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#585011
Topic
Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
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red5-626 said:



Mavimao said:



TK-949 said:


negative1 said:
Laserschwert said:

I guess with all the audio projects going on here, it's not really that problematic to NOT have sound coming with the files.


you have to be careful,

even trying to synch it with the GOUT audio

will not work correctly. it's close at times,

but it's not exact.

 

you will have to stretch, trim, or alter either

the frames or the actual audio to match up

with it....


Why? I mean, are there frames missing? Because if not, the sound of the GOUT would fit, wouldn't it?



Assuming this project outputs at 23.98 fps, then yes theoretically it can match up to the Gout, but when you're dealing with film, there can always be differences in frames. Especially around the reel changes.


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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I remember I had a editing class that used.
Final cut pro.
There was some way that you could edit using a low quality video so that you would not have to wait for ever rendering on every change. Than when you edit was dun you could put in the hi quality video and it would automatically edit it to what you had set.
Considering what you said about reel changes.
It may be a good idea to synch each reel separately </span>
</span>


What you're proposing has nothing really to do with the problem. The thing is that these are film prints that have been around the block so to speak. When you assemble a film to show in a theatre, you usually splice all the reels together onto one gigantic platter. When assembling these reels, you're always going to have one projectionist who is going to splice off a frame or two at the end of each reel because of damage or he wants a souvenir.

Now, the other problem with these prints is that someone spliced in footage from a different reel of film in two different locations to get rid of a Spanish crawl and Spanish Greedo subtitles, and I'm pretty positive THOSE were not spliced in with frame for frame accuracy.

Take all of this into account (I should also remind you that the GOUT is also missing a few frames here and there at reel changes), and you have a print that is very subtly different from the GOUT.

What one might be able to do later is to take the GOUT and this project, put them in two different video timelines in FCP for example and attempt to create a GOUT like sync picture using other sources (blu ray?) to fill in the gaps.

But that seems like a lot of work. Would probably be easier just to edit the soundtracks to sync with Negative 1's project.

Post
#585001
Topic
Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Time

TK-949 said:

negative1 said:


Laserschwert said:

I guess with all the audio projects going on here, it's not really that problematic to NOT have sound coming with the files.

you have to be careful,

even trying to synch it with the GOUT audio

will not work correctly. it's close at times,

but it's not exact.

 

you will have to stretch, trim, or alter either

the frames or the actual audio to match up

with it....

Why? I mean, are there frames missing? Because if not, the sound of the GOUT would fit, wouldn't it?


Assuming this project outputs at 23.98 fps, then yes theoretically it can match up to the Gout, but when you're dealing with film, there can always be differences in frames. Especially around the reel changes.

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#583590
Topic
Digital Source for the '77 Stereo Mix
Time

Just was curious... So this P&S Japanese LD of schorman13's has the original 77 fanfare AND the 77 dolby stereo mix... in digital???

How awesome!

Did you do a bit for bit digital transfer? Would that even make a difference?

Who knows what treasures other obscure P&S LDs have in terms of sound. Mono mix and or 70mm mix in digital :-D ? One can dream...

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#582287
Topic
George Lucas leaves Lucasfilm
Time

Ah crap, I had forgotten about that restoration thread. RETREAT! RETREAT!

No, but to answer Baronlando, I had read somewhere that the Special Editions for ESB and ROTJ were put together using a dupe negative. Apparently the original A/B rolls were untouched.

I wish I could find the source for that...

Unfortunately the original star wars has seen most of the abuse. A lot of what I read has shown that the original effects negatives have faded into nothing, the separation masters are incomplete, so the best source for a restoration would be an IP or dupe negative (if that even exists) or an IB print.

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#582142
Topic
I made some GOUT-synced Laserdisc audio files... (Released)
Time

Catbus, I know exactly what you're talking about with ROTJ. That really bothers me as well.

In case anyone is wondering, the PAL gout and the NTSC gout use different telecine sources (unlike ANH and ESB whose PAL gout discs are upscaled NTSC masters) and there is a slight cut in frames at Reel ends on the different sources.

A lot of the GOUT synced audio projects were done using the NTSC GOUT to keep sync but a majority of the remastered projects (Harmy's / Dark Jedi's) use the PAL video because of its higher quality. Thus the sync issue. So CatBus's ROTJ audio probably would be great to mux in.