I'm told that the Japanese LD is the only disc that had digital sound. Does anyone happen to have it? I'm actually doing a reconstruction of the theatrical version and, although I know this isn't the theatrical version, I would hope that it would be more faithful than the 5.1 DVD/BD.

Anyone?

AMD come back with great CPUs, and quite good GPUs...

If someone here thinks about getting new CPU and/or GPU, I'd take AMD in serious consideration - actually, I'd buy their CPU for sure, best price/quality ratio at the moment, while I'd wait for few weeks for GPU.

Opinions?

Hello, my name is Robin, I'm from Mexico, and I like music very much, especially electronica, I would like to be part of this community, and little by little I will contribute with my music.
I hope to read them soon. Greetings.
sincerely, robin

Do any of you guys know anything about the mixes available of The Big Lebowski and which one is most theatrically accurate?

According to imdb, there should be a Cinema DTS out there I think https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/technical but I was curious if it might be worth getting the audio from a Laserdisc as well. Do any of you have the LD?

2024 edit: Retiring this as the new 4k remaster apparently fixes this issue and is available for purchase.
Thank you.

Hello,

Just a quick regrade to correct the blue colour filter that was applied to the 2k remaster of 'Project A Part II'.

Otherwise, the Cantonese audio and English subs are as found on the Eureka release.

24 gb MKV. PM for the Mega link.

The thread is tagged as versions, but it can also be for generic discussion of the film.  I've just compared the UHD BD to the 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition BD, and they are in sync all the way through to the end, so if you want to take the 24-bit DTS-HD MA 5.1 from the latter and mux it with the former, you can.  This has two potential advantages:

1. 24-bit audio instead of 16-bit;
   
2. demuxing branched UHD BDs, even with eac3to, can still result in sync issues, which you can avoid by taking the audio from standard BD.
   

Hello i am new to these forums, so i apologize if this post doesn't belong here.
I have been trying to use AvsPmod and the avisynth plugin auto overlay to create a hybrid of 2 different aspect ratios of the same film.

My question is, when i run the AVS script, will the end product look like what i see in the video preview? Or does it do a few "passes" to attempt to correct for the mismatched or imperfect frames?

Forgive my ignorance, i'm just not sure how everything works.

It processes a few frames per second, and some of them line up perfectly, others do not. does that mean my settings are incorrect?
Do i just wait for the preview to complete? at the rate it's going, it'll take a week or 2 to complete. 

Any help from people who have experience using this software would be tremendous.

Thank you for your time.

(This is just a joke, don't take it seriously.)

As many of you know, Blu Rays often come out with a strong green tint. I was thinking about why this could be.

My first assumption - I'm sure you all agree - is that that no sane human would think that it looks good.

Hence they must either be insane or not human. Since they are capable of producing good quality work, I am assuming they are sane. They only logical conclusion is that they are not human.

Now, I was already certain at this point, but I wanted to find proof or at least more convincing hints. So I thought about possible explanations.

Well, I found one.

Here's a picture of the electromagnetic spectrum including the spectrum visible for humans.



Now, you will notice that green is in the middle of this spectrum. On the borders of the spectrum we have red and blue. Blue and red together make up magenta, and that in turn is the complementary color for green. In other words, adding green to an image is equivalent of taking away magenta and vice versa.

What if the aliens have more pronounced magenta in their vision and thus need more green in an image to perceive it normally and with natural colors?

This made me recall images taken with modified cameras. As most of you know, digital image sensors are typically sensitive beyond the human visible spectrum. That is, they perceive some part of both the infrared and ultraviolet spectrum. Normally these are blocked out via both UV and IR filters. 

But these filters can actually be removed from a camera. An image taken with a camera like that comes out looking like this typically:



I did a quick test adding a strong green filter (in this case amplifying the green channel), and what do you know:



While still looking somewhat off, it looks overall more palatable and natural now. With a bit of fine-tuning it might almost look good.

Now, but Tom, you may argue, computer displays don't have any emissions beyond the visible spectrum. 

Well, this one took me a bit of research myself, I admit.

But I finally found a hint:



Human vision ranges from about 400 to 700 nm. But displays seem to emit signals beyond this. This could arguably create a magenta-colored tint in the eyes of the aliens, prompting them to overcompensate with green color.

I rest my case.

Hello everyone,

The 2k remaster of Project A Part II got released last year (most noticeably in the UK box set from Eureka). The transfer is pretty solid (IMO), but it looks like they added a day for night filter to the film. Everything looks a lot darker and more serious in tone than it need be, so I thought I'd correct it.

It might take me a while to get it finalised (I'm a little busy with work/study right now), but I thought I'd post some in-progress shots.










Here's a shot from the original version, the filter should be evident.


As for subs and audio, I'm pretty satisfied with what Eureka included, but if there's anything people would like to see added I'm all ears. Bear in mind that this is the HK cut of the film, so it mightn't be possible for me to add things like the VHS dub (which is elsewhere on the box set anyway).