Just out of pure curiosity, if the subtitles were extracted from a 35mm print, why was timing for putting them back in taken from the 16mm print? What’s wrong with the timing in the 35mm print they’re extracted from?
Nothing. But unlike the 35mm scan, Puggo’s 16mm trasfer just isn’t a huge clunky 4K file that would slow down the entire timeline if put onto it to check for timing - it’s just a matter of convenience and the results are the same.
Also, just to clarify, the subtitles weren’t just re-created based on the 35mm scan - they were literally extracted from it in 4K letter by letter.