Now that Daria has finally arrived on DVD and we has the best quality video possible, but with none of the great music that in itself was another character in the show.
I’m wondering if we ourselves the fans can take the DVD’s and rip the video and add in those “expensive” music clips back in recreating Daria as it was meant to be.
Is anyone else already working on this project?
Not that I'm aware of. I say go for it.
If you can find sources, more power to you. Only sources I am aware of are "watchable" video files circulating online. Personally, I am content to not be distracted by really dated pop music throughout the series.
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I've been wanting to do that myself, seeing as I have all the taped episodes from both MTV's and The-N's runs of the show. Unfortunately, they aren't perfect; some of the commercial bumpers from the MTV broadcasts faded to black quickly, and there were audio dropouts on a couple of episodes. Add to that the fact that the Season 5 end credits were replaced by MTV advertising and other garbage, rather than the standard credits/alter-egos, making things even more challenging.
That's where the The-N broadcasts come in, of course. Much of their audio can be spliced in to make up the difference. Naturally, there are problems here, too, not the least of which is their editing of episodes (read: brainless censoring), and skipping entire episodes altogether, in order to shield sensitive minds (think of the children!) from "objectionable" material that their Degrassi broadcasts were already indulging in! (God, don't get me started on this topic...)
The good news is that I'd already done virtually all of this work when I captured the episodes and converted them to DVD-R years ago, so I know what kind of challenge to expect. The bad news is that I lost the raw source files in a hard drive crash; the project files that I have left aren't really in an editable condition, meaning that I'd have to re-capture the audio all over again.
A more immediate project might be to preserve the original broadcast of "Is It College Yet?", as the versions on DVD are the edited-for-time ones (MTV claims they lost the source tracks for the full version, without which they could not replace the original music), as well as other Daria-related special material (such as Behind the Scenes: Daria, hosted by Janeane Garofalo, and Look Back In Annoyance, the D/J-hosted retrospective that aired the night before the IICY premiere).
I'd really love to get a copy of the original Is It College Yet. Do you have that on DVD?
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I'd really love to get a copy of the original Is It College Yet. Do you have that on DVD?
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Alright we'll what i'm thinking is:
1. I've found a website that says all the song's and artists.
2. If I can find or get copy's of your Dvd's MJPollard, I'll know exactly what clips to pull from Full song MP3's and put those into the Sweet Video source from the Official DVD's.
Looking at the website I'm gonna have my work cut out for me, with 9 to 15 song clips in each episode.
If you guys have any other suggestions let me know.
Someone over at MySpleen is currently syncing broadcast audio with DVD video. He's up to Ep 9 in Season 1 so far, and he just started this week.
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Well then it looks like someone's doing my job for me
Tons O' Fun said:
Alright we'll what i'm thinking is:
1. I've found a website that says all the song's and artists.
2. If I can find or get copy's of your Dvd's MJPollard, I'll know exactly what clips to pull from Full song MP3's and put those into the Sweet Video source from the Official DVD's.
Looking at the website I'm gonna have my work cut out for me, with 9 to 15 song clips in each episode.
If you guys have any other suggestions let me know.
Sadly, I don't have them anymore, thanks to a crashed hard drive. I have to recapture them all over again, which will take quite a bit of time. Fortunately, I still have my old Pentium 4 box, which contains the ATI AIW tuner/capture card, so I'm not TOTALLY screwed. :-) (I still plan to do this, but now at a more leisurely pace.)
BTW, is this website called Outpost Daria? If so, you might want to take a close look at the name of the webmaster... ;-)
It seems like the "Daria Restoration Project" never made it past Season 4. Anyone want to take a stab at doing Season 5 and the TV movie "Is It College Yet?" to complete this project?
I'd do it myself but I'm not sure how well I'd be able to sync up the audio from the TV rip to the DVD video footage.
Just for shits and giggles, I took a stab at doing my own restoration work. It wasn't actually hard. Starting from nothing, I was able to figure out audacity and splice in the original audio by removing the background music (using noise remover) and splicing in the original music taken from the original song mp3s. I synced up a track of an unexpurgated version with the dvd version for timing cues.
instructions how to download it here: http://pastebin.com/MfCdqSAv
I don't think this turned out too bad, but I also think this isn't as good as it could be. my source for the dvd version was xvid dvd rips, and mp3s for the original songs. Plus, some incidental music was not inserted back in because of too much dialogue over the music (particularly in the second half).
I think that this could be done pretty easily if a few other people would be willing to collaborate. A large amount of the work would simply be gathering the original music in lossless quality, and writing out the timing cues from original unexpurgated versions. Is anyone here interested?