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For comments or questions about this publication, please email the company at [email protected] Visit us online at www.rightstuf.com For wholesale800.338.6827 inquiries, www.rightstuf.com contact [email protected] a revolutionary remaster AUDIO REMASTERING Also, there were some things that we altered audience feel the human presence not through drastically: the sound of the bells that ring people’s voices, but through the sounds of For this DVD box set, the sound has been before each duel, and the sound of the Akio people moving. Revolutionary Girl Utena has gorgeous animation and memorable music, redone in 5.1, the format where you get Car. We were acting on the director’s but it’s always been hampered by the limitations of the media it was sound out of six different speakers. Could I Yamada: After all, you generally don’t talk in instructions for those changes, and they’re released on. That is, until just recently. Now lavishly remastered, the video ask you to tell us about that process? libraries, right? So we express people through quite different now. features a remarkable amount of clarity and color and the audio features coughs and things. The TV broadcast ended up Yamada: In general, we didn’t re-record lines. having walla (crowd noise) in it. new sound effects and the directionality of Dolby 5.1. Among other things, the actors’ voices will What was the director’s image of the bells’ have changed after eleven years. The thing ringing like? Below is a brief excerpt from Nozomi Entertainment’s Revolutionary Girl Listening to you talk about it, it sounds like a you’ll notice the most when you listen to Utena DVD Set 1 booklet, where members of the Japanese remastering Mii: He basically wanted to broaden it. He newly reborn, defi nitive version of the show. the new audio mix is the sound quality. For staff detail some of the fi ner points of Utena’s remastering process. wanted the audience to hear weighty sounds Well, to wrap up the interview, could you tell example, in the sound sources of those days coming from the front and back. To tell you us your impressions of Director Ikuhara? you got a lot of lip smacking and other mouth the truth, the new sound doesn’t match the noises, so the fi rst thing we did was a sort of Mii: The director was more knowledgeable visuals at all. You only really see four or fi ve VIDEO REMASTERING generally corrected, and now you can see the cut and paste things from other places, and cleanup to clear that stuff away phrase by about audio than I expected. He has a 5.1 setup bells, but we put a huge number of them in whole frame as it was originally drawn. generally make it look clean. Ultimately, it’s phrase. And then we re-recorded just those in his own home, and of course he watches all Let’s start off by talking about the the soundscape... The low booming sort of ring almost like compositing work. Then we’d lay lines where the nuance was off in the original. kinds of movies, so a lot of his instructions production process for HD remastering. doesn’t catch your ear right by itself, so we put Did he have requests about the coloring of that back to tape again and check it with the Places where the schedule constraints of the were very clear, which made things easy for us. Revolutionary Girl Utena (hereafter referred in higher sounds as well. There’s all kind of the characters, too? director, at which point we’d receive additional day meant that the actors had to record before He would tell us his vision: “I’d like to hear this to as “Utena”) was originally done on 16mm bells ringing that aren’t at all like the ones on corrections... (laughs) the art was ready; things like that. I think sound from this direction in this way”; things fi lm, wasn’t it? Kaneda: As an example, Utena’s hair is pink, the screen. the director felt frustration at the time, too. like that. When we were doing the duel scenes but there’s pink and then there’s pink. You have Ito: Yamazaki would input the tape media to Ito: We convert that to the high-defi nition Other than that, since this is a 5.1 track, we we learned the director’s way of thinking, so your reddish pinks, your yellowish pinks, and a nonlinear machine and work on it, and then The choral songs start up in the duel scenes “HD” format, create new materials, and then needed sounds that could be heard out of the after that we made everything accordingly. all that. For this project there was no color Takemura would edit it on tape media, and that that follow, too, so that seems complex. process them to produce a new master. back speakers, not just the front. In terms of chart or other basis for color matching in the would become the fi nal master. “HD remastering” means trying to raise the how we gave the mix a three-dimensional feel Mii: When you have music and SFX (sound I’m very much looking forward to hearing fi lm, so we started by getting permission to quality of the master by updating it to a new Yamazaki: You were saying that to start with using this system, we added things like walla effects) together, the SFX can easily be the fi nal audio. examine actual cels of the main characters, generation of media. the director check would yield about 100 (crowd noises) to get sound with breadth.