I have the video and audio captured together on a VHS rip. Is it better to cut frames and cut the audio in the process or expand and compress the audio. When I synched the first spoken line and the last spoken line in the movie, the audio would go in and out of sync throughout the movie.
Apparently, there were a limited number of test screenings of the first film before it was released that were based on a workprint. I figure it's possible that a few people may have seen some of the deleted scenes this way. According to various reports, though, the workprint that was shown for the test screenings had almost no music and most of the ADR work was missing, including Darth Vader and Chewbacca's voices... so the audience heard David Prowse and Peter Mayhew performing the lines instead.
I guess a simulated workprint could be recreated using the deleted scenes on the blu-ray set but it would be missing most of the pre-foley and pre-ADR sound.
Also, what "She's Beautiful" line are you talking about, poita.
I have the audio to an English-language movie that was only released on VHS in English but has a Japanese DVD release with only the Japanese dub. I want to match up the VHS audio to the DVD video but it's not a simple matter of making sure the length matches. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to adjust the audio so that it syncs up with the video?
Do the edits I made to remove the censoring look good? I reviewed them on a couple of different displays but I want to make sure there isn't anything I might still need to correct.
Will you also be using the audio from the 16mm print or will it be pulled from one of the other existing sources?
I can't wait to see how this one turns out. My only worry is that the transfer will end up in the hands of bootleggers who will use it to make cheapo blu-ray discs to sell. I guess these things are inevitable, though. :/
If there are any other edits, they aren't obvious or documented anywhere. I went through the French version looking for things that could, reasonably or unreasonably, be edited and couldn't find any other differences but those single-frame gags can be sneaky. Still, all three of these changes have been previously proven and documented. The rumored bathroom wall phone number has never been actually been proven and even if it was in the theatrical release, it was removed prior to the version used for the French HDTV transfer.
There are a couple of frame replacements in avisynth. If I can ever get one of them to work, I'll post a script if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
That's the problem I have with most file sharing sites right now. So many of them are flaky or slow. Rapidshare wouldn't even let me upload the file until I created an account.
I can't seem to get Mediafire to work so I'll try sendspace and depositfiles.
Ok, here is a link to the frames. I haven't been able to get avisynth to replace them properly. If anyone has a script that works, feel free to post it.
http://rapidshare.com/files/83028687/wfrr-replacement%20frames.zip
http://netload.in/dateifNvoqSpLV3/wfrr-replacementframes.zip.htm
Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas both work. You have to rip the Bluray video to something they will read, though.
I converted the frames to png and zipped them into a single file. What would be the best way to share them?
I uncensored all of the edited frames that I could find. There were only three segments that have been properly confirmed to have been altered from the original release.
The replacement frames are layered PDF files. I can just share them and let people do with them as they wish. I just thought most people would rather have them in the movie instead of needing to rip the video from the blu-ray, replace the frames, and re-render the movie.
I could probably create a movie-only BD-25 without any menus. I just need to figure out the best compression for that. I'm adding French and German dialog tracks as well as a bunch of subtitles that I found.
I rendered the video and compressed it to h264 with an average bit rate of 15.0 Mbps and the video file alone came out to 11gb. It looks really good but I think I should probably recompress so the file size is a little smaller.
I've got the restored Who Framed Roger Rabbit video rendering now. Here are some sample images:
It's part of the background painting, so it shouldn't change size and shape much from one frame to another. If I had enough different screenshots of different frames featuring the poster, the image could probably be reconstructed to some degree.
It looks like the DVD may have left one frame unblurred. I don't have the DVD version of the short to verify this, though.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Jxi3Ku0rnI/TaDVOgnbBwI/AAAAAAAADHM/YplVoHTqLS4/s1600/RogerRigidTools.jpg
I've got all the Jessica Rabbit frames restored. Now I just need to find time to insert the restored frames back into the film and render it out. I'll post screenshots when I get a chance to upload them.
Maybe the corner with the brightcrotch FX was where the pantyhose over the lens ended. A little extra light was coming in from the corner and the rest was history.
Harmy, are you going to add grain and adjust the brightness on this scene in 2.5 to more closely match the IB and 35mm footage?
I don't know if the 720p video was put together by thethirdgathers or someone else who ripped the audio from youtube, but I found the MKV in question and the quality is good enough. The "Backstroke" track is 44.1khz stereo vorbis audio. You can find it on a certain very notorious torrent tracker.
I'm sure most of the people here would be happy to see you release the episodes as you get them done. Besides, you may get some useful feedback regarding the process on the episodes you completed so far that will help with your work on the other episodes.
The Rigid Tools poster wouldn't be too hard to reinsert into the original since it's only a few frames in the animation and it's part of the background painting rather than some sort of cell or animation element. Is the image above the best that's out there, or are there any higher resolution frame captures?
I'm about halfway done restoring the altered frames from the Jessica Rabbit panty shot scene. The latest edit to the scene actually removes the panties from her butt and makes it look even more like she's not wearing panties than the original did. Seriously, Disney?
All I have are the decompressed video and the single frames at the moment. I finished the work on the Baby Herman scene, so now I just need to work on the infamous Jessica Rabbit scene, which will take a few days since it was the most extensive edit of the three.
I already checked for the phone number in the French version and saw no sign of it. That one was always dubious at best, though.
The running commentary actually mentioned the Betty Boop nipple flash and pointed out that it was a reference to the fact that it was taken from the original BB shorts where the animators regularly hid naughty single-frame gags like that.
As far as the altered frames, I'm using the blu-ray and French versions and reconstructing the single frames in Photoshop to replace the altered frames.
I'm about halfway through the baby herman goosing segment and I have the Betty Boop frame done.