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Post #682142

Author
jerryshadoe
Parent topic
The Matrix [spoRv] *BD-25 RELEASED*
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Date created
7-Jan-2014, 2:06 AM

Sorry that I haven't posted on here sooner but I have been really busy these last few days (my wife and daughters had all caught a nasty stomach virus and I was the only one not sick and had to help take care of them all)
Anyway, they are better now and I had some time to resume this project.
Thanx for the warm welcome Andrea ;) Would love to come to Italy again, if I could only afford it (LOL)
Looking forward to your results with the video... wondering if you are waiting for the 35mm project on AMPS to finish first, (to use as a reference for color-not sure if you've seen the sample screens there, but the overall tone is a lot warmer)
anyway, just curious... either way, even with the artifacts in version 1.0, your restoration of the color timing produced some remarkable results. if you ever need any feedback on your "in-progress" results always welcome to be a help for you.
if you are interested in hearing the score track, i sent you a pm with link. (more info in PM)

ok, as far as the work on that score track. I re-watched the entire thing with a notepad and pencil in hand to write down all the timecodes of places I needed to address. Just to be thorough, I made sure it was the ENTIRE movie. This was must first such project and it's funny to see how I learned (pretty quickly) how to put this together with this track because there were some mistakes in the first hour of the movie and after that everything was fine. I had to fix a transition from one track to another at ~32:30 and again (extending ending of one to match with beginning of next) at ~35:40. Once again, I had to re-align a couple tracks transition at 57:13 (the transition from lady in red dress to agent smith) where the volume was inconsistent between tracks making the transition obvious (this had now been fixed) after this, there aren't really any other places that needed to be addressed. I even made sure by listening to audio commentary track 5 in left channel while my score track plays from right channel to see if the line up this way as well (sometimes comparing just the waveform is not sufficient enough) sounded good...
now had to go back to the trickiest one. all of these edits (once I re-watched the movie) took me about 45 minutes and only a single-pass edit/mix/re-render session BUT this last one took me 4 (YES, a total of four) night session, each about 3 hours long once everybody was sleeping before I took a nap. The transition, from dragula to next track by prodigy was a pain in the a**. it's at ~10:20 and I went through it with about 19 different edits before the 20th one finally sounded as good as it's going to get. ( I had listened to all 20 version to make sure and honestly got tired of that part of the soundtrack) the huge problem here was that the dragula track is lossless off the OST and was easy to mix in pretty straight forward, whereas the prodigy track was such a mix that it was almost impossible to mix without it sounding funky. there were just certain parts that were missing and flashing between lossless and lossy on this track was just obvious as hell and sounded like complete crap. It was extremely frustrating. I then looked at channel 01+02 of the cinema DTS track and there is ambience noise mixed with the music which makes the track useless even though it lossless. again, seemed like a dead end. Finally I opted to use a combination of the lossy (OH, NO, I know LOL) track from commentary track, with partial blend at 2/3 volume of what I could put together from the lossless flac and cinema dts channels that I cleaned up for ambient noise in Diamond Cut DC Forensics8. Once put together, it's still noticeable that there's a transition in fidelity from completely lossless dragula to next track but it's not as noticeable and again, it's as good as it's gonna get.

@star thoughts: thanx for the offer, I have also sent you a pm with link.

Peace:)