Hi there! I got some free time and finally finished remastering the audio for the Thief 2 movies.
Key changes:
- Removed noise
- Upscaled to full 22 kHz bandwidth
- De-esser applied.
I used modern AI RoFormer models to separate speech and other/music, and a noise removal model. I processed speech and the other/music separately. For speech enhancement, I used Adobe Podcast. The other/music I upscaled mostly with amplitude modulation (high frequency mirroring). Sometimes I used pitch shifting and high quality samples from the freesound.org.
Spectrogram of the original audio:
Spectrogram of the remastered audio:
Download videos with already replaced audio: https://mega.nz/file/idwUVLqJ#wNZzWj...sUk72fkSKoEpAs (I took them from the Internet and do not know the author, I will be grateful if you tell me who it is)
You can download wav files separately here: https://mega.nz/file/GNwUxLYI#ZzQmnN...vjTNT446fneL3g
I had to encode the videos in Vegas using the xvid codec with uncompressed audio (PCM 44100/16/Stereo). This is the only way that worked for me.
Example on YouTube:
Last edited by musictaffer; 14th Oct 2024 at 02:24.