When released in Japan this samurai epic directed by Takashi Miike was approximately 20 minutes longer. Every DVD and Blu Ray release outside of Japan has been the shorter International Cut. Unfortunately the Japanese blu ray is difficult to find and is not English friendly.

• BD50 Blu Ray with menus, background video, pop up video and resume
  
• 1080P AVC Extended Edition taken from the official out of print Japanese Blu Ray
  
• Japanese DTS HD 5.1
  
• English and Japanese SDH Subtitles
  
• Interview with Takashi Miike with English Subtitles
  
• Japanese Trailer, International Trailer and Teasers/TV Spots
  

Hey everyone,

I've been capturing bit-perfect PCM using Bronan's guide (Reaper set to 44/24 and then exporting at 44/16). I've got some questions about editing.

Although I capture in Reaper, I've been editing out side breaks/silence between discs using Audacity (a program I know a lot better). I'm wondering if that is messing up my files at all.

I've got two options for editing:

Option 1: Capture in Reaper at 44/24. Edit out side breaks/disc swaps in Reapar. Export edited WAV file in 44/16.
Option 2: Capture in Reaper at 44/24. Export file in 44/16. Put it into Audacity (which seems to upsample file from 44/16 to 44/32). Edit in Audacity. Export from Audacity at 44/16.

Will either option impact the bit-perfect nature of the audio itself? I know upsampling the khz is bad but is there any problem with upsampling the bit depth? 

Any help would be great. Thank you!

Hi All,

Sorry this is probably a daft question

I'm starting to do some projects using PAL footage and I'm planning on changing them to 23.976 fps as part of the cleanup process. First of all is everything shot at 24/23.976 fps? A lot of these projects are Italian genre movies, some TV movies/miniseries financed by RAI, but still shot on 35mm.

Second I have no idea how to tell whether I need to do pitch correction or not when adjusting the audio. I know some people can tell just by listening but I can't at all, 
most likely because a) I wear a hearing aid so I'm used to things not sounding natural, b) I'm in PAL land and I'm possibly used to things sounding wrong and c) for Italian dubbed audio it's not as if I have an ideal reference to make a comparison against. 

So generally speaking, for a movie taken from PAL VHS or even PAL DVD, is it usually necessary to correct the pitch or not when adjusting the audio to match 23.976 fps? I was planning on doing the conversion with meGUI. 

Thanks all

Today's tidbit re: H.266 codec, which will revolutionize the home media market:

https://newsletter.fraunhofer.de/-viewon...4RELLZBp/1

Quote:After devoting several years to its research and standardization, Fraunhofer HHI (together with partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Sony) is celebrating the release and official adoption of the new global video coding standard H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC).

This new standard offers improved compression, which reduces data requirements by around 50% of the bit rate relative to the previous standard H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) without compromising visual quality. In other words, H.266/VVC offers faster video transmission for equal perceptual quality. Overall, H.266/VVC provides efficient transmission and storage of all video resolutions from SD to HD up to 4K and 8K, while supporting high dynamic range video and omnidirectional 360° video.

Quote:Today H.265 enjoys widespread use on Apple devices like the iPhone, as it’s the default codec used by video capture within the stock Camera app. What exactly can users look forward to once H.266/VVC gains wide adoption in the future? Namely a huge reduction in data requirements.

Fraunhofer HHI notes that while H.265/HEVC requires approximately 10 gigabytes of data to transmit a 90-minute 4K UHD video, H.266/VVC requires only 5 gigabytes, half of the data required for the same video quality.

The codec, which features a 500+ page standard specification, was specifically designed with high-resolution 4K and 8K streaming in mind. With such a reduction in data requirements, users will be able to capture higher quality images without having to significantly increase storage space. It also means that streaming high-quality videos will be considerably less demanding on mobile data.

I am looking to try and do a fan edit/restoration of a film I fell in love with to inject deleted scenes I have looked around and have not seen anyone do it yet. I have deleted scenes that was were not released via physical media by cowering  the world wide web of social media accounts of this film for every region. My questions is what video editing software and or sound editing software is recommended for the following.

1. Modifying frame by frame video to remove watermarks.
2. Audio mixing 5.1 or 7.1 DTS audio track to extend them so the added scenes seam stream-less sly.
3. Color Grading possibly

Can this all be done with one video editing software or do you have to use multiple usually on these fan edit projects? Any insight/help would be appreciated for a noob. I am thinking of just buying Final Cut Pro at the moment but would appreciate any tips from those who have put the sweat and tears already.

Thanks

This project is on the horizon. Does anyone happen to have an NTSC copy of the 3 disc special edition DVD? I’ve got it as PAL, but NTSC would be preferable as it will give greater comparability for US members.

Ever since I started my own little "Back To The Future" project back in May, I began researching on the film's technical aspects, more specifically, the color grading. 

I always found the Blu-Ray, DVD and DCP versions very "pink-magenta"  looking, similar to how the Star Wars Special Editions looked, creating errors in the film itself, (Marty's skateboard wheels colors fluctuating from yellow to pink in the Blu-Ray release)  I wondered if that was always the case or was it the fault of the people who decided to DNR and "Edge Enhance" during the digital processing of the movie for home releases.

I recently came here after finding out about the "Open Matte upscale" done by PDB back in 2015 and seeing his color regrade of the film, noting about how "technicolor" it looked with pretty vivid colors and natural skin tones, so I'm not sure if thats a pretty close regrade or something more revisionist.

Since there are little to no color references to the film aside from the BBC TV broadcast, which is noted to have a green tint, I was wondering if a "theatrical regrade" of the film can be done, aside from images of 35mm film strips on eBay, but I am also not sure if that is a reliable color source.

Hello!

I came from the OriginalTrilogy forums (Dat_SW_Guy, aswell as on TSWT of the same name as the one I use here!) and I came here to Fanres because I was interested and researched about information about certain color timing differences of a lot of classics, more specifically "Back To The Future" as I am interested in making a "35mm Technicolor Recreation" of my own, however I am quite a novice at restoration and color grading so I would like to learn and meet people who are well versed in this field.

I am definitely looking forward to meeting you all here at FanRes!

This is purely a request, as I have no idea what I'm doing or whether it would be feasible. Despite the colour grading, DNR and edits, I presume that the latest UHD release of T2 has the most detail? Would be great to see a 4K regrade of the director's cut, with some of the edits taken out (purple laser fire and the T1000's balls most importantly ). I'm guessing reinstating director's cut scenes might be a little jarring, considering they're only available in 1080p. Maybe upscaling those scenes would help. Hopefully they'd look okay with the rest of the 4K transfer being regraded. Also, I'm guessing it's arguable what might be the best mix of the audio track? I would be happy to contribute where I can, if that means financially or something.

Hi everyone,


I will create a hybrid cut of the greatest movie "All the Way, Boys" (1972). The German Blu-ray from 3L and the Italian Blu-ray from Mustang Entertainment will be used for my project. The German long version on the Blu-ray is completely uncut, but it missed some scenes from the Italian version, it contains several scenes that include extended and alternative scenes, as well as beatings or billiard scenes. I insert these scenes for the German long version. The German long version was scanned from a negative, it offers a solid HD feeling, but it also has different colors and the quality is also different. The Italian Blu-ray is also on real HD and has a different color design compared to the German long version, but the quality is quite good for an old film by the two warlords. I tried to adapt the coloring of the Italian version for the German using Color Matching by Dr. Dre, unfortunately it is very difficult to do it because the German quality is different. Then I adjust the color of the German version for the Italian version. The inserted scenes from the Italian version fall off slightly, but you can live with them. The main thing in high definition!
I've already got 2 Blu-rays and I'm standing in the middle of the video editing and it occurred to me whether I could dub the English soundtrack too. Then I found an English soundtrack on the Internet and it's the Australian DVD. So...

In addition to the German audio track, I would also like to have an English audio track for my project. I know that there is no full English track, just the shorter US cut that is on VHS. So, the Australian DVD, which should have a length of 105 in PAL, it should be corresponded to the old German DVD (first edition) by E.M.S.

I'm asking, is the run length of the Australian DVD correct? If so, I could import it, but I need exact facts. If no, where can I find it?

Meanwhile there is also a shorter Italian version on the German DVD/BD from 3L (on the Blu-ray is included as a bonus) and the missing German dubbing is filled with the English soundtrack. This is an advantage to get a full English audio track.



1. Italian Blu-ray 2. German Blu-ray 3. Hybrid Cut

   


Videosource & Audiosource:

German DTS-HD 2.0 Blu-ray 3L
Italian DTS-HD 2.0 Blu-ray Mustang Entertainment
English ??? (I'm looking a DVD where is included an english audio track for a 105 mins version.)