UPDATE (21/07/2025): I just realised while I was doing a test MKV file to see what it almost looked like once it’s complete, and I found a goof. I forgot to include the video FX for the long pause of the distribution credit at the end, so I fixed it and did another render.
Are the German subtitles dub-titles or direct translations of the English script?
I did check a bit of it, but I think it could be a direct translation. Reminds me of when Disney did the same thing with the English SDH subtitles on the 2003 UK DVD release of Kiki’s Delivery Service.
Okay, I finally compared the German regular and SDH subtitles. Turns out it was transcribed from the dub.
UPDATE (24/07/2025): Just wanted to remind you I have updated the description so I can include the tracks that will be coming to this new update. And yes…IT IS HUGE!!! Don’t worry, it will get updated over time once I grab those pre-2005 DVD copies I can find. Stay tuned.
Apparently, The Dubbing Database made an error. The bootleg voiceover wasn’t done by Yuri, it was Sergey Sergeevich Vizgunov, and from the high quality of the film’s audio, I’d assumed it was from an official PAL English VHS release, not a telecine bootleg.
I also forgot to mention about the Hindi dub. Apparently the Hindi dub was done in 2007 according to the official certificate from the Central Board of Film Classification here (https://dubdb.fandom.com/wiki/File:Toy_Story_(Hindi)_-_Central_Board_of_Film_Certification.png), though before you panic, I’m still keeping this dub, mostly because despite only being in mono, it does sound close to the theatrical mix when I compared it with the official English Dolby Surround mix. I mean, it does show that Disney still has the theatrical mix for a while (look at the ABC 2008 HDTV broadcast) until it was butchered in favour of the 2005 mix when the film received a new remaster for the Blu-ray, based on the 3D re-release.
Now you might be wondering, “How would you know it was close?”, well, the best solution is that the 2005 mix has an extremely unnoticeable delay problem with each stem, so when I compared the SFX and music stems of the Hindi dub to that of the English Dolby Surround mix, they sound really close.
UPDATE (29/07/2025): I decided to do an update on the Russian dub on this preservation. The reason is because I didn’t like the execution I did, looking back at it. In this new update, I patched the missing first frames of the audio, as well as included the closing Russian version of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from the 2009 redub since it does sound like it was recycled from the original 2004 dub as well, alongside most of the original recorded lines from it.
I bought Toy Stoy on blu ray recently. Them taking out the original intro (Which was fully scored and part of the soundtrack) and replacing it with their 2009 new CG intro just makes it unwatchable for me. Instantly puts me off.
To see that intro put back in the film would make the kid in me so happy.
I bought Toy Stoy on blu ray recently. Them taking out the original intro (Which was fully scored and part of the soundtrack) and replacing it with their 2009 new CG intro just makes it unwatchable for me. Instantly puts me off.
To see that intro put back in the film would make the kid in me so happy.
I honestly think the Dolby Atmos remix on the UHD was even worse. I honestly don’t know why they changed everything from the 2005 mix that makes the movie “better”, but still, I understand why Disney and anyone who wanted to see changes to the Atmos mix wanted to do that.
UPDATE (31/07/2025): I decided to do something that no fan preservationists have done before…Dolby Headphone! So one day while I was messing around with my Windows XP VM and PowerDVD 7, I was like, “Hey, what if I make a Dolby Headphone track? No one, I think, has ever done it before.” In fact, Dolby Headphone has been used in only a couple films I can remember, that being the Ultimate Edition DVD of T2, and Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor. But since Dolby Headphone is so amazing on my own headphones, I felt like it would be fun to have a go. But because you can’t export a 5.1 audio file to a Dolby Headphone mix file, I decided to do my own take. I first set the mode to DH2 (conference room model) since DH3 (movie theater model) felt way too ringy with its simulated reverb, especially since DH2 sounds just right from my ears, then playbacked through a lossy DTS stream of my theatrical reconstruction since this is the best I can do since PowerDVD seems to have problems playing a DTS-HD or MLP stream since it’s expecting the DTS-HD stream to be a “.cpt” file, but the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite can only use “.cpt” for the DVD DTS stream, and even if I change the extension from “.dtshd” to “.cpt”, it sadly doesn’t work on PowerDVD. And for the “.mlp” stream, I think it only supports playing stereo MLP streams, since the MLP stream I tried along with previous tries gives me an unknown error in the software, so the 1.5Mbps lossy DTS stream is the best I can do, especially since it works fine. I would then record the entire film using a direct PC audio capture with Audacity, synced it with the UTB DVD, then saved it to a 16-bit FLAC file.
UPDATE (01/08/2025): Just bought the German LaserDisc, though because the seller wanted a minimum of $25, I also bought BTTF on LD too because why not, though he literally gave me the entire trilogy, which I didn’t ask for. I was also thinking of redoing the Dolby Surround mixes since I previously used to do the LD captures on Audacity, though after trying REAPER as recommended, I found out that REAPER does a way better PCM decode than Audacity, so I decided to do the English, French, and Spanish Dolby Surround mixes when I feel like it, since I have already done the German mix using REAPER.
UPDATE (05/08/2025): Finally got the Spanish DVD and it works this time. Nothing to explain there since I already included the Castilian Spanish and Portugal Portuguese dubs and subtitles into the .mtxcfg file, ready to be multiplexed once I got everything I can find and easily import to the UK.
never thought I would see so much effort put into this franchise. excited for the results
never thought I would see so much effort put into this franchise. excited for the results
sorry about the double post, not sure how that happened. what are your thoughts on the new toy story film by the way?
sorry about the double post, not sure how that happened. what are your thoughts on the new toy story film by the way?
Haven’t seen it, though I did hear from some people it’s just a needless cash grab, which shows.
UPDATE (31/07/2025): I decided to do something that no fan preservationists have done before…Dolby Headphone! So one day while I was messing around with my Windows XP VM and PowerDVD 7, I was like, “Hey, what if I make a Dolby Headphone track? No one, I think, has ever done it before.” In fact, Dolby Headphone has been used in only a couple films I can remember, that being the Ultimate Edition DVD of T2, and Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor. But since Dolby Headphone is so amazing on my own headphones, I felt like it would be fun to have a go. But because you can’t export a 5.1 audio file to a Dolby Headphone mix file, I decided to do my own take. I first set the mode to DH2 (conference room model) since DH3 (movie theater model) felt way too ringy with its simulated reverb, especially since DH2 sounds just right from my ears, then playbacked through a lossy DTS stream of my theatrical reconstruction since this is the best I can do since PowerDVD seems to have problems playing a DTS-HD or MLP stream since it’s expecting the DTS-HD stream to be a “.cpt” file, but the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite can only use “.cpt” for the DVD DTS stream, and even if I change the extension from “.dtshd” to “.cpt”, it sadly doesn’t work on PowerDVD. And for the “.mlp” stream, I think it only supports playing stereo MLP streams, since the MLP stream I tried along with previous tries gives me an unknown error in the software, so the 1.5Mbps lossy DTS stream is the best I can do, especially since it works fine. I would then record the entire film using a direct PC audio capture with Audacity, synced it with the UTB DVD, then saved it to a 16-bit FLAC file.
I’m just wondering what settings did you use for Dolby Headphone?
UPDATE (31/07/2025): I decided to do something that no fan preservationists have done before…Dolby Headphone! So one day while I was messing around with my Windows XP VM and PowerDVD 7, I was like, “Hey, what if I make a Dolby Headphone track? No one, I think, has ever done it before.” In fact, Dolby Headphone has been used in only a couple films I can remember, that being the Ultimate Edition DVD of T2, and Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor. But since Dolby Headphone is so amazing on my own headphones, I felt like it would be fun to have a go. But because you can’t export a 5.1 audio file to a Dolby Headphone mix file, I decided to do my own take. I first set the mode to DH2 (conference room model) since DH3 (movie theater model) felt way too ringy with its simulated reverb, especially since DH2 sounds just right from my ears, then playbacked through a lossy DTS stream of my theatrical reconstruction since this is the best I can do since PowerDVD seems to have problems playing a DTS-HD or MLP stream since it’s expecting the DTS-HD stream to be a “.cpt” file, but the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite can only use “.cpt” for the DVD DTS stream, and even if I change the extension from “.dtshd” to “.cpt”, it sadly doesn’t work on PowerDVD. And for the “.mlp” stream, I think it only supports playing stereo MLP streams, since the MLP stream I tried along with previous tries gives me an unknown error in the software, so the 1.5Mbps lossy DTS stream is the best I can do, especially since it works fine. I would then record the entire film using a direct PC audio capture with Audacity, synced it with the UTB DVD, then saved it to a 16-bit FLAC file.
I’m just wondering what settings did you use for Dolby Headphone?
Like I said, DH2. DH1 (small room), DH2 (conference room) and DH3 (movie theater) models are the only settings used in the program.
UPDATE (06/08/2025): Got the Italian DVD. Nothing to explain as well since there are no Italian subtitles on it, so the dub is the only option.
UPDATE (06/08/2025): Got the Italian DVD. Nothing to explain as well since there are no Italian subtitles on it, so the dub is the only option.
I think the 2005 Italian/German DVD does have Italian subtitles, but I don’t know if it’s timed to the said DVD’s remix?
UPDATE (06/08/2025): Got the Italian DVD. Nothing to explain as well since there are no Italian subtitles on it, so the dub is the only option.
I think the 2005 Italian/German DVD does have Italian subtitles, but I don’t know if it’s timed to the said DVD’s remix?
Very interesting, though I should mention that the subtitling style is very different in the later release. Here’s the 2000 Dutch/Belgian DVD and the 2005 UK DVD as an example of French subtitles:
Though I want this preservation to based on the UTB, LaserDisc and various 2000 international DVD releases as well (since this was supposed to bring back how Toy Story was first shown audibly and visually before 2005; despite a couple errors in the 2000 re-render), so unfortunately, especially with the subtitle styling, I will not include the Italian subtitles. Sorry.
Interestingly the full 4K 35mm scan of Toy Story from the UK was leaked last month and is much higher in quality than those DVD releases.
Interestingly the full 4K 35mm scan of Toy Story from the UK was leaked last month and is much higher in quality than those DVD releases.
I would say I would agree with you, but there are parts where it felt like Trist just borderline used a variable AVC bitrate from the max of 50mbps to 1bps, hence blocky parts like the flash in the Disney logo or the movement of the Pizza Planet truck as it arrives at the restaurant.
Speaking of which, someone and I were thinking of reviving the project, though I already did do the color grading to match the LD (as it was close to the opening night screening bootleg), though since his friends did approve it, and I haven’t received a word from him about the potential updates, I still need to wait for the OT mods to come in and see if they are okay with. Though because of the crappy variable bitrate, and since I think Trist really wants to stay away from the project, I don’t know if I will ever get the raw scans so I can do a perfect render of it, so a regrade and the UTB sync of the leaked 4K 35mm scan is for the best.
The 1080p 35mm scan has a AVC bitrate of 25mbps FWIW.
The 1080p 35mm scan has a AVC bitrate of 25mbps FWIW.
Thanks. I’ve been told the errors weren’t the case as well. In fact, I just received the version.
UPDATE (12/08/25): Finally got the Japanese Deluxe CAV LaserDisc and one of the Chinese bootleg DVDs. The bootleg DVD does seem to be a reauthoring of the R3 DVD, though only the Taiwanese Mandarin and Cantonese dubs are included, as the Thai and Indonesian languages are only subtitled, so the only bet to find the Thai dub (since the Indonesian dub was done after the Blu-ray release) was to find a Thai VCD release. Speaking of subtitles, at least I think subtitles do look like they were made by the original authoring team themselves, especially since the Indonesian subtitles do look close to the NTSC English subtitles, though they were enlarged and I honestly don’t know if this was the bootleggers’ doing or Disney. And for the Japanese Deluxe LD, The analog tracks on that LD was only the Japanese dub of the film on the left, and the commentary track dubbed in the same language (with the English version of the film playing over it.). However, once I’ve done capturing the audio for the commentary, i noticed there are clicks and pops in the audio. I think my ESI U24XL seem to be working fine still, though I don’t know if it is showing signs the discs are rotting or not, or maybe the laser is starting to die out, I don’t know.
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