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#274900
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Info: Seeing how much of the 1.0 material survived
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OK, here's what I'm trying now: I have the GOUT 2.0 English and GOUT 2.0 Spanish tracks loaded together in Audacity. I'm comparing them side by side, with a preference for English dialogue of course, but a preference for the Spanish mix as it is based on the mono version (it definitely has the right klaxons).

This will give me a hybrid mix consisting of all the 1.0isms I can eke out of GOUT.
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#274839
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Info: Seeing how much of the 1.0 material survived
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I made this sample clip (13 seconds, 1.2 MB):

The Death Star has cleared the planet / Rebel base in range

The video is GOUT and for reference only (but it's only 13 seconds). The audio is mostly GOUT except where I dropped in the changed lines from Story of Star Wars (which is stereo but is based on the mono mix). It starts at approx. 1:53:23. As you can tell, it's pure stereo. However, the voiceovers are the mono mix's.
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#274816
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Info: Seeing how much of the 1.0 material survived
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My newest experiment…

I’m planning to go through every mix I can and scavenge 1.0 elements from them, in the hopes that I can make a nearly complete stereo version of the mix.

So far I have the 1.0 mix, the 2.0 mix from CED, the 1993 mix from the GOUT, and the 2004 2.0 mix, plus the French and Spanish 2.0 mixes. (There may be usable elements in other mixes as well.) I’ve also built an incomplete track out of The Story of Star Wars (i.e., synched to GOUT and padded with blank space), it’s stereo and seems to exclusively contain 1.0 elements. All in all this would be a “best of breed” mix, in stereo, that should sound just like the 1.0 mix.

Idly, I wonder how well such a mix would dematrix to 5.1

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#273802
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Info Wanted: Isovoice?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273802/action/topic#273802
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I'll prolly mirror this in the tech forum though I only really monitor this one...

I got reasonably good results working from the 2004 DVD (remove left/right/surround) but there's still some soundtrack bleed, maybe I'll get better from a 5.1 based on the 97 lasers. My idea is to lay everything on a multitrack in Audacity, tweak up a few things (with the mono mix), and create a whole new mix.
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#273216
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Info Wanted: Another audio mix thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273216/action/topic#273216
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Which gave me the idea of making a script to take care of things.

I think I could in fact pull this off: download a package with a control file for dvdauthor + the ac3 files + a shell script that will demux the m2v directly off the GOUT R1 with mplayer, then remux with mplex from mjpegtools (I think that's where mplex is at least), then run dvdauthor on it to produce the VIDEO_TS folder.

This could be a potential solution and would also save me having to actually upload a dvdiso!

I wonder why I didn't think of it before. Until X0 comes along and blows away the GOUT, I could use this mechanism. Problem is it locks out people using Windows...though perhaps they could follow along with the script and do it themselves.

Sample script - showing how it could be done.