Another project complete – I thought this was going to be nice and simple but it wasn’t! I acquired a disc many years ago full of vintage special features, however it turns out it had many different issues. All of the 4:3 was authored with a 16:9 header, all of the audio was 5.1 with the extra channels empty and everything was out of sync. The TV documentary in particular was progressively out of sync and then when each commercial break occurred, the level of out of sync changed. The only way to fix it was to split it into commercial break segment, fix them one at a time by adjusting the audio length then recombining them – that alone took a week.

The main issue with this project is the audio. I had to use the DTS from the blu ray which is lacking in comparison to the laserdisc DTS. Unfortunately that disc is quite expensive but if anyone has it and is able to capture the DTS I would be happy to release a Version 2.

• BD25 with animated menus, background video, pop up menus and resume function
• Video taken from the Blu Ray
• English DTS, French AC3 and Spanish AC3 taken from the Blu Ray
• Commentary track from the laserdisc featuring Producer Lawrence Kasanoff and Visual Effects Supervisor Alison Savitch
• English, French and Spanish Subtitles
• A Journey Behind The Scenes
• Behind The Dragon TNT Special
• Behind Some Scenes Featurette
• British Premiere Featurette
• LA Premiere
• Siskel & Ebert Review
• 3 TV Interviews with Christopher Lambert
• Theatrical Trailer, Theatrical Trailer Workprint and 5 TV Spots
• Custom Cover, Disc Art and 8 page booklet featuring the Hollywood Reporter interview

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.

The photos below of the menu aren't great as the only way I could get them is from my phone while the disc is playing, software players disabled the screenshot function.






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.

Hi All,
 
I’m planning a Mad Max disc and want to include as many bonus features as possible. Below is the overall list, some of which I have and some of which I don’t – can anyone help?
 

• The Madness of Max – got
  
• Mad Max 2 Stunts – from the VHS World's Greatest Stunts - got
  
• Mad Max 2 Making Of - from the Japanese DVD - got but would like a fresh rip
  
• Mad Max 2 Lost TV Version - got
  
• Making Of Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome – got but only a youtube capture and it's incomplete
  
• Bobbie Wygant Interviews Mel Gibson and George Miller for Mad Max:Beyond Thunderdome - got
  
• Mad Max Motion Comic – got
  
• Mad Max, univers brûlant – got
  
• War Road – got
  
• Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road (2017) Itunes Exclusive – got
  
• Mad Max The Reunion - got
  
• Mad Max 40th Anniversary - got
  
  

Thinking about picking up the BD set since its pretty cheap for all 4 movies.

However I was wondering how well are the audio mixes represented on the DTS-HD MA 5.1 tracks? Any added foley effects or general remix nastiness?

I'd like to see these ported to Blu-ray, as it were. Have any of the features from the Laserdiscs been rereleased?

It turns out that there are two documentaries in the itunes extras for the Mad Max movies which haven't been released anywhere else. They are:

Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road (2017) - attached to MM:FR

Road War (2016) - attached to MM2 / The Road Warrior

Does anyone have the capacity to grab these for those of us that already have teetering piles of physical copies and don't need a digital version (least of all on an unwieldy platform like itunes)?

Cheers!

I'm looking for the following films that was shown on tv, conventions...   or if wish to trade i dont mind

DUST DEVIL: THE FINAL CUT - SUBVERSIVE CINEMA 5 DISC DVD SET.
DISC 1 - * Dust Devil: The Final Cut - 108 Min.
DISC 2 - * Dust Devil: The Work Print - 115 Min.
DISC 3 - * The Secret Glory - 97 Min.
DISC 4 - * Voice Of The Moon - 32 Min.
DISC 5 - * Dust Devil: The Final Cut CD Soundtrack.


Blade Runner - US San Diego Sneak Preview (June 1982)
Blade Runner - US San Diego Sneak Preview (June 1982)A San Diego Sneak Preview shown only once in May 1982.[4] This version is nearly identical to the 1982 US theatrical version, except that it included three additional scenes not shown before or since, including the Final Cut version (2007).[5]



Superman The Movie Australian Extended Cut  -  1988 TV  VERSION
Superman The Movie  Australian Extended Cut - 1990 theatrical TV  VERSION
Superman 2 Australian Extended Cut

I just joined. Been very interested in fan preservations, Star Wars OT is one of my favorites and acquiring 35mm presentations for home viewing. Thanks for accepting me.

It was bad enough that the 1953 version of WOTW directed by George Pal has had a new 5.1 remix by Ben burtt, but that it also uses a wide array of new sounds effects throughout the entire feature.  The previous stereo remix that was at least made from original elements is now gone from all new releases.  The mono track on the upcoming releases hopefully will be not overly filtered and compressed.



Then there is the 2005 remake version of WOTW, directed by Steven Spielberg. The original 5.1 DVD had low bass levels that were off the charts. Potential speaker damaging frequencies.  Great stuff.  The later 5.1 DTS-MA bluray track had the low frequencies lowered ever so slightly but unless one did A/B comparisons was close enough and still a speaker threatening house shaker. Everything was still there.  .. It's May 2020 and the Ultra bluray release with an Atmos audio remix is now out and reports are the house shaking low end has been neutered. Unlike the very negligible differences between the DVD and bluray audio, this time the low end us noticeably weaker and worst of all, no original audio is included on the Ultra bluray.

I'm trying to look for the following fanedit, if anyone has this please can u help

Matrix :: Rebirth :: THE "LONG-LOST" UNIGMA CUT
AuthorAllenSmitheeDate26-Oct-2009, 9:12 AM
Matrix :: Rebirth :: THE "LONG-LOST" UNIGMA CUT


Essential information about the fanedit:

Category of the fanedit: true fanedit
Tagline: Sometimes you will born twice!
Original movie title: The Matrix
Fanedit movie title: Matrix :: Rebirth :: THE UNIGMA CUT
Production company name: Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures
Fanedit crew name: UNIGMA Team
Fanedit crew members: 3 persons
Original release date: 31.03.99
Fanedit release date: 24.04.00 (VHS-Tape-Version)
Fanedit re-release date: 22.10.09 (DVD-, Xvid- & H264-Versions)
Original runtime: 02:10:44:000 (PAL)
Fanedit runtime: 01:56:57:000 (PAL)

Total running time of cutted / added / extended footage:

cutted: approx. 00:13:47 minutes (PAL)
added: approx. 00:00:00 minutes (PAL)
extended: approx. 00:00:00 minutes (PAL)
Detailed cutting report available (like at www schnittberichte com / www movie-consorship com): yes, available
Detailed cutting report link: here; pdf-format; PW as usual
Time period for fanedit pre-production (conceptuals, etc.): 4 months
Time period for fanedit production (fanedit realisation itself, etc.): 4 weeks
Time period for fanedit post-production (cover-arts, etc.): 1 week

Personal information about the faneditor's intention & achievement:

Matrix ONE is interpreted in many ways and there is still not THE INTERPRETATION itself. Every viewer comes to his own personal interpretation, based on personal experiences or the context-sensitive audio-visual movie content. This prologue is about the fanedit's intention and should represent no interpretation of the movie content itself, but consider the structure of the movie as such, as it was originally intended by the creators. The main problem with the Matrix Trilogy was the executive producer Joel Silver. He is known for action-packed mainstream productions. The production of matrix TWO and THREE depended on the commercial success of Matrix ONE. If matrix ONE was not successful, the movie still had to function as a stand-alone movie.

Due to the significant influence of Joel Silver on the complete production of the Matrix trilogy, the trilogy could not unfold its story how it was planned in the initial treatments and screenplays from the years 1996-2000. That Matrix One functions better as a classic exposition, the complete plot with Cypher and his betrayal at the end of the movie were removed, this plot makes more sense in the stand-alone version of the movie. The resistance and disbelief at Morpheus are better developed in part TWO and THREE. Matrix One now sets the focus on finding NEO, his training and the believe in hisself. Matrix One is now the start to a magnificent science fiction trilogy with a timeless complex topic.

Personal information about the faneditor's technical equipment:

Hardware equipment:
2x Intel Xeon QuadCore E5320 @ 2.44GHz; 4GB FB-Dimm 553 MHz ECC; Buffalo Terastation Pro II 2TB SATA-II RAID 10; Radeon X1650; Matrox TripleHead2Go digital edition; 3x Belinea TFT 2225S1W

Software equipment for:
a) pre-production: Celtx; StoryBook
b) production: VLC Media Player; Media Player Classic; SmartRipper; DGMPGdec; VFAPIConvEN; VirtualDub (incl. MPEG- & AC3-plugin); VirtualDubMod; TMPGEnc; HeadAC3he; Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3; WAV to AC3 Encoder; Avidemux; EditStudio; BeSweet; Gspot; eAC3to; bbmpg; AviSynth; MeGUI; VOB2MPG; ffdshow; WinFF; many codecs
c) post-production: AutoGK; Xvid4PSP; SUPER; Avi2DVD; Handbrake; DVD Flick; DVDforger; DVD-lab Pro; True BoxShot; Imandix Cover Pro; Adobe Photoshop CS3; Adobe Illustrator CS3; Nero Burning ROM SE; 7-Zip
Faneditor's homepage: coming soon
My upcoming projects: Matrix :: Reloaded :: THE UNIGMA CUT & Matrix :: Revolutions :: THE UNIGMA CUT, as it was originally intended!

Technical details about the fanedit (DVD-Format):

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (16:9) anamorphic
Sound: AC3 5.1; 48000Hz, 384kb/s
Codec: MPEG 2; 4751kb/s
Dimensions: 720x576
Language: english
Subtitles: none
TV-System: NTSC (23.976fps) / PAL (25.000fps) both available
Frames per second: 23.976fps / 25.000fps both available
Progressive/interlaced: Progressive
Static menues: yes
Animated Menues: no
Scene Selection: yes
Extras: Prologue, Deleted Scenes
DVD-ROM Extras: Covers, Detailed Cutting Report
Total Size: 4.7GB
Number of discs: 1

Technical details about the fanedit (AVI-Format):

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (16:9) anamorphic
Sound: AC3 5.1; 48000Hz; 384kb/s
Codec: Xvid; 560kb/s
Dimensions: 720x424
Language: english
Subtitles: none
TV-System: NTSC (23.976fps) / PAL (25.000fps) both available
Frames per second: 23.976fps / 25.000fps both available
Progressive/interlaced: Progressive
Total Size: 800MB
Number of discs: 1

Technical details about the fanedit (MP4-Format):

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (16:9) anamorphic
Sound: AAC 5.1; 48000Hz; 384kb/s
Codec: H264; 560kb/s
Dimensions: 720x424
Language: english
Subtitles: none
TV-System: NTSC (23.976fps) / PAL (25.000fps) both available
Frames per second: 23.976fps / 25.000fps both available
Progressive/interlaced: Progressive
Total Size: 800MB
Number of discs: 1


https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Matrix...T/id/10930

I have a featurette that's been framed incorrectly and it's really annoying me so I want to fix it. Unfortunately, it's:

1. Very low res (it's 4:3 SD in NTSC standard, 720 x 480)
2. Interlaced MPEG2

I've tried several ways of getting this de-interlaced for editing purposes but it always looks fairly awful. I've not really dabbled with Avisynth yet, but I think if possible it might be better just to leave the footage interlaced instead. Maybe if I explain what I'm trying to achieve, someone will be able to suggest the best way to go...

The bit of the video that I want to keep is a roughly 704 x 396 frame in the middle, because there are thin black bars on either side (~5-8px, some tape distortion so subjective) and much larger black bars on the top and bottom letterboxing from the 4:3 full frame. I want to keep it compatible with Blu-ray as it currently is but I'm not sure how to get it into an editable format without deinterlacing it first, and obviously 704 x 396 is not a BD compliant resolution either so I'm probably also going to have to upscale it to something like 720/1080 (704x396 upscales to either 1280x720 or 1920x1080 without any black bars).

Do you reckon I'm going to have to convert it to progressive to do the crop without it looking like crap? I know I can use ffmpeg to feed it through deinterlacing (but I think the only option is yadif, which is iffy in my experience) before cropping and upscaling, so it looks horrible even if I do all 3 in a single command. I think ideally I'd rather keep it interlaced, but I'm not sure how to retain interlacing in ffmpeg while also doing the crop and upscale.


Note: I just realised that the reason it's 720 x 480 interlanced but the actual image is only about 704 pixels wide is probably because 16/720 samples are used for horizontal sync/blanking when transmitting 720x480 digitally with rectangular (taller than they are wide) pixels. Therefore, I'm wondering if this video might have been encoded with the image squished horizontally. A newer encode is actually available but that looks much worse overall due to several aliasing issues. I imagine it probably isn't as simple as just stretching the image horizontally to correct this, but I can do that if that's all it needs. The older source is interlaced with the usual "one then the other" line arrangement but the newer one uses interleaved fields instead and seems to look worse for it.Basically, it's a horrible mess regardless of which encode I source from.