Are you talking about FanRes? If you’ve had trouble getting a hold of projects over there, I’m going to assume you haven’t interacted with the community at all. People don’t like random new users demanding access to fan projects and then leaving and never coming back. Make friends, then people will share. Nobody is making you pay any money to grab fan projects, and nobody is being excessively rapacious about anything. And what does what happened to Megaupload have anything to do with FanRes? It’s not a file host. It’s a public forum, just like OT. In fact, I’ve seen people only share projects with donors on OT, but I’ve never seen that on FanRes to my memory.
What I meant was that when you mix money with sharing the odds of the Powers That Be putting you in jail increase tremendously. Megaupload’s biggest mistake in my opinion was an incentive program that was adopted by them, encouraging the upload of “popular” files in return for payments to successful uploaders. In other words don’t take unnecessary chances of exposing yourself needlessly through donations for copyrighted works. It’s one thing to donate for a website to remain online and pay their servers, or paying Megaupload for more disk space and secure your data, it’s another to ask for money for sending a content to someone. My criticism of such sites (especially private trackers) is that they think they are somehow a “special” community when in the end we are all the same here or there, no one specific is better or worse.
I thought that FREE sharing was a common goal for everyone, that way everyone gains, not just making yourself known and earn money, or fame.
What I was looking for were the synchronized files, so I could just put them inside a DVD/Blu-ray/HDTV/streaming rip. I said before I managed to fix this for Dr. No. Both tracks are OK with it, so I don’t need anything from FanRES. I did this myself.
“From Russia With Love” - this one has a single track, the commentary. It’s also OK, I was able to do this, too. Now, for this movie we have two 4Ks: one with 29 GB (better colours and proper brightness in my opinion) and another with half that size.
For GOLDFINGER, contrary to the other two, I was UNABLE TO correct the sync (and if one track is flawed, the other is, too). I’ll explain: as the movie progresses the audio starts to be out of sync for perhaps 0.5 second and towards the ending I believe it’s 1 full second. So it’s only OK for the beginning, perhaps the first half hour.
The only way to correct this would be having a laserdisc rip and comparing with my own (DVD or Blu-ray or 4K from iTunes), or someone that is a specialist fixing this (perhaps it will need a lot of patience). I don’t know if FanRES did or how it did. It would be hard because the only way of trying to sync is listening to the music + effects track and looking at the video to see if the sound effects match with what is happening on the screen.
I can’t, of course, fix the ending, if I do that I will mess other parts, and vice-versa. Isolating specific areas of the movie and fixing them separately is required, I guess.
Maybe this is a fps problem or it means the laserdisc is in some scenes a little shorter than the newer medias. I can’t say what is exactly wrong without the Laserdisc rip (and it needs to be video + audio, not just audio like the ones from The Dossier), which would be crucial in solving this.
It’s unfortunate only Goldinger is not OK because the others appear to be for the entire movies.
And of course, for all 3 movies we need to add at least 20 seconds into the start, before the MGM logo. This is only a method of making sure the audio tracks will be in sync with the video, since they are longer.