Talk:War Dawn (episode)

About The Second Act

Now that I've watched the Japanese dub, I have a dilemma. It's a personal one regarding collecting this series in digital form, but I won't bore you. It does lead into this clarification, but I have a question before editing.
"Kid Rhino corrected (the pitch-shifted audio) when they released the episode on DVD, but unfortunately, when Shout! Factory went back to the broadcast masters for their original audio tracks, this error was re-introduced to their DVD of the episode. The uncorrected version was also uploaded to YouTube by Hasbro in 2021; unusually, since all the other episodes uploaded were the Rhino versions."
This couldn't quite be characterized as an "error" that was "corrected". I'll quote from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt25zRJbN4o), where the description shows a more accurate explanation:
"While all episodes of The Transformers clock in at about 22:45 with the opening, end credits, and commercial bumpers... Rhino's Season 2, Part 2 release featured a running time of 22:29, as the second act was played as filmed, and without the slowdown. Shout! Factory's recent release, however, corrects only the pitch of the audio, as the episode still runs at 22:29."
"Corrects" doesn't quite apply here either, but what happened to the 2nd act was a time-stretch edit, and I don't necessarily like the result, but since it was broadcast that way, that ought to be preserved. Both DVD releases have it wrong, and so does the Hasbro Pulse channel, but what happened in that youtube release was that the audio was pitched to match the broadcast, but then heavily and poorly edited to match the "film rate" running time of the Rhino release. What a mess. I don't own the Shout! release, so my question is: Can anyone who does confirm that the audio is edited the exact same way? I suspect that the youtube audio was taken from that, and so I can edit accordingly upon confirmation.JoseBxR (talk) 21:33, 9 August 2024 (EDT)