Firefly Theme from Serenity - High quality rip available
POSTED BY: DonCoat
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 7, 2005 17:55
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I got it-sounds good. Does anyone feel like uploading this to a Torrent tracker? It will get better distribution that way.
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Quote:I don't know how to do that, but I have no objection if anyone would like to do so.
Originally posted by PurplePirate:
I got it-sounds good. Does anyone feel like uploading this to a Torrent tracker? It will get better distribution that way.
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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
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Thank you Don; you've certainly made my day. 
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You're welcome, one and all... glad to be able to make a contribution to this shiny community.
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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
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THANKS!!!!!
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DonCoat:
Merci beaucoup. I have been one of those begging for this particular track since the movie's release. Ballad of Serenity is such a beautiful piece of music, and this accoustic and dobro guitar duet is the best version to date. The entire piece is too long for a ringtone (54 secs) since my service will go to message waaay before the bridge, when the dobro comes in.
So, I cut it down to ~30 secs by trimming off the first verse (sacrilege, I know). I used the free WavePad ( http://nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html) and uploaded it to http://gallery.mobile9.com/uploader/244949/balla0529.mp3 (that link may only work for me, and will supposedly be deleted within the hour). Details: 96kbps, 401KB, 34 secs = perfect ringtone, for those of us who can never leave Serenity...
Ringingly,
zoid
P.S.
I will email the trimmed mp3 version to interested parties, upon request. (Or just use WavePad yourselves; it's a great tool.)
P.P.S.
Great. Now my phone makes me cry. Like I need more emasculation in my life.
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"Have no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
"...And you can't take the sky from me" -"The Ballad of Serenity"
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Quote:Or, we could talk some more...
Originally posted by zoid:
P.S.
I will email the trimmed mp3 version to interested parties, upon request.
Er, um, I mean: or, you could use www.savefile.com as I did (thanks for the tip, Jutin) -- it's free and does not require registration.
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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
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DonCoat:
Awright, so I stuck the 34 sec version -- suitable for mp3-capable phones as a ringtone -- on http://www.savefile.com/files2.php?fid=1021828 . I couldn't figure out how to successfully point my phone's browser at it though. Savefile.com looks pretty cool (even the free version), so I saved the site to my Bookmarks, but it doesn't look to be WAP-enabled, so folks'll have to figure out a different way to get the tune to their cellulars.
On a related note, I was able to download the ringtone I put up on mobile9.com (see link above) from a different phone, so y'all can still get that one onto your phones, while the link's still hot...
v/r,
-zed
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hey dood! many thanks for this!
out of curiosity, what program did you use to rip it? it's amazing quality (well, better than I could do anyway).
I tried doing it once for the end titles of Moulin Rouge with a free program called Sound Capture. it was ok, but it was a little scratchy when I brought the volume up.
anyway, merci extra big buckets!
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Quote:I used a DVD-to-AVI conversion program. My source material was a DVD with a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack (the video quality was only so-so, but the audio was impeccable; I have to assume that the original source was a real Serenity DVD).
Originally posted by luckyspencer7:
hey dood! many thanks for this!
out of curiosity, what program did you use to rip it? it's amazing quality (well, better than I could do anyway).
The program is called DGIndex, which is derived from the well-known open-source program DVD2AVI. It takes DVD-type source files (with extensions like .vob) and converts them to other formats. This particular program allows you to (optionally) decode AC3 audio tracks to WAV files, and in the case of Dolby Digital, allows quite a lot of control over how the 5.1 tracks are handled to produce a stereo output.
I had to do a few tricky things to get good results, including a fancy prescale renormalization to get a good signal-to-noise ratio. My first few attempts had a lot of nasty-sounding background noise, until I got that right. The key turned out to be running the prescaling over only a minute or two of the file, rather than over the whole thing (I guess loud sound effects were skewing the results).
I also ran a 48-to-44.1kbps conversion so the result would be CD-equivalent quality, and I used high-quality options when I made the mp3 and wma versions.
Okay, probably more than you wanted to know... but the bottom line is, the file you hear is a direct conversion from the Dolby Digital tracks (with the best tuning of the conversion parameters I could come up with) and was never run through a sound card or audio capture step during the processing. I doubt it'll get much better than this... except for a bit of cleanup at the start (there's about 0.2 seconds of the last note of the preceding music that I didn't zero-out, though I've done that now on my personal copy).
Oh, and if anybody's worrying: I have multiple copies of the real DVD on order. I wouldn't bootleg Serenity (or any other intellectual property), but I don't suppose this little 2-week jump of the gun will do any harm.
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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
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