out of curiousity, i compared the dsr with the hdtv pretty closely. what it looks like is some fairly
creative editing on the part of abc. i am just assuming they did this because ad time is more expensive on
abc, and they wanted to maximize their revenue. in any case, both versions were encoded at 24fps. and
up until about 5:14 they track exactly (right where the directed by appears in the scene in adam baylin\'s
study). at this point, the dsr (abc family) and hdtv (abc) start falling out of sync. by the end of the
scene in the study, the dsr is at 6:32.36 and the hdtv is at 6:26.80 - about 5.5 seconds difference. if it
keeps up the pace of this over the remaining almost 38 minutes of the dsr version, the hdtv version
should be 2:55 shorter than the dsr version. in fact, the hdtv is only about 1:50 shorter than the dsr
version (after cutting them to the exact same start and end points).
they could acheive this by (1) subtly speeding up the video in the hdtv version (a small enough shift to
go unnoticed) and (2) making slightly faster cuts on some scenes. on average they would only have to trim
about 2.9 seconds per minute of tape to do this - less if they did speed the tape up slightly. a 2.5% speed
up would account for about 57 seconds of the deficit, and then they would only have to cut a second and a
half out of every minute (on average). obviously, this has to be done where there is no dialog, and the
background soundtrack would have to be shifted also.
dionytom
Posted at 16/06/2007, 20:03
in conclusion : it s kinda amazing what you can do to speed up a part of an
episode without altering it.
dc
Posted at 16/06/2007, 21:22
i figure that if you like the quality of a hdtv rip, a couple of minutes
probably isn't a huge deal! i mean when you think about it, they do heaps of
cutting of scenes in these shows to fit them into 44 mins or whatever
anyway...(as 'deleted scenes' extras on dvd box sets demonstrate!).
thanks for the hdtv rip at any rate!
john8269
Posted at 17/06/2007, 01:18
has anybody had out of sync problems with this episode??????
death734
Posted at 17/06/2007, 13:48
Quote by spevman
will abc be airing hdtv versions of all episodes or was this a
one off kind of
thing to get regulat abc fans to watch it on abc family?
this is a
regular thing
every friday night just like last season
i don't mind a minute or 2 of missing useless footage when it means 16:9 higher
quality video quality and color
no sync issues here
bitty
Posted at 31/10/2009, 11:41
please seeeds
it stoped at 51.8% for 4 days? help please
