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Posted by: alleycat - 2020-08-12, 02:18 PM - Forum: Official and unofficial releases
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Hi All,
So I've seen that these have had blu ray releases in Germany and Spain, but I was under the impression they were DVD upscales. I've recently seen someone in a facebook group selling bootleg blu rays and they claim to have both of these and they are sourced from HD scans not SD upscales.
Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? Is there a blu ray somewhere in the world featuring a HD scan or is this guy telling lies? The same guy is also claiming to have a HD scan sourced blu ray of Fade to Black 1980, which again as far as I am aware does not have a blu ray release anywhere in the world that uses a HD scan.
Thanks
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this is a good place! |
Posted by: cori - 2020-08-06, 10:11 AM - Forum: Presentation
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hi there! love all the amazing work going on here and i'm happy to join. also have a few things in the works that i hope to share soon!
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Batman Forever Original Version teased by WB |
Posted by: captainsolo - 2020-08-04, 07:47 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other
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Spread this news everywhere to show WB there is indeed support to release the original cut of Batman Forever.
Now there's finally talk about officially releasing the longer version:
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/b...er-1234697441/
This has made it to a number of sites and there's a twitter movement starting but of course without any of the Snyder cut fanfare. According to the sources the cut actually exists in the vaults at 170 min and WB doesn't know if there's demand to release it.
There has been since they teased it back in 2005 darn it.
My petition is now a year old and has almost 400 signatures.
https://www.change.org/p/warner-brot...batman-forever
Personally I would think that it would have been released as intended at 2 hr 15 up to 2 hr 30 depending on the shooting script and final cut before Warner had their way with it cutting down to 122 min and restructuring the opening. But at least there's something to work with and it could easily be a Warner Archive release if they don't do a Donner Cut style standalone. All it needs is a new scan, color timing, sound polish and you could even integrate the footage into the 4K theatrical master since that's already done.
Me babbling tech talk about the audio mix of the theatrical cut and how weirdly the 2.0 mix is better than the 5.1:
When I first started digging into the tech aspects of the film and realized that the old 2.0 matrix mix was better done than the 5.1 this is one of the many things that suddenly jumped out at me. (Widescreen Review said the same in their old LD and DVD reviews) I think if some old reports I've read are to be believed that many of the actors had to re-record dialogue elsewhere during post due to busy schedules which might account to the slightly canned sound to the dialogue-but yes it's ADR everywhere so much so that the discrete 5.1 mix accentuates the hiss and artifice of the rerecorded audio so one you notice it you can't quite unnotice it.
The 2.0 mix like a lot of mid 90's WB tracks weirdly has better mixed presence in the surround despite it being mono and a better low end. While the clarity takes a hit this does negate a lot of the audible noise in the ADR and makes it much less obvious.
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NVenc Test Settings |
Posted by: Chewtobacca - 2020-08-03, 07:00 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring
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Although NVenc is still no match for x264, it's improved to the point at which it's become useful to me under certain circumstances, especially making a quick "Just wanna watch it" encoding. Here's a starting point that produces output that works with my BD player. (Some of the settings spell out the defaults to demonstrate the encoder's options and are strictly speaking redundant.)
Code: ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec h264_nvenc -profile:v high -level 41 -rc vbr_hq -2pass 1 -qmin 0 -qmax 51 -maxrate:v 40000k -b:v 35000k -bufsize:v 30000k -bf 3 -refs:v 3 -spatial-aq 1 -temporal-aq 1 -aq-strength 8 -b_ref_mode 2 -rc-lookahead 32 -surfaces 48 -no-scenecut 0 -nonref_p 1 -strict_gop 1 -coder:v cabac -g 24 -bluray-compat 1 output.264
You can even make a relatively quick UHD-to-BD conversion, all in one step, without generating an intermediate file, which is handy if space is a consideration:
Code: ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf "zscale=t=linear:npl=100,format=gbrpf32le,zscale=p=bt709,tonemap=tonemap=hable,zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv,format=yuv420p,scale=1920:1080" -sws_flags sinc -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec h264_nvenc -profile:v high -level 41 -rc vbr_hq -2pass 1 -qmin 0 -qmax 51 -maxrate:v 40000k -b:v 35000k -bufsize:v 30000k -bf 3 -refs:v 3 -spatial-aq 1 -temporal-aq 1 -aq-strength 8 -b_ref_mode 2 -rc-lookahead 32 -surfaces 48 -no-scenecut 0 -nonref_p 1 -strict_gop 1 -coder:v cabac -g 24 -bluray-compat 1 output.264
Note that not every NVIDIA card supports all the encoder's features, so tweak the settings accordingly, and make sure that your drivers are up to date. Have fun testing!
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x264 - filesize output calculator for 2-pass and CRF ? |
Posted by: loa - 2020-08-03, 06:01 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring
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hello guys,
does anyone know if there is a filesize output calculator which can tell me in advance how big my output file will be ?
In HCencoder it was possible. You just had to import your .avs script and there was a field which was called "file length in kbytes" which told you exactly how big your file will be in the end.
Is there something similar for avs script based x264 encodes ? It would be even more awesome if it had a field where you could insert how many audio tracks you use and how big each audio track is and automatically telling you if your x264 video file is too big.
Thanks in advance for you suggestions
regards
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