Axiom9 said:
Thanks RobotWalrus I feel like a total noob...should have just tried another player...but im old so i can use that as my excuse :)
Harmy said:
In its heyday, Czech dubbing used to have excellent quality (this was in the 60s and 70s and to a lesser extent in the 80s and 90s) - it used to employ famous Czech film and stage actors, so the acting was actually very good - this has changed in recent years and most current Czech dubs are very sub-par.
Axiom9 said:
Just downloaded the 17 gig MKV and there is no voice...music is there but no voice or sound effects ect just using windows media player to play it with codec pack installed...any help on how to fix this would be great...ok thank you...and thank you Harmy this is so awesome :)
My local theater did a re-run of the trilogy in Summer '87 (I was 7 years old then), to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first movie, playing one movie each day for three consecutive days. The re-run was so successful that they made a second re-run a few weeks later, and there I went to watch them again.
I wasn't able to watch the movies again until 1989, after my parents finally decided to buy a VCR, when they bought my brother and me the trilogy in VHS for Christmas.
CatBus said:
It reminds me very much of what happened with the missing dialogue on the German dub, [...]
pittrek said:
The same was done on Slovak dubs of the prequels on the Bluray cuts - the dubs were done for theatrical cuts and for the BD cuts they simply redubbed the new scenes with completely different (and MUCH worse) actors.
Harmy said:
Same for Czech, I think, only it was done for DVD.
doubleofive said:
jacksparrow900 said:
I notice a audio glitch in the 5.1 track. Lukes lightsaber ignites twice in the wampa cave.Pretty sure that's supposed to be there in that track. As in, it was there originally.
The double-ignition is present in every audio track of the movie, even other languages, so it's not a glitch.
CatBus said:
Just to close the loop on this, there is certainly an error here, and it's like that on the GOUT, which means it likely has been an error on most Castilian dubs of the OT since it was first out on home video. IIRC there's a reel change right in the middle of the trash compactor scene, so if, perhaps, there was damage on their Castilian audio at the end of one reel, maybe some wise guy thought they could just splice in the Latino audio and nobody would care. When they went back and re-did things for the Special Editions, they either found some undamaged audio or managed to repair or re-record it, so it's correct on the Blu-rays. Since that scene isn't very much altered, it should be a piece of cake to restore.
It reminds me very much of what happened with the missing dialogue on the German dub, and I wonder if the other pre-home-video dubs (French, Italian) may need some looking over too. RobotWalrus has checked the rest of the trilogy and the Castilian dubs for those are fine.
I'll make a fixed track and make it available to any interested parties. I don't have it yet, but let me know if you're interested.
I wouldn't be too surprised about the wise guy part, since these kinds of mishaps are not unheard of in my country. I own myself a copy of the Castillian DVD of the 20th Anniversary edition of The Name of the Rose, which restored a couple of scenes that were deleted from the theatrical release, and instead of re-casting the original Spanish voice actors (or just leave the new scenes in English and adding subtitles if they so needed to be cheap about it), they filled in the blanks with audio parts performed by obviously amateur actors whose voices sounded nothing like the originals (the butchery begins at about 0:47).
Also, for puritism's sake (which I failed to mention in our PM exchanges), I compared the audio in the Special Edition of the film with my (circa 1986) VHS copy of the original, unaltered film. The Castillian audio for the trash compactor scene is exactly the same in both copies, no dialogues were re-recorded for the Special Edition. :)
Needless to say, I'm definitely interested in obtaining the fixed audio track. :3
@Matt_Stevens
That story is adorable! Can't wait to hear about your nieces' reaction when they find out that Darth Vader is Luke's father. :D
TV's Frink said:
I heard that the 50 GB limit isn't strictly enforced, though I haven't reached it yet so I can't test it. Personally I'd love for you to upload to Mega, given the lack of captchas. I also use Megashares to upload stuff.
As far as I know, the 50 GB limit is enforced (if you upload a file that surpasses the 50 GB limit, it won't cancel the upload, but an older file might dissapear when you least expect it), but on the other hand, there's nothing there to stop you from signing up for multiple Mega accounts, as long as you have spare e-mail accounts to sign up with. ;)
First of all, Mr. Harmy, thank you very much for creating and sharing this incredible redux (or should I say "dedux"?) of the Star Wars movies! It's just absurdly mind-blowing how a single guy working on this in his free time has managed to create a better cut of the original, unaltered films than what George Lucas and his +500 employees at IL&M did.
I'd like to point out, though, a little problem I found in the Castillian Spanish audio track. From 1:16:45 to 1:19:46 (the first half of the trash compactor scene), the audio is in Latino Spanish instead of Castillian Spanish.
It's a minor problem alright, since Latino Spanish and Castillian Spanish are pretty much the same, other than the accents used and some minor differences in vocabulary, but still, it would awesome if you could check that out and see if you can get it fixed.
Once again, thank you very much for your amazing effort! :)