As many of you know I'm a massive fan of the Highlander franchise and I've put together and helped out with many fan projects. 

Well one thing lead to another and somehow I ended up being invited by Panzer-Davis to put together the official trailer for the upcoming Blu Ray release of Highlander the Series! 

The trailer is made with actual footage from the Blu Ray (unless stated otherwise) and was first shown last weekend at WatcherCon, an online Highlander Convention. As of this morning you can find it on the official Highlander Facebook page as well as my YouTube channel.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2d-ieb62sI

Official Highlander Facebook

As it's an official trailer I know that this post might not be strictly meet the requirements for a fan project, but rest assured that it was put together by a real fan  

Obviously YouTube and Facebook are compressing the video quite a bit, so I'm able to make a higher quality file available if people want. 

Now that this is finally out I can get back to concentrating on my Highlander 2 work

Full Frame or just scan the area that was screened? Take a look at this:

When a film goes through the Digital Intermediate process, it is quite common to only scan the actual part of the negative that will be screened. So for a 1.85:1 widescreen film, that's what is scanned. Of course this removes the possibility of reframing for 4x3 TV afterwards - but there aren't any hard and fast rules yet.
The reason for doing this is simply to do with scanning speeds and data storage. With a full frame of 35mm taking up to 12 Mbytes (that's just at 2K, at 4K it's nearly 50Mbytes), a full feature runs into a couple of Terabytes. You can slice several hundred Gbytes off your storage requirement if you only scan the widesreen area. Of course that will give you the same effect as having a hard mask in the camera - black on the final print above and below the projected area.

https://cinematography.com/index.php?/fo...bout-1851/

I often see around here that films that were shown in theaters at 1.85:1 are scanned full frame and I don’t know the reason. If you want to get a final image with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1, can a full frame scan be used for this?

The Essential Reference Guide For Filmmakers

https://www.kodak.com/content/products-b...makers.pdf

When it comes to the Star Wars prequels cgi and also the original trilogy good cgi changes. I want to know if it’s possible to upgrade it to modern standards and if so I’m surprised someone hasn’t tried to upgraded them. I know the prequels would be a pain to do and yes I know that technically episode 2 and 3 will be stuck to 1080p. but still the prequels cgi aged so poorly that a Vader fan film showing Vader heading to Naboo looked better than the original version of Naboo in the prequels. I really wish someone would do this to bring the films to modern day.

I usually not keen in slowing down or speedin up audio, but sometimes you've to do it. So what are the best method to match the audio to a specific framerate?
Any suggestions for any of the following programs:

Adobe Audition
Audacity
Apple Logic Pro

I think you also need to take the change of sample rate into consideration. Anything I need to be aware of?

Thanks for the help

Now this might be a major shot into the blue, because the Jap LDs of Song of the South are extremely rare. But maybe, just maybe, someone on here has access to them and can also capture them.

I'd like to sync the audio to the 35mm print that was shared a few years ago. Might improve the audio and on top we have a preservation of the LD itself.

Cheers

The movie was recently released in Germany by Turbine Media with a new Dolby Atmos and Auro-3D mix. They didn't include the original mix, instead opted for a DTS 2.0. No information what the mix is based. But since the movie was a native 5.1 mix I don't really care for 2.0 mix

So here a the info if you want to add the original mix to the new Blu-ray, if you have it

European BD by Universal: No adjustment needed
North American BD by Warner Bros: delay of -959ms

As a bonus, here are the spectrum for the audio streams

EU Blu-ray Universal - DTS-HD MA 5.1 24bit


US Blu-ray Warner Bros - Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16bit


DE Blur-ay Turbine Media - DTS-HD MA 7.1 Auro-3D

Hi there,
Jon here. I was registered before. My old Account JonNada is still active. Sadly i cannot login to the old email adress of my account. So i made a new account: I hope that is okay but i had no other way.

Hope you guys doing well these days. Stay save and have fun watching movies  

Cheers

Hi everyone,

I don't know if a lot of people are aware of this, so i apologise if this was already a known fact. But apparently the UK 25th anniversary edition blu-ray of 'Evil Dead 2' has a DTS-HD MA 2.0 track. It isn't listed on the back of my own UK copy, and what is also strange is when you go into the menu and look trough the audio options, you can select it as a "2.0 LPCM stereo" track.

I know it can happen sometimes.. that you own the region 2 blu-ray copy of a certain release and it does not include one (or more) audio options, like the UK blu-ray of 'Duel (1971)' not having the mono track, only the 5.1 remix. It can be quite annoying actually. But this time it seems it's the other way around, where the US release doesn't have a certain audio track. At least it looks that way when i check all the audio options via caps-a-holic for the US blu-ray: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=10181&d2=10180&c=4088

Could anybody please inform me if this was already aware amongst the people here. I haven't been around here for that long you see : )
I think it sounds really good as well, especially when comparing to the (in my opinion shitty) 5.1 track. And A/B comparing it with a mono laserdisc rip they actually sound really similar.

And btw... wasn't 'Evil Dead II' originally released in mono?? (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/technical) because when inspecting the track in waveform you can sometimes see some sounds coming in from the right channel and vice versa..

And for anyone who only owns the region a blu-ray of this, just let me know if you're interested.

Guus
(Peanut32)

Something I've always wondered but was never able to find a good answer to. How was audio mixed back in the Dolby Stereo days? Did they mix a discrete 4.0 track and then just convert it to DS, or did they mix it as stereo with an understanding of what would get matrixed out to different channels?