Tai Chi Master (88 Films) 4K UHD

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by Blahblahblacksheep

Were previous releases audio better in sync? I feel like this is slightly off a bit more than before maybe...
I could always be wrong.

When doing the subs, the first track I heard had out of sync mono. I pointed it out and it appeared to get fixed. I can't offer any more than that.

I feel like the subs are timed a little bit off in this release, in a lot of places, and some are running into other scenes, but they are also not synced to both audio tracks, and that's because both audio tracks have different syncs and there's not two subtitle tracks for both audio tracks.

I was only aware of one audio track - Cantonese mono - and that's what I timed the subs to. Very surprised to hear they're "off" in places. They weren't when I submitted them. Not sure what's happened. If by "running into other scenes" you mean the last sub of a scene continues into the first shot of a new scene, that'll be because I felt the additional time was needed for the subtitle to be read. Even allowing for extra time, subtitles can run too fast for some and that's because it takes less time to say six words in Cantonese than it does read twelve (translated) words in English - sometimes there's as little as a second to fit it all in. It's a balancing act, of course, and not everyone will be pleased all the time.

I've seen better, I've certainly seen worse, but for 2024 standards, this was timed with a little bit lower effort than I'd personally like to see.

I can assure there was no lack of effort on my part.

At the end they just timed the song lyrics to 4.5 seconds and left it. That was really low effort...

Then something went awry... because all the song lyrics at the end were timed to the song itself and closer to 8 secs each.