Hello supervehicle, thank you for the Quadraphonic transfer and joining us here! We owe you much for your work and efforts.
You came at the perfect time, I've been reading dozens of Pink Floyd threads tonight trying to get any info about Pompeii. By coincidence, I just read the post you pointed us to from the Director. Very informative! I also got this info (not completely sure about it) from this thread at another message board, yeeshkul:
Live At Pompeii running fast? at post #45:
"In the case of Pompeii, a PAL source instead of an authentic film print was used for the DVD (as well as previous releases of the film). So since the NTSC version was transcoded from a PAL source, not only was the speed kept intact but a 2:4 pulldown appeared as a result. There was also some quality lost in the process."
My question, if you can answer it, how does the 35mm CinemaScope print differ from the all the Video versions released in terms of aspect ratios? I remember seeing this in a movie theater in
35mm. When I see the 4:3 Video, that seems like the theater print I recall seeing a long time ago, except that the sides are cut off and blacked out to fit it to 4:3 Video. The Director's cut seems to try and get the letterbox back by zooming in on the 4:3 Video.
Another question, if it's ok to ask, is how was the audio laid out on this print? There seems to have been "Stereo" theatrical versions shown at some point.
Again, thank you for your work. The main thing was the Quadraphonic audio and it is great!
Please let us know what we might do to help you should you want or need anything. Thanks.
Jim