You sir, are a f***ing hero!! :) What an amazing body of work, I'm stunned.

Wow.  And wow.  Not to ask for a cherry on top or anything, but did you have any plans to GOUT-sync any of the digital tracks for ESB and ROTJ like you did for SW?

Yes, I'm still planning on doing that, but it may take me a couple of weeks to get them finalized.

I'm also planning on doing a 3.0 mix with the 1993 Commentary Track.  I was going to use the '93 stereo in the left and right channel and the commentary as the center.  I just figured out how to automatically "Duck" the audio in the L/R channels during commentary using Audacity.  I actually began this project by trying to do the "Ducking" manually in Audition, but this should go much quicker.

I was actually also thinking of taking some of the content from the DC bonus interviews and including that audio as well, since the original commentary is fairly sparse.

As a side note, I think the only thing missing from this list would be the original time-compressed versions of Star Wars and Empire.  I have them, but they just didn't really seem necessary.  I could upload those as well if there's interest.

Wow, and then some.

"He certainly has courage."  And ambition, too!

Impressive, most impressive!

Brilliant, thanks.

The list of discs alone is incredible but then multiply that by 3, 4 or 5 sides per release and multiply again by the three for the number of times each disc was ripped and you begin to see how mind-bogglingly huge this actually is.

Wow just isn't enough.......

 

Any further work done with GOUT syncing any of the list is the only thing that could top the work done so far.

Thanks!

For the ROTJ mixes, will you be synching to the NTSC or PAL? I believe PAL is the preferred source for most preservations.

Syncing against time-adjusted PAL is weird, FWIW, because the dialogue doesn't appear to be timed exactly the same on NTSC and PAL (no clue why, the sound effects line up perfectly).

When making a track to sync to a PAL-based project, I actually prefer to sync to NTSC first, then insert two frames at the one spot and delete a frame at the later spot, and then patch over the transitions, resulting in something that syncs to PAL-based projects.  YMMV, and good luck.

Erikstormtrooper said:

I believe PAL is the preferred source for most preservations.

In fact the opposite is the case.

All but one GOUT synced preservation that I know of is NTSC.........

Living in PAL land, I can no longer watch PAL releases of my favourite films as I find the 4% speedup annoying!!!!

Both Harmy and DJ/U2 use PAL video for ROTJ, slowed down to the appropriate rate.  This causes NTSC audio to be annoyingly ever-so-slightly out of sync for most of the film.

Nicely done schorman13.....it will be nice to add the cinema DTS stuff to this list once they are ready......

:)

I've already been working on resyncing most of these mixes, and I'm probably about 70% done in total.  I was basically planning to do a theatrical mix, a 1985 mix, a 1993 mix, and an SE Mix for each film, plus the commentary track.  Most of these are completed, but need some small tweaks to make them presentable.  I haven't tried anything with the 5.1 mixes, but I'm going to try to create them by trimming and concatenating the ac3 files themselves rather than by re-encoding.  This will take time and experimentation.  

Since I work mainly in Adobe Audition, I was thinking of creating project files for each mix that could use the wav files present in this torrent.  That way, if you had this torrent, you could download a small project file, and output your own GOUT-synced track(s), without having to download a 2GB file.  This would also allow others people to easily make adjustments they might feel are necessary.  That's just a thought though, and some of the synced files I've already finished would have to be redone as project files.

CatBus, I think that sync issue in Jedi is due to the fact that there are two frames missing from Jedi right before the Rebel debriefing scene on the NTSC version.  It's not due to the source of the video being PAL.  I do plan on syncing the Jedi tracks to the complete version, with all possible missing frames restored (NTSC is missing two frames from PAL, and PAL is missing a single frame from NTSC).

schorman13 said:

CatBus, I think that sync issue in Jedi is due to the fact that there are two frames missing from Jedi right before the Rebel debriefing scene on the NTSC version.  It's not due to the source of the video being PAL.  I do plan on syncing the Jedi tracks to the complete version, with all possible missing frames restored (NTSC is missing two frames from PAL, and PAL is missing a single frame from NTSC).

Yes, this is exactly why the NTSC audio goes out of sync when we cut from Degobah to the rebels gathering to talk about attacking the second death star and suddenly gets back into sync more or less a reel later. This plagues all GOUT based projects that use the PAL as video and audio projects synced to the NTSC version.

What do you mean by complete version? Is there really a "complete" version to sync it to?

BTW, this is an awesome project and totally out of left field! Thank you for doing this!

Oh, and how are the commentary tracks? Are they interesting? I don't think I've ever heard them...

Thanks schorman13, you and I are talking about the same thing.  Yes, the sync problem has nothing to do with PAL per se, it's just due to the frame differences in PAL vs NTSC GOUT.

Mavimao said:

 

schorman13 said:

CatBus, I think that sync issue in Jedi is due to the fact that there are two frames missing from Jedi right before the Rebel debriefing scene on the NTSC version.  It's not due to the source of the video being PAL.  I do plan on syncing the Jedi tracks to the complete version, with all possible missing frames restored (NTSC is missing two frames from PAL, and PAL is missing a single frame from NTSC).

Yes, this is exactly why the NTSC audio goes out of sync when we cut from Degobah to the rebels gathering to talk about attacking the second death star and suddenly gets back into sync more or less a reel later. This plagues all GOUT based projects that use the PAL as video and audio projects synced to the NTSC version.

What do you mean by complete version? Is there really a "complete" version to sync it to?

BTW, this is an awesome project and totally out of left field! Thank you for doing this!

 

By complete, I mean all of the frames.  At one point, I checked DJ's V3 version and I remember being surprised that it had that one frame that was missing from the PAL disc.  I would have to double check that though.  Anyway, I plan to sync them to that version. 

Huh, interesting.