With a few Phantom Menace projects popping up lately (and my own that I’ve been throwing together) I thought it was about time that the Cinema DTS CD isos that Jetrell Fo had released a while back finally get some love and attention and see the light of day.
With that goal in mind, I set about ripping the audio to an editable format.
I’ve long been rather unhappy with winamp for audio tasks (which is the only way I’d found previously to decode the discs), so I set out to find a different way.
Luckily, there is a plugin for foobar2000 that not only decodes the 5 channels present on the disc, but also simulates the theater system in generating an lfe track.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdadecoder/files/foo_input_apt-x100/
Using foobars quick convert to wav, I loaded the resulting file into audition. To convert cinema 24 fps to home theater 23.976 fps, I sped it up to 100.1%. Then found the individual track split points, resplit the file and matched them up where the waveforms were identical. <span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>Using a mono mixdown of Adywan’s restoration ac3 as a guide, I found the track start point and endpoint.</span>
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<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>With that said, I have released 2 cuts of this.</span>
<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>The first is my initial lossless foobar merger wav with Ady’s ac3 to make your own.</span>
<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>The second is an MKV with my initial workprint DTS attached to Ady’s reconstruction so that you can hear it when matched with the video.</span>
<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>My third and probably final release will be out today - it will include my final sync as a 1509 kbps DTS file and a 640 kbps AC3. This should be perfectly adequate as the initial Cinema DTS was 882 kbps.</span>
<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>A big thanks to Jetrell Fo for the initial files and to Adywan for giving us an amazing reconstruction.</span>
Thoughts and comments appreciated. All of my edits are release through torrent.