Hey guys,
Thanks to userBigRob, I came here in the hopes that someone can help me out. So I've found the workprint of The Cable Guy and it runs approximately 6 minutes longer than the theatrical cut. Unfortunately, it's overlapped with a Russian voiceover with English audio in the background. I understand that's impossible to get rid of the Russian audio if it's on one track but I'm holding out hope that someone can help me out.

Thanks,

Just curious to re-live that IMAX experience.

... that i wish someone (Cameron preferably) to really invent (or just find, since we live in this ultra-modern times with advanced technology) the time machine and go back and film more scenes with, for example, Bess Motta. Yes, her ! I like Linda Hamilton so much, but her roommate has something about her that is hard to explain. I want to be transported to the '80s as well - Bess represents that decade in such a remarkable manner, obviously. So yeah... more scenes with her and Sarah, i approve even ''soap-opera'' style. Sure, Latin America (Mexico, Venezuela...) is specialized for that, but why not Los Angeles ?

Hey guys,
So I've found the workprint of The Cable Guy and it runs approximately 6 minutes longer than the theatrical cut. Unfortunately, it's overlapped with a Russian voiceover with English audio in the background.

Is there any way to fix this?

Hi guys,

So I was browsing through my Fury Road different editions collection, and I'm kinda confused now about the variation of mixes that can be found on these.

It looks like there are different encoding of the mixes depending on the releases, not all of them sounding the same.

From what I can make up those are the main ones:

- English Dolby TrueHD Audio 5692 kbps  7.1 / 48 kHz / 5692 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 384 kbps / DN -4dB)
- English Dolby Atmos/TrueHD Audio 6077 kbps 7.1-Atmos / 48 kHz / 6077 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 384 kbps)
- English Dolby Digital Audio 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
- English iTunes stereo mix 192kbps AAC

However browsing the web, I find instances of those listed there and there:

- English Dolby Digital + 7.1 E-AC3 1536kbps
- English DTS-HD Master Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 4687 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) labeled as "original" so no re-encode
- English Dolby Digital + 5.1 640 kbps
- English Dolby Digital 384 kbps

What are they? I assume the last one is an extraction from either the Atmos or the True-HD tracks, but are the others encodes (or embeds) that appears in foreign territories? I muxed both the DD 448 and 384 in one file, and they sound completely different, the 448 one being superior sounding.

Both films being around 4 hours long - do you think that making them into one with duration of 3 hours at most would be a remotely good idea ? I think it would be interesting and i would have fun with it. It will be tricky though... because it is a huge production value difference, but at least it's only 7 years between them. It would not work, imo, if it's more than 20 years age gap.

My idea goes like this: after browsing this site for some time, i stumbled to 4:3 version of T2 but apparently T1 is only avalialble (good quality at least) at 1:78:1 & 1:85:1 aspect ratio (correct me if i am wrong). But anyway, perhaps the best edition would be in 1:78:1, so only T2 4:3 version should be set to 1:78:1 to match T1.

Now, the most difficult part would be to set the whole film to no more than 3 hours... so which scenes should be deleted ? Actually both films have some charming additional scenes which somewhat makes this mission even more impossible. 4+ hours is perhaps a bit too long, even for the quality film. 

So pretty much this version:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-2535.html
to be merged with this one:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-3010.html?...rminator+2
- i really like those blue colors in T2 (which would nicely match with ''U Matic'' grade of T1, by the way) - they are way more appealing than those teal (or whatever-it's-called) that is a trend nowadays.

Definitely a team-work is required here. 

Check out this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4joW4C4SRpM
- pay attention to 1:56 (Czech) - is that a similar low budget sound that T1 has ? Does anyone have that rare version of T2 in English?
Sound of ''T1&2 Merge'' can be in T1 mono style, but with corrections like this: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gya8-d9U4ws&t=360s

I would like to see your thoughts on this.

Edit: RETIRED. See my last post in this thread.

Hello all,

This one was originally intended to be a simple colour correction (to mostly fix the saturation that appears intermittently throughout the film e.g. throughout the hospital scene); also adding and syncing a good mono track and subs based on those from the Joy Sales DVD. 

Somewhere along the line, it got a bit bigger in scope. The video went through a few different revisions. I used elements from the Joy Sales DVD and HK laserdisc for the colour correction - but I also consulted a few different releases of the HK version and the Miramax blu-ray. One choice I did make was to dial back the blue tint in some scenes. Only because a lot of the HK releases were so heavily tinted that it made particular scenes so hard to discern. It might have been the case that the tint was intended to be that prominent, but it obscured a lot of details:

Compare this shot of Maggie Cheung from the Joy Sales DVD:


with this one from the render:


Like I said, I don't know that it's 100% accurate but it shows a bit more detail, IMO.

Here are some other shots:




The video was rendered in Resolve and Hybrid, encoded at the original bitrate.

Now, the audio. Here's where the scope got bigger.

Originally when we started we had the Cantonese mono from the Japanese blu-ray, a pitch-corrected 5.1, and the original English dub. What we ended up with is as follows:

• Cantonese mono with HK music cues
  
• Cantonese mono with HK music cues (Jackie Chan's 'My Feeling' playing over the end credits - at least one early DVD release featured this so we wanted to include it as an option)
  
• Cantonese mono with Japanese music cues
  
• Cantonese surround stereo remix (from the HK laserdisc - thanks to pipefan413)
  
• Cantonese 5.1 (pitch corrected)
  
• Mandarin surround stereo remix (from the HK laserdisc - thanks to pipefan413)
  
• Original English dub
  
• Original English dub with Barbara and Boss Wing's duet replaced by the song used in the Cantonese track (a The Film Whisperer custom)
  
• Hybrid Original/Miramax English dub (a The Film Whisperer custom)
  

The DVD was processed in the Topaz program and the result came out good, if you don't know what was done with the DVD, then you can freely say that this is a Blu Ray picture.

For a link to the film, write to me in PM

I recently got hold of an open matte version (RUS WEB-Rip Open Matte 1080p) and it's pretty much perfect as it opens up the BD frame without losing detail on the sides.

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/KGW77NNX

But the only problem with it, as you can see in the comparison, is the opening title sequence is also in Russian.

No problem I thought, I'll just edit the first 5 minutes of the BD and OM and overlay one on top of the other. Unfortunately Vegas keeps crashing on my poor laptop even with the short clips of the opening sequence.

So I humbly ask if one of the experts here would mind taking a look at it for me (and the community here of course).

Thanks.