As I've said, frame cuts can take a chunk out of the running time (like the Shaw titles), and this was certainly the case here. I was told by the powers that be the Chinese master was modelled to an older master (which we didn't receive). Whoever submitted that entry on OFDB was presumably unaware.James-Masaki_Ryan wrote:Specs taken from here:
https://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=fassu ... vid=469862
No, it'll be either 23.976 or 24. It was a 4K scan and a 2K restoration, by the way.Thought it might be a 1080i50 transfer, but the notes say that it is in fact 24fps.
It doesn't state anything is cut, so presumably it is an improper transfer of a 25fps master to 24fps without adjusting the speed, like an HD PAL to NTSC transfer.
Separately, the audio on Panorama was taken from a PAL-speed DigiBeta; the laboratory responsible for mastering these 2K versions didn't slow the speed properly (only adjusting the tempo and not the pitch).
We used the longer English-language ProRes provided (no frame cuts, except for one bit in which we obtained raw scans and had restored locally) and synchronised the Cantonese soundtrack from an external source.
