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| The Nutcracker Prince (1990) in HD - MKV and Custom Blu-ray ISO File |
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Posted by: James76 - 2021-12-06, 10:58 PM - Forum: Archived projects
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Hi,
For my first project here, and for a Christmas release, I'm going to make an MKV file and custom Blu-ray ISO file of an HD upscaled version of the 1990 animated movie, The Nutcracker Prince, sourced from the 2004 GoodTimes DVD. The original US theatrical trailer will be included as a bonus feature.
The ripped movie will be deinterlaced, pulled down from 29.97fps to 23.976fps, and resized to 640x480 with an AviSynth script and VirtualDubMod, upscaled to 1440x1080 with Real-ESRGAN, and have black bars added in Adobe Premiere Pro.
I would like to upload the finished MKV file and custom Blu-ray ISO file onto MySpleen, but I don't have an account there.
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| Shaun of the Dead (2004) Open Matte |
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Posted by: Hitcher - 2021-12-06, 10:55 PM - Forum: Released
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Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life,
which revolves around his girlfriend,
his mother, and, above all, his local pub.
This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life
and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Made from 2 sources - Starz 1080p WEB-DL and a 720p HDTV
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Fairly easy logo removal -
![[Image: ItDzCLe.png]](https://i.imgur.com/ItDzCLe.png)
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Until this happens on the HDTV at the exact time a STARZ logo appears -
![[Image: 2xHZC9r.png]](https://i.imgur.com/2xHZC9r.png)
![[Image: XQ4nhiD.png]](https://i.imgur.com/XQ4nhiD.png)
Luckily the area is mostly in shadow so I used GIMP to make a mask to hide it -
![[Image: shiov8h.png]](https://i.imgur.com/shiov8h.png)
Then the whole thing was aligned to the BluRay video so as to make it simple to sync any BluRay audio tracks.
The STARZ opening and titles were removed and replaced with the BluRay opening titles, and the same was done for the end credits.
The BluRay DTS track and named chapters were also added.
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| Ripping Seamless Branching Discs |
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Posted by: stwd4nder2 - 2021-12-06, 03:36 AM - Forum: Capture and rip
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Brought this up in another thread, but figured it deserved it's own.
Is there a "best" way to rip discs that use seamless branching? There's a couple syncs I'd like to do with discs that use it, but I don't want to sync it to my rip only to have it fall out of sync with another due to MakeMKV dropping frames.
And on a side note, why is this so difficult? Appending video files seems like a relatively simple thing to do, you'd think this would be solved by now.
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| [Retired] Hot Fuzz (2007) Open Matte |
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Posted by: Hitcher - 2021-12-06, 01:45 AM - Forum: In progress
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A skilled London police officer, after irritating superiors with his embarrassing effectiveness,
is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations,
as a string of grisly murders strikes the town.
Made from 2 sources - Starz 1080p WEB-DL (24fps) and a 720x576i HDTV (25fps)
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It wasn't too hard to matte the Starz logo out by de-interlacing and changing the frame rate of the HDTV but there were a couple places where I had to use some frame duplication for missing parts probably due to advert breaks -
![[Image: 5efXeau.png]](https://i.imgur.com/5efXeau.png)
but I've hit a roadblock where the HDTV has ad popups that coincide twice with the Starz logo -
![[Image: NEEIBif.png]](https://i.imgur.com/NEEIBif.png)
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So I'm wondering if anyone here has another version I can use to patch this up?
Thanks.
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| Flagging 1080p25 as 1080i25 without re-encoding |
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Posted by: Dr. Cooper - 2021-12-04, 11:07 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring
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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to create a Blu-ray from a TV-show I recorded. There's also been an online-press-conference for that show which I'd like to include as a bonus-feature on the disc. However, the video from that download is 1080p at 25 FPS, which isn't supported in the Blu-ray specs.
These are the full video-details from MediaInfo:
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 59 min 25 s
Bit rate : 4 497 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.087
Stream size : 1.87 GiB (99%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
The video-level also needs to be changed to 4.0 or 4.1 to match Blu-ray-specs, but that can be easily done using tsMuxeR. The rest should be ok, except for the progressive/interlaced-thing.
I know that there's a setting when encoding the video with x264 which is called "fake-interlaced". It's used to make a progressive encode, but adding an interlaced-flag to the video, so it is Blu-ray-compatible. Is there any way to add such a flag to this video, or is the only way to get it Blu-ray-compliant a re-encode?
I already tried changing the header-information in the MKV of the original file and MediaInfo shows that file as interlaced afterwards, but unfortunately tsMuxeR still recognizes it as progressive and muxes it as 1080p again.
Any idea how I can solve that issue without re-encoding the video or is it impossible and an encode can't be avoided?
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| Random thoughts about optical disc cases & covers |
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Posted by: spoRv - 2021-12-04, 07:45 PM - Forum: Everything else...
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So, yesterday I got about 300 DVD cases as a gift!
Not that I needed them, but the previous owner said "take them, or I'll throw them away..." and hence I can't refuse!
Nice fact is, there were quite some different kinds of them - many only or two specimen: single "amaray", double, with DVD symbol and without, full, slim, super slim, extra slim, black, transparent, semi-transparent, matte, glossy; one dark grey (can't remember to have seen one before), one red and one super jewel box; among them, around twenty different kind of hubs!
What to do with them? Well, as it's always better to store burned disc in single (double) cases instead inside of plastic bags, I think I'll use them to store some projects burned onto DVD and Blu-ray.
Why on Blu-ray? Isn't "better" to put them on proper Blu-ray cases? You know, I thought the same until today - when I spent quite some time dividing them... why must BD be stored in BD cases? Sure, pressed ones come with that kind of cases, but why can't I do something different? At the end, DVD cover is 26% bigger than BD one - so, it's more "important" in a way; and for sure a project burned on a BD and stored inside a DVD case would appear, if not better, at least different!
List of DVD cases from the most favourite:
- colored - I'm a sucker for them, maybe because they are quite scarce!
- violet - are there any?
- yellow - also, any out there?
- green
- red
- white
- black glossy - so elegant
- semi-transparent matte - sadly all of them with DVD logo... good for DVD projects, though!
I don't like a lot the classic black matte ones - they are so anonymous; what I can't stand are the slim/superslim/extraslim; they feel so cheap!
The only rule I gave myself, is to use NOT a DVD cover with a DVD logo for BD disc!
Thoughts?
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