StarThoughts said:

Would it be possible to encode the two PCM tracks, the LD Dolby Stereo track and hairy_hen's isolated score (awesome — makes this release even more exciting!!!!) with lossless compression to save more room for video? Would it matter?

It would matter because compressing the PCM to DTS-HD MA could save at least 1 GB in space, maybe more. That could be used for video, which is always a good thing. I don't have the DTS-HD MA encoder but I'm sure a kind soul could encode the tracks for me.

The problem is that I need a (free) Blu-ray authoring software that supports DTS-HD MA (or True). I was planning on using tsMuxer to build a basic BD and it only supports lossy and PCM. I believe multiAVCHD doesn't support lossless either (and is buggy to use). Not sure about AVCHDcoder. The only free software that I know that does support lossless is Easy BD lite and I could never get that to work properly. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

bigrob said:

I'd call it Alien - The 70mm Experience

well, without the slightly cropped AR (which is 2.20:1 IIRC for 70mm print?)

Ha that might be overpromising. I don't think I can duplicate a 70mm experience, soundtrack not withstanding. But it is a good title....

thxita said:

hairy_hen said:

Some official releases of Alien do have music-only tracks, but the editing isn't always right and the sound quality is not as good as the Intrada CD version, which came from the master tapes and not from higher generation duplicates.

1999 DVD had the music-only option. I'm curious about your high quality source though!

Yeah I'm curious too. This sounds like it will trump the 99 music only track.