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James E. Stubbs
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From: Portland, OR
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posted February 06, 2008 08:00 PM

I got a 2/3rds decent 400' Close Encounters digest. (Love it!)The picture is pretty good, if but worn, but the soundtrack is hammered in several spots. (Drops out really badly.) I thought it was my projector but it played the same in 3 different projectors. I copied the main track to the balance track to fill it out some and as a back up but it didn't really solve the problem. So my plea for help is if I could entreat one of you who has this film w/ a good soundtrack to record it for me and email me the .WMA (I say .WMA as they compress much smaller at much higher quality. 48k is sufficiant.)
Many thanks,
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Alan Rik
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posted February 07, 2008 08:30 AM

You might also want to check to see how the magnetic stripe looks in those sections. It could be that some of it is coming off or is missing. Its happened before on some titles that I own.

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James E. Stubbs
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posted February 22, 2008 02:11 AM

The sound stripe seems intact from the cleaning I gave it. I'll have to go over it more throughly. I've a great deal of experience w/ magnetic sound recording from back in my studio days. I'd describe the damage to the sound track as magnetic drop out as if someone left them film foolishly setting on top of a loudspeaker. If you have this film and could email me a WMA/MP3 of the sound track it would be greatly appriciated.
Cheers,

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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posted February 22, 2008 07:28 AM

Jim, I have the track but since it was digitized in sync with video, it runs at 25fps. Can you sync at that speed? If so, give me your email and I'll send an mp3.

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James E. Stubbs
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posted February 24, 2008 12:02 AM

Jean-Marc, I tried to email you via the board but it said the server was blocking access. See if you can email me via the board then can email you back.
Merci,
James

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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posted February 24, 2008 02:16 AM

James, try:

jmtoussaint (at) claranet (dot) fr

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James E. Stubbs
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From: Portland, OR
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posted February 27, 2008 01:48 AM

Jean-Marc, I've sent you an email, but just in case mine is james_e69 at comcast dot net.
Merci,

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