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  A Better Tomorrow 2 DVD/Blu-Ray
Posted by: MeanjohnRambo - 2020-03-30, 04:15 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (28)

Looking for a decent print of A Better Tomorrow 2 with english subtitles for a reasonable price. I know of the Anchor Bay release as well as A Better Tomorrow Trilogy Blu-Ray Box Set. Do you guys know of a dvd or blu-ray of A Better Tomorrow 2 with good picture quality, english subtitles, and the original sound effects? I really don't know how much better the blu-ray quality is compared to the dvd or which dvd is the best in terms of picture quality

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  Jason And The Argonauts Criterion Preservation
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-03-29, 08:53 PM - Forum: Released - No Replies

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Finally managed to get the extras from the Criterion Laserdisc captured so this project is now complete. 

  • 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 official Blu Ray
  • Original chapter stops used on the Laserdisc
  • English 1.0 Mono LPCM from the Laserdisc (Thanks Bronan!)
  • Criterion audio commentary taken from Laserdisc
  • English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  • Early Animation The Elementals
  • Pre Production Drawings
  • Lobby Cards and the original one sheet
  • Casting Notes
  • Production Photos
  • Production Memos
  • Production Records
  • Creating The Hydra Sequence
  • Creating The Skeleton Sequence
  • Harryhausen Models and Artwork
  • Trailers for Jason and the Argonauts, It Came From Beneath The Sea, Earth Vs The Flying Saucers, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad & Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger
  • Laserdisc Production Credits
PM me for the links, contributing/long term members only please. Contributing means active members of the forum who post and/or make their own projects.

High Resolution cover and disc art available from @Pineapples101 Here.

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Just to clarify this is a project that I have made for myself which I am choosing to share. If you don't like the project, if you think it should have been done differently then feel free to keep that to yourself and consider doing your own project.

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  Harry Potter 1-3 Isolated Scores
Posted by: Lio - 2020-03-29, 04:23 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (6)

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John Williams once again immortalized himself to a generation of young movie-goers with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, producing an effusive neo-romantic score at a time when that style was considered long-outdated and sappy. But as studios today try to make their music edgier, noisier, and more abstract, I think Williams's traditional score helps ensure that the original Harry Potter will be a timelessly accessible film. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets follows the original movie stylistically (sometimes note-for-note; most of this music was adapted/arranged by William Ross as Williams didn't have the time to fully commit) while Prisoner of Azkaban takes a drastic left turn towards the weird, altering between sparse and outrageous underscoring as the scene demands.

Williams is one of the few film composers today who chooses (or is allowed!) to follow the action and movement of the film while still writing long-form self-contained music, and Harry Potter shows his mastery of this with great sequences like the Quidditch match in the first film, the flying car in the second, and the werewolf transformation in the third. I've edited isolated scores of all three so that you can see just how carefully he follows the action or dialogue of a scene with orchestrational details that might not come across in the normal audio mix.

For most of the project I used La-La Land Record's recent release of the three scores, but bootlegs were used to fill any gaps. I tried to reinstate any music that was "dialed out"/unused, so long as it seemed to make sense with the picture. Almost all the edits made to the music on the dubbing stage were recreated, so these audio tracks won't float out of sync with the on-screen action. For the first two films I synced to the Amazon Web-DLs and for Azkaban I used a copy of the Blu-ray, but I hope these files are in sync with any copy of the movie. Sometimes the music editor decides to cut up a piece of music or use a cue from a different section of the movie instead of keeping what the composer originally wrote. In these cases (such as the Shrieking Shack scene) I used the originally-written music instead and matched it to the movie as best I could. I think you might be surprised at how differently some of these scenes play out with the original music (Azkaban has a lot of these).

The only music I couldn't truly use was the shawm source cue in Azkaban where Mr. Weasley warns Harry about Sirius Black. I tried looping and changing the pitch of the small portion I had to recreate the cue but it didn't turn out very well -- you can be the judge. Otherwise the entire scores are presented here in fantastic quality.

All files are FLAC 16-bit; anyone interested can PM me.

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  Avengers Infinity War Open Matte Eng localized
Posted by: OsidianDawn - 2020-03-29, 04:00 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (2)

As the title of this thread states, I was wondering if anyone was successful in creating a version of Infinity War without sewn in Russian text. Thanks.

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  The Hidden 1987 Lumivision Laserdisc
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-03-29, 02:51 PM - Forum: In progress - Replies (5)

Did anyone ever see this theatrically? The blu seems very green and the LD seems faded. This one was going to be a quick isolated score and extras project but I'm thinking of adjusting the colour now, just not sure if either of these are accurate. It actually played at a festival near me recently but it was just the blu not a print. Anyone have a DVD?

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  Alleycat’s Project List
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-03-28, 06:03 PM - Forum: Official and unofficial releases - Replies (3)

Thought I would make a thread with a list of the projects I have done. 
 
I appreciate in a streaming world there are people who don’t want to watch physical media, but as a huge supporter of it I want all of my projects on disc. Having invested in professional blu ray menu creation software, and spent a lot of time learning the sometimes complicated art of java blu ray menu design, all of my projects will be released as blu ray files. Also, with the help of a friend, with professional looking covers, booklets and disc art.
 
With most of these projects I received help and guidance from several fanres members, such as capturing LD audio for me or giving general advice and assistance - so a massive thanks to you all.
 
Criterion Preservations

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Every collector knows the name Criterion, but a lot of their most memorable titles have not been reissued on blu ray. The collection is an attempt to preserve some of their past titles, most of which were only released on laserdisc. At the start I set myself some rules, the discs have to include any commentary and the same type of audio (e.g. mono) ideally uncompressed from the LD where possible. They also have to contain every special feature from the LD/DVD and have a menu that looks identical to an official criterion blu ray menu.
 
This in itself was a challenge as the criterion menus contain animation, and depending on the number of chapters involved it required an average of 100 menus working behind the scenes to make it look right. I even took screenshots from the official discs and rebuilt each part, with the same colours, fonts and font sizes etc.

High res artwork, created by Pineapples101, can be found for some of the projects here
 
The list so far:
 
Blood For Dracula
Flesh For Frankenstein
Boyz N The Hood
Dead Presidents
Menace II Society
Jason And The Argonauts
Halloween
Dr No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Hard Boiled
The Killer
Seven (Completed)
Robocop
Crash
Taxi Driver
Armageddon

Non Criterion Preservations

This is a collection of certain releases that appealed to me, each containing some special property that isn’t available on an official blu ray release.

Bad Lieutenant Uncut Audio
Dawn Of The Dead Ultimate Edition Volume 3
Hateful Eight Extended Miniseries
Ticker Ultimate Edition
Stephen King’s The Stand Laserdisc Audio
The Hidden Special Edition
Mortal Kombat Special Edition
Above The Law aka Righting Wrongs Special Edition
13 Assassins Extended Version
Harper's Island
Mad Max Appendix
Young Sherlock Holmes
Death Sentence Unrated
Panic Room Special Edition
Johnny Mnemonic Extended Edition
Tombstone Director's Cut
Kill Bill Whole Bloody Affair
Wilderness Special Edition
Desperate Measures Special Edition
Above The Rim Special Edition
Pearl Harbor Director's Cut
Heat Theatrical Version
The Tower Special Edition
Scream Director's Cut
Killing Zoe Special Edition
Proof Of Life Special Edition
The Beach Special Edition
Turbulence Special Edition
Executive Decision Theatrical Version
Ransom Extended Version
The Godfather A Novel For Television
Tears Of The Sun Director's Cut
Death Machine Director's Cut
Hard Rain Special Edition

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  Project List?
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-03-28, 12:03 PM - Forum: Bug reports and suggestions - Replies (7)

I think it would be great to have a project list section on the site, where members can list all the projects they have done so far and have links to each of them. From what I can see the only way to do this currently is to have an external site and put a link to it in your signature?

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  Jurassic Park LD DTS & PCM synced to 35mm
Posted by: marin888 - 2020-03-28, 12:59 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (4)

Jurassic Park LD DTS & PCM synced to 35mm





Jurassic Park [ruLes 1.0] by spoRv

Video sources: analog video captured directly from Laserdiscs.

Audio sources: uncompressed PCM and DTS soundtracks captured directly from Laserdiscs.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Jurass...422/page/1





BD Audio tracks:

    english soundtrack from U.S. NTSC DTS THX laserdisc, DTS 5.1 Digital Surround converted to 1536kbps 48KHz

    english soundtrack from U.K. PAL laserdisc, PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround Encoded converted to 1536kbps 48KHz

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    italian soundtrack from italian PAL laserdisc, PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround Encoded converted to 1536kbps 48KHz

    french soundtrack from french PAL laserdisc, PCM 2.0  Dolby Surround Encoded converted to 1536kbps 48KHz





Maybe someone can sync...




Jurassic Park 1993 35mm 1080p Cinema DTS v2.0

This release is NOT synchronized to official Blu-ray. To use other audio tracks, or subtitles with this release, you will have to synchronize them.








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BTW

MUSE Hi-Vision sample. Analogue HD!

https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?p=73635#p73635




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I was able to download from Dropbox, I've remuxed the .m4v file into an mkv container. 2.42GB
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  our member's blogs/sites
Posted by: spoRv - 2020-03-26, 01:10 PM - Forum: Everything else... - Replies (4)

I want to compile a list of blogs and sites, movie related, written by our own members.


https://doppiaggiitalioti.com


Probably no non-Italian speaker could be interested, but I want to note that this blog is simply superb!

Thanks Evit for your amusing job!

http://framecompare.com

After screenshotcomparison.com is dead, this is the only reliable site where to post our screenshots!

You save us all, Williarob!

http://blah-ray.blogspot.com

A blog about difference in sounds of movies released in blu-ray.

Great insights, Moshrom!

Pretty sure there are more, so let's post them - I'll update the first post with new entries!

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  The Thing (1982) - chess fix
Posted by: spoRv - 2020-03-25, 10:56 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - No Replies

The Thing has, as almost all movies, some mistakes, bloopers etc. and many could pass unnoticed, but the shots with computer chess can't... the second could be fixed moving the black queen IIRC, but the first has pieces in completely different positions; it should be replaced with the second shot, just placing the few needed pieces in properly positions.

Anyone want to dare to fix this? Big Grin

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