@ Laserschwert - the German audio will be included for (almost) ALL episodes (it took a minute to track down, but I managed to find them except for the Winnie the Pooh and Xmas too special - more on that further down)
@ jade88 - You and everyone else that will appreciate this once it's complete are VERY welcome. It is a damn shame that Disney is letting this great show just sit somewhere on the shelves instead of releasing it (even just on DVD)
You are welcome to ramble as much as you want ;) I am always interested in other peoples opinions about these things. That being said, I am wondering what you mean by "individual" files, as in whether you mean each episode will be separate torrent or actual individual files for each episode. If it's the latter, then yes, each episode (in its original broadcast format) will be it's own file with AVC video in a M2TS container (and as stated above, will contain properly synced audio for English, Polish, German, and Russian) If there is anyone out there that has audio in another language (and would be willing to share or point me in the right direction) I would be happy to sync it as well. So far, I haven't been able to find anything in other languages other than the intro song that's posted on youtube.
@ ExNihilo - After this project is finished, if I can find decent video source files, I might undertake the Gummi Bears as well, but that won't be for a while, as I am working on 3 other projects besides this one right now, have two small daughters and just can't find enough time to do everything right away and my computer can only process everything so fast, LOL.
Now that all that is out the way, I would like to post a slight "update"/comment on some of the effort I'm putting into this.
This is a very fun project to work on, especially with my daughters (ages 4 & 2) watching as I fix a cartoon they love to watch. However, it's also a little bit of a pain having to mix different sources and try to make it all look proper (in many case having to correct the video ONE frame at a time) There are numerous garbage frames in many of the episodes due to incorrect transfer from NTSC to PAL and cleaning those up is not hard, but extremely time consuming. Also, since I'm syncing not one but four language tracks to the video is also challenging at times, as the audio sources for MOST of the episodes (except for about half the English episodes which are sourced from PAL DVD releases) is from VHS tapes and the speed of the audio there is NEVER constant so I'm playing some audio tricks to sync it without it being obvious that those tricks are present. So far, it hasn't been difficult (as I have been editing audio for over a decade) but it is ALSO very time consuming. Especially since I'm having to slow down the PAL audio back to NTSC (as I want to preserve the original broadcast format) ALL episodes will now have an intro, the English title cards, and (mostly) original end credits (reason for mostly is that some episodes will have a 2-second Russian end credit "page" after original English credits where cutting that Russian "page" would throw the audio out of sync at the very end (last 3-4 seconds of video) and the "episodes" where there was an "A" and "B" episode in one ( to fill in the 30 minute time slot) will be preserved as aired originally which makes each "episode" ~22:30 including intro/end credits. (This was the only way to do it so I could also preserve all of the end credits as aired originally) The release will also contain the Xmas special "Winnie the Pooh and Xmas too" (mostly sourced from DVD) but I am having problems finding German and Russian audio for that episode ONLY. If there is anyone that could help me with the audio sources for that episode (in German or Russian) I would greatly appreciate it.
Okay, guess now I'm done rambling, LOL ;)
Peace