Does anyone have the LD with original mono?
The new 4K BD only has the 5.1 remix.
I'd say the THX LD (CLV and/or CAV) should be our best bet.

Thanks in advance

After hearing so many bad things about MI:2 I decided to give it a watch for the first time since I was a kid and honestly it wasn't that bad. The action was solid, it never got boring, and some of the music was awesome e.g. Injection and Nyah by Hans Zimmer, Take a look around by Limp Bizkit, and I Disappear by Metallica. I found out there exists a 3 and 1/2 hour workprint with some extra violence not in the theatrical. It's apparent in the middle of the movie that huge portions were cut to fit the 120 minute guideline for the studios who once again butchered John Woo's original vision. I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on MI:2 and this supposed 3 hour plus workprint

This is one I've done purely for my own enjoyment but I may as well share it. I'm working on redoing it to a slightly higher standard but depending on how that goes I may just release the version I already have, or perhaps even both as alternatives.

I recently rewatched Croweyes1121's HALLOWEEN: Revised Extended Edition, which reintroduces the 1981 TV scenes to spoRv's Fundamental Collection #006 THX-esque regraded release of the film. As it usually does, it irritated me how slow and unnecessary the bulk of the TV content was, and how mismatched it was with the rest of the film. However, one scene stood out to me as having some merit: the one after Loomis has the argument about kid Michael's treatment in 1964. He walks down the corridor then enters Michael's room and stands by the door, silently, watching him. Then he says a line which I feel explains the previous, painfully longwinded scene much more efficiently: "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me."

Whilst I like this part of the scene, it's got its own problems: there are some fairly questionable facial expressions from kid Michael, and the scene (like all others shot for the TV edit) is agonisingly padded out to hit that magic 2-hour runtime target. It also breaks the flow of the film where it sits in the Extended Edition, partly because the tone differs and it ruins the pacing, partly because it's very different visually (different colour, weird 80s wardrobe choices, and it's from a different film element than the rest of the film so has more damage/dirt). So, what I did was I snipped that one scene out, heavily cut most of the awkward cuts back and forth between Michael and Loomis, and stuck it at the beginning of the 2013 Blu-ray regrade as a prologue. I've kept the soundtrack as the original mono throughout.

As it stands, I haven't regraded the colour or attempted any cleanup, just lifted the video straight from the source and cut it for more dramatically effective timing. I'm happy with the edit, but not with the slightly distracting visual difference, so I'd like to give a conservative regrade a shot in DaVinci Resolve or similar. Incidentally, I'm considering trying to clean and regrade a similar insert for The Exorcist, so any tips would be helpful.

1. Would this be something you'd like to see?

2. Anyone got any particular suggestions or tips for approximating the colour regrade off the Blu-ray and/or cleaning up some of the dust/damage to the TV scene? I'm a complete beginner with that type of editing; all I've done in that respect is transcode to prores so I can actually use Resolve for the edit.

3. I'm considering making another version which uses the spoRv regrade rather than the Blu-ray, although I've been lucky enough to have seen a 35mm print of Halloween some years ago which I recall looking closer to the Blu-ray than to the THX colours approximated by spoRv's project. If there's interest, I might do two versions of the edit: one from each source.

UPDATE: RELEASED

From what I understand, the new Gremlins UHD is a new scan that far improves the image over the badly aged blu-ray. Would anyone have the ability to convert the new scan to 1080p? Either MKV or blu-ray would work. It sucks for us who cannot afford to upgrade to UHD to miss out on all the new remasters.

Thanks in advance.

Quantum Of Solace Open Matte (v1.0)

Project Info

Quantum of Solace (QOS) has a reputation as being the bad Craig James Bond..well until Spectre came out. I originally agreed with that opinion but after revisiting it recently, I found there is a lot to like. It gave closure to the CR plot-line, it is quick and to the point and never overstays it welcome, its beautifully shot, the action is suitable intense, etc. The only real problem I had was some of the truncated writing as a result of the writers strike and the way the action was shot. Whereas CR co-oped the Bourne action style, it kept a classical style of framing and cutting. QOS went full Bourne with the cutting and shaky cam to what I feel is the detriment of the film.

I found the open matte in the usually spot and was playing around with it till I got a vastly superior HDTV recording from X5gb. X5's HDTV had greater details, original subs and some grain but had a constant logo and was missing some frames at commercial breaks. So I combined the best of both worlds to get a new project out of it.

For audio, I was able to locate the Cinema DTS for this project will also include the normal BD track.

Video:
A combination of an HDTV broadcast and Web-DL for logo fill and missing frames

Audio:
1. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Cinema DTS Discs)
2. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the US BD)

Sync
Synced to the US (and most likely international) BD

Subs:
1. English (from the US BD)

Pics


35mm Colors (v1.0B)
https://i.imgur.com/6cCwQL4.jpg

Collaborators and Thanks (In order of help):
X5gb
Doombot

Hi All,

For my next Criterion preservation project I am going to be doing Jason and the Argonauts. 

I already have the commentary track from the laserdisc and some of the extra features but not all of them. What I really need is someone with the laserdisc who can capture the missing special features:

32. Pre Production Drawings
33. Lobby cards and the original one sheet
35. Casting notes
36. Production photos
37. Production memos
38. Production records
39. Creating the hydra sequence
40. Creating the skeleton sequence
41 Harryhausen models and art work from the Forrest J Ackerman collection
48. Videodisc production credits

I think all of these are still images, if someone could capture them I would only need a few seconds of each as I'll extract the images and build slideshows. Hopefully someone out there can help. I'm working with someone who makes covers and they have reproduced the voyage map from inside the laserdisc cover as a blu ray insert, looks gorgeous. 

Thanks

Has anyone with the ability to capture a laserdisc got the Criterion release of Halloween?

I'm looking to do a preservation of it, the audio has already been done in SpoRv's version but I'd love to get these extras:

Additional footage shot for the 1980 television release
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert give splatter movies the thumbs down while praising Halloween in a controversial 1980 Sneak Previews segment
Photo essay on the making of Halloween
Photo Essay on splatter films
Illustrated filmographies of John Carpenter, Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis
The cover also contains the famous review by Tom Allen (Village Voice)


Thanks

Hi All,

Having a bit of a nightmare. 

I've got an EAC3 track from a HDTV recording and it needs a few seconds adding to the start of it to make it in sync with the video. I've successfully managed to do this with eac3to.exe using "eac3to.exe input.eac3 output.eac3 +xxxms". The problem I've just discovered is on playback those extra seconds have a very loud buzzing sound on all channels. 

I can convert to the EAC3 to wavs, either add the silence to the original version or silence out the buzz in audacity fine, but I can't find any way of converting it back to EAC3, eac3to.exe says the conversion of wav to eac3 cannot be done. 

I could convert the wavs to DTSHD but I am very tight on disc space for this project and DTS HD is massive compared to eac3. 

Anyone have any suggestions? 

Thanks

I'm BedeHistory731, from both the OriginalTrilogy.com and StarWarsTrilogy.com forums. My love of fan-made preservations has driven me to this site. The work done on this forum is impressive and I'd love to join this community.

I'm not sure if this would go beyond the scope of this forum, since it verges on fan edit territory, but hear me out.

As Mark Kermode keeps telling everybody who'll listen, The Exorcist is one of the finest films ever made. However, the version of it that I would ideally like to watch as my default go-to edit does not currently exist.

The theatrical cut is a masterpiece, which is superior for the most part (in my opinion) to the "Version You've Never Seen" extended cut and subsequent re-edit for Blu-ray. It does however omit at least one or two small moments which I feel the absence of, having seen the extended cut many times over the years. Some of the additions make me cringe big time (call it heresy if you like, but I hate that damn spider walk and the extra Captain Howdy faces are so intrusive it's comical); others are smaller character moments which I feel enrich the film. For example, there's a very brief scene wherein Father Merrin asks Regan's middle name and I love it. I also like the scene with Merrin and Karras sitting in the stairwell discussing the "point" of the demon's antics, although I think I agree with Friedkin's assessment that it is rather obviously stating what the film spends much of its runtime showing us more implicitly ("show, don't tell" after all).

I'm considering attempting to assemble a very simple edit which adds very few of the "missing" scenes back into the theatrical cut in their respective places, leaving it otherwise untouched. This would be almost entirely for my own use, but if I'm going to do it, I figure I may as well share it with others who might fancy it as well. Alternatively, someone who is more au fait with the software and the process of creating such an edit might want to crack this out in an afternoon rather than waiting ages for me to get round to trying it myself.

Thoughts?