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Post #1151283

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Superrayman3
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Aladdin 35mm (Released)
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Date created
30-Dec-2017, 7:51 PM

Beetking said:

Included tracks are the optical from the print itself as well as the LD audio, would probably be a simple cut and paste job for someone with the knowledge for it.

If anybody would be interested I’d be up for trying this, I actually have the original Aladdin Soundtrack CD with the uncut version of Arabian Nights lying around and would be willing to try adding the original line back into the LD audio track if I could get hold of the audio (I’d like to try doing the same with the optical track as well but that one may be a bit trickier to work with since it’d be at a much higher bitrate and have a higher fidelity in comparison to a CD which would probably make such an edit noticeable when compared to the LD track which has a similar bitrate and fidelity to a CD but I’m open to trying it if it means I can help preserve a piece of Disney history).

Edit: I found the original release, now let’s see what kind of results can be achieved.
Edit 2: I just ran some basic tests using the LD audio and restoring the original line is somewhat possible but there’s two caveats at play, first the LD audio will have to be downmixed from 48000 to 44100 in order to keep a consistent quality with the CD audio (from what I understand if my research is correct, the audio track on LDs was originally encoded at the 16-bit 44100 sample rate prior to the introduction of AC3 so theoretically there should be little to no noticeable quality loss if my understanding of LD audio is correct), the second and biggest caveat is in order to restore the original line the censored line on the LD audio will have to be inverted and the uncut line synced over the inverted audio in order to retain the wind SFX that’s present in that part of the song, I’ll see what can be done but I can’t make any guarantees that this will actually work and sound seamless.