Transformers - Unicron with OW's original voice

[Wellesnet]

I don't know how they did it, but someone has restored Welles's original voice to his line readings for this one scene as Unicron, the killer planet in the 1984 "Transformers" movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DPW44-I3n4

[Roger Ryan]

It's pretty easy to use programs like Adobe Audition to alter voice pitch...but more time-consuming to integrate the altered voice track with the rest of the existing, non-pitch corrected audio on the soundtrack. The video editor did a good job of that. Since the film producers lowered the pitch of Welles' voice track (as well as adding some other effects) to give it a more menacing sound, raising the pitch a certain percentage brought back Welles' more familiar timbre.

[Wellesnet]

"You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen."
-Orson Welles

[Wellesnet]

30th anniversary DVD edition coming:
http://www.wellesnet.com/transformers-t ... o-release/