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Jetrell Fo said:
The standard levels being too loud...are you speaking about the way DTS has them set via the whitepaper on it? My other question I guess is going to be, are you going to release a set based on your work?
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'standard' was a poor choice of words, 'stock' may have been more fitting. The theatrical DTS volume levels are way louder than any audio you would find on a commercially available DVD, for the sake of consistency I think it is essential to reduce it. I lowered it by 8dB to make it more 'standard' to a DVD/Blu-Ray format. Imagine watching whilst listening to the laserdisc audio, only to switch to the DTS track and be deafened because the level is so much louder! Aside from SRC it is the only real processing that has occurred, although I have made another master at 24-bit for compatibility with lossless HD audio formats (and there is no noticeable difference in the sound quality). In fact, I think my sync was matched up well enough, looking at my master files I have no crossfading on the reel overlaps this time whereas on my first attempts I did, which takes time longer to render as it is another processing step.
I can make them available if people want them, I haven't up to this point because most people commented that they wanted to sync these mixes themselves, and I didn't see much point in releasing just the audio when there are no actual video sources to watch them against that are frame accurate (or as close to frame accurate as we've thus far calculated, msycamore's ANH m2v file excluded of course, along with my own colour-corrected HD/Upscaled SD project for my projector).
I've been avoiding considering the idea of releasing my own HD video sources with the audio because I don't want to undermine other projects that are happening.