[Archived] Escape from New York [Evit/PAVIS]: US & Italian theatrical [ARCHIVED]

[Evit]

I think I fixed everything now. Next week I'll encode

[DoomBot]

I don't know, i think you missed a spot Great news and i wish you luck Evit.

[Evit]

My "all-Italian" version on Blu Ray turned out pretty great and I'm now familiar with the procedure. Fingers crossed!

[Evit]

International Blu Ray cover (updated)

preview case

[spoRv]

GREAT!!!

[PDB]

Looks good Evit

[Evit]

Thanks PDB and SpoRv. The following is the Italian version (it lacks German language and features a faithful reconstruction of the Italian credits from 35mm reference, basically for Italian audience only)

Italian cover

Artwork, fonts, quotes, colors all come from original lobby card reference

[Stamper]

Excellent, may I ask why you didn't include the french dub? I think it was synced by our host to the HDTV release.

[Evit]

It's a fair question... To put it simply, I didn't want to work with low bitrate audio from DVD. All my tracks come from Laserdiscs and if anyone has a French LD of this film is welcome to send its audio to me, I'm still in time to include it. I did ask for the French LD at the beginning but nobody owned it, there was even a cheap copy on eBay but I don't have a LD player to rip it so I mentioned it on the board hoping that somebody would be interested in buying it for himself. That's more or less where my efforts towards French neighbours ended. I was even ready to reconstruct the French credits like I did with the Italian ones if laserdisc turned out to be a telecine (like I hope!). So, efforts were made

German audio wasn't supposed to be there either, I had hoped to find PCM audio on the German LD, unfortunately it was only an AC3 but MrBrown had already done so much hard work to rip it that I decided to include it out of respect for his effort. Unlike other countries, EFNY in Germany was never released with its original audio mix on DVD or BR, only LD and VHS, so LD AC3 was really the best available source of their original stereo mix.

As for the audio sync... any track for this film has to be re-synched since it's based on the Shout Factory release and does not match at all any previous release. For any additional audio track it wouldn't be as simple as just muxing it in.

[Evit]

I found even more dirt to clean up! So many spots and dots during the scene of the helicopters flying over Central Park. Each one appears for the length of only one frame but they are so visible against the blue sky that I can't stand leaving them there (over 30 dirty frames to clean individually within a few seconds of film!) so I fixed most of them and I'll finish fixing them tomorrow so I can finally encode it (for the second time)!

I expect to have a Blu-Ray disc ready by Wednesday or Thursday, I'm going to send a copy to MrBrown and DoomBot. If anybody wants a physical copy with printed cover in a 14mm Amaray case, please let me know.