willoneill wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 3:18 pm
I pre-ordered Nightmare Alley from Base.com last week ... we'll see what happens. MichaelB, did you ever end up delivering that commentary final mix since your update last Christmas?
I'm delighted to report that this has now happened, and I kept my promise to turn the final mix around the same day that I was granted access to the master.
And I was completely justified in waiting for the master, because it turned out to be one and a half seconds longer than the DVD that we recorded the commentary against, so would have got very noticeably out of sync towards the end if I'd simply sent over the original mix. The extra length isn't for any exciting reason; it's just that the newer HD master was less tight when it came to negotiating reel changes, and so when I came across the first seven-frame discrepancy, I expected to encounter similar at regular intervals. And, sure enough...
(The same thing happened with Fox's
Dragonwyck, whose masters I had to compare frame by frame when the Indicator edition opted not merely to include both masters but permit switching between them on the fly with the Angle button.)