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You're welcome.
Now that my summer time theme suites are coming to a close next week, I thought I'd speak about the rest of the year.
August to November will be no slouches either. Suites covering the original John Addison score to the fil Highpoint; suites covering that awful pervert film I won't even name until suites drop, with that fantastic classical-music sounding score; two mini series, Holdridge, "J.J. Starbuck" continues, the legal system, robbery, a 1970's British adventure series (drops September), the F.B.I. is coming for you again (hey, just like real life), Frontiere, "The Waltons" (no, not Jerry, sorry Yavar), special suites every week for the scary month of October (as well as an October surprise), and my final batch for the year will end with a bang: more "The A-Team" (this time with Lalal A.I.), special suites using Lalal for a pilot score, John Barry, probably more. With some occasional commercial music cues (October and November for sure, maybe more) that were ran threw the Lalal A.I. website. And, of course, the start of each month with Morton Stevens and the dynamic scoring duo of Post & Carpenter. And more.
This year was supposed to be a really good year for me and I was expecting to drop good news in March about it all, as previously stated, but everything has fallen apart in a most stunning manner and now it's getting to the point where I don't even know what will happen to me/where I'll even be next year, so the final batch this year may be the FINAL batch. Should things change, expect suites to continue next year.
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For those curious how I am approaching the dialogue and FX editing in my suite as of late, here are some details:
Yes, as stated multiple times before, I have been using the website www.Lalal.ai (as mentioned by an FSM user last year)
It has a strict one-minute limit, no play room - cuts off at one minute for free users. So I edited out parts and cram them into one minutes cues and then edit them back in.
Like I have said, it doesn't always catch all dialogue. And I use the Drums feature to sometimes catch some FX.
Lately I have been supplementing it with another website that I saw mentioned on jwfan.com (came up in a search result online, not that I was browsing the site): mvsep.com
This is another free website. Best I can tell, the limit is 1:30 for free users and only one file in que at a time (you either got to get it going early in the morning, or a few hours before bed, so it can work over night).
This does a surprisingly good job at catching and removing FX. I scroll down to the option that has after it "(dialogue, SFX, music)" and choose it. It also catches some dialogue that Lalal does not.
Finally, I am also using: multimedia.easeus.com/vocal-remover
Something like three to five free uses. I clear cookies each day and the battery doesn't hold any power, so when I unplug, it's off totally, so I start anew each day and can keep using it. You may only get the few uses and not be able to go any further.
It's a good site to supplement work with. It's been catching dialogue the other two didn't. I've been doing a redo of the climax cues from the pilot of "Vega$" where Dan Tanna simply walks after the bad guy and had it where damn near every appreciate bit of dialogue was gone, except this one tiny bit and it was sooo frustrating, but this site caught and removed it! Same thing again today, trying to do a redo of my personal redo of the opening theme music to the film P.J. (Hefti). Once again, this site caught dialogue the above two did not.
There are a number of garbage sites out there that either give mixed bag results or just shit results. And a couple websites that reportedly are good, but one gives a false error and the other (I forget the name, has an "x" in the title) that simple loads onto a blank page thus leaving me unable to try it. Adobe made me register to try their free version -- complete garbage and it even put false A.I. generated voices over it. Don't use their free program!
Vocal Remover (https://vocalremover.org/) isn't that bad, but I find the results to be less satisfying than Easeus.
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Jul 25, 2024 - 5:13 PM
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For those curious how I am approaching the dialogue and FX editing in my suite as of late, here are some details:
Yes, as stated multiple times before, I have been using the website www.Lalal.ai (as mentioned by an FSM user last year)
It has a strict one-minute limit, no play room - cuts off at one minute for free users. So I edited out parts and cram them into one minutes cues and then edit them back in.
Like I have said, it doesn't always catch all dialogue. And I use the Drums feature to sometimes catch some FX.
Lately I have been supplementing it with another website that I saw mentioned on jwfan.com (came up in a search result online, not that I was browsing the site): mvsep.com
This is another free website. Best I can tell, the limit is 1:30 for free users and only one file in que at a time (you either got to get it going early in the morning, or a few hours before bed, so it can work over night).
This does a surprisingly good job at catching and removing FX. I scroll down to the option that has after it "(dialogue, SFX, music)" and choose it. It also catches some dialogue that Lalal does not.
Finally, I am also using: multimedia.easeus.com/vocal-remover
Something like three to five free uses. I clear cookies each day and the battery doesn't hold any power, so when I unplug, it's off totally, so I start anew each day and can keep using it. You may only get the few uses and not be able to go any further.
It's a good site to supplement work with. It's been catching dialogue the other two didn't. I've been doing a redo of the climax cues from the pilot of "Vega$" where Dan Tanna simply walks after the bad guy and had it where damn near every appreciate bit of dialogue was gone, except this one tiny bit and it was sooo frustrating, but this site caught and removed it! Same thing again today, trying to do a redo of my personal redo of the opening theme music to the film P.J. (Hefti). Once again, this site caught dialogue the above two did not.
There are a number of garbage sites out there that either give mixed bag results or just shit results. And a couple websites that reportedly are good, but one gives a false error and the other (I forget the name, has an "x" in the title) that simple loads onto a blank page thus leaving me unable to try it. Adobe made me register to try their free version -- complete garbage and it even put false A.I. generated voices over it. Don't use their free program!
All very interesting, Justin. Thank you!
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You are both welcome.
What to expect from Monday's suites:
The journey through season one of "Remington Steele" continues, the final western suite of the year (a special Lalal A.I. salvage job), and two more suites. Summer ends with a bang.
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This week's suites.
And a pre-announcement afterwards.
"Remington Steele"
Composer: Richard Lewis Warren
https://youtube.com/watch?v=66J5qpGGwQc
Suite #5.
This suite continues through season one, though the I'm nearing the end of the season now.
The Lalal A.I. program was utilized to remove some dialogue in order to preserve as much of his wonderful scoring as possible.
"Laramie"
Composer: Nathan Scott.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8LF_Ga42GS0
Suite #1. More suites intended, but no further suites recorded as of yet.
Special Lalal A.I. salvage-job suite covering as much score as possible from one episode of this western TV series. In my thread for the series, I gave some praise for this score.
"Dallas"
Composer: Jerrold Immel
https://archive.org/details/dallas-score-suite-2-jerrold-immel
Suite #2.
This suite covers all the episodes of season two he scored (which were not that many). Suite includes all worth-wild and salvageable pieces. I can't recall now, since I've had this one in the can for a while now, but I think I used the Lalal A.I. program on it.
"Hart to Hart"
Composer: Mark Snow
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L9S0nw4m5yw
Funky suite #2.
Yes, #1 has not been posted yet (still being worked on, and it's the mega suite -- long).
While no third suite is planned, it's possible as I make suites for the show and discover more, I could make a third one day.
"Mobile Medics"
Composer: John Parker
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kVomKA9wnw8
This was a failed pilot from 1976. The whole pilot is not available (only the last ten minutes). What I have included on this short suite in the pilot outtro cue and the end credits. Thanks to the Lalal A.I. program, I was able to keep both and did not have to edit out part of the end credits where the news announcer was speaking.
Special note: this pilot was a year before "CHiPs" premiered, so you might notice that this pilot's theme is a proto theme arrangement, in fact, if it's been a decade or two since a casual viewer of "CHiPs" had even seen the series, and you played them this theme, they'd swear this was the theme to "CHiPs" -- that's how close it is.
PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT:
The week of August 26th I will announce a little contest. Don't think or expect too big. Further details at that time.
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The new suite process has kind of been hampered. Lalal is giving me an error message -- after loading a file -- that CAPTCHA verification failed. But there is no CAPTCHA on the site, and it is not me and other sites that I use that have CAPTCHA, display CAPTCHA. Lalal is out the window until further notice and that's a shame -- I really needed it for the "Thriller" suites I am trying to get done for October. :-(
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What to expect from Tuesday's suites:
The second suite for "Wheels" (Stevens), and a previously unavailable cop show scored by Post that recently appears to have popped up in-full online (so, one suite made). And a special Lalal A.I. salvage job Schifrin suite.
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TV series obscurity alerts!
In over a decade of looking, not once has a full (or even partial) episode of "Today's F.B.I." ever popped up. One popped up. Aside from the memorable theme music by Bernstein, the episode features a score credited to John Cacavas:
https://ok.ru/video/8166911707789
And in all that time, only one episode "MacGruder and Loud" was up. A second one has popped up now, with a score credited to Dennis McCarthy:
https://ok.ru/video/7049397668355
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Is anybody else experiencing the same CAPTCHA problem with Lalal? Once the track is 100% loaded, a rectangular box atop the page appears to give you the message and the track is never processed.
I tried to tell Lalal about this, but the only response was to ask about my paid account. I told them this isn't a user-specific issue, as other sites I use have CAPTCHA and it displays and functions. They stopped replying.
Suites will have to revert back to how I did them before if the Lalal website doesn't get corrected.
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This week's suites.
"Wheels"
Composer: Morton Stevens
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9vQFJCxR4
Suite #2 -- the second and final suite covering his work on the mini series. While I have no plans at the moment, I suppose its possible I might one day cover the one episode William Broughton scored.
The Lalal A.I. program was utilized to remove some dialogue.
"Sonny Spoon"
Composer: Mike Post
https://youtube.com/watch?v=td0Nny_SFpg
Suite #1. No further suites recorded, none planned at the moment (subject to change).
This suite covers the only two episodes I could find at the time, after years of no episodes being available. Recently, it appears the entire series has popped up. I haven't checked to verify it is complete, but off hand it looks like it.
The Lalal A.I. program was utilized to remove a little dialogue.
This was a failed cop series from 1988. Pete Carpenter had passed away a few years earlier during "Magnum, pi", so Mike would go solo sometimes after his death.
"The Partners"
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mZsgWlk7KE0
Suite #1. Nothing further recorded, more intended, but next year is looking iffy for my life, and Lalal isn't working for me anymore; Easeus has daily limits.
This is a special Lalal A.I. salvage job, where I tried to preserve as much of the music as possible. The suite covers only the first episode of the series.
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What to expect from Monday's suites:
Peter T. Meyers, John Cacavas, and the return of "J.J. Starbuck" suites.
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This week's suites.
"J.J. Starbuck"
Composer: Velton Ray Bunch
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OyRMY4nRKcw
Suite #1.
I forget which and how many episodes this suite covers. I'll be covering the majority of the episodes he scored with his suites.
Separate Ways
Composer: John Cacavas
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SSdbGLg-TqE
Movie completed in 1979, but released in 1981 (took that long to find a distributor).
The Lalal A.I. program was used to remove some dialogue.
"Falcon's Crest"
Composer: Peter T. Meyers
https://archive.org/details/falcons-crest-score-suite-1-peter-t-meyers
Suite #1. Covering (I forget now) the first two or three episodes he scored. I cannot recall if the Lalal program was used (maybe this was completed before then).
The suite fell just over the 15:29 limit for unverified accounts on YouTube, plus I was concerned this might trip copyright, so I skipped YouTube all together.
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In a bit of good news, the CAPTCHA issue on Lalal has been resolved. I did nothing on my end, it was like I said: it wasn't an issue with me, it was somewhere on their side (maybe the CAPTCHA provider company).
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I thought I'd tease about the suites for the month October -- Halloween month here in the U.S.A., so think horror, death, murder, mystery.
Guaranteed to be a thriller. Or two. Or three. Or four.
Suites well calculated to leave you in suspense, twice as much dark, a suite you can whistle to, and, Satan.
And, if all goes well, a special reconstruction/salvage-job promo cue (time and complexity) permitting.
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What to expect from Monday's suites:
A mini series, Frontiere, and Holdridge.
Also, I should note that the Mike Post suite for October, will not be themed for that month. But I will drop some info' in regards to it, anyway: a special Lalal, Easeus, and MVSep salvage job for a score most of which 99.9% of you have never heard (with good reason), which also includes rejected theme music (opening and closing).
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The tiny little contest details: August 26th I will do a guessing game thing, where I post two images that represent both suites for the first week of September.
The first person who guesses them, will get a suite of their request rushed through as fast as I can and hopefully be presented the next week (September 9th).
Please consider the following when making a title request:
Have a first, second, and third place titles in mind, incase there are no loads or poor quality loads that force me to have a second of third place title in mind.
Unverified YouTube accounts have a limit of 15 minutes (there is play room and I can go to 15:29).
MVSep.com is not a miracle worker, so keep in mind titles with heavy FX will mean mixed bad at best results.
Titles heavy with dialogue will mean more time needed. I cannot guarantee dialogue-heavy titles can get a one-week turn around. Lalal doesn't catch all dialogue, so I have use Easeus to get 99.9% of the rest and that site has a three load a day limit (with what appears to be a 1:30 each load limit).
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