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#251581
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The originaltrilogy.com acronym buster
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This is a very handy list of acronyms to have.

As to the pronunciation of telecine, it's obviously a combination of tele from television and cine from cinema. In the U.S. (not sure about England, since the Queen's English differs on many words from American English ), the tele from television is pronounced like "tell a" or "tella" (almost a short "a" sound on the second "e"). The same for cine in cinema, in the U.S. it's pronounced "sin a" or "sina" (again a short "a" type of sound is on the "e"). So unless there is specific confirmation from movie industry experts to the contrary (and just about everyone here seems to be saying from everything they've heard that it's definitely not "tele seen"), in the U.S. telecine would be pronounced "tella sina" (with both "e's" after the "L" having a sound similar to a short "a").
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#251451
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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boba feta: Yeah, there are a couple foreign language tracks on the 2006 set that are wasting disk space, so those as well as the Lego preview should be removed before substituting the official English DD 2.0 soundtrack with the uncompressed DC PCM soundtrack. When you get them, can you please upload Belbucus's PCM soundtrack files from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi onto filefactory as you did before? They downloaded quickly and reliably from there last time.

By the way, if you upload to megaupload, I think you can upload the entire soundtrack from one movie in one big flac file. No need to break them up into smaller files. Megaupload allows very large files to be uploaded.
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#251316
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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If anyone can help with getting a dual-layer DVD with this Definitive Collection PCM soundtrack from Belbucus accurately sync'd up in place of the DD 2.0 soundtrack on the 2006 "A New Hope" DVD, and with the foreign language soundtracks and LEGO preview removed, but everything else from the 2006 "A New Hope" DVD (including the original menus) left intact and unaltered, to go along with the official 2006 Star Wars DVD set that I already own, please PM me. Thanks very much for any help!
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#250300
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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Again, that's what I've heard. Perhaps they weren't entirely invisible, but were certainly far less noticeable than on the home video releases. Whether you saw the Star Wars movies on the first days of showing, and thus the print was in great shape, and whether the projector was setup properly may also be factors, not sure. But on opening day, with a good projector and skilled projectionist, they were either not visible or much less so than you see on home video, but I'm not an expert on the subject. Post a question for "zombie" in the Star Wars thread at the link below, he can give all the technical details. In any case, they were certainly never intended to be seen, so naturally we want to make the restored version look the way it was intended to look at theaters on opening day, that means no matte lines.

http://boards.theforce.net/classic_trilogy/b10002/24990319/p42
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#248825
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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Belbucus: Is this sync of the Definitive Collection PCM soundtrack with the 2006 DVD of A New Hope exactly the same as the official soundtrack that comes on the DVD? I mean, if you watched the official DVD with the DD 2.0 soundtrack and then the same DVD video but with this PCM soundtrack instead, would you be able to tell anywhere during the movie where the timing of the soundtrack is off on the PCM version, or is the syncing so exact even you couldn't tell the difference?
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#248105
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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THX: I assume you mean in the 70mm print they didn't use any artificial limiters on the dynamic range of the soundtrack, thus it lets the full unaltered quality of the Star Wars soundtrack shine through? If so, thank God for the 70mm print master and the fact that the Definitive Collection laserdisk PCM soundtrack was taken from such an excellent source. Because it sure does sound great!
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#248093
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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Ah, I see. I'm used to using and hearing the term headroom used in reference to power amps for stereo equipment, not quite in this sense. Usually "dynamic range" is the term stereo enthusiasts use to describe what you mean. Hmm, interesting. Well, don't forget that the official unaltered Star Wars trilogy DVD set's soundtrack comes not from the 85 set but from the 93 Definitive Collection laserdisk soundtrack, which I guess is the best quality soundtrack ever released for home use for Star Wars. So I'd expect it to have better dynamic range than the 85 laserdisk set.

The only problem with the official DVD soundtrack is that they should have used a higher bit-rate to capture more of the inherent excellence of the original PCM soundtrack, 448k would be great. But I'll say this, even though I'm looking forward to hearing the full uncompressed PCM soundtrack to go with the nice video on the new DVD set, I watched the entire trilogy as soon as it was available at -3RL, which is very loud, and it sounded really good. And I have speakers that are quite revealing, and yet the sound has a smoothness, naturalness and fullness to it that sounds very good indeed. Surprisingly, even at such high volumes, it didn't sound harsh or strained. I guess that shows just how good the source PCM soundtrack is to begin with. I can just imagine how good it's going to sound with the full uncompressed PCM soundtrack.
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#247242
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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I already bought that the day it came out, I got the exclusive metal collector's box set, very nice looking. What we're talking about is a fan modification (for use by existing owners) by someone who knows how to do such a thing to transfer and then to perfectly sync the full PCM soundtrack (as opposed to low bit-rate DD) with the video. Which I have no idea how to do, nor do I have a DVD burner with which to do it.
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#247235
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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Belbucus: When you say it will fit onto a single-layer DVD, I assume you mean just the PCM soundtrack? Surely the unaltered original trilogy video for each movie from the new official DVD set combined with an uncompressed PCM soundtrack takes up more space than a single-layer DVD? Since Moth3r was saying that even 2 hours of PCM soundtrack would take over 1.2 gigs just by itself, and the running time is over 2 hours from start to finish (complete end of credits) for some or all of the trilogy. And the menus on the new DVD's look and sound great, so those might as well be included, too (just blank out or disable all text menu entries to foreign language tracks, or make them all point to the PCM track).

Also, might I suggest that the method used by seventiesfilmnut of not applying any normalization or filters be used when transferring the soundtrack, so as to preserve exactly how the PCM Definitive Collection soundtrack is supposed to sound. How is the synchronization going, how closely are you able to match it up to the exact same soundtrack synchronization to the video that the official DVD set has?

Thanks for the effort on this soundtrack project, Belbucus.
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#247146
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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GhostAlpha26: It's no big deal. All of us can relate to the frustration caused by Lucas not releasing a new high quality transfer (yet) of the unaltered Star Wars trilogy on DVD. None of us like it one bit, which is why we're here on this site talking about this in the first place. But one way or another we will get one, it's just a matter of time. We are going to win in the end. So let's focus on the good news we've had with restoration projects like this lately.
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#246355
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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Well, the only "intent" here is for Star Wars fans to be able to see the unaltered trilogy in the best quality for their own personal use. There is no "intent" for any of this stuff to be sold for profit by anyone, and anyone doing that is going directly against the stated "intent" of these fan projects. So anyone who does try to sell something for a profit are themselves to blame and no one else.

And as far as Lucasfilm goes, they are the ones committing fraud with their lies about what fans would be getting on the new official DVD set in terms of the unaltered original trilogy, something that many fans paid good money to own. So they have nothing to complain about, nor should anyone care...