A while ago, before I was active on fanres, I paid for a company to digitise a couple of VHS tapes. I only got around to looking at one of them recently and the audio is pretty much unusable. Whenever it gets loud, especially during speech, it distorts. This is how it looks in audacity: 



I just wanted to check, before I go back to them and complain, could there be an issue with the actual VHS that caused this? To me it's as if they didn't plug one of the audio cables in fully when capturing? The audio sounds fine when watching the VHS. 

Thanks

Hello.

Just an idea I've had that may be way above my skill level, but nevertheless.

For anyone familiar with Lau Kar-Leung/Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II, the Region 3 DVD release contained something of a 'new' Cantonese soundtrack where the music was replaced with the versions of the respective tracks that appeared on the soundtrack CD. So they'd effectively mixed the CD quality music (albeit downmixed to mono) with the film's original dubbing and effects.

However, Warner's attempt to do this had at least two faults:

• Whoever created the track inadvertently looped the music at times.
  
• The soundtrack stops for that brief moment in the final fight (admittedly audio tracks from other releases also have this fault/possible stylistic decision)
  

How can I convert chapter times from a 25fps movie to properly use them in 23,976fps?
Are there any tools that can do such a conversion? Google doesn't really help, as I only get Fortnite result for whatever reasons

Thanks in advance

Ok so... I took it upon myself to make perfect restorations (in HD) of the 3 infamous Regular Show Season 1 episodes that curse. These 3 episodes are The Power (episode 1), Free Cake (episode 5), and Meat Your Maker (episode 6). They originally aired only for a brief time uncensored and were never aired uncut again. The official Blu-ray was censored as well. What made this project even tougher to accomplish was the fact that the particular scenes that involved cursing were dubbed to "ticked" in stead of "pissed", but what was worse was the actual animation was changed as well to sync to "ticked". Their mouths were changed to match the censored words is basically what I'm saying. So, Here I present to you the original, Uncensored 3 episodes in full, glorious HD. Was a work of love and took a bit of playing around to per-fect all 3. These are now perfect and ready for the fans.

I used the official blu-rays as the base and the old original DVDs (I had to track these down and purchase them just for the audio Haha) for the uncensored AC3 audio (blu-rays only featured AC3 as an option anyway) and used rare WEB-DLs as the video source to replace the brief cursing scenes in HD. I also used smart rendering to make these as lossless as possible.

List of fixes:

Episode 1 - The Power: Rigby says "How in the H are we gonna fix this S?!" (1:48) and then Rigby says "But he's gonna be pissed!" (7:38)

Episode 5 - Free Cake: Mordecai says "Benson's gonna get pissed so we shouldn't" (5:30)

Episode 6 - Meat Your Maker: Mordecai says "You pissed me off..." (2:21)


Here is a video guide I made to show the Blu-ray censorship and then my fixes:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQUWWQIay8

***Anyone interested in these fixes can PM me.***

Looking for guidance on how I can make my own open matte from two different WEB sources to remove the logos.

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Hey everyone my name is David, I'm from Berlin, so sorry for my bad English.
I bought the three Japanese Star Wars Special Collection Laserdiscs and plan them to rip/capture.
I have no technical knowledge about it.
Can you give me recommendations on where I can get the best information?
Many thanks in advance

Just watched Wild Hogs, and another movie came to my mind.

IIRC it was about four (or maybe three) friends motorbikers-wannabes... one had a motorbike, but the others have lesser interesting vehicles; I guess one was a scooter, but can't remember the others.

Have I imagined it?

When released in Japan this samurai epic directed by Takashi Miike was approximately 20 minutes longer. Every DVD and Blu Ray release outside of Japan has been the shorter International Cut. Unfortunately the Japanese blu ray is difficult to find and is not English friendly.

• BD50 Blu Ray with menus, background video, pop up video and resume
  
• 1080P AVC Extended Edition taken from the official out of print Japanese Blu Ray
  
• Japanese DTS HD 5.1
  
• English and Japanese SDH Subtitles
  
• Interview with Takashi Miike with English Subtitles
  
• Japanese Trailer, International Trailer and Teasers/TV Spots
  

Hey everyone,

I've been capturing bit-perfect PCM using Bronan's guide (Reaper set to 44/24 and then exporting at 44/16). I've got some questions about editing.

Although I capture in Reaper, I've been editing out side breaks/silence between discs using Audacity (a program I know a lot better). I'm wondering if that is messing up my files at all.

I've got two options for editing:

Option 1: Capture in Reaper at 44/24. Edit out side breaks/disc swaps in Reapar. Export edited WAV file in 44/16.
Option 2: Capture in Reaper at 44/24. Export file in 44/16. Put it into Audacity (which seems to upsample file from 44/16 to 44/32). Edit in Audacity. Export from Audacity at 44/16.

Will either option impact the bit-perfect nature of the audio itself? I know upsampling the khz is bad but is there any problem with upsampling the bit depth? 

Any help would be great. Thank you!

Hi All,

Sorry this is probably a daft question

I'm starting to do some projects using PAL footage and I'm planning on changing them to 23.976 fps as part of the cleanup process. First of all is everything shot at 24/23.976 fps? A lot of these projects are Italian genre movies, some TV movies/miniseries financed by RAI, but still shot on 35mm.

Second I have no idea how to tell whether I need to do pitch correction or not when adjusting the audio. I know some people can tell just by listening but I can't at all, 
most likely because a) I wear a hearing aid so I'm used to things not sounding natural, b) I'm in PAL land and I'm possibly used to things sounding wrong and c) for Italian dubbed audio it's not as if I have an ideal reference to make a comparison against. 

So generally speaking, for a movie taken from PAL VHS or even PAL DVD, is it usually necessary to correct the pitch or not when adjusting the audio to match 23.976 fps? I was planning on doing the conversion with meGUI. 

Thanks all