borisanddoris

PM's sent.  But it looks like not much work needs to be done to get this to work.  Awesome sauce!

Hopefully when I get home from work tonight I can respond to both of you! 

Thanks for the help!

Totally forgot I put that attempt on YouTube.  

When I get home, I'll upload the audio.  I had to re-do that too because I had an error with the .1 channel on the first go round.

When Jurassic Park debuted in 1993 in DTS, there was an attached DTS trailer that is very similar to the one we’re used to from DVD, except that after the text and logo of “The Digital Experience” explodes, the pictures fades out.

I’ve been working on re-creating this for awhile so I can attach it to Jurassic Park.  So far, I’ve converted the audio from the DTS cinema discs of Jurassic Park and made a 5.1 DTSMA file.  I also made sure that it was set to sync with 23.97 video.

The problem I’m having is that I am a total novice with video editing, only have iMovie, and the standard DVD dts trailer mpeg2 as a source.  If we can upscale the source, get the frame rate to match the audio, and add the fade, we’ll be in business.

If anyone is willing to lend a hand let me know!

Now this is some awesome news. Can't wait!!

 Channel open sir.

Neat!  Can you possibly share with me said custom proggie? ;)

I'm doing work on the theatrical Pearl Harbor trailer as we speak.  Don't have the best of video sources, but yes, I do have the DTS audio from a trailer disc from 2001.

Jetrell, remind me again if you're pulling out the LFE from the surrounds, as well as adjusting the dB level of the surrounds and the subsequent LFE channel.  Or are you just ripping the 5 main channels and not touching them at all?

Totally off topic, but I can't believe there is a Commodore Schmidlapp on this board.  So awesome.

If it helps, I can vouch for the validity of mikeaz123.  He's not bull shitting.

May the force be with you.

Cable and satellite is usually pretty compressed, at least that's been my experience. I wonder of HDnet gets more bandwidth though.  I guess we'll find out. 

If this rip is anything like the 720p one I have (DVHS source) it will do very nicely.  It's better than nothing or the DVD.  In motion, even on a 10 foot screen, it's very filmic.

I'd argue an open matte, non-OAR ratio is nothing more than a side show and not acceptable for a preservation project, unless it is re-matted to the proper theatrical ratio.  Most likely, visual effect shots would be cropped unless they did the effects open matte as well.

One place this could come in handy is if a 2.20:1 70mm ratio wanted to be used, and again, we re-create the mattes. That of course assumes that nothing is ever cropped.

Any recommendations on such an audio card?

I have both Schindler's List and Stargate on DTS LaserDisc., along with many others.  If anyone can teach me how to rip them, I'd love to help.

http://www.groovytunesday.com/dbx/jurassic_dts_discs.jpg

For those curious...

Just to confirm, the DTS-MA 5.1 will be sourced from what?  The LD AC3 track?  The LD DTS track?  The cinema DTS mix from Jetrell?

Jetrell, if you need me to rip/upload the DTS cinema files, I can do that.  I can't splice them together, but I can upload like a beast.

Keep in touch.

Kudos to all for helping on this project.  Very exciting indeed.

Can we add xXx to the list?  I've yet to find a mix that beat the SRD mix theatrically. The DTS was just as powerful too. 

The Superbit DVD is good. I haven't heard it on Blu-ray. 

What kind of a sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?

I've got a DVHS rip but looks like you all beat me to it, and mine is 9GB so yours must be better.  It does have a pretty aggressive DTS track though...I think it's a full bit rate rip but I'll have to check when I get home.

True Lies???

I'm drooling. 

I think what Molly means is that perhaps it's easier to take a default or sort of standard audio track that is already synced to video (so the First Contact Blu-ray's audio) and sync the DTS Cinema rip to that.  Sync it to that, and it'll naturally sync to the video as well.  This is how I did it on Jurassic Park 3D and it worked pretty well and was easy.

As we know, the hard part with this DTS project is cutting and splicing the reels together.  I continue to try and teach myself how to do this.  

For what it's worth, I recently attended a 35mm screening.  It was an older print.  This was taken with my phone, so not totally accurate but maybe it will help.

The best I’ve ever scrounged up was that old DVD that Warner Bros. released that was non-anamoprhic and had the film on both sides.  It was the very definition of cheap.

They’ve subsequently released a special edition DVD and Blu-ray but only have that wretched extended cut.

Anyone know of a way to get a nice transfer of the theatrical cut, perhaps somewhere outside of North America?

I'd love to get a hold of the audio tracks in a lossless form.  Taking the DTS LaserDisc and only providing lossy AC3 works, but better results could be achieved with a lossless format like DTS-MA.  

I can encode both the 2 channel PCM and DTS into DTS-HD Master Audio if anyone wants.