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Post #595015

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TServo2049
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Info: Re-mixed audio tracks on video releases
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Date created
11-Sep-2012, 1:41 PM

I'm certainly intrigued about Vertigo. I know that the restoration's remix was screwed up:

"One of the holy grails of moviedom, the restorers of Vertigo found it acceptable to record entire new footstep and incidental-noise tracks, and then mix them at relative volume much louder than they ever were in the original. Sure, it sounds good, but James Stewart didn't SCOOT SCOOT SCOOT every time he took a step, in fact often the Bernard Herrmann score was almost alone on the track for minutes at a time."

Pre-release specs for the upcoming Hitchcock Blu-ray set say Vertigo has a mono track, but there's always the possibility that it was a misprint, or that it's going to be another The Good, The Bad and the Ugly where it's just the 5.1 track folded down to mono. I'd get that Beta, just as "insurance."

And as far as the Paramount logo on Grease, that was another idea I already had. Just grab the logo from something like Star Trek: The Motion Picture and synch it up.