An acquaintance has asked me to check the possibility of restoration of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. As with all of Kubrick’s movies prior to Full Metal Jacket, the German theatrical version featured fully localized titles and intertitles. The goal of this project was:
- Take the best picture master (Criterion Blu-Ray) in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio;
- Re-create the German localization for the movie: start and end credits as well as intertitles.
- Re-synchronize German mono audio
- Provide English mono audio (Criterion)
- Provide English and German subtitles.
All of these goals could be achieved. Some of the progress can be seen in the WIP thread below.
The English DTS-HDMA and German 5.1 Dolby Digital audio has also been synchronized for it (separate files).
Samples:
Opening credits:
Intertitles:
End Credits:
Media Info:
General
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Complete name : BarryLyndon_Ger.mkv
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Format version : Version 4
File size : 31.5 GiB
Duration : 3 h 5 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 24.3 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-12-24 11:29:02
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Video
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Duration : 3 h 5 min
Bit rate : 23.0 Mb/s
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Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
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Bit depth : 8 bits
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Audio #1
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Duration : 3 h 5 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 737 kb/s
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Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 11.719 FPS (4096 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 976 MiB (3%)
Title : Deutsch (Mono)
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Language : German
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #2
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Duration : 3 h 5 min
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Stream size : 854 MiB (3%)
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Text #1
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Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
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Duration : 2 h 58 min
Bit rate : 47 b/s
Count of elements : 1590
Stream size : 61.9 KiB (0%)
Title : Deutsch
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Default : No
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Text #2
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Title : Deutsch für Hörgeschädigte
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Text #3
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Language : English
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Title : English for the Hard of Hearing
Language : English
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