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Topic: Meet Me in St.Louis
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Paul Adsett
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Registered: Jun 2003
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posted April 06, 2004 12:19 PM
The "Meet Me in St.Louis" DVD has just been released here (April 03). It is a wonderful 2-disc special edition with a whole disc of extra behind the scenes material. For us Super 8 buffs it's main virtue is that the sound track has been digitally re-mastered in Dolby 5.1. So for anyone, such as myself, who is lucky enough to posess the really stunning Derann print of this film, there is now the opportunity to re-record the print in stereo, and get a far superior sound track than the mono track from Derann. I shall be doing just this over the next few days. I am sure the result will be awesome. An alternative would be to dub the audio commentary (by Garland Biographer John Fricke) onto track 2 only, and just re-record the film track mono onto track 1. You could then playback the film with ,or without, commentary.
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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Paul Adsett
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posted April 07, 2004 12:48 PM
Hi John, No nothing that sophisticated I'm afraid. I use the "Wild-synch" method which is manual synching of a projector with a precision speed control( Eumig 926/938), to DVD video on the TV. It takes a lot of time and patience, but I have got good at it over the years and can usually knock out a 2400ft feature in about 8 hours. The results are so good that I feel the effort is well worth while. I do posess a couple of GS1200'S , which I know have pulse-synch capability, but I don't have the necessary equipment to do it this way. In any case I prefer the Eumigs for recording because they are so easy to use and produce spectacular quality stereo sound recordings.
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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