Hello!

I have been lurking for a while, some time back i found about the Kerr edits of the LOTR movies to follow the books, that spiraled down into me finding a few places dedicated to fan edits.

I always enjoyed learning new skills and thought i would create some edits of my own, mostly as a learning experience, I am a FOSS developer and figured i should also approach this in an open way with live feedback from a community

I am a huge fan of the predator and alien franchises (excluding the latest movies), you can see my first topic about some edits i am working on here

https://fanrestore.com/thread-3483.html

Any feedback is very welcome, looking forward to becoming an active member!

Hello everyone, first post here

I recently started working on a fandit project, I am taking all predator franchise movies and editing them into 45 min max episodes.

My idea is to make a series in the style of masters of horror, each episode should follow a predator in a hunt. There will be humans obviously, but the predator should be the main character

I named this topic Predator Antology Series, but i have not decided in a name yet, i might also create a new generic intro to be used in all episodes, if anyone has ideas or wants to help reply here or send a PM. Right now i am focused in creating the episodes itself and this is low priority

First Episode - Jungle Hunter

I am nearly done with the first episode, Jungle Hunter, based on the first predator

i included some deleted footage and it runs at about 41 mins with credits included

Major change list:
- removed the guerrila/dillon subplot
- remove elpidia carrilo and shane black completely
- poncho dies off camera
- added butterfly deleted scene
- added a color corrected (for night time) cloaking scene from unused footage of cloaking tests
- added the predator teasing with dutch deleted scene
- added deleted footage of the dutch preparation for the final battle

this is early work, i haven't really touched audio yet but i have a rough cut of the first episode uploaded on mega


Second Episode - AVP Ritual  (name subject to change)

I am also working in the AVP movie at same time i work in the first episode, right now I am learning rotoscoping in order to remove Lex teaming up with the predator completely. I have a few shots done and a couple of scenes for this one already, will update when i have more stuff done



Please note this is my first ever experiment with video/audio editing, as a programmer and FOSS advocate i refuse to use non free software (including operating systems, i have been windows free for about 10 years), all work is being done in Kdenlive for now, if anyone has a better suggestion let me know. Any reading material also very welcome

Criterion's lovely Blue Velvet release presents the original surround audio for the first time in years, sadly with the wind knocked out of it. I recently acquired MGM's first R1 DVD which is the last NA release to have the original surround. It supposedly sounded a lot better despite being lossy. After ripping both I can confirm it's quite the case!

Criterion's isn't completely horrible by a stretch but where it's not as good it's pretty bad. Throughout actors sound like they have bowls covering their heads with the resulting muffled voices clipping. Ambience in points is almost buried. MGM's lossy track is huge and dynamic. Pay particular attention to the scene at roughly 1 hour 27 minutes with a sprinkler and forest ambience. Criterion's track is a whisper, while MGM's lossy is big and full yet still subtle as the scene should be.

Syncing was a breeze. It simply needed to be lined-up and exported, as Criterion's had their logo at the beginning. Absolutely no drift to speak of.

DM if you wanna check it out!

In a 1080p timeline, do studios use any templates? For instance, 1.85:1… some Blu-rays are 1920x1036 and others are 1920x1040. Why that difference? 

I have analyzed lots of Blu-rays with different AR and noted their dimensions. I wonder if anyone knows what the right dimensions are for the following aspect ratios:

1.33:1 - 1436x1080 or 1440x1080?
1.37:1 - 1480x1080 or 1484x1080?
1.66:1 - 1788x1080 or 1792x1080 or 1796x1080 or 1800x1080?
1.85:1 - 1920x1036 or 1920x1040?
2.35:1 - 1920x816?
2.55:1 - 1920x752?
2.39:1 - 1920x800?

Hi everyone,

I've been a lurker for a while but figured I'd introduce myself, seeing as I'm getting to the point where I'm feeling confident enough to actually upload some of the projects I've been working on for a while, even if they're not the most technically unimpeachable ones on the block (since that doesn't seem to stop others). Here's a sampling of some of the stuff I've been noodling with recently:

- Uncut 104-min version of Braindead in 1080p (without the framerate issues from Dr. Sapirstein's upload - looking for a JP LD rip or some other source for the uncut stereo audio)
- Pre-Criterion 219-min version of Heaven's Gate with intermission (looking for help removing DRM from iTunes file)
- Wages of Fear - 92-min shorter European version of Friedkin's Sorcerer in 1080p
- Salem's Lot - preservation of the shorter 112-min version released in cinemas outside the US

My day job keeps me pretty busy so it'll always take me a while to finish stuff, but I'm hoping to finally give back to the community that's given me so much joy over the years!

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.

(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!

(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!

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!

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!

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