Reconciling Blu-ray and Yamamoto audio tracks

[linkdude20002001]

I actually made it more difficult for myself than it really needed to be, I think, by editing on a disc-by-disc basis as opposed to a per-episode basis. I was dealing with the Part Five DVDs, and I wanted my final products to be 1:1 copies of the original DVDs, only with Yamamoto music instead of Kikuchi. So instead of editing one episode, I edited an entire disc at once, meaning that I had to deal with a 2+ hour file which really bogged down my computer and made the program I was using almost impossibly slow. Lesson learned.

But that wasn't the only reason it was grueling. I had to drop each piece of music into the proper spot and then volume adjust, which was surprisingly painful to do because it's not a matter of simply adjusting the volume of the entire music piece at once, it's a matter of adjusting certain parts of the music piece to be quieter or louder than others (usually due to dialog being present). I became very familiar with the envelope tool.

Of course, there was also the matter of losing a lot of the ambient sfx and all of the echo/reverb dialog effects whenever I ripped out the Kikuchi track, so I also had to go about recreating those. Replacing the regular fx was usually a matter of simple copy and paste, but it was rather tedious. Recreating the echo/reverb effects was even more so, as I had to take the affected dialog into another program with a functioning reverb effect, apply it, export it, and then drop it back into the 5.1 project.

There was also the matter of piecing the original DVD back together once all was said and done. Not a big deal, but replacing the music in the menus was no picnic.

Overall, it seemed like a relatively simple thing to do that ended up taking hours upon hours of my time. And nothing about it was fun to do, outside of watching the finished product. Anyway, I wouldn't recommend it.

Sounds like a pain. But I admire your outstanding attention to detail. I don't know if I'd have the patience. No, certainly I wouldn't have it. Also, I'm very VERY bad at not finishing...anything. :<

[saiyanprimalforce]

Not that this is directly related to the topic, but I couldn't help but share this interesting little abnormality I stumbled across.

So, after finally fixing my older laptop(the one with the blu-ray drive), I've started working on Part 1 Kikuchi for my Music Revival Selection project. No issues to speak of . . . that is, until I started the third episode(Goku and Piccolo's fight with Raditz), and for whatever reason, the Yamamoto recap track is actually included in the center channel audio of the episode, but the rest of the episode itself is still musicless. Considering I've ripped 53-98 center channel audios beforehand, this has NEVER happened before. It must have been a goof, or the mixer being lazy--I have no idea. I suppose the only hope of ever fixing this will be to buy the Season 1 set and hope that when they replaced the Yamamoto with Kikuchi tracks that the center channel will be music-less for that part.

Hope it doesnt' happen again, but honestly I'm just glad 53-98 didn't have something like that happen.

[Naruto6583]

I was able to download some musicless episodes from trollvino and using kenisu's key of dbz ep 1-196 I was able to base off of said episodes with some improvisions. They're on my dailymotion channel tylerwatson60 and the episodes are labled old style kikuchi