I know I once found an ac3-track of the 1991 mix which contains the surviving narration by Deems Taylor. If I'm not mistaken, there was another Fantasia-project like yours here on the boards, and the link could be found in that thread.

Apart from that, I'm not really into the technical stuff of ripping and muxing. But I do wish you good luck on this project - the result should definitely be worthwhile!

Oh, wow! I would love to get a copy of that ac3 mix! I'll look for it on the other thread.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Ah, yeah. It was EyeShotFirst!

I've found the thread for his "Hybrid Edition". Molly posted the link to the ac3-file in post 9. It's dead now, though, and I haven't had the file for a long time. Maybe you can ask for it?

You can read the thread here.

I have sent him a PM, so I'll update if he gets back to me.

May I suggest Dropbox? Basically, it's a program that creates a sharable folder on your system. You do have to register, but you get 2 GB of storage for free. It's a lot less clunky to share files directly between each other, rather than having to upload them to a file sharing site first.

Here's part one of the video on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/44630177

This is proving to be a somewhat difficult edit. A few of the pieces (Toccata and Fugue, Sorcerer's Apprentice) are easy and line up perfectly. A number of them, like Beethoven 6 are very, very difficult. This is because there is a bizarre edit in the piece (to eliminate Sunflower, the pickinanny centaur) and it throws the track off. Another few just need stretching - for some reason, the Night on Bald Mountain sequence doesn't line up as it goes along...

Anyway, I guess I'm looking for input. How does it look so far, tips, suggestions, etc.

I guess I'll reply to myself, just in case anybody has already read my previous post.

What I've found so far on the 2011 BluRay: All of the Deems Taylor narration is replaced. Every single last word. I'll be replacing these back to actually being Deems Taylor. As much as I like Corey Burton (who I'm pretty sure is the voice actor on the 2011 BluRay) it ought to be Deems Taylor, who had a huge part of the Fantasia process. 

By the way, I didn't mention before but I will be using the 2011 BluRay in 720p as my source for the video. I had intended on keeping the narration and such from the BluRay, until I found that the narration was replaced. I'll probably do a version with the Deems narration and the Stokowski soundtrack, as well as the version with the Deems narration and the Kostal orchestration.

That's encouraging! I'll go back tonight and line up the Deems Taylor narration and put up the new version and the Sorcerer's Apprentice (I'm not working in order of screen time, but rather in order of easiness!)

It looks like I may have to replace the Kostal orchestration with the Stokowski for a couple of seconds during the Pastoral; for some reason, the Kostal is cut oddly and missing two seconds. :S

Yes, I suppose I'll have to. I can live with Burton "patching" Taylor, but I don't understand - did Disney think Burton was that terrible of a voice actor that people would notice a difference? I don't know why all of it needed to be replaced! :S

One question I had - was the 1982 version in plain stereo? The reason I ask is that the CDs obviously weren't in surround; I wondered if the 1982-1991 version was.

Interesting. I think Dolby can be surround, even when labeled "Stereo," but I don't think that is the case here. I find it fascinating that they would downgrade the movie from surround to stereo, but it was the 80's.

Also, the two clips I promised are uploading to Vimeo as we speak...

That's what I thought. Thanks for clearing that up, Moth3r.

Any idea where the surround sound might be found? I wonder if it could be done manually...

Here's the first:

https://vimeo.com/44640875

Here's the second:

https://vimeo.com/44642704

Give it a little bit. For some reason, Vimeo delays their videos...

What do you think of the narration replacement in the first video?