True Lies (1994) - WEB-DL Audio Syncs

[izzybell]

Been a minute since my last sync drop but I'm back with another set of syncs for a troubled film. All of these tracks are synced to the "Pre-AI" WEB-DLs from places like Disney+ and Hulu. Although since the WEBs and UHD share the same framecount you can mux them into that if you want to for whatever reason.

1. Original Theatrical DTS Mix -
This was taken from the 35mm scan and not the original CD-ROMs so it has been upsampled to 48kHz. This mix had the best balance of dynamics and loudness out of the ones I synced even though I mostly just synced it for 100% theatrical accuracy. Available in FLAC 5.1 16-bit 48kHz

2. D-Theater DTS Mix -
This was taken directly from the tape with the only thing done to it being patching to 24-bit for compatibility. I chose to sync this as I had read on this forum that the DTS Laserdisc and first US DVD releases used a bit-for-bit copy of the same master used for the Theatrical DTS mix and that the D-Theater tape shared this track, I didn't have access to the DTS Laserdisc so this was my best bet. In my own analysis I found that the mix is indeed very similar but every so slightly more compressed in dynamics and a harder high frequency cut-off, So I believe this mix is more representative of the studio master as opposed to the released CD-ROMs. Available in FLAC 5.1 24-bit 48kHz

3. AC-3 Laserdisc
Another one synced out of superstition. I had read this mix was slightly different and mixed for home system and that did turn out to be true. What I was suprised by however is just how dynamic this track ended up being. From my analysis it seemed to be track least affected by dynamic range compression which is suprising for a home theater mix. Available in FLAC 5.1 16-bit 48kHz (I may do a non-transcoded version in the future)

4. Laserdisc PCM / Dolby Surround -
Since I synced all my audio in NLE (Sony Vegas) this track was as easy as replacing the 5.1 track with the 2.0 track from the same capture, said capture was bit-perfect. Figured I'd do since it required zero effort and I always like throwing a bone to 2-channel setups. Available in FLAC 2.0 16-bit 44.1kHz

P.S: synced all of these in course of 3 hours in one night, I'm a machine!

[Kameraposti]

Great job with nice selection of mixes.
Out of curiosity
How did you handle the missing frames and segments? The 35mm misses several seconds during the final tango

[izzybell]

I didn't notice any missing seconds, they were a lot of few millisecond cuts but never more than that

[Kameraposti]

Ok, maybe I have different 35mm scan

[Beber]

Ok, maybe I have different 35mm scan

I've got the same one you have, with the missing moment in the final ballroom. I didn’t know there was another 35mm scan in the wild. Now I'm intrigued, as the one I have was not done properly, especially the 1st reel which is way too dark in the opening in Switzerland.

[izzybell]

I sourced the track from a separate rip of the DTS-HD track from the 35mm scan (the same one everyone has) on Rutracker. According to the description they synced it themselves to the Spanish Bootleg but they don't make any mention of having to patch anything.


Here's my editing timeline from ~1h 44m to the very end. I had to use no patches either, they all come from the same track. Prehaps they patched it without noting so???? I don't know.

[Beber]

I've had the theatrical dts for a while, too. It's been on a PDB's project along with other tracks. I think PDB's track came from the same CD-Roms source, but probably resynced from scratch without having to deal with the missing part of the print. I also have a bunch of tracks sourced from the Dtheater synced to the BLOODSUCKERZ release, which is Dtheater based. I don't think I have the AC3 and PCM Laserdisc on any of those, though. These tracks could be of interest, for sure.

[Kameraposti]

I took the missing parts from D-Theater…