Teeceezy said:
My expertise in film audio is virtually non-existent. I've used ACID, Audacity and FL Studio for a few years, and have done a bit of video production at University, but it's unlikely anything I ouput would be at the same standard as a lot of the audio work on this forum. So far I have aligned the digital rips against other GOUT-synced audio sources, and patched the disc change gaps with the analogue captures of the theatrical mixes. Outside of that, and matching the master gain to fall in line with other mixes I have not made any changes.
I will scan over these in the next few days, and see what needs fixing. Does anyone know of any particular defects that are in these mixes already?
ROTJ GOUT NTSC-based audio (unfortunately, this includes most of our GOUT-synced audio resources) will fall out of sync with PAL-based projects (all of our big ones) at about 47:37 (just after Luke's last scene on Dagobah) and will continue to be out-of-sync until 1:38:33 (after some Ewoks jump over a log), after which the sync problem becomes so minor you don't notice it anymore. It's worst when you're watching Han speak--other characters either don't move their mouths as much, or speak more slowly, so it's always worst with Han. At its worst, it's only a two-frame sync problem, so some don't notice it at all, but I sure do.
The easiest way to fix this is, once you're done syncing to NTSC, trim one frame from 1:38:33, and then add two frames to 47:37, and patch over the transitions to smooth it out. Ta-daa, it now syncs perfectly with Harmy/dark_jedi/You_Too's projects.
As for the digital rips in particular, I just casually listened enough to declare they sounded great, and to hope someone synced them, sorry ;)
EDIT: Although I'd certainly be willing to give your files-in-progress a test-listen... ;)