I've been spending the past few too many months on a personal project cleaning up a whole film by digitally removing dirt from more than 1000 frames, dot by dot, splotch by splotch, scratch by scratch. All dirt that Universal never ever bothered cleaning (and probably never will) before dishing it out in blu-ray.
I wondered how I could convey the amount of work that is spread all through-out its 98 minutes running time so I came up with the idea to make one single image with all the patches fused into one single layer and here it is:


I called it "Universal dirt", post-modern art of sorts.

And I made this image when the frames fixed were "only" 660. I ended up fixing 1000 frames in total... probably there are many dots that ended up behind the bigger patches but you get the idea. Each element is a little patch that covers seamlessly some type of damage or dirt on the original film. It's what Universal should have done in the first place, honestly.
I figure it would have taken me only 3 weeks if that was my actual job, probably a lot less with different tools, but I learnt an invaluable lesson: never promise to yourself "I'll just fix a couple of things" if you know you're OCD

For now, I'll plan a single aspect ratio version in 70mm, seeing that I've not yet found the best way to get rid of that damn ghosting in the open matte version that isn't incredibly time-consuming even by the standards of time-consuming methods. Needless to say, preliminary specs are as follows:

VIDEO
Resolution: 1080p (BD), 480p (NTSC DVD), 576p (PAL DVD)
Aspect ratio: 2.20:1

AUDIO
English (Viz dub, THX Surround EX 6.1, main feature only)
English (Viz dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
English (Viz dub, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0)
English (Cloverway dub, THX Surround EX 6.1, main feature only)
English (Cloverway dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
English (Cloverway dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
French (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
French (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
German (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
German (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
Italian (Mediaset dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0)
Italian (Shin Vision dub, THX Surround EX 6.1)
Italian (Shin Vision dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
Italian (Shin Vision dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0)
Japanese (THX Surround EX 6.1)
Japanese (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
Japanese (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0)
Castilian Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
Castilian Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
Mexican Spanish (THX Surround EX 6.1)
Mexican Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
Mexican Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0)

SUBTITLES
English
English (rhyming)

English SDH (Viz)
English SDH (Cloverway)

French
French (rhyming)
German
German (rhyming)

Spanish
Spanish (rhyming)
Italian
Italian (rhyming)
Dutch
Dutch (rhyming)
Hungarian
Hungarian (rhyming)

Japanese
Portuguese
Portuguese (rhyming)

The above spec list is not final, which is most true for the subtitles; I might have to drop some of the subtitle options, ultimately, and I have no illusions that I'll be able to get everything I want for this project. But I'll do my darnedest with what I do have.

This thread will cover a project I'm currently considering: the restoration of the classic Saturday morning cartoon adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and Group W Productions. The release would be structured as follows:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Half-Shell (the full pilot movie, approximately 110 minutes in length)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1 (the pilot movie split up into five individual episodes)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 2 (all thirteen episodes of the second season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3, Part 1 (episodes 1-12 of the third season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3, Part 2 (episodes 13-24 of the third season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3, Part 3 (episodes 25-36 of the third season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3, Part 4 (episodes 37-47 of the third season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 4, Part 1 (episode 1 of the syndicated fourth season and the Vacation in Europe arc)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 4, Part 2 (episodes 1 and 2 of the Saturday morning fourth season and the rest of the syndicated fourth season, plus Beyond the Donatello Nebula)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 4, Part 3 (the rest of the Saturday morning fourth season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 5, Part 1 (episodes 1-9 of the fifth season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 5, Part 2 (episodes 10-18 of the fifth season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Planet of the Turtleoids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 6 (all sixteen episodes of the sixth season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7 (all fourteen episodes of the seventh season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 8 (all eight episodes of the eighth season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 9 (all eight episodes of the ninth season)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 10 (all eight episodes of the tenth and final season)

And this is the order I propose, based on the order proposed by Mark Pellegrini of the TMNT Entity blog:

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: HEROES IN A HALF-SHELL

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 1
Turtle Tracks
Enter the Shredder
A Thing About Rats
Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X
Shredder & Splintered
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 2
Return of the Shredder
The Case of the Killer Pizzas
The Incredible Shrinking Turtles
It Came from Beneath the Sewers
The Mean Machines
Curse of the Evil Eye
Enter: The Fly
New York's Shiniest
Splinter No More
Invasion of the Punk Frogs
Teenagers from Dimension X
The Catwoman from Channel Six
Return of the Technodrome
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 3, PART 1
Beneath These Streets
The Old Switcheroo
Burne's Blues
Turtles on Trial
April Fool (or, April Foolish)
Sky Turtles
Attack of the 50-Foot Irma
The Maltese Hamster
The Fifth Turtle
Enter the Rat King
Turtles at the Earth's Core
Attack of Big MACC
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 3, PART 2
The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
20,000 Leaks Under the City
Take Me to Your Leader
Four Musketurtles
Turtles, Turtles Everywhere
Cowabunga Shredhead
Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers
Camera Bugged
Green with Jealousy
Return of the Fly
Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
Mutagen Monster
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 3, PART 3
Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
Pizza by the Shred
Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady
Beware the Lotus
Blast from the Past
Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
Michelangelo's Birthday
Usagi Yojimbo
Case of the Hot Kimono
Usagi Come Home
The Making of Metalhead
Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 3, PART 4
The Turtle Terminator
The Great Boldini
The Missing Map
The Gang's All Here
The Grybyx
Mister Ogg Goes to Town
Shredderville
Bye, Bye, Fly
The Big Rip-Off
The Big Break-In
The Big Blow-Out
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 4, PART 1
Plan Six from Outer Space
Tower of Power
Rust Never Sleeps
Venice on the Half-Shell
Ring of Fire
Shredder's New Sword
The Irish Jig Is Up
Elementary, My Dear Turtle
April Gets in Dutch
Northern Lights Out
Turtles on the Orient Express
The Lost Queen of Atlantis
Artless
A Real Snow Job
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 4, PART 2
The Dimension X Story
Son of Return of the Fly II
Turtles of the Jungle
Michelangelo Toys Around
Peking Turtle
Shredder's Mom
Four Turtles and a Baby
Turtlemaniac
Rondo in New York
Beyond the Donatello Nebula
Planet of the Turtles
Name That Toon
Menace Maestro, Please
Superhero for a Day
Back to the Egg
The Turtles and the Hare
Once Upon a Time Machine
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 4, PART 3
Raphael Knocks 'Em Dead
Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer the Universe
Raphael Meets His Match
Leonardo Lightens Up
Were-Rats from Channel 6
Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo
The Big Zipp Attack
Slash: The Evil Turtle from Dimension X
Donatello Makes Time
Farewell, Lotus Blossom!
Rebel without a Fin
Rhino-Man
Michelangelo Meets Bugman
Poor Little Rich Turtle
What's Michelangelo Good For?
Donatello's Degree
The Big Cufflink Caper!
Leonardo vs. Tempestra
Big Bug Blunder
The Foot Soldiers Are Revolting
Unidentified Flying Leonardo
Raphael Drives 'Em Wild
Splinter Vanishes
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 5, PART 1
My Brother, the Bad Guy
Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko
Enter: Mutagen Man
Donatello's Badd Time
Michelangelo Meets Bugman Again
Muckman Messes Up
Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps
Raphael Versus the Volcano
Landlord of the Flies
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 5, PART 2
Donatello's Duplicate
Leonardo Cuts Loose
Pirate Radio
Raphael, Turtle of a Thousand Faces
Leonardo, the Renaissance Turtle
Zach and the Alien Invaders
Welcome Back, Polarisoids
Michelangelo, the Sacred Turtle
The Ice Creature Cometh
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: PLANET OF THE TURTLEOIDS
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 6
Leonardo Is Missing
Rock Around the Block
Krangenstein Lives!
Super Irma
Adventures in Turtle-Sitting
Sword of Yurikawa
Return of the Turtleoid
Shreeka's Revenge
Too Hot to Handle
Nightmare in the Lair
Phantom of the Sewers
Donatello Trashes Slash
Snakes Alive!
Polly Wanna Pizza
Mr. Nice Guy
Sleuth on the Loose
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 7
Night of the Dark Turtle
The Starchild
The Legend of Koji
Convicts from Dimension X
White Belt, Black Heart
Night of the Rogues
Attack of the Neutrinos
Revenge of the Fly
Dirk Savage: Mutant Hunter!
Invasion of the Krangazoids
Combat Land
Escape from the Planet of the Turtleoids
Atlantis Awakes
Shredder Triumphant!
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 8
Get Shredder!
Wrath of the Rat King
State of Shock
Cry H.A.V.O.C.!
H.A.V.O.C. in the Streets!
Enter: Krakus
Cyber-Turtles
Turtle Trek
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 9
The Unknown Ninja
Dregg of the Earth
The Wrath of Medusa
The New Mutation
The Showdown
Split-Second
Carter, the Enforcer
Doomquest
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SEASON 10
The Return of Dregg
The Beginning of the End
The Power of Three
A Turtle in Time
Turtles to the Second Power
Mobster from Dimension X
The Day the Earth Disappeared
Divide and Conquer

Specs for the whole series will include:

VIDEO
Resolution: 1080p (BD), 480p (NTSC DVD), 576p (PAL DVD)
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

AUDIO
English (stereo)
French (stereo)
Italian (stereo)
Castilian Spanish stereo)
Mexican Spanish (stereo)

SUBTITLES
English SDH
French
German
Italian
Spanish

There's a plain reason why I'm not using the German audio track this time around: it's the censored version, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. My restoration, should it materialize, will be based on the full, uncensored version.

I started to hear something about this lately, that most wanted actors/actresses had received a digital "anti age" treatment on film, to let them seem younger, and let their career last longer (and the studio earn more!)

Don't know exacly who is involved, nor which films are "polished", until I discovered myself this:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/130552
(note: BD image is untouched; top white "garbage" was still there!)
OK, blu-ray.com screenshots in in JPG, but that doesn't remove so much details, and think that the trailer has a meagre 9mbps bitrate, and a more active image (1920x912 vs 1920x800) compared to BD... (also, the trailer JPG size is four times less than the BD one!); take a look at the eyes, and other parts of the face, where the details are the some; but there are clearly a manual blur under the eyes and somewhere else; these kind of things would pass unnoticed in motion, of course.

By the way, I LOVE Milla - I'd marry her, if only I was a millionaire movie director!

What do you think?

Annie Hall's got a questionable Blu-Ray transfer at best. It looks fairly desaturated and magenta-pushed even compared to the DVD:

http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=711&d2=710&s1=7159&s2=7149&i=3&l=0


But, also irksome is the fact that the famous Annie/Alvy dialogue on the rooftop now has player-generated subtitles. Does anyone know or remember approx. what type of font was used in the original version of the scene?

Since it was released the same year as Star Wars (and beat it at the Oscars), I'm curious whether it might even be the same font as the Greedo scene. 


In any case, I know there's a new 4K restoration (which may or may not have improved subtitles for the scene), but haven't heard any movement on its Blu-Ray release.

DE-DUTCH™

What is the De-Dutch™ technique?

It is another, extreme unconventional aspect ratio... it consists in rotating the frame of a scene shot with the dutch angle (wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle)

Why should I use it?

You shouldn't (usually)... unless a whole film is shot using the dutch angle, like Battlefield Earth... not that you could save that movie, but at least you can feel (a bit) less sick!

untouched:

De-Dutched:


When an AAP-AR version using three sources isn't extreme enough... De-Dutch a film! Have fun!

I'm a subscriber to the 'Midnight's Edge' You Tube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrd6Vt...g/featured
For those that have not heard of them there slogan is 'Spin Free news and analysis of Comics, Film, Hollywood Corporate Politics & More'. Which pretty much sums up there content.

They have just produced a video on the history of Home Video format wars which i found a great sum up and very informative.



I figured people here would find it interesting also

Just got into an argument over FLAC vs. lossy compression.

Was challenged to do a ABX test. 

Done:
   

I admit I don't know how the math behind this works, but this tool says I can tell a difference with 100% confidence between FLAC and 320kbps MP3. 

So maybe most people just have shitty sound hardware? I used a Fireface 800 with AKG K701 headphones.

Either way, eat this, haters!

This thread is where I'll put my test and demo releases, beginning with the Inspector Gadget pilot, "Winter Olympics", on February 9. Test and demo releases will not use any of my logos for their home video logos, only studio logos as applicable. Releases formatted as screeners, however, will use my logos.

Contents of the initial test release, a DVD, will include the feature presentation and a trailer reel featuring largely unformatted (except to use the full frame of the 4:3 image) trailers for upcoming and future projects.

[EDIT solution here https://fanrestore.com/thread-2010-post-...l#pid40310]

I'll try explain my situation. Maybe some of you can tell me why this is happening and what to do to avoid it.

I work on Adobe Premiere CS6, video and audio tracks on the timeline are the same length and there are no gaps in the audio.
I export audio and video separately (video exported as uncompressed avi and then converted to h264) and then rejoin them later using TsMuxer to make a Blu-Ray folder or an ISO.

If I export the audio as PCM wave then this situation occurs: when I join audio and video to make a blu ray with TsMuxer, at the very end of the film I get a terrible loud noise of scrambled data that goes on for a few seconds (over 10 seconds), as if the video and audio are not the same length.

Maybe the fault is with Premiere that exports a WAV file of a different length or perhaps TsMuxer is not working correctly, right? These are the two main possibilities. Well, let's add some mystery to this.
I took the PCM wave file that I exported from Premiere and I converted it to AC3 with Audacity then with TsMuxer I created a Blu-Ray using the usual h264 video and the AC3 audio file (which was converted from the same WAV that created the audio issue before), well, what do you know? The Blu-Ray this time came out perfectly, audio and video end at the same time, with no weird sounds.    

So why PCM files always give me this problem at the end of the film while THE SAME FILE converted to AC-3 doesn't?

Anyone had similar expriences? Or any idea why is this happening? I basically can't use PCM audio for my projects and this is unacceptable.

PS it's late at night and very tired, I hope I explained the situation well enough.

Addendum: I once used EasyBD lite to create a blu-ray by muxing h264 video and PCM wave audio and the program wouldn't even start muxing but gave me a "different length" error.