Sorry if this is the wrong section. I was wondering if there is anyone here from the UK who is able to make high quality transfers from PAL VHS tapes? I'm wanting to transfer two (maybe three) retail tapes for an upcoming project but I only have a very basic VHS setup. There's a few commercial transfer services near me that I'll look into, but I doubt they'd be willing as these are retail tapes rather than home recordings.

Any help is appreciated.

I have been active over on originaltrilogy.com for almost two years.

I started there after searching for Star Wars fan edits / restorations.

I'm here now after looking around for some other movie restorations.

I read a lot and post very little.   

Thanks for allowing me into your community!

Schnitz

I have some screenshots of frames from a movie that I haven’t seen much and I’m trying to find these frames in an MKV copy of the entire film without watching the film. Supposedly, ‘ffmpeg’ has a feature where it can do that—take a jpeg or png image file and search every frame from a video to find that image--these command-lines I found in the StackOverflow pages...

Hi,

I've been lurking for a minute, figured once I made an account I should introduce myself.

I'm in grad school working on software development for nuclear data analysis. I'm not particularly creative on the editing and colorgrading side of things, but I'm hoping to be able to develop some tools to improve restoration ability, I find a lot of current software tools to be a bit lacking particularly in terms of GPU utilization. Open source tools with much better hardware utilization or better optimizations do tend to be available for a lot of EULA-type software, but they're just not always the easiest to get running. 

On another note, I keep seeing that some projects are posted in "the usual places" and I'm assuming that means some torrent sites, but I can't for the life of me find which ones. I've only got a torrentleech account, so I'm at a bit of a loss when it comes to where to look. I read the rules so I know explicit pirating is against the rules and it doesn't seem like discussions regarding torrenting sites is banned, so I hope I'm not breaking any rules by asking about this.

Thanks, I'm just happy to be here.

Hello all,

I am entirely new to this so I apologize in advance if this the wrong place for this, but I recently acquired the International Trailer for "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" from 2004 on 35mm film. As a bonus, quite a bit of it is Open Matte. See examples below:
https://i.imgur.com/WeowDvE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6nRtJVU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/zItC7xz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/L5uUMqA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tXkWZvQ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gATK5vI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4aZW5bK.jpg

As you can see I've been able to get decent stills for reference, but I'd love to get it scanned to a high quality digital format. I've got no idea how to go about doing that or where to go that would take the project on, so I thought I'd try here and see if anyone could point me in the right direction. I'd prefer not to build my own scanner or buy one as this is really a one-off project for me. Not worth the investment in a scanner at the present time. 

Let me know if you can help or know anyone who can! Love the work you guys do.

I removed artifacts from the BD "Die Pest in Florenz" (1919)

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https://youtu.be/vYZZbapThk8

How popular is such a restoration?
In which forum thread can I ask such a question?
Which startup can you take part in?

Yours faithfully,
Evgeny

Years ago I made a fan edit of Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
I was from DVD and I waited for years for a Blu-ray release
Finally, they released the Blu-ray some time ago and I remade this '80 slasher to a 61-minute cut 
One of my favorites with (brief) make-ups effects by Tom Savini 
Savini was very busy in the '80s with his makeup effects like in The Burning, The Prowler, Friday the 13th
For the people who know the original of Eyes of a Stranger, I removed some unbelievable stuff like the escape of Lauren Tewes from the apartment of the killer 
Also, the friend of Tewes is completely cut-out, unnecessary character for this edit.
John Disanti is outstanding in his role as the cold-blooded killer 
I converted the sound in a DTS 5.1 track and from today it's online on my site 
Another title: simply called The Stranger

Hey friends,

Thought I would take a stab at an open matte version using the FS DVD and 1080p blu ray. (detail preserving upscale on the SD footage > match colour to blu ray > reposition cuts )

I can't for the life of me figure out the avisynth script method to creating open mattes and the test below was made by hand with about 1 days work. I initially even tried exporting all frames and running a custom action in Photoshop to align layers but it didn't work as intended.


Audio is obviously temp so ignore that but open to hearing thoughts about proceeding and if anyone knows any other sources I should be using. To the best of my knowledge I haven't seen any HD broadcasts online with more picture information. Not all shots in the FS dvd are open so the plan is to just occasionally cut to the WS blu when needed (probably very few shots). But you can see that in my test below.

Test (if this small portion isn't allowed under the rules let me know and I'll remove, thanks!):
https://mega.nz/file/SMRn1aya#e_sGA1jfwU...SMZdle44Qw

The Shout Factory BD of Amityville 3-D (1983) has a fine transfer (of an alternate version) that maintains the flaws that you'd see in an original 35mm print. Namely, it keeps the alignment errors that are part of the original photography. I aligned each shot to minimize vertical parallax, making the 3D easier on the eyes.

If anyone has access to the original titles and effects shots that are missing on this disc, I'd be up for revising this.

Source: Shout Factory BD

Available as a frame-packed 3D BD. Must provide blanks, postage, and proof of purchase. PM for details.

So I browsed a bit the web, to no avail.

I like to collect DVDs that are either dual sided, or DVD-9, holding both widescreen and open matte versions of films.

Most of those were released in the early days of DVD from 1997 on.

Anyone could help build a more complete list by contributing, please feel free to post titles here.

Some of those I come across:

- Batman
- Batman Returns
- Batman Forever
- Batman & Robin
- Bronco Billy (actually it's cropped on the sides)
- Cobra
- The Crow (2 disc set)
- Dark City
- Dr No
- Evil Dead 2
- The Exorcist
- Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
- From Russia With Love
- Goldeneye (Pan & Scan side)
- Goldfinger
- Hang'Em High
- Hellraiser
- Hellraiser 2
- Jumper
- Last Action Hero
- Memphis Belle
- Men In Black
- Nightmare on Elm Street (all 7 of them)
- Payback
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse
- The Specialist
- Speed
- Starman
- Super Speedway
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Total Recall

Don't hesitate to add. Also feel free to point cases like Bronco Billy, where they cropped the sides instead of open-matting.