Made a slight revision on a previous edit by changing the music. I think this fits better. The added sound effects/dialogue helps to.
Another video I made recently. This is my full opening intro (pre-credits) to T2. Notice how it now basically mirrors the opening to T1. Gone is the voiceover, the cars in traffic, the kids playing in the park, and the T-1000 theme:
You guys maaaay wanna take a look at this…
http://pitchfork.com/news/63451-the-terminator-soundtrack-getting-vinyl-reissue/
“The soundtrack was remastered from the original tapes and sequenced for the first time in the order Fiedel originally intended.”
Would you all agree that they now have NO EXCUSE for not being able to give us a proper remastered original mono mix? Cuz if these are the original tapes, I see no reason why they can’t remaster it into a proper stero/DTS/5.1/17.1/whatever mix.
I’ve been so used to working with primitive equipment, that now that I have a good computer, I feel like I can blaze through an edit.
I bought a new rig a little more than a year ago but haven’t pulled the trigger on some better software due to price. Anything you can recommend that isn’t nearly 4 figures? lol.
Nicely done, I quite like the retro vibe from it. It reminds me of the hours I played Vice City. I also like the pacing of your edits.
Thanks. I have a few more ideas on the back-burner but I have other projects that I’m more passionate about ATM. Problem is they’re gonna take a lot longer to do lol.
I’ve been saving youtube videos for at least 7-8 years now. I think maybe a year or 2 after I discovered youtube (roughly 2006, maybe 2005), I then realized I needed to have a way to save these videos since some that I loved kept getting taken down. Some are back now (thankfully) but I felt upset for losing them.
I also make music videos just for fun. One was actually a shot-by-shot remake of one that I saw and was lost (though I put a bit of my own ideas in there). Now that video is back, but mine is gone lol. Anyway, I got the idea from this underground music scene called “New-Retrowave” that basically is a total 80’s synth tribute. I’ve actually been looking for this kinda music my entire life (80’s baby here), and almost 5 years ago I found it, and it feels so good to be home again.
So anyway, the music videos that people make with this music always has a lot of 80’s movie footage set to it. And because Miami Vice is one of the most popular 80’s tv shows, a lot of videos have footage from the show. So a year or 2 ago I decided to make my contribution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxUBh05BP8
Ugh, just when I thought I could finally close the book on this Terminator sound mix ordeal lol. Just went and checked my go-to version of T1 (a certain version someone here made for us mono-mix lovers) and checked the scene in question. It’s the first link.
I’ve also seen clips of T1 where the picture was much brighter. I think it was mostly BTS specials that were showing some of the film. Would love to know the story on that one.
I swear, this whole ordeal is making me wanna do something I did with “Dawn of the Dead” when I was 16. I bought every VHS release off ebay, juss trying to find the differences (Joke’s on me, had I waited 4 years I could’ve gotten all 3 versions in the 4-disc DVD set, lol). Now I wanna buy every VHS version of T1, and heck maybe venture out into laserdisc as well. Heck, lately I’ve been buying a lot of the older “1st run DVDs” of my favorite movies before they were “remastered” (ie: tampered with).
My guess it was elements either lost or subtly heard in the standard mono that somehow reintroduced themselves on the mono track included on the MGM DVDs, either by accident or design. If you want a somewhat closer examination I shared two youtube videos below of the police station massacre. First has the standard mono, second has the MGM mono. Both are mostly identical but you hear subtle differences like the sound of the emergency lights coming on when the powers cut.
Neither link worked for me.
After being bitterly disappointed with the widescreen version of Top Gun (20th anniversary remaster), I went and bought the first DVD version that has both widescreen and ‘fullscreen’ (open matte). The VHS open matte version is the version I grew up on, and it’s the only way I will watch it. SD quality be damned. Same goes for Terminator 2.
Made another clip. This one has more sound effects but still isn’t complete. I’ve at least gotten into he habit of doing color correction from now on.
Thanks for posting this. Thankfully there are a blessed few on this site (and a few other sites) that have gone about righting the wrongs from the official studioheads. The mono mix is the only mix for me.
Slightly OT. A few years ago I was watching the Epic and while I don’t remember which channel, I remember there was roughly 15 minutes devoted to flashbacks of parts 1 and 2 before we got to part 3. The picture quality of this entire sequence was awful, but one thing was important. To jump from one scene to the next, there were various close-up shots of Al Pacino as we see him at the end of part 2 (gray hair and aged lines) in various states of duress. A lot of reaction shots of him as we went through the first 2 films in 15 minutes. One of which was him putting his face in his hands.
I have never seen these shots anywhere else, nor heard anyone talk about it. So can anyone inform me on what the heck it was that I saw? lol
Hi everyone, been a while I know. Work is what it is. Anyway, I’ve started messing around with the color, horribly lol. Arnold’s steel metal blue is now a ghostly/ghostly gray. I’ll work on that later but for now just check out the song I’m using for the T-800’s arrival:
Edit Apparently in some of the trailers, sometimes the night scenes had this same purple timing problem:
I was gonna nitpick the color grading, as I feel the contrast was too high, but the last clip of depowered Supes calling out to his father saved it lol. Don’t know how Thau dropped the ball on that one. Especially since over the past 9 years I must’ve seen at least 10 different fan edits where the editor fixed this problem themselves with no budget to speak of.
Nice job on the new effects. I will definitely be checking this out.
Can anyone tell me which mix would be best to try to extract the dialogue with as little music and sound effects as possible? I need it for an edit I’m doing where I’ll be pretty much completely re-doing all the music and sound effects. Thanks!!
Need some opinions on this one. I have 2 songs for this scene, and not sure which one works. Though I'm leaning towards the first one:
Here's another clip:
I've only watched the workprint once, but if I recall, it had alternate takes with the same dialogue. If I'm right, that would mean the editor taking on this project would have to take a little liberties and decide which one he/she likes better, hehe.
Also, a double set of this along with the tv footage put back into Ace Ventura would be the tits.
Lol right. Goodness, I feel like I said that a few years back now, lol. But yeah, the print looked like every vhs/dvd I've ever watched of the film.
I don't remember saying that, lol. You sure we weren't talking about T1?
Stamper said:
OK checked out the the Chace audio mix of T1 thanks to Mr. B!
It's clearly a totally different mix from the mono mix AND the ulterior 5.1 remix.
The voices are placed way clearer than on the original mono, and for example in the police precinct massacre scene, you can hear everything the cops scream in the background and understand all the words they are saying.
I think they took the stems and repurposed them to try to make for a better mix. It sounds artificial in some instances. Stems are for example: Voices / Sounds Effects / Music / Foley.
it has a stereo feel but sounds like the original mix, only in stereo. It's not as finished as the original mono track, but it still is very interesting to hear as an alternate mix.
It's an awesome find.
Now all we need is to sync it and pitch it back to the current Blu-ray master ;)
Dude. Seriously. Get in touch with someone either here or on fanedit.org who does that sorta thing and get it up on either the spleen or blutorrents STAT. T1 is my 2nd favorite movie of all time. I NEED to hear this audio mix.
Heck, just upload the audio file and I'll sync it up to my digital file of my vhs copy myself :D
This one has sound effects, I promise:
Ok, here's a 4th edit on the "terminator repowered scene". I'm still most likely gonna go with the first version, but I thought I'd share this anyway: