Lil Brutto

Memorex said:

How is your project going Lil Brutto/eurospec19? Would love to check it out when its finished!

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I held off on completing my project until the release of the 4K. Now that I have it in hand I'm going to proceed with a regrade to scale back the excess yellow/teal. If the 4K regrade is superior to the Mondo (that I've already used) then I will have to revise my project accordingly.

Stay tuned!

These are captures of the letterbox LD PCM audio. Happy to share.

I have bit perfect captures from my laserdisc; 16-bit, 44.1kHz.

I'm actually working solo on this. bavaleone kindly shared his audio file with me though. I'm syncing to the 98 DVD audio plus The Fort scene (both shown as a green band in the screenshots above) so my final product will be quite different.

I will upsample my LD PCM audio to 48kHz and then proceed with synchronization. For the fort scene, I have decided against using the DD2.0 track. Instead I have made a custom mono 2.0 WAV file using the 3 front channels (L,C,R) of the DTS audio. It needs to be attenuated a bit now since it's louder than the LD PCM.

In the 2nd screenshot above, you can see stretching at the bottom of the Mondo BD frame of Tuco reaching for his pistol (right side). You don't have that issue in the frame to the left (MGM DVD). Yet the number of frames is identical between the 2 sources for that particular segment of Tuco tumbling and crawling to his gun. Hope that clarifies things.

Here's a screenshot of the entire project (3 video files) on the timeline.

top (shaded) = MGM 1998 DVD

middle = Mondo BD

bottom = MGM SE BD

Stretched frame issue is captured within the individual frame of ProRes HQ. It did not affect the frame count when syncing the Mondo BD to the MGM 1998 DVD:

I blew up the the waveforms of all 3 LD releases (90, 93 box set, 98):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/trailerparkboy/98LDinvertedwaveform_zps660fbba9.png

As you can see, the 98 waveform is inverted compared with 90 and 93.

You'll have to compare the scenes on the 90 or 93 LD while, say, viewing the same scenes from any DVD/BD on your computer and you'll clearly notice that the scenes are cut. For instance, before the dialogue begins during the dining scene, some of the shots during the back and forth close-ups of Stephens and AE are missing. Similarly, during the opening scene some of the back and forth shots between Al Mulock and the pair of bounty hunters approaching the tavern from the opposite end of town are missing.