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Hi There! |
Posted by: BedeHistory731 - 2019-10-17, 05:23 PM - Forum: Presentation
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I'm BedeHistory731, from both the OriginalTrilogy.com and StarWarsTrilogy.com forums. My love of fan-made preservations has driven me to this site. The work done on this forum is impressive and I'd love to join this community.
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The Exorcist: The Version We've Almost Seen |
Posted by: pipefan413 - 2019-10-17, 12:17 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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I'm not sure if this would go beyond the scope of this forum, since it verges on fan edit territory, but hear me out.
As Mark Kermode keeps telling everybody who'll listen, The Exorcist is one of the finest films ever made. However, the version of it that I would ideally like to watch as my default go-to edit does not currently exist.
The theatrical cut is a masterpiece, which is superior for the most part (in my opinion) to the "Version You've Never Seen" extended cut and subsequent re-edit for Blu-ray. It does however omit at least one or two small moments which I feel the absence of, having seen the extended cut many times over the years. Some of the additions make me cringe big time (call it heresy if you like, but I hate that damn spider walk and the extra Captain Howdy faces are so intrusive it's comical); others are smaller character moments which I feel enrich the film. For example, there's a very brief scene wherein Father Merrin asks Regan's middle name and I love it. I also like the scene with Merrin and Karras sitting in the stairwell discussing the "point" of the demon's antics, although I think I agree with Friedkin's assessment that it is rather obviously stating what the film spends much of its runtime showing us more implicitly ("show, don't tell" after all).
I'm considering attempting to assemble a very simple edit which adds very few of the "missing" scenes back into the theatrical cut in their respective places, leaving it otherwise untouched. This would be almost entirely for my own use, but if I'm going to do it, I figure I may as well share it with others who might fancy it as well. Alternatively, someone who is more au fait with the software and the process of creating such an edit might want to crack this out in an afternoon rather than waiting ages for me to get round to trying it myself.
Thoughts?
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Hello from the Southeast! |
Posted by: cd13 - 2019-10-15, 08:51 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hi all,
I have lurked here for a while, finally signed up. Restored classic films are a fun hobby of mine. I hope to be a part of this community for a long time.
Now, a quick question as I have not seen it answered in any posted threads, can I send PMs immediately, or do I need a certain post count in order to do that first? Apologize for the remedial question.
Look forward to being here! Thank you.
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DTS-HD MA - WITHOUT! - a core |
Posted by: deleted user - 2019-10-14, 09:55 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring
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Turns out you can encode DTS-HD MA - WITHOUT! - the core, saving valuable disk space. Just set the "Core Bit Rate" to "No Core". ![Smile Smile](https://fanrestore.com/images/smilies/smile.png)
This eliminates the two main problems I've always seen with DTS-HD MA, which made me never use it:
1. DTS-HD MA with a core is incredibly bloated and no good alternative to FLAC. However without the core it's only slightly bigger than FLAC and completely acceptable.
2. You never know whether your player is playing the true lossless audio or the core. For example, VLC will only play the core, but not tell you about it. So you think you're listening to the lossless audio, but you're not. However without a core, this is impossible. VLC will simply output only silence. MPC-HC will play it properly (yay!).
And if you really want a fallback for hardware that can't play DTS-HD MA, you can just include a format of your choice, like AC-3 or AAC. But of course the obvious goal is for people to listen to the lossless audio, so hey!
Now, my only question would be whether a coreless DTS-HD MA is properly compatible with receivers. Anyone care to test it out?
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Greetings |
Posted by: pipefan413 - 2019-10-14, 07:09 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hi folks!
I'm a long-time lurker and it only just occurred to me that I should probably do something about that and register.
I've been hanging about over on OT for years after stumbling into the world of restoration due to my penchant for complaining about Star Wars home video releases; Harmy's work on Despecialized and the more recent work by Team Negative1 have been the main draw. However, my ever growing collection of Blu-rays and my purist tendencies are a tricky combination, and the flood of teal and orange regrades currently plaguing the industry have brought me back here. Specifically, the "Fundamental Collection" has caught my attention, and indeed I've already shared a derivative of one of its instalments (Halloween, re-edited into a version of the TV Extended Edition by Croweyes1121, re-encoded to a smaller MKV by me) on "the 'Spleen".
In addition to regrades, I've got a lot of interest in preserving audio mixes (again, see Halloween and its LaserDisc mono mix) and have put together repackages of the 4K77, 4K83 and The Empire Strikes Back Despecialized with a large collection of high fidelity audio tracks under the banner "Millions Of Voices". My next goal is to see if anybody might be kind enough to hook me up with a 44.1kHz version of the Halloween LaserDisc mono track that hasn't yet been upsampled to 48kHz so that I can mux it in with my own version of the video or at least the official Blu-ray as a starting point, so I can have the Fundamental Collection edition, the Extended Version of that by Croweyes1121, and the Blu-ray grading but with the mono soundtrack as options to watch. It really bothers me that the Blu-ray doesn't have the mono, just 7.1 and stereo remixes...
Whatever happens, I expect to be on here quite often from here on out!
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Hi from Italy |
Posted by: Weird Ed - 2019-10-14, 02:57 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hi everyone ![Wink Wink](https://fanrestore.com/images/smilies/wink.png)
I've discovered this forum thanks to a post in Originaltrilogy.com: I was lookin' for a regraded version of Aliens (hate the greenish tint of the bluray). I've followed PDB's project, and here I am. I don't have much experience with video editing, mostly audio muxing of italian tracks - yep, italians love their dubbing, it's like a side passion (we know most voice actors by name) - or upmixes.
The recent flow of 35mm restorations is incredibly fascinating to me. I've been lucky enough to see lots of masterpieces in the theater (Indy and the Last Crusade, E.T., the Goonies, Army of Darkness, Starship Troopers) but I wish I had seen much more, and I truly believe the perfect restoration should always aim to reach this final goal: recreate the original experience. If that means havin' some grain, some speckles, even cigarette burns in the corner... I don't mind. And of course color grading is very important, and often overlooked.
Glad to be here, gonna browse some threads!
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Should I add 5.1 upmixes for my SDU4 decodes in projects? |
Posted by: deleted user - 2019-10-12, 04:06 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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Whenever I can get my hands on a Laserdisc audio for a project, I tend to upmix it with my Dolby SDU4 hardware decoder. I also tend to upmix that decoded audio (which is 4 channels: Left, Center, Right and Back) to 5.1 and add both the original upmix and the 5.1 to the project.
Today I've been questioning whether that makes sense. Each of these two tracks eats a few GB of space and while that isn't terrible, I was thinking that the track provides convenience at the very best and bloat at the worst, since anyone can easily do such an upmix themselves if they are of the mind to do so.
I was also wondering how most hardware will deal with 4-track audio and thought it would probably be automatically upmixed anyway, which further made me question the need to include the 5.1.
Thoughts? Opinions? Should I keep including the 5.1?
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