubs

Hello all,
I recently got into collecting physical media and ripping blu-rays, which of course brought me to the massive debate over the different colorations of the LOTR versions, which of course brought me here (thanks reddit). Just dabbling right now, not sure how far I'll go, but I'm really interested in a lot of the existing projects I saw here so I thought I'd see what's going on! (LOTR, Die Hard, etc).

Hi everyone!
I'm Mauro from Chile. I've been interested in movies, physical media, video and audio restoration for many years.
I'm especially interested in film preservation, alternate cuts, original audio tracks, subtitles, and restoring older releases that are difficult to find in their original form.
I'm here mainly to learn, share ideas, and hopefully contribute to some projects in the future.
Happy to be part of the community!
Cheers from Chile!

All of the mixes for this movie are great, but in my opinion, this LD has the balance that comes closest to cinema mix.  IMAX screening was extremely intense, to say the least.

It’s a very aggressive mix for high Vol, particularly in the high frequencies, which is characteristic of many ’90s mixes.

There are a few obvious mistakes in certain scenes, such as the tiger scene, but for me, this is the best mix for the Valkyrie scene.

Note: The video source for the Theatrical Cut must be made with MakeMKV; otherwise, it will be completely out of sync. I had to make sync adjustments in more scenes than I expected.

I believe this should also sync properly with the WEBRip.

FLAC: 48 kHz / 24-bit
AC3: 448kbps (for easy use)

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I am looking for the original theatrical 5.1 Surround Sound Mixes of Sam Rami's Army of Darkness (1992) (Dolby Digital 5.1), The Unusual Suspects (1995) (Dolby Digital 5.1), and David Fincher's Se7en (1995) (Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1) that are compatibly synced to Rob's Nostalgia Projects 35mm film print scans of these films (all that are missing their original 5.1 mixes in these films). Anyone here have them in lossless audio files?

As for Running Man (1987), I was wondering if anyone here has the Laserdisc 2.0 Stereo Mix synced to RNP 35mm film print scan of that film?

Synced without transcoding using Eac3to.  The DTS-HD MA 5.1 on the UHD is fine but there are slight differences in channel level balances, so the AC3 is here for the purists.  

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