Hello,
im a huge fan of this movie. Some Months ago, i wrote the the Carpenter Fanbase to ask them, if there is any chance they will release a 35mm Edit or something similar of their movie. Sadly they couldn't help me.

Are there any future plans of doing a 35mm edit of this Movie here on FANRES by someone? Im pretty sure, many ppl want to enjoy this Movie in a near cinema atmosphere.

Thank you

Jon

Hello everyone! :)

To those who don't know me from the bluray.com forum. I just want to let everyone here know I'm currently working with the UK company Eureka on their Hong Kong bluray releases. And I need your help! :)

I'm looking for someone who has a large HK laserdisc collection with the ability to rip audio.

I'm currently looking for the HK laserdisc of City Hunter put out by Star.

I want Eureka to use the impressive stereo audio from that LD as another option to go with the mono track. I was hoping that some of you on this forum might be able to supply a audio rip of this and for future releases.

If anyone can help please contact me ASAP
Thank you :)

A good friend introduced me to this phenomenal place, and I'm beyond impressed. All the work that is done here to restore films is truly amazing. I, myself, enjoy collecting and archiving old VHS tapes and LaserDiscs. I look forward to learning more about restoration and being a part of the community. Thanks.

This is more or less a copy of the thread in the In Progress-forum, except for the paragraph before the thumbnail comparison.

I remembered this movie somewhat fondly from my younger years. In particular I remember I found it rather creepy. 

When I watched the Blu Ray, I had none of that feeling anymore. Was almost like I was watching a different movie. It all felt very slapsticky and almost like a comedy.

Now, while that *is* partly how the movie actually is, a large part of that is the grading. It's much too bright and low-contrast on the Blu Ray. Looks almost cartoonish and rather unfilmic imo.

Found 6 35mm screens (of the actual reels) on eBay. Decided to use DrDre's tool to make a LUT out of those and the corresponding Blu Ray screenshots. Did that. Modified LUT a little in Photoshop: Reduced the input contrast to fix excessive contrast from a bad 35mm photograph and clipping etc., then compensated with curves after the LUT. Always works, heh. Also compressed and lowered the shadows to give a more dark/gloomy feel that resembles the 35mm. 

Overall from looking at it, I would say the differences in general are:
- Darker shadows (thus higher contrast and more facial definition and "atmosphere")
- Desaturated blues/cyans
- More saturation in reds/oranges and in general less color variety in tungsten-looking scenes

Source I used is the IT Blu Ray, the highest Bitrate source I could find. They all use the same master from what I can tell on caps-a-holic, so it was a simple matter of choosing the highest bitrate source.

Am quite satisfied with the result, currently uploading, will be putting up on Blutopia.

Also used a grain plate to make it a still a little more filmic and hide the compression artifacts on the original Blu Ray source. Audio is FLAC 5.1 (from the original DTS-HD MA, lossless transcode) and also a Dolby Headphone track I prepared from the original track with foobar2000 and the Dolby Headphone plugin; as always, took care to avoid clipping by setting the correct amplification in the plugin settings.

Thumbnail comparison:


Available on Blutopia now.

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Capture of the PCM Surround soundtrack from Coming to America LaserDisc (LV 32157 I believe) and synced to the Paramount Blu Ray.

I did not capture it myself. Someone on another site known as "theswillman" created a LaserDisc preservation project. However the end product was only a DVD5, so the sound was compressed to AC3.

I requested separately to get hold of the PCM capture and he/she was happy to give it to me. The only information I have is "this is the raw PCM from the player TOSlink out, with nothing else done to it." and it was given to me in FLAC 24bit format. So I cannot guarantee it is bit-perfect.

I mostly just removed the side change silence and fixed a couple of instances of drift.

Also I don't have BD ripping capabilities so had to source the movie rip from elsewhere. I synced this PCM to the AAC 5.1 track from the rip. I hope it is accurate enough. When testing I notice the sync is not completely perfect with the video. Sometimes looks good, other times slightly out of sync. I thought it was my work but I notice it on the AAC too. I wonder if this is just normal as I don't normally pay so close attention when watching a movie.

An interesting article:

https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/7878

Ok, here is the idea: make a complete BD makeover for the amazing fundamental collection with menus, multiple tracks, scene selection and bonus extras.
This will be a standardized disc structure project so it wil be usable for other project unrelated to the Fundamental Collection.

Now I'm working on a complete mockup of the project in photoshop and illustrator to share with you guys and get feedback.
In parallel I'm working on some intro splash screens for the forum logo and for the Fundamental Collection one, if you have any ideas, please share them!

Some specs:

- Multilanguage menu: available in Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano
- Scene Selection
- Language and Subtitle selection
- Video angle option to see the movie with official/fundamental color timing*
- Bonus and EasterEgg

*still lot of WIP to make this work but I think i can make it happen, maybe on a 50gb/100gb disc edition to preserve quality, or with a highly compressed official coloring track just to see the differences.

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ai-can...ny-photos/

Sounds and looks very interesting, I can see it having use in restoring videos as well, what you think?

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Hello everyone, you may have heard or seen some of my posts arround the net (specificaly places like OT.com/Original Trillogy.com)
Just a small introduction to myself before the project, Hello, my name is Kalhi, in a 19 yearold video editor, i enjoy attempting to restore films that the public just dont have access to, and for the past 3 years ive been gathering materials to remaster the little known ROBOTECH THE MOVIE.

Only released (test marketed) in the bally-view Metroplex mall, Tx in 1986, Given an extremely small Home video release (argentinian VHS release, UK VHS release, a Netherlands Laserdisc release, and (only one copy known) US Screener copy.
The film was never given any modern release, besides a chopped up Workprint that was edited to remove megazone content, and added to the bonus disc of the A&E Robotech dvd set.

The film quietly and quickly dissipated as it was overshadowed by other films, such as Transformers the movie, and pirates.

The film was a re-edit of the Japanese OVA Megazone 23, witch was released the previous year in 85', and the Japanese TV Series, Super dimension cavalry Southern cross, witch made up the second generation of the robotech TV series.

there's a little backstory for thoes of you who are unaware of the film.

Over the past years i have gathered all material needed to rebuild the film from the ground up, finding myself (thanks to a freind) an actual tape copy (i originaly bought a bootleg of the film for 50$), i bought Megazone 23 on Laserdisc, as well as its sequel and its sequel's english dub (the entire cast from robotech the movie reprised their roles for it) and the animation that was commissioned for the film (CANNON PICTURES, the film's distributors, thought the film had quite the dark ending, as the main character basically looses the flight) so a new ending was commissioned, around 11 minuets of animation, giving the film a more lighthearted ending) 
I also grabbed Southern cross on DVD, Megazone 23 on DVD and everything else needed, and started to work on the film, sadly my harddrive and PC died, so i had to start it all over again, a year+ later i now own alot more, Animation refference sheets, Soundtrack releases, and promotional mateiral (all used as extras) aswell as the original cut of the film (a 10 min Work in progress version of the film, witch harmony gold showed off in 1986 at their GALAXY OF THE STARS event, where the movie and the robotech's sequal series 'Sentinels" where anounced), that very early workprint surfaced in the early days of youtube, now i own a copy of the original master tape, that will be added as a bonus along with original television spots and such) basicly ive come here to see if youguys are interested in seeing this project finished and released, aswell as the idea of donating to alow me to finish the project, since the southern cross boxset i own was remastered lousily, with over exadurated colors (mostly blue) and a very blury image quality, i need to get my hands on the original japanese boxset witch wasent remastered, it was taken from the original broadcast masters, witch are of higher quality, and have more natural colors, this film has been a strange intrest of mine, so weird that a film would be worked on for months, and then just vanish all of a sudden with little to no fanfare.

sorry if the text is so dense, thought id give an indepth look at the restoration progress and the effort needed.