Thomas has always been filmed in 25fps (used pulldown for US releases to 60i), so nothing was adjusted. I will do the initial release in PAL.
Cool! I was talking about the speed of the US dubs. I’m assuming they were recorded after slowing down the 25fps masters. Speeding them up from 24fps/60i to 25 fps will pitch up George Carlin’s voice. (Although, now that I think about it, George Carlin probably recorded over slowed and pitched down music and sound effects, so that would go back to being correct and no one will care that George has a slightly higher pitched voice.) So this is actually the best way to release it.
I had thought about leaving it was THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE & FRIENDS, but I wasn’t sure. I could revert it back, but that would be a lot of extra work, because I remastered every single title card ala the restored versions.
No worries. I’m just fond of the original logo. This looks like an incredible amount of work, and I’m really glad you went to all this trouble.