the Paramount+ versions are mostly intact afaik content wise, bizarrely though the “welcome to Jackass” segment in the first episode is replaced with the one in the second episode (which results in a repeat intro whenever you watch the second episode) and the entire Willy Wonka parody from the same episode is cut out as well, not sure if anything else is edited out of the series but I wouldn’t be surprised, and pretty much all of the music is changed as well
if I was given rips of the Paramount+ versions then I could do some restoration work here and there considering the quality of them is much better than the TV rips
I was DEAD wrong about this, it turns out the edits vary wildly from episode to episode
some episodes just need music restored and others need entire stunts restored (I’ve also encountered a couple episodes where all music was intact but a couple of pranks or stunts were still missing), it seems MTV several years ago censored various episodes by removing “dangerous” stunts and to pad out the runtime replaced them with a repeated stunt from either a previous or future episode (in one instance I saw a stunt repeated twice) and Paramount+ used whatever masters were available, even if a few of the episodes ended up being full on butchered in the process
I’m having to do more work than I thought I’d have to initially but surprisingly, this is still less work than if I was working off of the DVD versions, at least in a lot of instances the episodes were returned to their original format somewhat and I don’t have to search every single file for a single stunt in most instances
I did find a few months ago a fanedit called Turd edition or smth but how would it differ to yours
Not sure cause I’m using at least four different sources to do this with
They also appear to use a PAL framerate because they converted everything to 576p which isn’t in their native NTSC resolution, along with them claiming to denoise and deinterlace the episodes which I chose to not do, leaving it as is
Also I’ve noticed that a couple of the sketches that required upscaling from TV sources are present on the Paramount+ masters and moments that were incomplete on the DVD releases are complete on Paramount+, so not as much work is needed