[Help] The Thing (1982) -> Best Mix?

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About sync: me too I always put in sync visually - I "suppose" the tracks are properly in sync; I can understand that few ms out of sync is none, so I do not care; I do care when I can easilsy detect track is out of sync, though!

I like doing waveform since it is a lot more precise. Problem is, for me, it takes forever because I scrutinize every last millisecond. So, for more current projects like Die Hard 2 and Star Trek II, I've done waveform for the laserdisc tracks but have done visually/frame sync for the DVD tracks. If I didn't I'd never finish those projects

Luckily for me, on those projects everything had the same frame count.

Is it sad that I knew exactly what gun shot you were referring to before I even checked the time stamp? 

Its an odd foley effect isn't it.

To sync unedited commentary maybe sourcing the video from original dvd would help, unfortunately don’t have it to hand, only the audio which I passed to you.

I have a copy but it oddly doesn't fit 100% on frame sync from the start so I synced to dialogue in the middle and it seems to work overall. I'll let others decide if it truly works.

I started manually editing the uncensored to the censored and found they cut out a lot. Not just the lines of dialogue but pauses like um, stuttering, JC's smoker's cough (but not always the sound of his bic lighting up a cig), gaps of silence, etc. I think it was not just for certain things said but to make the commentary sound more like a "professional edit".

I was going to sync the two DVD 5.1s and the HD DVD's EAC-3 5.1 but I'm burned out and there is enough there for now. I don't they vary enough to be a loss anyway. Here is the list, in order of home video release:

1. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Letterbox laserdisc with "Superstition")
2. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Letterbox laserdisc without "Superstition")
3. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Signature laserdisc)
4. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Universal BD)
5. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Shout BD's DTS-HD MA 2.0)
6. DTS-HD MA 4.1 (from the Shout BD)
7. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Shout BD)
8. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Arrow BD)
9. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Turbine BD's DTS-HD MA 2.0)
10. DTS-HD MA 4.1 (from the Turbine BD) - synced by Scavenger
11. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Turbine BD) - synced by Scavenger
12. DTS 5.1 (from the Universal UHD BD)
13. DTS-X 7.1 (from the Universal UHD BD)
14. Commentary Unedited (from the Universal CE DVD)
15. Commentary Edited (from the Universal UHD BD)

I'm going to follow the recommendation here and upload the 1080p copy with just track 1 if people want that. Otherwise they can just take the tracks they need to sync to the UHD BD.

Anyway I'm beginning to pull everything together for an upload.