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Post by martinjwills on May 1, 2014 8:18:05 GMT
New DWM spells it out. BBC Worldwide boss, BFI and Phil Morris all say there are no new finds much as we'd like them. Not to say there might not be one day though. With all the cryptic wording last time with enemy and web, ie Web of fear hasn't been found complete etc. The No NEW finds , does not rule out OLD finds that havn't been announced yet. Remember there was a considerable time lag between the cans being found in Jos and the October press conference.
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Post by martinjwills on Apr 29, 2014 18:55:02 GMT
I saw a picture a few weeks ago of PM standing outside the Archive Building of Sierra Leone BC, surprised it wasn't mentioned here. A nice post card to send home. It is still on Twitter.
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 22, 2014 12:23:43 GMT
... and Borges library. A 25 minute episode consists of a finite (very long, but finite) series of 1s and 0s. I'll simplify it as 1010101010... [skip many digits] 1010101010. I think you will find it is stored in Hex rather than binary, the Mpeg2 Streams ive looked at are in Hex. so its a string of double bytes from 00 to FF in groups.
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 11, 2014 22:18:56 GMT
The dates for the two telerecordings of Episode 1 are 28 June and 10 July 1974. So the other telerecording of episode 1 may have better chroma dots, than the one used so far. Do we know which of the two is the one returned and used for the DVD
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 31, 2014 13:15:44 GMT
I have updated my post above with what is listed in my records, there may be other episodes, not on the sheet, as it was written in 1988, and then i computerized it onto Commodore Amiga computer, and the records are still on that computers system, not compatable with PC format. I don't know the condition of the tapes as they are in storage, but when i have randomly pulled other tapes they play well, and convert to DVD. The episodes are recorded in SP speed and across many VHS tapes. I dont have a working VHS player at the moment, but will have one in February, so will pull the tapes for transfer ASAP if people think its worth it.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 27, 2014 20:47:24 GMT
Good to see that "Boss Cat" title sequence again after all these years - glad a copy exists! The TC / Boss Cat thing was a real head scratcher to me as a kid growing up in the '60s! Even at the time, it was plain to me the programme was "Top Cat" as the title song and all the characters in the series refer to him as such (there also was a short-lived Gold Key comic similarly titled). The BBC "Boss Cat" titling just divided the other kids in the playground though; some referred to the series by one name, some by the other. I was confused! Amazing that this old '60s BBC edit was still being shown in the late '80s though. I think i have 29 or 30 Boss Cats on VHS from the 1980s, i will get around to converting them to DVD sometime. I liked the jump on the closing titles where they cut the flashing "Top Cat" sign on the wall. On "paper" i have listed in my VHS Archive the following Boss Cats, in the original BBC format :- "Hawaii, Here We Come", "All That Jazz", "The $1,000,000 Derby", "The Violin Player", "The Missing Heir", "Top Cat Falls in Love", "A Visit from Mother" "Naked Town", "Sergeant Top Cat", "The Unscratchables", "Rafeefleas", "The Long Hot Winter", "The Case of the Absent Anteater", "T.C. Minds the Baby" "Farewell, Mr. Dibble", "The Grand Tour", "The Golden Fleecing", "Space Monkey", "The Late T.C.", "Dibble's Birthday", "The Con Men", "King for a Day" "Dibble Breaks the Record", "Dibble Sings Again", "Griswald", "Dibble's Double"
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 24, 2014 12:08:57 GMT
We have to remember in the early 1980s The computer and internet were in their infancy, so things couldn't be looked up easily. Computers that people had to be programmed by hand eg 10 FOR I=1to10:PRINT "---DR WHO---":NEXT I, before they would do anything. We had massive 96K machines eg Commodore Pets, other home computers had only 1k or ram up to 64k. So it would only be in the printed media that anyone would know about missing episodes, who would be at boot fairs etc.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 20, 2014 14:28:25 GMT
A few of the returned episodes were bought in the 1980s at Boot Fairs etc, so there is no knowing if more episodes were purchased by other people before, the episodes we know about were bought and returned.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 19, 2014 8:39:04 GMT
Would this work for normal stereo or just 5.1? The music for the story 'Mindwarp' no longer exists, it's the only story made in stereo for which there is no existing isolated score. you have to use vocal eraser on a stereo track, so it should work, the SJA examples i posted are from stereo Audio.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 18, 2014 22:07:46 GMT
Another use for a plug-in like this, would be if you made a programme in stereo not 5.1, and then had a sale for overseas needing a dub, at least you can get back to a music and effects track, and record to new voice track and overlay/mix it back in, then mux it into the video stream. That would be the main use, similar to chroma dot recovery.
Looking at the audio 5.1 tracks ive seen they are set out like this, 1&2 music and effects[ stereo],3 mono vocal,4 [hardly anything],5&6 more music and effects [stereo], so its easy to get the music and effects, as all you have to do is delete or replace track3. In AAC the 6 tracks can be in a different order, but the vocal track is easy to see, as the [empty or very low volume track] that goes with it stands out.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 18, 2014 21:13:32 GMT
I think most of the dubbed episodes were in suppressed field, rather than stored field, so although better than missing, a stored field version would be much more desirable. I'm sure people on this forum more in the knowledge of what was what will confirm this or not.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 18, 2014 20:55:03 GMT
The plug-in only works within Sony Soundforge 9,10&11. I have had many hours of fun using it on music, and remixing etc. It seems to work on most audio, and has a few settings you can alter. Izotope Sony Vocal eraser v1.0 is its name, and hasn't been updated since 2008. You can download a demo of soundforge 11 from the sony website. And then install the vocal eraser, it is mentioned as included in the package, but im not sure of that. Here is a screenshot, for the best settings i have found so far. Attachments:
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 18, 2014 19:26:59 GMT
Here is the file
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 18, 2014 19:24:44 GMT
Here is the result when you subtract the Music&Effects from the original, maths is great on anything Video or Audio with numbers now. There is the remains of the centre of the music track, but the voice track is enhanced.
There was an error, when i created the post so its below.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 18, 2014 18:37:41 GMT
Its a pity the sound on Classic Who was not in stereo, as there is now a clever way to remove the vocal from music and tv. The vocal remover plugin for sony soundforge 10 & 11 works great, and leaves the music and effects tracks on stereo TV. Like the method with the chroma dots, it seems that the original stereo recordings were mixed/made with the effects/backing track in stereo, and the voice track in mono, similar to the way 5.1 works today. The software works by doing some maths, and removing anything in the centre, leaving the stereo backing track intact. At the moment as far as i know there isn't a way to do the same with a mono recording. Does this plugin give reliable results consistently though? I am very interested if it does as a lot of the plugins that I have come across for this purpose are a bit hit and miss. If this one delivers the goods consistently please let me know as I could certainly justify purchasing it! It gives fantastic results on music (up to the electronic synth era) and tv I have used it to test on Sarah Jane Adventures, hopefully i have attached two samples , one with vocal remover used, and the original, you can take the Music track, and subtract it from the original, which leaves just the vocal.
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