Hi All,

I'm syncing up a commentary track to a blu ray and the volume is very low on it so I was just going to normalise it in sound forge. 

However when looking at it, the audio goes further below the middle line than it goes above the middle line, see below:

https://www.mediafire.com/view/jzuqo1s3j...s.PNG/file

Not sure what causes this and if anything should be done to correct it? After normalising it looks like this:

https://www.mediafire.com/view/2dn2rrlck...p.PNG/file

It sounds a lot better than it was so I could just go with it. Any other suggestions? I didn't capture the LD myself.

Thanks

I'm looking for the Paris, Texas LD audio. I'd like to sync it to the upcoming 4k restored release, which I will gladly in turn make available for anyone who wants it.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT : Now bit-perfect certified! 

I was talking to another user here about Chewtobacca's preservation of The Keep. During the discussion he sent me the following quote from Chewtobacca: 

"...What we really need is the PCM from the LaserDisc..."

At the time I had my laserdisc player plugged in to my PC to capture PCM audio for my Highlander 2 preservation, so I offered to have a go with my Keep laserdisc too. 

I can't guarantee that it's bit perfect as I'm still struggling to pass bronan's DTS CD test, but since I'm already hosting it for another user here I thought I'd at least post about it and make it available to anyone else who is interested. 




It's from the US Widescreen release (https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/23041/LV-...S/Keep-The) and side two also features the audio for the following trailers:

• Barbarella
  
• War of the Worlds
  
• When Worlds Collide
  
• I Married a Monster from Outer Space
  

According to this, the analogue audio on the Image LaserDisc version of Citizen Kane sounds better. Is there anyone who can hook us up with that track and sync it to the Blu-ray?

The idea is to render the english DVD using BD footage since the BD is redubbed with even more cuts. I started compiling a script of footage from the BDs of both the US cut and the Chinese cut (for the missing scenes). Since the DVD cut has less missing scenes than the US BD, I need to use the english audio track from one of the DVDs. This DVD seems to be the only one with English DTS audio:

R2 Holland - World Wide Cinema

DISC TWO
* The Film - Director's Cut
"Making Of" featurette
"Special Effects" featurette
Outtakes
Subtitles: Dutch
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Picture Format:Anamorphic
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):Cantonese DTS 5.1
Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1
English DTS 5.1
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0
French Dolby Digital 2.0
Case type:Keep Case


Now I'm not sure if the DTS track is better. I just thought I'd ask here if anyone knew which one is superior or if they had something superior. Yes the Director's Cut is far superior, this project is for those who enjoyed the english dub back in the day 

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Hi guys,

I'm currently trying to gather all mixes of Scarface 83 that aren't on the new 4K or Blu-ray for resyncs.

The Blu-ray have the original Dolby Surround 2.0 but it appears that this original mix was released in foreign countries in 4.0 discrete which would make it the best version of the original mix out there.

It's available in the following countries:

R2 Denmark - Universal Pictures
Collector's Edition
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 4.0
German Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Case type:Keep Case

R2 Holland - Universal Pictures
Collector's Edition
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 4.0
Case type:Keep Case

R2 France - Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Collector's Edition
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 4.0
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

R2 Italy - Universal Pictures
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 4.0
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Case type:Keep Case

R2 United Kingdom - Universal Pictures
Collector's Edition
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 4.0
German Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

R4 Australia - Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Collector's Edition
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 4.0
German Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

If you own one of these I would be happy with an extraction of the 4.0 track for preservation

THX

Its pretty clear random.next can do a much better job than I can so I'm canceling this project.



The Abyss SE Open Matte (New HDTV Colors Regrade v1.0A)
The Abyss TC Open Matte (New HDTV Colors Regrade v1.0B)

Project Info:

This project attempts to create the best open matte version of The Abyss by combining the parts from 2 separate HDTV broadcasts (no logo cap and AXN for fill). It's a project similar to my Top Gun, Fight Club and Quantum Of Solace projects.

Each video file has the normal range of issues: compression artifacts, smeared grain, missing frames, etc that will be cleaned up. There might be a chance of dirt clean up but I haven't decided yet.

Originally this project was going to use a color regrade that I had come up with for my upscale of the 4:3 OM DVD but when comparing that grade to the colors from the "new" HD master, they were close enough that I decided to just use the "new" HD's colors.

Test Run
Old HDTV Colors\New HDTV Colors


Finally, spoRv provided a copy of his YAO subs so you can watch the project in 1.77 open matte or theatrical 2.35 with a tiny bit of crop varying per shot. Once again the opening 20th Century logo be over cropped incorrectly but the rest is fine.

Video:
A combination of 2 HDTV broadcast merged together to create the best version with compression artifacts minimized and other clean up measures preformed.

Audio: (Version A)
1. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the SE LD)
2. DTS-ES 6.1 (from the Chinese DVD)

(Version B)
1. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the TC LD)
2. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (cut down from the SE LD)
3. Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the HDTV Broadcast)

Subs:
1. English (from the US DVD)
2. spoRv's YAO subs to watch the 1.77 open matte video in 2.35 mode (Version A only)

Pics

Temp/WIP Pics

Collaborators and Thanks (In order of help):
Chewtobacca: for audio help
X5gb: for material help

Depending on what's already been done and what others have available, I guess this could be seen as a request first and a proposal second.

Like many European discs, the UK Blu-ray releases of the early Bond films are filled up with foreign language dubs and do not include the original English mono, instead choosing to feature the 5.1 remix exclusively. This is rather frustrating for those of us who prefer to hear the original mix, particularly since the films were made here in the first place.

I notice that the US Blu-rays do feature the original mono, though only in low-bitrate Dolby Digital (AC3) as opposed to something like uncompressed LPCM. The old US Criterion Collection LaserDiscs also appear to feature the original mono mixes, although they are not entirely straightforward to source from because they add a Criterion logo and an alternative MGM logo at the beginning instead of the MGM lion seen on the Blu-rays (therefore the lion roar does not exist on the LaserDisc audio). Syncing it to the Blu-ray video would presumably be straightforward enough apart from having to source the lion roar from somewhere else and disguising the transition between the two sources.

Here are the big priorities, and the ones I could possibly do myself using Criterion LaserDisc sources if I could work out the lion problem:

Dr. No (1962)
From Russia With Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)

Ideally, I'd also like the following:

Thunderball (1965)

Thankfully, The Aluminum Falcon has already done a restoration of On Her Majesty's Secret Service including the original mono from LaserDisc in LPCM. From memory, I don't think the colours are quite as horrible in the first four films, so I'm really just concerned with restoring the original mono audio for them in the best quality possible.

Does anyone have such a thing already, or is anyone willing and able to do it? If not, I'm probably either going to try a LaserDisc resync myself or simply import the US Blu-rays with the lossy Dolby Digital tracks.

EDIT: I've just realised that I could source the lion roar from Aluminum Falcon's OHMSS restoration, so that might be enough for me to do the first three films. However, I've also noticed that the LaserDisc tracks I have aren't actually LPCM because they've been repurposed for DVD as Dolby Digital. Presumably, they're therefore not significantly better than the Dolby Digital mono tracks on the US Blu-ray Discs. Perhaps importing from the US is the answer here. I was really hoping to avoid buying these films for something like the fourth time...

Is there any software to put the flag that has sometimes been forgotten on matrixed tracks ?  (flag for Dolby 2.0 surround, DTS-ES or Dolby EX missing)