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Posted by: dungaritoszzs - 2024-04-21, 06:37 PM - Forum: Presentation
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hey everyone
found this forum after digging into the weeds of blah-ray's excellent work on his blog, along with acquiring a laserdisc player and forming a small collection of titles. would love to contribute audio rips whenever i get the necessary audio interface (looking at the focusrite scarlett 2i2, which i loaned from a friend for a period to rip cassette/vinyl for another forum).
the amount of work that I've seen here so far (which is little i bet) is amazing! in awe of your dedication. i hope to be of help soon!
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Posted by: dcoutsider77 - 2024-04-19, 01:30 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Hello All! Just wanted to join the go to hear about all the great restorations going on. Keep up the great work!!!
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New here. I enjoy watching movies in the highest quality I can.
It's looking like this site can help with upgrades to some of the movies I already love!
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| The King of Comedy (1982) 2002 DVD with Patched 2014 BD Ray Charles Song Synced |
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Posted by: GreedoNeverShot - 2024-04-15, 02:34 AM - Forum: Released
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The King of Comedy (1982) 2002 DVD with Patched 2014 BD Ray Charles Song Synced
Audio info:
https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search/lab...%281982%29
Quote:The only segment that I think sounds slightly better on the Fox blu-ray versus the R1 Fox DVD is the opening Ray Charles song, which has escaped the destructive high-end roll off applied indiscriminately to the rest of the film. A lot of ambient sound has been removed.
Because the Ray Charles opening song is the only scene in the BD mono mix to maintain its ambient noise, I've split cut the segment from the BD with Audacity and replaced the DVD segment, then patched it into the DVD mono mix seamlessly as best as I could. I later encoded it in DTS-HD Master Audio Suite and converted it into an mka file with MKVToolNix. The result sounds pretty great to me.
PM me if you're interested in this hybrid/patched audio mix.
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| Jackie Chan's "Who Am I?" Film Whisperer HD version UPDATE (10/01/2024) |
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Posted by: The Film Whisperer - 2024-04-12, 04:21 PM - Forum: Released
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Check out the link in my signature for more of my projects!
Do you believe in what I do? I appreciate donations (links/info in my signature)
Okay folks. I've been hesitant to release this one, but I think right now, in its current state, it's the best that it's going to be.
The movie
It's totally not like Jason Bourne! It's a movie where Jackie Chan plays a CIA agent who lost his memory after an accident in a mission gone wrong. People are after him, and he has no idea why. And he has no idea who he can trust. See? Not like Jason Bourne at all! 
Who butchered it for "international audiences"?!
Columbia Tri-Star got the international distribution rights to this film. You can read about their changes here from Movie-Censorship. It's about 12 minutes of cuts. Their biggest cuts and changes worth mentioning are...
- Taking away the "mystery" behind the story. In the original Hong Kong version of the film, the audience does not know exactly what happened to Jackie and his CIA colleagues until the mid-way point in the film, when Jackie's memory comes back. However, in the US version of the film, the audience is shown right way what happened to Jackie, then the audience is just waiting for Jackie to figure it out.
- Jackie's time with the African Tribe is heavily cut. Although the movie still works without these scenes, these scenes are nice to have, and one scene in particular is quite funny!
(On the flip side, the US version has the original audio of Jackie's voice. During the entirety of his time with the tribe, Jackie Chan is actually speaking English [and then eventually their native language]. But in the Hong Kong version, Jackie dubs his English lines into Cantonese.
Has the uncut version ever been officially released?
I'm curious to know if any audio source exists for the uncut version without any of Jackie's English lines being dubbed into Cantonese (while he stays with the African tribe).
VOD
I do know that South Korea and Japan have had the uncut version of the movie in its OAR via VOD. And THAT is what I used to make this restoration!
What else did I do?
Fixing a continuity error
You'll see in this "screenshots" subfolder that there is a major continuity error at the beginning of the South African raid sequence. It opens up with an overlay saying "28/11/1996, Thanksgiving, 18:00, Augrabies, South Africa".
But then, later on, during the raid, another overlay appears, which says "30 March 06:00, Kakamas, South Africa".
So...what's going on? Were they all just sitting in that South African forrest for months waiting for the scientists to appear?! If the operation was going to take months, why the hurry in setting up everything?!
So which date is it? Well, during the scene where Jackie is being interrogated by the South African secret police, it is confirmed that the scientists were kidnapped on March 30th!
So, I took the overlay which said "30 March 06:00, Kakamas, South Africa" later during in the raid, and decided to have it appear at the BEGINING of the raid. I used the US version footage from the Japanese DVD (which lacks the appearance of any on-screen text) to cover up the incorrect overlay text. I have the red English text appear as if it were being typed on screen.
And I replicated the Chinese-language part of the overlay, which is in white and on the bottom of the screen.
I also replicated the bi-lingual overlay which lets the audience know when Jackie is in the Netherlands (Rotterdam).
You can see comparisons of screenshots from the Japanese DVD (which has the original bi-lingual overlays) and my reconstruction.
SPECS
File type: MKV
Size: 22.32 GB
Audio
- 5.1 DTS, "sync-sound", Film Whisperer "Optimized" version
My primary source for this track is the Japanese DVD from Warner Bros. This track is custom made by me. It has two special features
- I included as much of Jackie Chan's **original** ENGLISH dialog for the duration of his time with the African tribe (using audio from the US version), instead of his Cantonese dub. Although his Cantonese dub will be present for SOME of it (because the US version cut those parts out).
- It features the ACTUAL "Who Am I?" theme song sung by Jackie Chan during the end credits, instead of the NG (no good) version which features both Jackie Chan and Emil Chau trying to sing the song but they keep making mistakes. My wife, who is Chinese and speaks Mandarin, helped me to translate the Cantonese theme song using the written Chinese lyrics. But she warned me that the translation might not be so reliable, given that Cantonese and Mandarin really are two different spoken languages, and that difference is amplified with song lyrics.
- 5.1 DTS, "sync-sound", Original
This track features Jackie Chan dubbed into Cantonese during his time with the African tribe, and it features the NG version of the "Who Am I?" theme song playing during the end.
( BTW, I put "sync-sound" in quotation marks because the truth is many actors' lines [including from Jackie himself] had to be ADR'd, and ADR'd badly )
Subtitles(note: SDH and FPO [foreign parts only] options are available)
- English for "optimized" track
- English for "original" track
Folder will also include
- The synced Japanese dub in 5.1 Dolby Digital (AC-3), SOURCE: R2 Japanese Warner DVD
- The synced Mandarin dub in 5.1 Dolby Digital (AC-3), SOURCE: R0 Universe Laser DVD
- The subtitles in their ".ASS" (haha, "dot ASS" ) format, in case anyone wants to make any corrections or additions to any translation.
I didn't include the other audio tracks within the MKV itself because I don't have any proper subtitles for those dubbed scripts.
If anyone can help
During the scene where Jackie is driving Yuki's car in the African desert, some alternate version of the "Who Am I?" theme song is playing, sung by Emil Chau. I'm certain it's Cantonese, but it sounds different than what Jackie sings in the actual theme song. Perhaps it's from the "NG version"?
Can anyone translate it?
Also, would anyone like to translate the Mandarin version of the theme song (which I think is sung by Emil Chau)? And would anyone like to make a translation for the Mandarin script?
UPDATE #1 (06/27/2024)
I just discovered that many releases of the HD version of "Who Am I?" actually have Jackie Chan's un-dubbed voice during his time with the African tribe! Unfortunately, I don't have the means and ability to get rid of the Russian voices which overpower the original audio!
Does anyone wanna help? Let me know!
UPDATE #2 (10/01/2024)
- I used ChatGPT to translate the "Who Am I?" theme song. So there is an improved translation of that song during the end credits!
- When the words "type out" on screen at the beginning of the South African raid, I timed it better so that it matches with the typing sound effects
- I covered up a Korean language advertisement for the Naver website where I downloaded the uncompressed Full HD version of the first 3 minutes of the movie.
(right the end)
Jackie: "[My father] also told me, respect nature"
**throws non biodegradable disc into a river, which contains information about how to obtain an ungodly amount of electricity from a fragment of a meteorite**
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