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Braindead - Japanese LD audio |
Posted by: EvilJames - 2020-09-27, 03:20 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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I posted this in another thread, but just in case it gets lost there - does anyone here have a rip of the Japanese LD of the uncut 104-min version of Peter Jackson's Braindead that they'd be willing to share? There's one on CG but with no seeds. I'm doing my own reconstruction of the uncut version (minus the framerate issues from Dr Sapirstein's version) but the only source I can find for the original stereo at the moment is a heavily compressed Nicovideo upload in multiple parts.
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NEAR DARK (1987) 35 mm scan - HELP NEEDED |
Posted by: pipefan413 - 2020-09-27, 03:11 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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(2021-02-22, 03:27 AM)pipefan413 Wrote: Things are moving to the next stage: the scans are going ahead!
This means that we need one last push to get both of these (NEAR DARK and the other scan, which is a horror classic) to 100% so we can pay the entire scanning fee for both, shipping, and cover the cost of tapes for backup and an external hard drive to store the working copy of the raw scans.
In practice, this means the total remaining for both scans after all pledges have been paid is $179 in USD + £80 in GBP.
If you can help please let me know. Even if it's only a small donation, that makes all the difference as this gets right into the final stretch!
There are also currently $195 in pledges still outstanding (i.e. pledged but not actually paid yet). We'll be paying the scanner imminently, so it is really important that anybody who hasn't yet sent their donation does so as soon as possible to avoid a shortfall. If you can do it within the next 24h that would be amazing, but don't worry if you can't, just obviously the sooner the better. Thank you again for your support!
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I've recently begun to do my own LaserDisc captures, one of which is the lossless PCM version of the Ultra Stereo mix of NEAR DARK, to effectively replace the previous custom audio I put together (sourced primarily from DVD) for this film.
This drew the attention of @LucasGodzilla, who asked if I'd considered getting it scanned, because he'd noticed that there is a print available, which is reputedly in excellent condition. I had also seen that the print was out there, but I've thus far tried to remain somewhat cautious about organising something as involved as that for a few reasons.
That being said, this film deserves a bit of love, and it isn't getting it from the rights holder. The only places I believe you can currently buy it on Blu-ray are France and Germany, and I'm not even entirely sure the German release is fully legit as it is (e.g. the cover art appears to be lifted uncredited from a 2013 t-shirt and the video uses the exact same H.264 stream as the French Blu-ray without so much as a single bit of data out of place). Those releases arguably constitute an improvement over the earlier UK and US Blu-rays, and certainly over the Spanish one; I think the only one I've never actually checked myself is the Japanese one, but I expect it to be mostly identical to the UK/US ones. All of these releases are based on the same crappy old DVD master, which is presumably 1080i and has been DNR-scrubbed to within an inch of its life in all its iterations. The latest version also seems to have been brightened a bit which isn't always a good thing, though it sometimes appears to make some detail a little more apparent (one could claim that the blacks look less crushed, but that may not be and indeed almost certainly is not theatrically correct). If nothing else, the newer encode is at least done at a more respectable bitrate, but that doesn't help all that much if the grain is mostly gone already anyway.
With the LaserDisc audio now being captured and there being seemingly no sign of a new official scan and home video transfer on the horizon, perhaps it is time to explore the possibility of getting an unofficial scan done in the meantime. Hopefully it will one day be rendered unnecessary by a proper HD restoration from early-generation elements (negative or interpositive maybe) but there appears to be no indication of that happening any time soon.
(2020-10-04, 02:23 AM)pipefan413 Wrote: I tell you what, how about we give this a whirl: what would you be willing to pledge towards a tentative full scan target of $1,000?
You can either post your pledge in this thread, or if you'd prefer to remain a little more private you can PM me with it instead. I'll keep track of the pledges in the top post but anybody who wishes to remain anonymous here is perfectly entitled to!
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Twin Dragons (1992) LD audio |
Posted by: Serums - 2020-09-26, 04:55 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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Hello,
Am looking into the possibility at fixing up the HD print of 'Twin Dragons' if I can correct the colours and apply some desaturation.
A collaborator has synced up the classic dub and done a hybrid dub, but I'm wondering if anyone might have the LD Cantonese audio (or another decent-sounding track) that we can use in place of the blu-ray track, since I believe the one available to us only has a 5.1.
Thanks!
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Jurassic Park - All Sound Mixes |
Posted by: borisanddoris - 2020-09-25, 07:50 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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Jurassic Park seems to have had so many different mixes/releases over the years and I'd like to start compiling them all. Currently, I have the Cinema DTS that I helped work on initially, a LaserDisc PCM mix (resampled at 48khz), the Blu-ray 7.1 mix, and stashed away in a box the Dolby Digital and DTS (corrected) US DVDs.
Does anyone else have some of the following?
-LaserDisc LPCM bit perfect 44.1khz 16-bit (US and Japanese both?)
-LaserDisc Dolby AC3 (preferably raw capture)
-LaserDisc DTS (preferably raw capture)
-Japanese Superbit DVD
Thanks again!
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Hi Guys! |
Posted by: elvisaloha - 2020-09-25, 05:59 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hi everyone, to be honest I found this forum by coincidence, and probably the best coincidence in may many years.
I love to watch the best versions of movies, open matte, extended, imax... and I think that Im in the perfect place.
I dont know how really works this forum so first off all, please excusme if i do something wrong on this begining.
Best wishes my friends
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Blu Ray General Purpose Registers (GPR) |
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-09-22, 10:30 AM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring
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This is neither a request for help nor a guide, just an FYI for anyone interested in blu ray authoring and what can be done with some of the higher end BD-J software.
There are 4096 General Purpose Registers (0-4095):
- 1000-1999 – stores the current audio, subtitle and chapter number for each playlist
- 2000-3999 – stores the current play time for resume feature for each playlist
- 4001 – sound FX on/off
- 4003 – 3D mode
- 4005 – “Top menu” pressed flag
That leaves 0-999 and 4006-4090 for your own use.
For example I recently did a project for a TV show, where each episode has it's own sub menu page. On your remote there is a top menu button and if you press this when the movie is playing you can specify in the authoring program which menu loads. However in my project if I was watching episode 1, I wanted top menu to load the sub menu for episode 1, if I was watching episode 2 I wanted top menu to load the sub menu for episode 2 and so on. I didn't want every episode to navigate to the same menu when pressing top menu.
There isn't the option to do this directly, but I was able to achieve it using GPR. So when you press play on episode 1, that action first of all sets GPR 50 to 10, then it plays the episode. Episode 2 sets GPR 50 to 20 and so on. When you are watching the episode and press the top menu button on your remote it runs a switch action, if GPR 50 = 10 load sub menu 1, if GPR 50 = 20 load sub menu 2 etc. Finally it resets GPR 50 to 0 - so to avoid causing any issues later.
Another example was when using a pop up menu. For this project the closing of the pop up menu had animation, fading out different parts of it in turn. There were two actions that caused the pop up to close, close it and carry on watching the movie or close it and return to the main menu. So again GPR helped with this. When you select close it sets GPR 50 to 10 and when you select main menu it sets GPR 50 to 20. Then it plays the closing animation, then it runs a switch action. If GPR 50 = 10 it closes the pop up menu and keeps the movie playing, if GPR 50 = 20 it stops the movie and returns to the main menu. Then of course it resets GPR 50 to 0.
Anyway most people won't really care because they just want a simple MKV, but I am still amazed by what can be done with blu ray authoring. To be fair I only scratch the surface on the discs I make.
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