I recently came across this Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film (for each book of TLOTR by chapter) on YouTube by Aficionado Joe.

Although A.J. didn't describe his sources, I'm pretty sure it was from the BBC Radio play (there is an American play, too, but those accents seem a little out of place    ). As YouTube so does, it automatically identified some of the used songs and inserted that copyright-use information in each post.

Regarding copyright, apparently the very first chapter ran afoul of YT's copyright flagging and was taken down. Oddly enough, all the rest of the chapters remain online.

I thought this might be a good project for some enterprising fan, as this version has shortcomings. Some of the more critical listeners mentioned (correctly) that sometimes the music drowns-out the speech (the play tried to keep a sense of depth, meaning lower volumes of surrounding speakers). Also the pictures shown during the play are adequate but really need better and to be more varied. (Therein might be a copyright nightmare.) Otherwise, it was a good concept and is more enjoyable than a straight radio play might be.

To get started, here is The Fellowship Of The Ring (you can find The Two Towers and The Return Of The King chapters in A.J.'s YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZEIW21...ycBOuxP85w ):

' A Long-Expected Party' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 1 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
Aficionado Joe note : Chapter 1 has been removed (by YouTube)

'The One Ring' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 2 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odYZdTbZ5bE

'A Conspiracy Unmasked' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 3 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aupZ6jid-4g

'The Prancing Pony' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 4 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uasfmrOAwA

'A Knife In The Dark' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 5 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0klmXlfBU

'The Council Of Elrond' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 6 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU8LVk2tdM

'A Journey In The Dark' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 7 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35jr1TPkwBE

'Lothlorien' - The Fellowship Of The Ring Chapter 8 - Lord Of The Rings Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnHfuZUj0K0

'The Breaking Of The Fellowship' - The Fellowship Of The Ring - Chapter 9 - LOTR Audio-Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBPrWmYCeg

Found a easy way to speed down PAL/25fps footage (that is correctly sped up from a film source and definitely NOT field blended video, as that would still require some convoluted secret sauce of multiple scripts) without the use for Avisynth (as still cannot figure that out for the life of me  )

Now the catches to this are:

This program renders with lossy codecs, but you can set the quality as high as you want in each codec's settings and get near transparent quality.

If your file has an audio track you want sped up to sync with the video, you can only get the "Film to PAL" box if you render with AAC or AC3 in the "Audio Filters" tab (copy stream with PCM, DTS, or DD Tru HD or Plus will not work and sound garbled). In this case, it is highly recommended to extract your multichannel/lossless audio and bring it into audacity/whatever other audio program you use and change speed/tempo to -4.096 (or the same number but without the - for speeding up 24fps to 25) to render separately and sync to the re timed video manually.

Download the latest version of Avidemux (freeware) http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html

Load up your video, then in the video output column on the left. In order to access filters for what we're going to do, it requires a re-render. Click "Copy" and scroll down to the video codec you want to render in and hit "Configure" to set it's perimeters/bitrate to whatever you like.

Next, go to "Filters" underneath the configure tab and the video filter manager window pops up and should put you at the "Transform" selection of filters. Scroll down to the "Change FPS" filter, top source FPS should be set at "Custom" and the lower would denote the actual frame rate of the source. Since our source is "25fps", leave the top two as is and tick "Destination FPS" and select "23.98". Note: if your 25fps source has some odd interlace or top field/bottom issues, I would try the "Deinterlace" filters after you have the Change FPS filter on and find one that works best (if you do it before, you're gonna have field blended shit). Otherwise, I would deinterlace your 25/50i video in a different program that you're familiar with first. Now, if you want to speed up a 24fps source to 25fps, put 25 in the Destination FPS box and don't do anything else unless you need to have audio in sync which will require a lossy rendering in the next step.

Then press OK and it should show up in the "Active Filters" window and close the filter manager. Next, we're gonna have to render audio too if you do choose to keep the original track in sync. Hit "Copy" and choose the audio codec of your choice and whatever rate you like under "Configure". Next, go to "Filters" and in the audio filters window "Frame Rate" change is set to none. Click the drop down and select "PAL to Film" (or "Film to PAL" if converting 24fps to 25). Now, your files audio sample rate should be ether 48000hz or 44100 if the audio was from a CD or LD. If it's the latter, the you'd have to re-sample it in the tick box to 48000hz or the synced audio will have this weird garbled ghost effect. Note: you can hit the "Shift" check box to shift your track several ms to however you want and can set gain to your choosing. I would not recommend using the mixer tick box, as that's for folding down "untouched" multi channel audio and may cause problems with your sped down or up.

Now in the output format, choose the container you want to render in. I highly recommend "MKV" or "AVI", as all the others may not handle the audio correctly depending on the audio codec used. Click the save floppy icon to select your destination and render away. When your file finishes, you should notice a run time difference in your video compared to the original, in addition to a slight motion change (should be no blended fields) and a pitch change in audio.

I understand this method may not be ideal for those who use Avisynth and such, but this is a easier way to speed up or down footage without any blending/frame judder for those who aren't up to the steep learning curve of AS.

Scanned on the new Retroscan machine, this 52 year old print was suffering from VS. I used the AEO Light software to capture the audio from the scan, Phoenix to stablize it and Resolve to color correct it as best as I could. Raw frames look like this:



More information about the film can be found here:

http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/...ional-Film

Sorry' it's been a while. While have been somewhat active over at BD.com, I've made my return to Fanres... Until something else major comes up.

Had so much shit hitting the fan back in Jan ranging from not being able to work for a few months due to water damage from bursting pipes at where I work, discovering personal health issues, tending to family members, my old PC's mobo and HD going and losing bits from a project I was working on, a POS at a plastic model club meet who scammed me out of nearly $1000 (won't go into the rest), I was literally at my mental limit with all this.

Now I have some of these things under control, and I have joined Blu-ray.com to provide insight and such since I have a little bit more time and sanity. However, while my new PC (Referb Lenovo ThinkCentre M82 Win 7, I5-3470 3.6ghz, 2Tb hard drive, 16gbs of ram but integrated Intel graphics for only $250) is much more powerful than the crap Celeron Acer Aspire desktop I previously had, the ThinkCentre isn't that strong for intensive editing, and I'm on a rather tight budget so I can't really afford to upgrade much and do big projects and all. On the other hand, I can assist with editing short bits and logo stuff if one needs such assistance 

I finally started making videos of my LD collection because I got tired of the general lack of info on the format for most online videos and the fact that no one discusses transfers etc.
So if you’re interested or simply bored and have some spare time I’ve been doing uploads where I go through each title one at a time and discuss the transfer, sound, packaging and a little history.

https://www.youtube.com/user/duckyousuckr

I’m still not finished and I’m almost to part 15! Admittedly these videos are very low fi but I was tired of “LDs suck or were stupid” videos or mere pickup ones without detail.

I found a Carver DPL-33 dolby prologic processor in a local listing and was curious how it might compare to the mighty Shure hts line. It seems like a similar unit down to the channel lights on the front and was a high end expensive model at the time in 1993.
It’s very cheap but my receiver lacks analog ins.
Has anyone used one of these for Dolby stereo/surround decoding?

Hello fellow film fans,
I wanted to introduce myself as a new member and film lover who is incredibly happy to have found this website with all of these amazing (and important!) film preservation projects.
Quick Background, I first became aware of this great community when the very first Despecialized edition introduction video was released about 3 years ago.  Being a star wars fan I quickly sought out those projects and was blown away by both the finished project and really just the effort and craft that went into 'fixing' those original theatrical versions.  I soon discovered that there were more film projects and preservation's just like it and am very excited to continue to explore and support these efforts.
I was marginally active a few years ago on another website that I only recently discovered is no longer there (place that spelled 'the' like 'teh') checking out a handful of projects.

I am still a little green on where I can actually find these amazing projects that people are posting about here so any info about how that works would be much appreciated!
In particular I was a huge fan of original sporv "The Thing" release and I see that it has since been updated with a better source since i last checked it out.
That and I am very eager to check out any posting of the old Cameron movies that have been regraded/restored.  In particular 'Aliens' as I seem to think that's the worst offender when it comes to excessive tampering with the original colors.
....or in other words, I HATE TEAL!

anyway i'm rambling and could ramble about film all day but just wanted to say I am happy to have found you great people again and am very much looking forward to checking out more projects! (when i figure out where to find them : /)

best,

: j

Update - August 1, 2020: The scope of the project changed from a preservation of an "official" extended version and veered into extended fanedit territory - now titled "JAWS 2 - Extended Integral Edition" - Winner of fanedit.org's Favorite Edit of the Month for June 2020 https://www.fanedit.org/ridgeshark-wins-...020-feotm/

https://ifdb.fanedit.org/jaws-2-extended...l-edition/



Original Thread Title: JAWS 2 - Extended Edition - 1080p Presentation


I've been chiseling away, trying to bring the deleted scenes of JAWS 2 to the world of 1080p - one way or another.  Currently I have these sources:

1) Personal Recording - an LP speed VHS recorded off TBS circa 1991.  Looks decent, except for some wavy frequency noise in the image.  I can filter this out still retain a fair amount of detail.  A bit handicapped by the LP speed - didn't quite max out the potential resolution a VHS can offer, but still not bad.  Unfortunately, I just discovered that TBS sped up this broadcast and the interlace patterns are all out of wack.  A regular IVTC does not appear possible.

2) Homemade DVD-R (3.94GB) - This is the one that was shared on myspleen and demonoid.  A later recording off TBS.  The actual VHS tape itself appears superior to mine, however there are MPEG-2 Artifacts and a lot of detail has been filtered away.  This is not sped up and runs with the proper telecine interlace patterns that easily allows 24p extraction.  It would be great to get a hold of this VHS and make a new transfer, but I have no idea who created the DVD-R.

3) Brazil TV Recording - Low quality mp4 from a marketplace trader in Brazil.  Frame blended 29.97fps.  Has unique footage not in the US-TV cut.

4) Official Blu-ray and DVD - has a few deleted scenes in 2.35:1 widescreen

My plan is for the presentation to all take place inside the standard 16:9 frame at 1080p.  The 2.35:1 and 1.33:1 footage will remain as-is - no cropping of either.  Not a perfect solution, but preferable to further cropping IMHO.  Here's a proof of concept using the deleted underwater helicopter attack sequence:

How you can help -

1) I would like additional VHS recordings of the US TV Cut since my copies have significant flaws.  I would prefer a higher-quality SP recording.  If nothing turns up, I'll use what I have.

2) Same with the Brazil version - I would prefer to get high quality transfer off the first VHS release by CIC in Brazil that unknowingly featured this longer version.  It's very rare and has yet to turn up on eBay since I first started looking out for it.

3) I need a translator for the few exclusive scenes in the Brazil version.  We'll include those with English subtitles.

4) AviSynth assistance of any kind.

Thanks for looking!

Hello Fan Res.

Its me again asking for all your help with a conversion method
It does not directly connect to a fan project I'm working on, but could come handy for that in the future.

Long story short, I was doing a live event video shoot as a favor for some friends and one of the cameras was recorded in 60i (29.976)!
The rest and delivery format is 24p (23.976).

Does anybody know of the best method to convert 60i to 24p?
I was following some Avisynth scripts up when searching on google but all led to dead ends

Thanks once again for your time.

(Im a Premiere user and use Avisynth + if that helps)

Anyone ever had problems with sync drift when separately capturing analog audio and video?

Lately I've been backing up some VHS tapes using my Sony Blu-ray recorder. It records in h264 instead of MPEG-2, which is great for someone like me who has little experience with video encoding. But it only records audio in 256kbps AC3, so I've been using my M-audio 2496 sound card to record the audio to PCM at the same time. Only thing is, when I try to sync up the video from the recorder with the audio from the PC, even after I sync the start times, the PC recorded audio drifts forward out of sync at about a rate of 40 milliseconds every 10 minutes, which becomes pretty noticable after a while. Now that I think about it, Jonno had similar problems with a capture of an analog-only LD that I made for him a couple years ago using the same equipment.

Not sure why the sync drift occurs, or how I could prevent it... I also investigated an LD I recently recorded with digital audio, and there's also a slight sync drift, but it's only about 30ms for every hour of video.

Guess I'll just have to cut bits of silence here and there whenever I want to make a backup with lossless audio. I probably won't notice the difference, so I guess I'll only bother with titles I really care about.