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Post #1413683

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CMMAP
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The Dark Knight: Retribution (Released)
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Date created
28-Feb-2021, 4:46 PM

krausfadr said:

CMMAP said:

As per my little review in the Review-Thread, astonishing work you´ve done here.
The problem is, no i´m keen to see what you can do with the superb The Dark Knight and not so outstanding dark knight rises 😄
But i figured you´re not planing anything like this.

Little note: perhaps a lower value for the crf would awesome, somekind around 18. Don´t know if staxrip produces any difference in quality between 22 and 18, could you shed some light on this matter?

CMMAP thanks for watching and especially writing a review! I am really happy with how this edit turned out. I could definitely do an encode at crf 18, (there would probably be a difference to discerning eyes) but that would produce a filesize likely around 30GB (or possibly larger with the amount of grain). Now if that’s something you want, I can do that. I could provide a Super HQ crf18 version for temporary download. Let me know if you want a very large file like that.

As far as lowering Bruce’s voice tone, this really was a trade off between settling for Bale’s unsuitable, high pitched normal voice and a few parts where running sfx on the just center channel might not sound 100% natural-- such scenes audio have to be totally rebuilt from scratch. There were a few scenes that were so unnatural (robotic) sounding I had to do just that-- rebuild them from scratch.

Let me know any scenes with Bruce’s voice that still strike you as too artificial sounding, and I’ll take a second look at those to see if they can be improved easily. One notable scene is Bruce seeing Rachael outside the hotel; the L and R channels carry reverberation from the original voices and could be heard by the discerning ear as a very slight chorus effect. Some scenes I did rebuild the audio from scratch but not this one because I felt the voice was just normal enough not to warrant the major effort to redo all music and foley SFX. I would appreciate it a lot if you could identify which scenes or Bruce’s lines stood out the most for you, regarding Bruce’s lowered voice.

thanks

krausfadr

Well, i would appreciate something like this, but only under the circumstances it doesn´t mean to many extra work and energy costs for you, since encoding can take a while. If it makes a bigger difference in encoding time, crf 20 would be probably enough quality i can live with for sure. I know that i´m kind of odd in this regard 😄

Just to make it clear and we don´t misunderstand each other: my refer to bruces voice is only meant for the scenes where he is batman. As Bruce himself, the lowering of the voice is great:

  • the first time i´d needed to get used to it --> 50:41 (in gordons office) but this is ok because he´s just starting and therefore doesn´t have the right voice modulation equipment.
  • 1:08.33 to 1:09.06 --> his voice seems way different than in the rest of the film, more hollow and “siri”-like. Is it possible to get it like in 1:20.44-1:20.54?
  • when he catches flask --> just great voice alteration. I assume it was easier to edit, because he already yells on a relativly low pitch
  • 1:11:59 (when the guys head got smashed into the mirror) --> looks like a or 2 or 3 frame drops. Checked with the original and there isn´t any stutter
  • 1:22.46 --> is a good voice alteration, very similiar to 1:20.44
  • 1:29.05 - 1:29.27 --> seems to be off again like 1:08.33 but less distorted

i hope this is helpful and there is a possibility, if you deem it to, to alter this.

kind regards