Tokyo Story (1953):

2004 R2 Tartan DVD audio synced to 2020 BFI Remastered Blu-ray

More detailed audio.




More info here: https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search/lab...%281953%29

The tartan sounds like the raro based on the clips uploaded there.

Hello,

I have been syncing superior audio tracks to newer releases for myself for a while now, not sure how I am only just now discovering this forum to discover that people had already synced many of the tracks that I was doing 

Anyway, I will have a look through the ones I have done and am happy to post them here if they haven't already been shared.


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Hi all,

I created an account here a few years ago but then life got in the way and only recently discovered it again

Hope to mingle with everyone and discuss things and explore things about original prints and mixes.
See you all around

Top Gun (1986) :: Audio Sync :: LD [LV-1692-WS] to UHD



Movie: Top Gun (1986)
Source: Paramount LD [LV-1692-WS] - 2 Sides | Synced to: Paramount UHD
Input: PCM 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect) | Output: FLAC 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced: Soundman | Ripped: Soundman | Synced: BlightedTomato

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Hey, I'm a lover of film, as I suspect everyone here is too. I'm also shocked and surprised at how some laserdiscs sound better than modern sound mixes on UHD Blu-ray due to the terrible industry practice of noise reduction. Cheers!

Synced the BFI WEB audio to UHD for High and Low

https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search/lab...%281963%29

Pm me if you need the file

I have a .WAV file of the OG stereo (from the German BD) if anyone's interested in syncing it to the Shout Factory UHD.

Hi,

I don't have the 2-disc UHD/Blu-ray set of The Wizard of Oz (1939) yet, but I do have two Blu-ray releases: the 4-disc 70th Anniversary Emerald Edition Blu-ray/DVD set and the 5-disc 75th Anniversary Limited Collector's Edition 3D/Blu-ray/DVD box set. I was wondering if anyone could rip the following LaserDisc commentaries to sync to the UHD and Blu-ray discs:

1988 commentary by Ronald Haver [CC1159L]
1993 commentary by John Fricke [ML104755]

The TV version of AoD has languished for a long time in standard def purgatory.  I made a miniDV recording off the SciFi Channel in 2005 and made it available online (as well as incorporating it into my Primitive Screwhead Edition fanedit) - and for a time that was the best way to watch it.  It finally got an official DVD release by Koch, but was a very bad NTSC to PAL conversion with some vertical softening of a good looking NTSC SD broadcast master.  Then Shout Factory released it, and they took that very bad NTSC to PAL conversion, and made it even worse with a bad conversion back to NTSC.  Despite these problems, the Koch PAL DVD still looks better overall than my 2005 recording.

It's my favorite cut of the movie (a theoretical uncensored version would be perfect), and with the new Shout Factory 4K release I had hoped Shout would right the wrong, but they have not (at least from what I've read - haven't bought it yet).

So I've put in the work to try and convert the Koch DVD back to NTSC, but that PAL conversion is terrible and I've had no luck with typical methods (QTGMC+Srestore or SelectEvery).  I have gone to the trouble of creating QTGMC 50fps versions and then manually picking out the best/correct frames compared to an inverse telecine of my 2005 recording.  I've managed to get the first unique TV version scene back to 23.976fps through this painful method, but the 2nd TV Version-only scene has much longer shots with slow movement and it's basically driving me insane trying to manually pick the correct frames out of the first 2 slow shots that last over 1000 frames each after processed with QTGMC.

Out of desperation, I've turned to the forums of VideoHelp and Doom9, but so far no one has responded.

Maybe you guys can help - here's some footage:

Bad NTSC to PAL Conversion DVD Source:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aZt1fV5...share_link

Lower Quality Recording of Original NTSC (interlaced) for reference:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ueDuU7q...share_link

I'm hoping beyond hope that maybe someone out there has a high quality copy of the broadcast master, but in lieu of that, this is the best material I know of for the scene.  Hypothetically, there is a strange pattern in the NTSC to PAL conversion that could be cracked and we could use QTGMC combined with Avisynth's SelectEvery function to get easily get the footage back to 23.976fps, but so far I have been unable to crack that.

If anyone could help me, that would be amazing.  Also, does anyone know of a decent open-matte source for the Director's Cut without burnt-in subtitles?  I have a transfer of the Taiwan laserdisc but, alas, it has burnt-in subtitles.

Blah-ray covered this back in 2016 but didn't post any charts. I haven't listened to the Criterion disc, but the UHD audio sounds more or less the same as the Sony Blu-ray. I also haven't listened to either of the LDs with digital tracks (US or JPN) so one of them might be better but they are also much later releases (94 and 96). If anyone has these, I'd love to give them a listen. If neither is better, I'll source a better/new copy of this on VHS and rerip. But for now, I think some might like this as is since it's such a huge departure from other releases.

I'm not sure if my VHS copy was damaged, or the overall transfer has issues, but it had tons of random clicks/pops and starting at around 9min, an audible hum was present through the rest of the movie. I was able to clean all of this up in Izotope RX extremely well, much better than I had expected, and synced it to the UHD release.

Spectrogram/Frequency/Waveform:
https://slow.pics/c/nQeLT2H5

Example of clicks/pop cleanup:
https://i.imgur.com/fT3DMhL.png