Hi All,

Probably showing my lack of knowledge here so please take it easy on me!

I've had a few different projects captured by a company previously and I really need to do something with them. They are currently large pro res SD files, some are from NTSC Laserdiscs and some are from PAL & NTSC VHS tapes.

When they were captured they were using high spec equipment and time based correctors etc so they look pretty good at the moment, but if I can I'd like to improve them. Eventually they'll be going onto blu ray as H264 files, staying as SD, with uncompressed audio.

I've read spoRv's guide on analogue capture but that seems to be more getting the source captured rather than dealing with it after it's captured. I’ve used premiere, virtualdub and ripbot many times – not used avisynth before but happy to learn.

Here are some of my thoughts:

• For anything that’s 29.97 fps I understand the best approach is to IVTC and decimate back to 23.976? (or is that only for HD?) For anything that’s 25 fps should I just leave it at 25 fps?
• I’m not sure where to begin in terms of sharpening the image – I appreciate you can’t create detail that isn’t there so not sure if there is anything I can do.
• Most of these titles have never been released on DVD or Blu, the odd one has in a much shorter version and for those I’ll try using DrDre’s colour matching tool
• I found this guide that has a lot of detail on filtering in Virtualdub https://www.engon.de/audio/vhs4_en.htm

Has anyone got any thoughts or other suggestions?

Thanks all

I'm a huge fan of Nigel Kneale and the Quatermass films.

Found this article about the 2005 live version and thought it was ripe for a preservation

http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2015/12/the-qua...xperiment/

Don't suppose anyone had the Broadcast version?

This place looks legit as hell. Excited to check out, and maybe contribute to projects. 

I'm a video producer/editor.
I co-host a movie podcast called Swimfans.
I have a twitter: @Diatron5

Nice to meet everyone.

Update 2020-05-29: https://fanrestore.com/thread-3199.html - The Grindhouse Version is released! 

Update 2020-05-18 : https://fanrestore.com/thread-2986-post-...l#pid61300 - The print is scanned!

Update 2020-01-28 : https://fanrestore.com/thread-2986-post-...l#pid58472 - The print is found! 

With the projects I've been working on I've obviously ended up with a reputation as "The Highlander Guy", especially when it comes to Highlander 2. Recently I've been getting a lot of messages here and other places from people who've found 35mm prints of Highlander 2 around the world and suggesting I should try and organise raising funds to buy and scan one of them. Some of these people have even offered to donate.

I am the first to admit that I am way out of my depth here, I've donated to projects like this before but never organised one, so I initially laughed these ideas off. I've only just entered the world of editing again after a very long break so scanning a 35mm print seems like a huge leap. However I got in touch with another user who has plenty of experience with film scanning and asked for their honest advice. They talked me through the process of buying/renting a print and even offered to put me in touch with a scanner they trust. As a result the whole process seems a lot more possible now, and also a lot cheaper than I had assumed it would be. 

It seems that prints for Highlander 2 aren't that uncommon, with prices mostly around the $200-$300 mark, though there is one currently on ebay for close to $1000! It also seems that they are mostly in excellent condition. 

For a while I've been thinking about trying to fix the colour grading of the Blu Ray and using it to reconstruct the US and EU cuts of the film in HD, then using the various DVDs to fix and patch the CGI shots. Obviously if we had a 35mm scan to work from this would give much better results. Also I believe one of the 35mm prints for sale is of the European Cut of the film; if it's intact that would allow for near perfect HD restorations of the US, EU and Renegade cuts.

I've not spoken directly to the sellers or scanners yet, I don't want to pester them for details now and back out later, but I've got a rough idea of how much the whole process should cost. Like I said, it would be a lot cheaper than I expected, but still much more than I could comfortably spend on a hobby project. So I thought I'd post about it hear to try and gauge how much interest there would be in this project, and how many people might be willing to donate towards it. This is not a request for money, just a post to see if this project might be feasible. 

So if you're interested and want to contribute in any way then please send me a message with your pledge, advice an/or recommendations. No amount is too small and I won't be asking for any actual money unless the project actually goes ahead. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to pledge publicly in the thread.

If there is enough interest then I'll start talking directly to the scanner and sellers and get specifics. At that point I'll ask for final pledges after I've been able to give full details of the print and scanner I'd be using.

I've got other projects I want to work on before this, and like I said it doesn't appear to be a rare print, so there's not urgency or time limit to this. I'm just curious to see if there's enough interest to make this idea a reality.

Another project complete. Pretty much all the credit for this goes to spoRv, as the video and audio is taken from the Halloween Fundamental Collection. Aside from being authored as a blu ray, the main benefit of this project is all the special features from the Criterion Laserdisc are preserved and as far as I am aware some of them never have been before.

• 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 Halloween Fundamental Collection by spoRv
  
• Original chapter stops used on the laserdisc
  
• English 1.0 LPCM taken from the LD
  
• Music & Effects Track 1.0 LPCM taken from the LD
  
• Criterion audio commentary taken from the LD
  
• English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  
• Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
  
• The Night He Came Home (illustrated making of - SD)
  
• Review by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert (SD)
  
• Illustrated filmographies of John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence (SD)
  
• Splatter: A Genre Guide (SD)
  
• Extra scenes from the TV Version (SD)
  
• Laserdisc Production Credits (SD)
  

Hi All,

As part of my Jason and the Argonauts project I need all of the special features from the Criterion Laserdisc. I've been asking around on fanres and OT if anyone already has this disc and can capture it but I haven't heard anything, however I've found it on ebay. If anyone can capture it i'd be more than happy to pay for it to be shipped to them and as a fee they can keep the disc for themselves. 

Doesn't have to be bit perfect or anything, most of the extras are image galleries. All I need are chapters 30-49 capturing from disc 4, and for the images I just need a few seconds of each. 

Thanks

WARNING: you should attempt this only if you can't/don't want to afford a professional rescue service, and/or you do not care too much to lose any data. DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

Well, two days ago, suddenly, one of my internal HDD started to click like a crazy! Of course, as it is one of internal drive, no dropping, shocks etc. occured.
So, out of the blue, I was at risk of losing years of projects!

Checked the drive with CrystalDiskInfo, it was at risk - really? - so I tried to recover as much as I can.
I started with few MBs of personal data and, despite I was able to backup them, speed rate was sooo low, going from few MBs to zero, up and down, and clicking sounds continue. I tried with bigger files, few GBs, and after some up and down, it stuck at zero bytes transferring speed...

What should I do now? Freezing trick? No way, it would not work.
Professional data recovery? At €€€ (up to 800, more or less) I can't afford it, and, frankly, even if important to me, there were "only" free time projects, albeit fruit of hundred, thousand hours of work...

Then, I had a crazy idea in mind... as the clicking sounds are obvious symptoms of mechanical problems, I thought that maybe the arms moved out of their positions - how, and why, I have no idea. So, the right thing to do would be to take them back to their right posizion. But how, without opening the drive, and destroy all data?

Thought I'd throw this one out to you guys to see if anyone is interested enough to 'fix' the CGI in the 2011 The Thing by darkening it as seen in Rob Agers 'Visual effects psychology: THE THING (1982 vs 2011)' which does make it look a lot better.

Ha ha, I'm sure many of you knew I'd be looking at another Highlander project now that I'm taking a break from Highlander 2. 

Compared to the other films in the franchise Highlander 3 is a lot more simple; only three versions with minor differences, so I'm going to use this as an experiment to learn about implementing seamless branching in MKVs to allow all three versions to be viewed. 

I own various different releases of this film, but I only own the Director's Cut version on laserdisc. Obviously the visual quality is less than ideal, but on top of that I currently have no way to actually capture video from LD. 

So I'm wondering if anyone has any of the Director's Cut DVDs and could provide me with the following CGI enhanced shots:

Kane teleporting himself to New York
   

Kane using magic to steal a pair of sunglesses
       

The final quickening sequence
   

Sadly I think all releases of the Director's Cut version were 4:3 letterboxed, so the quality won't be much better than the laserdisc, but at least it's something.

Also I was wondering if anyone could clear something up for me regarding Highlander 3's US Theatrical Release. I always understood it that the film was released to theatres without the above CGI effects, and that these were added later for home video. I can't say for sure myself as I'm in the UK, but a US friend swears blind that the version he saw on release day in the US featured the CGI effects, and claims that all the US home releases other than the Director's Cut DVDs have been cut. 

So what actually happened with this film in the US? Most resources I can find online point towards the Director's Cut only being on home video, but I'd love to have it confirmed. 

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello!

I'm looking for the English digital audio of this Laserdisc edition, could someone help me?

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/02010/403...ey-Pit-The

Thanks in advance.