The sound on this particluar issue was in my opinion not very good. Matter of fact, I have had to turn the sound all the way up just to gain some richness in the sound of the film itself. The parts where the music or score is highlighted, I then have to turn it down in order to balance the sound out. Then in parts where there is dicussion going on, the sound has to then be turned up to be able to hear it.
I have watched this on the computer with my nice flat screen 22 inch CRT and I have to say as fan edits go, this one was quite dull in texture, and was somewhat smudged if that is the word I am looking for.
The detail was not there, it was somewhat a blur in that you could tell it was not the greatest print to be copied from. I think that in part 1, I have only seen about 3 or so areas which were not shown in various versions I have seen. Adding them to me or in my opinion, didn't give much to the overall scheme of the film itself. If one had to source this, one would hope it would have been on a better print. I had felt at times like I was actually watching some poor resoltuion image from a TV program as opposed to something that had been given a good treatment by someone so good as the author of this fan edit.
Not taking anything away from him or his work or the monumental task of what he did, however one wonders if it was indeed worth it to add scenes at the expense of sound and picture quality.
I know that I am no editor myself, however I wasn't impressed at all with the sound. The first thing that did stick out however was that the print itself was weak, and almost look like some old copy from VHS.
Anyway, the next thing I noticed was the sound, which was not what should have been. No one likes turning something up and down all the time for balance, and the richness in sound that I have seen on regular views of this show pales on this edit.
I do however want to thank the author and editor for this work, as I am sure it was a very hard task to complete, and he richly deserves much credit for the time and effort that he spent for the viewing public."
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Dito.