A friend is loaning me a very rare LD this month and it suddenly dawned on me that it would be very helpful to at least do a capture of the PCM and ac3 tracks, and even more so to do a basic video capture as well. Does anyone have a cheap and simple suggestion on how to do so with only a regular desktop PC?

Hi there. I'm a brand new member with no posts, so I'm assuming this is why I can't PM; Some kind of anti-spam measure or similar. I joined because I found a thread on this forum wherein a member mentioned having a workprint of The Football Factory which is something of a white whale for me, and he said to anyone wanting a link to PM him. I can't find any information about who can and cannot PM, so I was hoping someone could enlighten me.

Well, the new 4K scan comparison came in on Caps-A-Holic. I don't know how I feel about this new version since it seemed to be a little more zoomed in than the Shout! release as well as losing the cold-blue color grade (although idk how accurate that even was). I saw this release in a theater as well and noticed that they seemed to have botched the surround audio quite a bit, with the ambient audio noticeably ducking rather annoyingly.

Since Chewtobacca created a thread talking about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, I decided to make a thread talking about one of my personal favorite cult-classic horror movies, Don Coscarelli's Phantasm. Although y'all can post whatever about the movie, the main thing I do want to talk about is the original first workprint cut of the movie.

Haven’t seen this in a long time and fancy a rewatch.

I own the R2 DVD which unfortunately contains a faulty 5.1 track (missing LFE).

Just wondering, has anyone captured the LD surround track?

If not does anyone have the Dolby Digital 2.0 track from the R1 uncut DVD?

I have a digital copy of the film taken from the BD in 1080p. 
The Blu Ray version of this film is in the original 4:3 as opposed to 16:9.
As many people know, the film was originally a two part mini series on ABC.
When it was released on DVD and Blu Ray, it was edited into a full length film.
My edit preserves the transitions and credits, separating it into different parts, by using the titles and extended scenes from upscaled Laserdisk rips in the original broadcast format.

There is a great guide that I found here:

https://www.google.com/amp/blog.chameleo...-sheet/amp

It has the H by W for each of the major resolutions. Which is particularly useful if you are cropping out black bars in an official release.

Here are the resolutions used in the home cinema world.

4kHD/2160p (QuadHD)

Frame Aspect Ratio / Resolution (Square Pixels 1.0)

1.33:1 (4:3) / 2880x2160
1.66:1 (5:3) / 3585x2160
1.77:1 (16:9) / 3840x2160
1.85:1 / 3840x2076
2:1 / 3840x1920
2.35:1 / 3840x1634
2.39:1 (referred to as 2.40) / 3840x1607
2.44 / 3840x1574

1080p

Frame Aspect Ratio / Resolution (Square Pixels 1.0)

1.33:1 (4:3) / 1440x1080
1.66:1 (5:3) / 1792x1080
1.77:1 (16:9) / 1920x1080
1.85:1 / 1920x1038
2:1 / 1920x960
2.35:1 / 1920x817
2.39:1 (referred to as 2.40) / 1920x803
2.40:1 (Blu-Ray) / 1920x800
2.44 / 1920x787

720p

Frame Aspect Ratio / Resolution (Square Pixels 1.0)

1.33:1 (4:3) / 962x720
1.66:1 (5:3) / 1195x720
1.77:1 (16:9) / 1280x720
1.85:1 / 1280x692
2:1 / 1280x640
2.35:1 / 1280x545
2.39:1 (referred to as 2.40) / 1280x536
2.44 / 1280x525

Edit: Coming off Tom’s post I cleaned the 1.33 and 1.66 entries

It's probably a good idea to have a generic thread to discuss this film, especially the different versions of it.  This thread is also where I'l park useful links and other information for future reference.

IMDb
UCLA Workprint Details
2016 BD Review


The ShoWest Trailer

Hello,
Would anyone happen to have the laserdisc audio for the US version of Robert Clouse's The Protector? Or might there be a decent track from a DVD?

For clarification, we have a scan of the Japanese laserdisc, and for the sake of clarity my friend feels that the US laserdisc's soundtrack might blend better with it than a DVD source.

I do have the R4 release, but as with many HKL titles, I suspect that it might be a downmix.

Thanks.

I've put together a cut of this movie with dual audio, original Japanese and the pretty bad English dub. The source for the video is the Japanese DVD, which is slightly longer than the US VHS due to them cutting out any establishing shot with onscreen Japanese text.

I've gotten a rip down that someone synced the US audio to the Japanese video, resulting in areas of silence.

I have masked out the Japanese text so that the original length is retained (other than a couple of brief shots). This was I was able to preserve most of the Japanese audio not have any abrupt cuts. I also filled in the gaps in the US audio, so that the video is continuous and stays synced up throughout.

I would like to include English subs of the Japanese dub, as I'm sure the original dialogue is a lot less clunky than the US dub is. I'm looking for help for either someone to point me in the direction of a direct translation of the Japanese audio, or someone who is willing to watch the movie and translate it for me.

If you can help please give me a shout.