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I would love a link to this project as well thank you!!b

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Hey, can you PM me for a link? I would love to experience Amadeus as it originally was.

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If anyone’s interested, I’ve synced the THX LD audio to this project. I prefer it to the 5.1 DVD track.
PM me for a link.

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The theatrical version is one of my favourite movies. I am amazed and impressed by your dedication. If possible could I have the link for this? I thank everyone involved for keeping this fantastic movie alive.

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35mm scan project for both 1080p and 4K would be better than any upscaling effort.

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Edit 11/30/2022:

Version 3 is coming soon! Changes to include:

Better encode with higher bitrate. V2 has noticeable macroblocking. Likely will not be BD-25 compliant.
Less extreme aspect ratio. The Blu-ray resolution is 1920x794 which is atypically wide 2.42:1. Faces etc. look squished, so this is being slightly stretched to 1920x804 (more typical 2.39:1)
Additional cleanup for DVD shots to better match surrounding footage: dirt/scratch removal, color timing and contrast adjustments
New sound mix to be included: Laserdisc PCM stereo track [PSE96-073] courtesy of stwd4nder2. Dolby Digital 5.1 and isolated score track from V2 to be included as well.

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jimbotron235 said:

Edit 11/30/2022:

Version 3 is coming soon! Changes to include:

Better encode with higher bitrate. V2 has noticeable macroblocking. Likely will not be BD-25 compliant.
Less extreme aspect ratio. The Blu-ray resolution is 1920x794 which is atypically wide 2.42:1. Faces etc. look squished, so this is being slightly stretched to 1920x804 (more typical 2.39:1)
Additional cleanup for DVD shots to better match surrounding footage: dirt/scratch removal, color timing and contrast adjustments
New sound mix to be included: Laserdisc PCM stereo track [PSE96-073] courtesy of stwd4nder2. Dolby Digital 5.1 and isolated score track from V2 to be included as well.

By any chance you will be using 35mm scan footage?

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I thought the 35mm scan was still a work in progress.

Project creator and film enthusiast.

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PsyKovic said:

By any chance you will be using 35mm scan footage?

No, this is strictly sourcing the Blu-ray and DVD for video. I imagine once the 35mm project is completed, this will be obsoleted, which is fine by me.

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jimbotron235 said:

PsyKovic said:

By any chance you will be using 35mm scan footage?

No, this is strictly sourcing the Blu-ray and DVD for video. I imagine once the 35mm project is completed, this will be obsoleted, which is fine by me.

Good. I’d rather a 35mm scan compared to an obsolete upscale.

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jimbotron235 said:

Edit 11/30/2022:

Version 3 is coming soon! Changes to include:

Better encode with higher bitrate. V2 has noticeable macroblocking. Likely will not be BD-25 compliant.
Less extreme aspect ratio. The Blu-ray resolution is 1920x794 which is atypically wide 2.42:1. Faces etc. look squished, so this is being slightly stretched to 1920x804 (more typical 2.39:1)
Additional cleanup for DVD shots to better match surrounding footage: dirt/scratch removal, color timing and contrast adjustments
New sound mix to be included: Laserdisc PCM stereo track [PSE96-073] courtesy of stwd4nder2. Dolby Digital 5.1 and isolated score track from V2 to be included as well.

I’m so glad you uploaded this. I somehow lost my last one and wanted to watch it on Monday. Please send a link.

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pixletwin said:

I’m so glad you uploaded this. I somehow lost my last one and wanted to watch it on Monday. Please send a link.

I’ve taken down V2. V3 is assembled, and I’m reviewing it now. I’ll have it available shortly.

Edit: it’s done. PM me.

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jimbotron235 said:

pixletwin said:

I’m so glad you uploaded this. I somehow lost my last one and wanted to watch it on Monday. Please send a link.

I’ve taken down V2. V3 is assembled, and I’m reviewing it now. I’ll have it available shortly.

Edit: it’s done. PM me.

Alright! PM sent.

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“Audio 2: 5.1 AAC (source: 1997 DVD)”
AAC isn’t blu ray compliant. Why not AC3 instead?

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stretch009 said:

“Audio 2: 5.1 AAC (source: 1997 DVD)”
AAC isn’t blu ray compliant. Why not AC3 instead?

Is that still a concern? I figured most people play MKV as such.

The Premiere I used only exports 5.1 audio in AAC. To export 5.1 AC3, I would have to take the extra steps of exporting the audio channels into individual PCM tracks, then re-combining them back 5.1 AC3 in Audacity. I didn’t think that was necessary, and didn’t want to re-encode the audio more times than needed. I can make a separate AC3 track if needed, but I consider the Laserdisc stereo the primary sound mix. Listening back and forth, the fidelity of the laserdisc sound is superior.

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jimbotron235 said:

stretch009 said:

“Audio 2: 5.1 AAC (source: 1997 DVD)”
AAC isn’t blu ray compliant. Why not AC3 instead?

Is that still a concern? I figured most people play MKV as such.

It would be a concern for those who burn this to disc and want 5.1 surround. You say “most” but there are still those who like to burn movies to disc. I suppose there’s minimal quality loss if you convert the AAC to AC3 640kbps. This can be done with ffmpeg or eac3to I believe.

Edit: Actually, couldn’t you convert the AAC to PCM with zero quality loss? PCM of course being BD compliant.

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stretch009 said:

jimbotron235 said:

stretch009 said:

“Audio 2: 5.1 AAC (source: 1997 DVD)”
AAC isn’t blu ray compliant. Why not AC3 instead?

Is that still a concern? I figured most people play MKV as such.

It would be a concern for those who burn this to disc and want 5.1 surround. You say “most” but there are still those who like to burn movies to disc. I suppose there’s minimal quality loss if you convert the AAC to AC3 640kbps. This can be done with ffmpeg or eac3to I believe.

Edit: Actually, couldn’t you convert the AAC to PCM with zero quality loss? PCM of course being BD compliant.

PCM 5.1 is the opposite problem for me, it’s not MKV compliant, so I avoid it. However what I can do is export the raw tracks as PCM mono and then combine them together in Audacity as FLAC 5.1. You could then convert that to PCM 5.1 on your end.

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@jimbotron235:

Why bother transcoding the AC-3 track at all? Keep the AC-3 track untouched and mux it to the final edit of your project.

The fps (frames per second) from the DVD—29.97fps—and the fps from the Blu Ray—23.976fps—are one in the same—both audio tracks will have the same duration.

If you didn’t change the speed of the AC-3 audio when you imported it to Premiere, then by all means, keep the audio you have in Premiere as a guide when you are editing–so long as your final edit is at the fps of 23.976.

When you export the video with that audio, mux the DVD’s AC-3 track to your edit. Compare the speed of both AAC and AC-3 tracks and see for yourself if they are sync’d properly.

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alexp120 said:

@jimbotron235:

Why bother transcoding the AC-3 track at all? Keep the AC-3 track untouched and mux it to the final edit of your project.

The fps (frames per second) from the DVD—29.97fps—and the fps from the Blu Ray—23.976fps—are one in the same—both audio tracks will have the same duration.

If you didn’t change the speed of the AC-3 audio when you imported it to Premiere, then by all means, keep the audio you have in Premiere as a guide when you are editing–so long as your final edit is at the fps of 23.976.

When you export the video with that audio, mux the DVD’s AC-3 track to your edit. Compare the speed of both AAC and AC-3 tracks and see for yourself if they are sync’d properly.

It has nothing to do with frame rate. Besides, I de-interlaced and converted the DVD video to 23.976 before building the edit.

The AC3 track (and LD for that matter) can’t be added untouched. The director’s cut video has dozens of shots that are 1-2 frames shorter as compared to the theatrical cut. This results in numerous instances where the video and DVD/LD audio go out of sync. I can fix this here and there by inserting duplicate frames where appropriate but for shots where a judder would be noticeable, I have to trim the audio by the appropriate amount of time, and then export the edited audio track.

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jimbotron235 said:
It has nothing to do with frame rate. Besides, I de-interlaced and converted the DVD video to 23.976 before building the edit.

The AC3 track (and LD for that matter) can’t be added untouched. The director’s cut video has dozens of shots that are 1-2 frames shorter as compared to the theatrical cut. This results in numerous instances where the video and DVD/LD audio go out of sync. I can fix this here and there by inserting duplicate frames where appropriate but for shots where a judder would be noticeable, I have to trim the audio by the appropriate amount of time, and then export the edited audio track.

I meant, use the AC-3 track from the 1997 DVD release which was the theatrical cut, instead of the 2002 ‘director’s cut’ DVD.