Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-games-tp1507045p1507084.html

> Did you mean the scene early on when Croxley is lying down with the
> red "light box" thingy above him and sensors on his head?

Yes, I *think* that is what I meant... but listening
to the M&E, I had forgotten there was a Shroeder/Foster
scene! (not having watched this episode in years)

> Being in the UK, I've always heard PAL and I think the speedup
> occurs on the Carlton DVDs, so I'm assuming I've never heard the
> soundtrack at the correct speed. On your site you've got some short
> excerpts of dialogue; are these from the laserdiscs, or do they also
> suffer from the effects of speedup?

In general, everything on my website should be at the "correct"
speed. That includes the dialog page, the music page, and the
music & effects track page. The dialog page is taken from
the American DVD's, which are not speeded up by 4%. The
music & effects tracks are actually taken from PAL broadcast
masters, but then I run them through an audio processing program
to slow them down by 4%.

To me, this difference is quite noticeable. Even when I looking at
ESP earlier today on the Carlton (PAL) DVDs, I immediately noticed
the higher pitch in Shroeder's voice. But I understand that many
people do not notice this at all, or think it's worth mentioning.

> Incidentally, does the speedup impact visually as well?

Actually, I think the PAL versions have the advantage visually,
which I why I was watching the Carlton DVDs this morning to
see if I could see a vial of fake blood. :-) The PAL versions
have an extra 100 lines of resolution (or so they say), and also
the video is "smoother". That is, each frame is unique on
PAL -- the 24 frames per second film is translated straight
to 25 frames per second video. Alternately, the NTSC versions
seen in the USA have a bit of a stutter, in that 24 frames
per second film is translated into 30 frames per second video,
and several times each second a frame is duplicated to achieve
this.

However, the 4% speedup does make people move a little faster
than they would otherwise, and the whole episode only takes
48 minutes instead of 50.

Marc