The Thing [spoRv] v2.0

[spoRv]

MrBrown saved the day... THANK YOU!!!!!

Soundtrack: the longer is 1 hour, so more than 40 minutes would be silent. Or, I can add the old version, but I would be forced to discard one or two tracks. Or, I can add silence between tracks. Or... don't know, ideas?

[MrBrown]

Maybe not as Score track, but as Bonus feature.
Or as additional track not included, but for the interested ones accessible.
Or you make a SD Video that is aligned to the Score. And shortened to fit.

[spoRv]

I thought also to try to include it as a sort of isolated score - there are some tracks used in the film, but many others not, maybe I could try to fit them in the place where there is no music; to fill the gaps, leave the film dialog... going to experiment...

Bonus: I have some interesting material that, once added to previously released ones, could build a proper bonus disc, but I'm not going to do that, so, if someone could be interested to make such project...

[spoRv]

Today I worked on the soundtrack; was my first attempt to use it "somehow"... the idea of leaving silence between tracks, or at the end, bothered me; the option of filling those gaps with dialog is interesting, but I tested it and didn't like it - I know, I can't be easily satisfied...

So, plan change: I decided to do an "enhanced" audio track... picked up the Signature Collection track, then, from the soundtrack, main and end title, and replaced the LD parts; then I took almost all the other tracks - apart two or three, that frankly I haven't found any use of them, and I tried, oh how much I tried... - and I added to the parts without music.

Result? Well, far from perfect, but, strangely, I'm pretty happy! Indeed, just one, or maybe two, cues from the soundtrack could be noted by a non-fan, I think because they were the ones composed by Carpenter himself, and not from Ennio Morricone (that, I discovered today, he ended to use those unused tracks for The Hateful Eight!).

For the, what? maybe fourth or fifth time in two weeks, I watched again the movie; this time, of course, in English with these additions; twice I was sure the music was added by me, while it was in the original film... all in all, a nice, alternate track.

And, of course, I spotted some... "things" I was not happy with; two frames were bad, one with a great colored strike, and another just a bit off place. So, I managed to solve the situation, and I was forced to encode it (again) right now, I hope this would be the last time - at least for version 2.0!

[PDB]

So do I see this is in the usual place?

[spoRv]

Yep, but I have problems with torrent... "not connectable", on both PCs; pretty sure to have done everything right, tried with and without firewall, port forwarding seems OK...

[spoRv]

PROJECT RELEASED!

You can find it in the usual place; please be really patient, it will take at least 4 days to be seeded - but I think it will take about a week... so, keep your bittorrent client open 24/7!

[X5gb]

Thanks for the release of the final product spoRv. Just one quick question, are the audio tracks in sync with either the original spoRv / hd-dvd or with the Scream bluray or neither as I would like to make my own mkv with both original video / spoRv combined so I can switch between them on the fly (as I did with the hd-dvd and the original spoRv).

Thanks in advance for any confirmation.

[spoRv]

@X5gb: the audio tracks are all in sync with the old project, hence with the HD-DVD as well; Scream had a missing frame, so if you use them with it, you will find a noticeable delay from around half of the movie.

NOTICE: the new version was released under the [Fundamental Collection] label; please leave your comments here from now on: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1348.html

Thanks!

[X5gb]

Thanks spoRv, sync with hd-dvd was my preferred option.