So! It's been a while. I've been working on and off a number of projects in my minimal spare time nowadays that I haven't announced in the likely off-chance of raising people's hopes before stating that I gave up on it / shelved it / got tired of it. HOWEVER, I can say that thankfully, I've come across an interesting case of a movie needing a regrade that ended up being a rather quick project to get the desired results.

I usually do not go to theater anymore, due to various reasons that I will not list here.

Yet, sometimes, if ticket price is very low I could spend couple € to watch a decent movie. Other times - really few - I spend normal ticket price to watch a movie that I feel the "urge" to watch, and this was one of these times.

Stumbled upon the trailer ten days ago, I immediately thought "I HAVE to watch it ASAP!". And I watched it a week later, in theater... in Vilnius (that is the capital of Lithuania, if someone is too lazy to search for it), in English with Lithuanian subtitles.

Yes, I know, subtitles were a bit distracting. And, frankly, I lost sometimes the sense of dialog due to quite fast speech - except for Vincent Cassel that, being French, luckily speaks at a reasonable pace (for an Italian, at least!)

I liked this movie. Quite a lot, indeed! One of the best thing ever, is the fact that action started almost immediately, two minutes at most in the movie. No useless half movie time spent in prologues, explanations etc. no, directly in the action. Perfect!

Acting: far from perfect, but more than decent. Dialogs: as written before, lost something, but good enough. Story: nothing original, still interesting. Monsters: great, apart the supa-dupa over-the-top final one (that I liked as well, by the way). Music, very good. SFX, perfect.

Alien meets what The Abyss should have been.

8/10

Greetings from Brazil!
There's many interesting projects.
Thanks a lot.

My entire Laserdisc Bit-perfect captures collection. These are my own rips, captured with M-Audio Audiophile 2496 Card. Let me know if you want something for your project.



I am looking for these titles in Bit-Perfect:

A Few Good Men
Last Action Hero
The Goonies
Legend
First Blood
The Thing
The Frighteners
Predator
Always
The Mask of Zorro
The Mummy
Predator

This rare film with Kylie Minogue & Charlie Schlatter hasn't been released in the US, and the only versions out there are a murky looking DVD and a 4:3 Itunes UK version.


However, a few years ago a YT user by the name of Logo Archive uploaded footage of the Village Roadshow and Warner logos from an HD source of The Delinquents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SL1OsMyz6A

Stan was the only place that had this movie in HD, but unlike ITunes regions Stan geo locks like Netflix does and was inaccessible to those outside Australia. It had been taken down afterwards, but according to Justwatch it has recently resurfaced in HD to rent on Google Play Australia https://play.google.com/store/movies/det...a5VJiNCR2I. Again, I'm unable to view it as i'm outside of Australia and don't have a VPN nor an Australian payment system to purchase it. 

If any users who reside in Australia can rent and properly cap or rip this film, this would be the chance to preserve a rare film like this before it gets taken down again.

Hi All,

Probably showing my lack of knowledge here so please take it easy on me!

I've had a few different projects captured by a company previously and I really need to do something with them. They are currently large pro res SD files, some are from NTSC Laserdiscs and some are from PAL & NTSC VHS tapes.

When they were captured they were using high spec equipment and time based correctors etc so they look pretty good at the moment, but if I can I'd like to improve them. Eventually they'll be going onto blu ray as H264 files, staying as SD, with uncompressed audio.

I've read spoRv's guide on analogue capture but that seems to be more getting the source captured rather than dealing with it after it's captured. I’ve used premiere, virtualdub and ripbot many times – not used avisynth before but happy to learn.

Here are some of my thoughts:

• For anything that’s 29.97 fps I understand the best approach is to IVTC and decimate back to 23.976? (or is that only for HD?) For anything that’s 25 fps should I just leave it at 25 fps?
• I’m not sure where to begin in terms of sharpening the image – I appreciate you can’t create detail that isn’t there so not sure if there is anything I can do.
• Most of these titles have never been released on DVD or Blu, the odd one has in a much shorter version and for those I’ll try using DrDre’s colour matching tool
• I found this guide that has a lot of detail on filtering in Virtualdub https://www.engon.de/audio/vhs4_en.htm

Has anyone got any thoughts or other suggestions?

Thanks all

I'm a huge fan of Nigel Kneale and the Quatermass films.

Found this article about the 2005 live version and thought it was ripe for a preservation

http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2015/12/the-qua...xperiment/

Don't suppose anyone had the Broadcast version?

This place looks legit as hell. Excited to check out, and maybe contribute to projects. 

I'm a video producer/editor.
I co-host a movie podcast called Swimfans.
I have a twitter: @Diatron5

Nice to meet everyone.

Update 2020-05-29: https://fanrestore.com/thread-3199.html - The Grindhouse Version is released! 

Update 2020-05-18 : https://fanrestore.com/thread-2986-post-...l#pid61300 - The print is scanned!

Update 2020-01-28 : https://fanrestore.com/thread-2986-post-...l#pid58472 - The print is found! 

With the projects I've been working on I've obviously ended up with a reputation as "The Highlander Guy", especially when it comes to Highlander 2. Recently I've been getting a lot of messages here and other places from people who've found 35mm prints of Highlander 2 around the world and suggesting I should try and organise raising funds to buy and scan one of them. Some of these people have even offered to donate.

I am the first to admit that I am way out of my depth here, I've donated to projects like this before but never organised one, so I initially laughed these ideas off. I've only just entered the world of editing again after a very long break so scanning a 35mm print seems like a huge leap. However I got in touch with another user who has plenty of experience with film scanning and asked for their honest advice. They talked me through the process of buying/renting a print and even offered to put me in touch with a scanner they trust. As a result the whole process seems a lot more possible now, and also a lot cheaper than I had assumed it would be. 

It seems that prints for Highlander 2 aren't that uncommon, with prices mostly around the $200-$300 mark, though there is one currently on ebay for close to $1000! It also seems that they are mostly in excellent condition. 

For a while I've been thinking about trying to fix the colour grading of the Blu Ray and using it to reconstruct the US and EU cuts of the film in HD, then using the various DVDs to fix and patch the CGI shots. Obviously if we had a 35mm scan to work from this would give much better results. Also I believe one of the 35mm prints for sale is of the European Cut of the film; if it's intact that would allow for near perfect HD restorations of the US, EU and Renegade cuts.

I've not spoken directly to the sellers or scanners yet, I don't want to pester them for details now and back out later, but I've got a rough idea of how much the whole process should cost. Like I said, it would be a lot cheaper than I expected, but still much more than I could comfortably spend on a hobby project. So I thought I'd post about it hear to try and gauge how much interest there would be in this project, and how many people might be willing to donate towards it. This is not a request for money, just a post to see if this project might be feasible. 

So if you're interested and want to contribute in any way then please send me a message with your pledge, advice an/or recommendations. No amount is too small and I won't be asking for any actual money unless the project actually goes ahead. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to pledge publicly in the thread.

If there is enough interest then I'll start talking directly to the scanner and sellers and get specifics. At that point I'll ask for final pledges after I've been able to give full details of the print and scanner I'd be using.

I've got other projects I want to work on before this, and like I said it doesn't appear to be a rare print, so there's not urgency or time limit to this. I'm just curious to see if there's enough interest to make this idea a reality.

Another project complete. Pretty much all the credit for this goes to spoRv, as the video and audio is taken from the Halloween Fundamental Collection. Aside from being authored as a blu ray, the main benefit of this project is all the special features from the Criterion Laserdisc are preserved and as far as I am aware some of them never have been before.

• BD25 with animated menus that look and behave like the official Criterion discs, with a background video, pop up menus and resume function
  
• Video taken from the Halloween Fundamental Collection by spoRv
  
• Original chapter stops used on the laserdisc
  
• English 1.0 LPCM taken from the LD
  
• Music & Effects Track 1.0 LPCM taken from the LD
  
• Criterion audio commentary taken from the LD
  
• English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  
• Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
  
• The Night He Came Home (illustrated making of - SD)
  
• Review by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert (SD)
  
• Illustrated filmographies of John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence (SD)
  
• Splatter: A Genre Guide (SD)
  
• Extra scenes from the TV Version (SD)
  
• Laserdisc Production Credits (SD)