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  Escape From New York - hybrid
Posted by: LucasGodzilla - 2018-11-25, 10:24 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (29)

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.

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Video Phantasm (1979)
Posted by: LucasGodzilla - 2018-11-25, 10:09 AM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (4)

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.


If it isn't obvious from that excerpt from the Phantasmagoria documentary, the movie originally had around three hours of footage, most of which serve as unnecessary backstory. Obviously, much of this footage has been trimmed out by Coscarelli himself in order to speed up the pacing of the movie. Over the course of time, several scenes have been released through different home releases of the movie, tallying up about ten minutes of deleted scenes.


There's also a small chunk of deleted footage recycled in Phantasm IV: Oblivion which served as padding and minor backstory, however, this probably chocked up to another mere ten minutes of deleted scenes.

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As you can tell though, unfortunately, much of this excised footage still remains to be officially released public which is a huge shame as a phan and as a general film enthusiast.

I actually ended up actually talking to Don Coscarelli himself at a screening of Phantasm at some independent theater in Santa Ana last October.

@LucasGojira (Oct 15 2018)

While he was signing some of my stuff, we talked a bit about the deleted footage and I ended up asking him if he would ever consider releasing an extended version of the movie with the cut footage added back in, to which he responded stating that although it wouldn't be the best version of the movie, it'd certainly serve as something worth checking out to all the hardcore phans out there in the world and that he may consider doing that as a fun side-project someday and that if it were to be made / restored, it would likely receive limited distribution.

As of right now though, I have no idea if that'll actually come to fruition, at least not anytime soon. The closest thing to that right now is this nine-year-old post...

"Newly Found P1 Deleted Scene" - DustinM (Phantasm Community)

Maybe Phantasm Exhumed has more stills of deleted scenes but I don't know, I'm currently waiting out for a new batch print of the Red Planet Edition.

On a side-note, I'd just like to post these behind-the-scenes images from an old tweet I stumbled across one day for anyone who's interested at just taking a quick peek.


I wish there's more BTS footage and stills but it seems to also be rather sparse.

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  Basic Instinct (1992) - 2.0 Surround
Posted by: NeonBible - 2018-11-24, 12:48 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (31)

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?

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  Stephan King's IT (1990)
Posted by: yallinthehall - 2018-11-22, 02:08 AM - Forum: Released - Replies (2)

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.

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  Resolution/Aspect Ratio Cheat Sheet
Posted by: PDB - 2018-11-21, 08:18 PM - Forum: General technical discussions - Replies (7)

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

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  Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Posted by: Chewtobacca - 2018-11-21, 06:19 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (15)

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

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  The Protector (1985) (US version)
Posted by: Serums - 2018-11-19, 02:27 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (2)

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.

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  Yami no teiô kyûketsuki Dracula (1980)/ Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned
Posted by: Booshman - 2018-11-19, 05:31 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - No Replies

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.

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  UTOPIA Open-Matte
Posted by: HaganeNoYoshi - 2018-11-18, 11:17 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (3)

Hey guys. It is the first time I post here, so please forgive me if I say something dumb or if someone else already had this idea.

So, let me tell you how did I come to have this idea: While browsing around the web, me and a friend found a Spanish dub version of UTOPIA (we are mexicans, so we found it interesting), but I noticed something interesting: It was Open-Matte. Checking the Blu-Ray and the video files we had, we noticed it was not the case for the original version of it.
So, my idea was to mount the english audio on the Open-Matte spanish video. Problem is, the Spanish broadcast has cut scenes, so, it's not that simple.
I guess it'd be still possible to do by putting the spanish and english scenes together so nothing gets lost, but it'd imply to have multiple aspect ratios in one file, which might be annoying to some people.
Also, because most of the spanish broadcast apisodes are in 720p, they'd have to be upscaled to match the BRRip version, and also, they'll have to be edited to remove the channel's logo.

This is no more than a early stage idea, and I just wanted to share it with you to see if you'd like to see this project done.
And, of course, any help wuld be received gladly, for as I'm not an expert when it comes to fan edit, but even without help, I think I can do something.

Thanks a lot for reading.

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  Is it possible to increase the PM size a little?
Posted by: Chewtobacca - 2018-11-18, 02:00 AM - Forum: Bug reports and suggestions - Replies (4)

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