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| Merry Christmas Fanressers! |
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Posted by: Bigrob - 2019-12-24, 03:22 PM - Forum: Everything else...
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Just taking this opportunity now to wish all members and contributors on Fan Res a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! Can't wait to see what projects are done during 2020!
I'm off now recovering from shoulder surgery yesterday. Finally managed to get my surround system wired up after two years in storage so looking forward to checking out some of the projects on here finally!
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| Thumbnail script with scene detection |
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Posted by: deleted user - 2019-12-23, 06:04 AM - Forum: Script snippets
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Made this bash script (can be used on Windows with the Git Bash that comes with the Git installer) for creating thumbnails.
Difference to other thumbnail creating possibilities is that this one uses scene detection, so it's suited well for shorter videos like trailers when you want to get every distinct shot.
It's not perfect - you get blank frames for example during short flashes and it won't recognize faded changes usually, but I'm happy with it.
Requirements
- Ability to run .sh scripts. So either run in Linux or install a bash for Windows (for example Git Bash that comes with the Git installer)
- ffmpeg in the PATH.
- That's it!
How to use
1. Replace "Trailer.mkv" with the file you want to create thumbnails for
2. Set "columns" to how many columns of thumbnails you want to be displayed side-by-side
3. Set "columnwidth" to the width in pixels an individual thumbnail should have
4. Set "maxrows" to a high enough estimated number to fit in all thumbnails (from your experience and experiments) and then add 10. It's a bit awkwardly done, but ffmpeg needs you to set the amount of thumbnail tiles in advance, hence this script has a second cropping stage.
5. Set "scenedetect" to a value depending on your content. Lower values make it more sensitive. However darker scenes require higher sensitivity. It's a bit dumb, but I don't know a better way. For dark videos I recommend values around 0.2 and for bright content around 0.4.
6. Adjust JPEG quality if you want, but I don't know if it actually makes a difference for ffmpeg. Might replace this with a better JPEG compressor but I wanted this to work with the only dependency being ffmpeg.
7. Double click the script and wait for it to finish. Can take a little while.
The script will always create both .png and .jpg formats. Just keep the one you prefer.
Script (save as somefile.sh):
Code: #!/bin/bash
inputfile="Trailer.mkv"
columns=4
columnwidth=640
maxrows=30
scenedetect=0.2 #Scene detection treshold. Lower = greater detection. Try around 0.2 for dark videos and 0.4 for normal videos
jpegquality=1 #JPEG quality from 1-31 with 31 being worst quality (not sure if this works!)
x="x"
tmpfile="$inputfile.tmp.bmp"
outputfile="$inputfile.png"
outputfilejpg="$inputfile.jpg"
tiles="$columns$x$maxrows"
echo "Doing scene analysis: $inputfile ..."
ffmpeg -i "$inputfile" -vf select="gt(scene\,$scenedetect)",scale=$columnwidth:-1,tile=$tiles -hide_banner -frames:v 1 "$tmpfile" 2>/dev/null
echo "Generated temporary uncropped tile file $tmpfile ..."
cropvalue=`ffmpeg -loop 1 -r 1 -i "$tmpfile" -t 2 -r 1 -vf cropdetect=0:1:0 -f null - 2>&1 | awk '/crop/ { print $NF }' | tail -1`
echo "Calculated crop value: $cropvalue"
echo "Generating PNG file: $outputfile"
ffmpeg -i "$tmpfile" -vf $cropvalue -hide_banner "$outputfile" 2>/dev/null
echo "Generating JPG file: $outputfilejpg"
ffmpeg -i "$tmpfile" -vf $cropvalue -hide_banner -q:v $jpegquality "$outputfilejpg" 2>/dev/null
echo "Deleting temporary file: $tmpfile"
rm "$tmpfile"
read -rsp $'(Hopefully) done! Press any key to continue...\n' -n1 key
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| Shaolin Soccer [DUB Edition] |
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Posted by: JackReacher - 2019-12-22, 03:40 PM - Forum: Released
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Shaolin Soccer [DUB Edition]
![[Image: Poster.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/brWdHdL5/Poster.png)
Motive
Yes the Director's Cut is superior. This project is a reconstruction of the International Cut DVD with the Original English Dub since the International Cut on the BluRay has a revised dub as well as more censoring. As they say on Slavic trackers: "I hope you like the presentation!".
Video
International Cut BD used as main source with Director's Cut BD for missing scenes and International Cut DVD as reference.
Audio
International Cut DVD used as main source with excerpts from International Cut BD.
Runtime: 1h29m15s
Video format: x264 1920x1080 1.78:1 23.976 fps
Audio format: DTS-HD MA 5.1 English
Release format: MKV (BD-Compatible)
Gratitude
Captain Khajiit
TomArrow
spoRv
kadenzza
random.next
Chewtobacca
zoidberg
Comparison
US BD vs Original Dub
Media info
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| Roxanne (1987) Colors |
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Posted by: Doctor M - 2019-12-18, 07:46 AM - Forum: Official and unofficial releases
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I don't know how well know this Steve Martin film is, but a recent Blu-ray release from Mill Creek Entertainment in gimmick VHS looking packaging took an existing transfer and made color and contrast changes.
A quote from Blu-Ray.com:
Mill Creek has adjusted the contrast for its release of Roxanne, boosting the color well above the previous Sony issue which appears hazy and dull by comparison. Here, colors pop with more punch and authority; reds around the fire house, for example, are far deeper, ditto some of the blue shirts worn around the department. White depth is superior, black levels are deeper, and skin tones are fuller with a modest push to red. There's not any major difference to textural revelation. Environments, attire, and skin textures appear similarly if not identically to what the Sony disc has on offer when conducting A-B comparisons. The Mill Creek version further retains a natural grain structure, yielding a pleasing viewing experience. How true or untrue the color temperature is to Director Fred Schepisi's and Cinematographer Ian Baker's original vision for the film is unknown, but it's certainly a departure from Sony's decade-old release and to this reviewer's eyes is the nicer of the two.
It's impressive, but I don't remember the movie EVERY looking vibrant.
Does anyone have any source or idea what is correct for this movie?
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| Titanic (1997) UAR |
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Posted by: spoRv - 2019-12-16, 05:11 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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Today I had an intuition, à la House M.D.! 
Why not producing a "better" version of Titanic? As an image worth more than thousand words... top BD 3D, bottom UAR:
![[Image: Titanic-025265-3-D.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/R985KpQt/Titanic-025265-3-D.jpg)
![[Image: Titanic-025265-UAR.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/CSqyNCmQ/Titanic-025265-UAR.jpg)
Further comparisons:
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/D6LDLNNX
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/JMBJJNNU
UAR pros:
- 2006 master - pre-2012 with no digital corrections
- "original" image - no 3D postproduction at all
- better colors - closer to theatrical one, and no teal&orange palette
- bigger frame size in open matte shots - usually on three sides
- bigger frame size in widescreen or UAR shots - where BD 3D open matte is cropped
UAR cons:
- lower resolution (even if image seems crispier somehow)
- slight magenta blanket (easily solvable)
- few shots must be replaced with regraded BD 3D ones, due to fades in/out placed for TV spots
- blown highlights
- faint TV logo (1 HD) remains on top right (if another open matte version would be spotted, it could be fixed)
of course, it will get also quite some audio tracks included!
I think pros outweigh the cons... and you?
Test clip [short] (available until Sunday 20th 2019, so hurry up!):
https://fex.net/s/lvoenkp
Test clip [long, first 23m] (available until Xmas 2019):
https://fex.net/s/zbp8cde
both download and streaming available.
For the long test clip, I applied mild noise reduction, sharpening and halo removal, plus the Aliens grainplate.
Alignment is 99% perfect, with two or three instances in open matte and others in the widescreen, all easily solvable.
Feedbacks are needed!
EDIT: color grading comparison - top BD, bottom HDTV (UAR will be mostly open matte, with few shots in widescreen)
![[Image: Titanic-BD.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/R9mvNQvx/Titanic-BD.jpg)
![[Image: Titanic-HDTV.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/DnyFcvWC/Titanic-HDTV.jpg)
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/D6LGLNNX
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| "A Charlie Brown Christmas" laserdisc audio, anyone have it? |
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Posted by: Dek Rollins - 2019-12-14, 03:31 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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Hey everyone, just asking if anyone has A Charlie Brown Christmas on LD or has it captured. LDDB seems to have only one version listed, so that must be all there is.
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/27057/LV83716
I did a little project with this for myself (a hybrid of the BD release and the 16mm copy that went around), and I was thinking about doing an improved version to maybe share online, and I'd like to use LD audio for this rather than downmixing the BD mix to mono.
EDIT: Even if anyone has a decent quality VHS capture, that would be fine (I only have this on DVD and Blu-ray). Analog audio might even match 16mm audio inserts better anyway.
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