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Clean Original Trilogy Audio/Dialogue - Where? How?

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Hi everyone,

I'm a long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm also the guy who did this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-an9wrc8Lc

I apologise for my appauling attempted American accent

I'm starting work on a new project which I'd prefer to keep secret for now. However there is perhaps something you could help me with.

I'm after clean audio of dialogue from the Original Trilogy. As much as possibe. As you'll know much of it has music underneath it so just lifting it from the DVDs is not really an option.

I have managed to obtain some clean dialogue from the (very) limited selection of music-less clips made available on the official Star Wars Mash Ups. But there's not a lot there.

I know its a long shot, but I just wondered if anyone knew of any resource where I might find what I'm looking for. After all, you guys are the experts on what exists and what doesn't.

Cheers
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This is the holy grail. I wish you luck.

I am curious how you obtained the mash ups from the star wars website?


"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could...you never stopped to think if you should." - Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
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Yeah. I thought as much. But maybe there's a video game here and a "story of..."album there, y'know?

I ripped audio from the mash ups simply by using the "what U hear" setting on my Creative Media Source Player/Recorder.
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If you separate out the channels from the 5.1 mix on the DVD, how much of the music/effects still remains in the centre channel? (I assume you've tried that already).

The 1983 Star Wars arcade game had digitized samples of clean dialogue, although not in high quality.

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If you separate out the channels from the 5.1 mix on the DVD, how much of the music/effects still remains in the centre channel?


Depends on the scene, but alot more than you would think. Some scenes you can get by with it. The one scene that comes to mind is when Anakin leaves home, more music in the center channel than dialogue. The possibilities if we could only get a clean dialogue track!!
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I've not put the whole OT to the 5.1 test but there must be a good few scenes that could be usefully obtained that way.

I'm no expert, and surely someone must have thought of this but what about combining to mono, then using a low and a high pass filter - remove anything outside of the range of the voice?
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I'm no expert, and surely someone must have thought of this but what about combining to mono, then using a low and a high pass filter - remove anything outside of the range of the voice?


I don't claim to be an expert either, but I've tried that as well. Look at most music on an equalizer of some sort and the most energy is in the mid-range. Infodroid and I had decent results a couple of times by masking the music with different music , but in the same key. Alot of trial and error.
"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could...you never stopped to think if you should." - Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
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thanks for the links Moth3r!  

I plan to edit the theatrical "Clone Wars" once it hits DVD to make it less kiddie, and the links told me exactly what I needed to know.  I am working on a Mac.

I'll be redoing:

- Ziro's dialogue - all of it (I'll be recording myself speaking Huttese and adding room ambience/ subtle reverb)

- music at Ziro's (something otherworldly - not that awful Film Noir jazz)

- taking out Battle droid inane dialog throughout (and /or modulating it lower a la ADM's Episode III)

- same with IG droids

thanks again for posting all these in one convenient spot!

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese proverb