Does anyone have the original Japanese stereo audio from the 2011 Bluray of Akira?
I own the 2014 Bluray, which drops this track and only has the Japanese 5.1 remix.
The 2011 Bluray is out of print and I would love to mux this track to my copy of the film.

Hello.
Back in march I signed up here because of spoRv's Beauty and the Beast release. After that I missed the part of forum rules addition about zero poster presentation. So, this would be my first post.

Jerry Shadoe presents:

The.Sword.In.The.Stone.Open.Matte.Original.Theatrical.Mono.1963.Multiaudio.Multisubs.1080p.BDremux.x264.LPCM.AC3.Shadoe

Purpose: to provide the highest quality possible of the open-matte transfer with original mono audio for as many languages as possible. The official BD release is a "smear-o-vision" DNR'ed and EE'ed to death mess, is cropped to supposed "OAR," and does only provides a 5.1 upmix for almost all language options.

Video sources: 1080i Disney Cinemagic broadcast, 720p-rip of a 1080i Disney Cinemagic broadcast (different broadcast with logo placed in different place) old transfer 1080p itunes web-dl, EUR/US BD (for timing purposes ONLY)

Audio sources: Lossless audio - LD PCM, lossy - numerous DVDs and DVB broadcast

Subtitles sources: various DVDs and BD

Bonus sources: a film blog for the final draft (thanx to TServo2049 for sharing the link)

Final format: MKV/BD-25


Project info:

The Sword in the Stone has one of the worst releases I have ever seen on BD. It's a DNR'ed mess. On top of that, it's presented in "OAR" at a 1.75 AR which just seems like everything is overcropped. It also does not contain almost any original mono mix. I found two different Disney Cinemagic transfers with the logo in a different spot and managed to "patch" the logo with just those two "patching each other." There was a little bit left that I ran through a de-logo avisynth script. This provided a decent result, but there were still some artifacts present here and there. So, I took the old 1080p itunes transfer, color-matched it to the HDTV (they were close but not identical) overlayed it with a real 35mm grain plate and rendered that out. I used that as an overlay for the HDTV which helped mask any artifacts left and brought some detail out that was missing before (there were frames were due to compression part of the frame would look better on one versus the other and they kind of compliment each other when overlayed) Then, I took that render and overlayed real 35mm grain on that which produced a beautiful result.

I wanted to include all of the original mono mixes I could find and tracked down the English and French PCM from Laserdiscs and tracked down all first edition R1 and R2 DVD releases from 1999 (this was an expensive, painful process for the DVDs) In total, I have 24 original audio mixes included here, most of them the original mono. It took me over two weeks to sync them all...

While syncing each audio track manually (I used the BD video/audio as a time-sync reference for the audio and video of this project) I discovered something at the opening scene at the 27th minute into the film where you can clearly see Merlin talking but there is no audible dialog. There was dialog there originally, which is proven with the fact that the lines are present on two of the dubs (The French and the Italian) as well as in the final draft (thanx to TServo2049 for supplying to link so source images) I downloaded all the source images (all 236 of them) for the entire draft and created a PDF document, which is included with this release. In it, you will see the missing part of the dialog is:

Merlin: "Well, after you become a squire then in time you'll be a knight I suppose."
Wart: "Oh, I wish I could."          I'd give anything to go... here, the part NOT in quotation marks is where the dialog actually starts in the film... These line were impossible to reconstruct, which I really wanted to do, because there is no place in the film (or other films, as I researched the voice actor and some of his other work) where he uses the word "squire" which really sucks. This missing dialog IS present in the English SDH subtitles that I included

Main Feature Video:

1920x1080, 23.976fps, A.R. ~1.34 (Pillarboxed) AVC encoded ~26mbps

Main Feature Audio:

English - Original mono sourced from JPN LD
English - Original mono sourced from R2 DVD (slightly different than LD track, as it's missing a sound effect)
English - downmixed BD stereo track to mono for reference (included it's for comparison)
French - Original mono dub sourced from PAL LD
Arabic - Original mono dub sourced from a bootleg R1 DVD
Bulgarian - Original mono voice-over sourced from R2 DVD
Chinese Mandarin - Original mono dub sourced from NTSC VCD
Czech - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Danish - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Dutch - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
German - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Greek - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Hebrew - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Hindi - Original mono dub sourced from German BD
Hungarian - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Italian - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Korean - Original mono dub sourced from R3 DVD
Norwegian - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Portuguese (Brazil) - Original mono sourced from R1 DVD
Portuguese (Euro) - Original mono sourced from R2 DVD
Romanian - Original Dolby Stereo dub sourced from R2 DVD
Russian - Original Dolby Stereo dub sourced from EUR BD
Spanish - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Swedish - Original mono dub sourced from R2 DVD
Ukrainian - Original mono voice-over sourced from PAL DVB broadcast

English (all) and French audio are 2ch LPCM 16bit @1536kbps @48kHz
All other audio tracks are 2ch AC3 16bit @224kbps @48kHz

Main Feature Subtitles:

English, French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese European, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

Bonus Feature:

The Sword in the Stone Final Draft (external PDF file)

Please feel free to share this release BUT KEEP THIS INFO FILE and the PDF file.
Thanx and Enjoy ;o)
Jerry Shadoe

for information on the development of this project, you can go here:
https://fanrestore.com/showthread.php?tid=597

Release Date: 11-17-2015
by Jerry Shadoe


Extra-Notes: I included all the chapters, with their titles, from the BD release

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Available at an internal organ near you  

Available now aboard the "pirateship at the bay," under the title: The Sword in the Stone - OAR - Original Mono - Multiaudio -1080p :victory: uperman: :victory:

Hello,

I would want to know how can I scan 35mm tape in order to get best quality (4k would be great, I have Epson scanner that scans at 3200 DPI, but I don't know if I can scan film with it).

I have no idea how would I get the audio out of the film though. Any ideas? Would it be super expensive and not worth the time?

I have a stack of old VHS tapes lying around that I'd like to capture. I don't feel like taking them to a professional, it would cost too much, especially considering how bad the shape of many of them is. Currently I don't even have the option to play them, because power supply in my old VCR was toasted a couple of years ago for some reason.

How good results would I get with a generic VCR and the cheapest capture card available? I mean one of these Chinese ones:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-USB-2...eb201560_9

Preserving those tapes in maximum quality is not my goal, but I wouldn't mind having semi-decent audio and video good enough to see what's on the tape.

I checked VCR offers in my area and I can get Panasonic NV-SD450 for really, really cheap. Is it a good unit? I'm completely out of the loop on VHS.

Despite having a nonsense name like the previous movie, Ghost Protocol, I thought overall this was a pretty damn solid action film. Anyone watch this yet?

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I am honored to have served our country like so many before me and all those that will come after me. It is a calling for us. We answered it. We'd answer it again if we were ever needed in such a capacity. We go in knowing full well that we could end up anywhere and that it is possible we may not return. We accepted the challenge and the burden freely. We took the oath and never looked back. We are survivors of an honorable legacy.

We will always be soldiers, we ARE Veterans.

Be safe and responsible while honoring our troops.

NEVER forget.

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Cheers,

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I am working on the audio for my SitS project and have discovered that there is a couple of lines of dialog that is ONLY present in the French dub. It always bothered me that in this scene you can clearly see Merlin talking but there is no dialog. What makes this more interesting is the fact that even the French subtitles (on ALL DVD [both R1 and R2] and BD releases) do NOT contain these lines.

I have uploaded the very short clip onto youtube, with all French subtitles on-screen during the shot I'm talking about. Can any French speaker PLEASE transcribe those two lines for me in FRENCH so that I can include them in the subtitle track AND so that I can finally figure out what Merlin says there, as I can just use google translator to get it into English??

Thanx, in advance  

An old project I contributed to over at OT has been stalled for a long time for lack of someone fluent in Japanese...

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Monty-P...l/id/14138

The plan was to translate the entire Japanese dub track off the original Criterion Laserdisc. (Which has never made it to any other domestic release, AFAIK.) Only a couple scenes were ever translated as an extra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV8b7mB4HTU

Catbus and I would be most grateful if someone could help? I really want to know what the voices yelling over the closing credits are saying before I die.