meedermow said:
OK - so it's been a long time coming - but here's the final details of the first disc of this project...
Dawn Of The Dead Ultimate Edition Volume 2 - Disc 1
Extended Version NTSC 16x9 synched with the following three tracks:
1) The rare 1996 George A Romero/Chris Romero/Tom Savini commentary from the original Elite laserdisc
2) The rarer 1999 Tom Savini/Chris Stravrakis first UK DVD pressing commentary from Bmg Entertainment
3) The brand new and pain-stakingly created first ever "Soundtrack only" track for Dawn of the Dead using the original drop cues
I'll write a lot more about the latter track when I've finished the whole disc, but know that it's on there and is a beaut, many thanks to the original donor of the cues, I hope you'll be proud with what I've done with them !
I've just finished the video and audio and I'm VERY happy with it ! Just the menus and authoring to go - this is a quite a big disc, it will weigh in at about 6GB, but I'll reduce it to a DVD5 unless there is mass uproar ! It's the audio tracks that are the most important things here, not the image - and they will be untouched in the compression stage.
So there we go - would love some cover art for the DVD_ROM, so klokwerk if you still have the means, it would be lovely to have it in the next few days ! Loved the original ideas (pre-Rocky Horror show image !) though both would be great.
This is NEARLY there, but I promise will be worth the wait !
Hi,
Could someone explain/give more details about that audio track #3, "The brand new and pain-stakingly created first ever "Soundtrack only" track for Dawn of the Dead using the original drop cues"
meedermow was supposed to write more about it but never did.
I'm asking since when you switch from this "Soundtrack only" track to the Extended Cut original audio track, the soundtrack doesn't match. In the "Soundtrack only", when Miguelito bites his mother you ear two Goblin punctuations which are not in the Extended Cut original audio track.
What am I missing there?
I also would like to point out that instead of adding pauses yourself to the track #2 on Disc 1 (Commentary by Tom Savini & Chris Stavrakis) to accomodate those 6 seconds of cut material on the 1999 BMG Distribution DVD (Plaid shirt zombie), you could have used the second BMG Distribution DVD release published in 2003 (quad poster artwork) as this version also has the commentary track by Savini and Stavrakis but already has the pauses added by BMG themselves to accomodate this version which includes those 6 missing seconds from the first BMG DVD release meaning that the 2003 BMG release is as uncut as Anchor Bay's Extended Cut.
Inside of the 2003 BMG DVD release Booklet.
Also, I don't really understand why you qualify this audio commentary track as "rarer" as those DVDs sell for $5 every corner. The "rarer" is the one only available on the LaserDisc right?
By the way, I'm one of the biggest Dawn Of The Dead collector's out there and have a website dedicated to collecting Dawn Of The Dead. Here's the address:
http://dotd.dannyduchesneau.com/
I know about demuxing/ripping DVDs (I'm used to play with "Cell Id") and Blu-rays so if you need anything from my collection I'll be pleased to help. I also work as a professional digital colorist specialized in color management as well as image and workflow quality control, from camera to authoring. Just PM me if you think you could use some help.
Thanks guys, Good Stuff!!
