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Posted by: alleycat - 2019-10-08, 09:11 PM - Forum: General technical discussions
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Hi All,
What do you find is the best way to share your projects? Currently I am sharing via mega, but I only have 50 gig space and I often find I have to delete something to upload a new project, then sod's law someone asks for the one I just deleted! Are there any alternatives?
I know some people use myspleen but I'm not a member.
I've also had someone message me to say they get a transfer quote exceeded message from mega and it won't let them download without paying - I've never come across that myself?
One really good unlimited size method I have used is fromsmash, but you need an email address for the receiver and you have to reupload every time you subsequently send.
Thanks
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| Friday the 13th Part 3 Half SBS 3D |
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Posted by: alleycat - 2019-10-08, 03:53 PM - Forum: Released
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I did not create the video for this project myself, but I am posting here with the full blessing of the anonymous person who did. This version has never been released officially, all home video versions have been 3D Anaglyph so they use the paper glasses not the glasses that come with modern 3D TVs. It turns out when the DVD was created it used one of the cameras and the Blu Ray used the other, so the person who created it used combined both, to create a 'proper' 3D effect. This took an incredible amount of time as every frame needed to be aligned and colour corrected so the two matched.
This has since shown up on the internet as an MVC video, which is the way official 3D blu rays are encoded. The problem with the MVC version is the quality is reduced, it involves another encoding process and the two half size images are stretched to full size. The benefit of MVC is your 3D TV may not automatically detect Half SBS as 3D, you might have to tell your TV via the remote control. So take your pick but I prefer better quality.
The blu ray contains:
- Half SBS 3D Version
- English 5.1 DTS HD MA (exclusive to this release)
- Optional English Subtitles (with 3D depth)
- Fresh Cuts 3D Terror
- Legacy Of The Mask
- Slasher Films: Going For The Jugular
- Jason Actor Panel 2006
- Cast & Crew Reunion 2007
- Theatrical Trailer
PM me if interested, contributing members only please.
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| Ticker 2001 Two Versions and Two Commentary Tracks |
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Posted by: alleycat - 2019-10-08, 11:36 AM - Forum: Released
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This is not the best movie ever made by far but this should hopefully be the most complete edition of it. This combines five different previous editions into one, including two rare bootleg releases from Albert Pyun himself.
This custom made blu ray contains:
- HD 1080P AVC from the OOP Norwegian Blu Ray
- English 5.1 DTS HD and 2.0 Dolby Digital Audio Options
- Optional English Subtitles
- Audio Commentary against the theatrical version, which was censored by the Producers to remove a lot of Albert Pyun's criticism of the project
- Alternate Director's Cut in SD - released on a bootleg by Albert Pyun himself - rough quality with some effects incomplete but he said it was the best he could do with the materials he had access to. English 2.0 Dolby Digital Audio.
- Audio Commentary against the Director's Cut released by Albert Pyun, full uncensored version with the truth about what happened on production
- Making Of Documentary
- Trailer
- Animated Blu Ray menus and resume function
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.
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.
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| 4K UHD - Alternative audio thread |
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Posted by: BDgeek - 2019-10-05, 07:27 AM - Forum: Released
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This thread is intended to list all the alternate audio tracks synced to the 4K UHD release, specially original audio mixes, in order to obtain what could be called Definitive Archival Versions.
Please contribute with projects and information! Thanks!
Note: in the standard 23.976fps, 1 frame = 41.71ms (1000ms / 23.976)
Movie name (release year)
Track Specs (status) - Source - Rip / Sync Credits
Comments
Aladdin (2019)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 (original mix) - 2019 Worldwide Disney UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 7.1 48/24 (original mix; in sync) - 2019 Worldwide Disney BD - BDgeek
Similar Dynamic Range and volume levels
Doctor Strange (2016)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 - 2019 Worldwide Disney UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 7.1 (delay -292) - 2016 US Disney BD - Turisu
Compressed Dynamic Range and lower volume levels on the UHD Atmos track
Dumbo (2019)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 (original mix) - 2019 Worldwide Disney UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 7.1 48/24 (original mix; in sync) - 2019 Worldwide Disney BD - BDgeek
Tracks have similar Dynamic Range and volume levels
Hulk (2003)
DTS-HD MA 7.1-X 48/24 (remix) - 2019 Worldwide Universal UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 5.1 48/24 (original mix; delay -167) - 2008 Worldwide Universal BD - BDgeek
Iron Man (2008)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 (remix) - 2019 Worldwide Disney UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 7.1 48/24 (original mix; delay -1960ms) - 2008 Worldwide Paramount & 2013 Worldwide Disney BDs - Turisu
Compressed Dynamic Range and lower volume levels on the UHD Atmos track
Superman: The Movie (1978)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 (remix) - 2018 Worldwide Warner UHD-BD
DD 5.1 640kbps (70mm split surround original mix) - 2018 Worldwide Warner UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 5.1 48/24 (remix; in sync) - 2011 Worldwide Warner 'The Motion Picture Anthology 1978-2006' BD - BDgeek
DTS-HD MA 2.0 48/24 (35mm original mix; in sync) - 2011 Worldwide Warner 'The Motion Picture Anthology 1978-2006' BD - BDgeek
PCM 2.0 48/16 (upsampled form 44.1/16; 70mm mono surround original mix; in sync) - 1995 Japan Warner LD [NJWL-01013] - Booshman
The Avengers (2012)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 (remix) - 2018 Worldwide Disney UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 7.1 48/24 (original mix; delay +810) - 2012 Worldwide Disney BD - BDgeek
Compressed Dynamic Range and lower volume levels on the UHD Atmos track
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
DTS-HD MA 7.1-X 48/24 (remix) - 2018 Worldwide Universal UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 5.1 48/24 (original mix; in sync) - 2008 International Universal BD (non-NA) - BDgeek
Thor (2011)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 (remix) - 2019 Worldwide Disney UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 7.1 48/24 (original mix; delay -500ms) - 2011 Worldwide Paramount & 2013 Worldwide Disney BDs - Turisu
Compressed Dynamic Range and lower volume levels on the UHD Atmos track
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
DTHD 7.1-Atmos 48/24 (original mix) - 2019 Worldwide Disney UHD-BD
DTS-HD MA 7.1 48/24 (original mix; in sync) - 2014 Worldwide Disney BD - Turisu
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| Hi there! |
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Posted by: BDgeek - 2019-10-02, 11:47 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hello everyone!!!
I'd like to present myself as a complete movie aficionado , like most here I guess, and I could say a purist as well: very much interested in Theatrical Cuts, Original Color Timing and Original Mixes.
I've just found out about this forum a couple days ago through a user at blu-ray.com, and I'm just hooked!
I've been long time movie collector (almost 3 decades now), fan and avid reader of film, audio and home theater foruns.
Among those, I was a member and contributor (mostly financial, as I lack the skills and hardware to perform the magic some of the guys here can ) to some projects at OT.com, but along the last 5 years life caught up with me in a way that I had to distance myself from it all for a while.
Thankfully, I'm back now, full throttle and totally into 4K UHD!!!
With 4k UHD I guess we can finally say we're close achieving archival quality for movies at home (what an age to be a collector!!!).
Doombot,
So good to see you're an admin here!
I hope you can remember me as we used to be sort of 'e-mail buddies' about some 4 or 5 years ago before I had to distance myself from this hobbie.
We were then invested in securing LDs for audio preservation and sync with Blu-ray. We got quite a few through a buddie in japan (I think he's here now, but with a different nickname).
From what I've read so far, I've also seen quite a few familiar names like spoRV, BusterD, Jonno, PDB, jerryshadoe and many others. I've very glad to know you're all still hanging around!
Well, it's great to be here and I wish to contribute!
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| Highlander II - European Theatrical Cut - Preservation - Version 2! |
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Posted by: HippieDalek - 2019-10-01, 03:33 PM - Forum: Released
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Version 2.1 is now available!
Details here: https://fanrestore.com/thread-2840-post-...l#pid57882
Did you know there are five six different versions of Highlander II? Yep, five six! It's crazy.
- USA Theatrical Cut
- First European Theatrical Cut
- Second European Theatrical Cut
- Third European Theatrical Cut (Newly discovered)
- Renegade Version
- Special Edition
Sadly the European versions have been largely forgotten about, most likely because there has only ever been a single home release that contained the original English language audio track. Due to poor feedback the film was altered towards the end of it's run, which is why there are two European Theatrical versions.
The European versions are something like a half way house between the USA Theatrical and the Renegade; a lot of the additional content from Renegade is here but the ordering of the footage is very different and it loses a few scenes. And yes, Zeist remains intact! Much of the music throughout this version is strikingly different too. This is also the only version to contain the infamous "fairytale ending."
Back in 2008 a faneditor called Phineasbg created a preservation of the First European Cut, and I spent years trying to track it down. Once I finally got my hands on a copy I was disappointed to find that the picture quality was murky and the audio featured drop outs, glitches, missing segments and was also of overall poor quality.
Phineasbg did the an amazing job with what material was available at the time, but since then better quality visual sources have become available so I thought I'd have a go at putting together an updated preservation.
(Left: Phineasbg's Preservation, Right: This preservation)
![[Image: jhoOhg3.png]](https://i.imgur.com/jhoOhg3.png) ![[Image: s7pTK53.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/s7pTK53.jpg)
![[Image: JqR376g.png]](https://i.imgur.com/JqR376g.png) ![[Image: DwNj0Ea.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/DwNj0Ea.jpg)
As you can see, despite being a bit cropped, the visuals are much improved. However there is little I can do with the audio side. The original audio has only ever been released on a Hong Kong laserdisc, which is so rare that I have only ever spoken to one person who actually owns it. I now have my very own copy of the laserdisc and have used it for this project! I had hoped to get a new audio rip for this preservation but sadly I've been unable to contact the laserdisc owner again. Instead I've done what I can to patch and smooth over some of the rougher parts of Phineasbg's audio. This preservation would not be possible at all without all the hard work done previously by Phineasbg.
The project ended up being a lot more complex than I expected, in the end all of the following sources went into it!
![[Image: UiIhJ6p.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/UiIhJ6p.jpg)
Many of the picture sources are in native PAL. This preservation is presented at the correct 24fps, but 576p 24 isn't a widely accepted standard, so to preserve all the detail and the correct speed I've rendered the file at 720p 24. This is still a standard definition restoration though, so don't expect HD levels of detail.
I've also thrown together a handful of video extras (detailed in the image below), I've included these as a separate download.
There are some possibilities for a 2.0 release if anyone is interested:- Italian and German audio tracks
- One scene had to be reconstructed using the letterboxed Renegade DVD. I'd like to replace this with the Blu Ray cut to preserve detail, but currently I don't have a Blu Ray drive to rip my disc.
- I'm still looking into ways to improve the audio quality
As I have so many sources for every cut of the film, (including an excellent quality EU cut German surround track, and around 80% of the dialog and fx isolated from the Renegade cut) I'm attempting to reconstruct the audio from scratch. I've got about a quarter of the film done so far and it's sounding far better than I expected, so we'll see how it goes. I'll update if it all comes together.
I would still love to get hold of a fresh audio rip of the laserdisc though, so if anyone can help at all then please get in touch.
Anyway, I'll stop talking. PM for links and please let me know if you have any feedback.
![[Image: Wv8lTQY.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/Wv8lTQY.jpg)
![[Image: BeDRUw4.png]](https://i.imgur.com/BeDRUw4.png)
I've uploaded an older version of the UK Trailer reconstruction to YouTube if anyone wants a preview.
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