SilverWook said:

msycamore, I noticed when comparing to the ITA version that there was some cropping on the right hand of the frame. When the ITA pans to the right of frame, more picture info was there. I think some amount of cropping occurs in a lot of Laserdisc era letterbox transfers.

Yeah, I actually don't think the cropping on the LD looks that bad at all, it was just that particular one I thought was a little odd as it have much more picture information to the left than the DVD and I was just a little curious if you had noticed the same thing happen on other places as well. I think I'll check my tape.

SilverWook said:

I think the Beta was cropped on all sides, actually. The color on the titles is pretty close to what I saw. The AZ logo looks good too.

Ok, thanks. So should the Buck Rogers clip be in black & white or sepia, or should we even consider using the whole opening from the DVD? I think we should, we now know the opening titles should be green and it could also be less jarring instead of going from LD footage to DVD back and forth more than once. So I think I'll wait till I have your files until I do anything more on this, we need this to be perfect.

erri_wan, could you perhaps compare my English subtitle stream for the restored original cut with your Italian audio, and make corrections where the Italian dubbers was a little creative? It could be a little tiresome for you if they changed many lines instead of just translating them, but it's the only way if we want a true translation of the Italian audio instead of the original lines. Let me know, and I'll send the file to you.

And also let me know if this is actually how you all want it, we could go both ways in the subtitling.