It came to my attention a list of fan edits and other projects; I present them here in a single thread, as they are not generally easily found on other fan edit websites. I have not watched them, but they seem interesting enough to be presented here; few info present here are gathered on the web; if you have more info on any of these, please leave a comment. Also, if you are aware of some other obscure fan edits, preservation or restoration projects, just post them here.
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Vs. Jason [Extended]
I used the original Bluray source, and reinserted the Deleted footage from the Bluray special features also taking Alternate shot (Jason Goes To Hell) making it the longest Running Time.
All 21 deleted scenes (besides #3) have been re-inserted
Child's Play 3 [Extended Recut] HD
Alternate Intro+Deleted Scenes Reinserted
Back to The Future, Timeline Edition
Blu-ray, 5Hrs 30Min
The Cable Guy [Extended Script Edition]
Reinserted 23 mins of Deleted scenes from a recalled import Bluray Edition.
1. Robin turn's Steven down.
2. Chip & Robin's lunch.
3. Sam Sweet [Hardcopy Footage]
4. Dinner Extended.
5. Steven & Robin after dinner.
6. The Terminator.
7. My three sons.
8. Nightmare Extended.
9. Violent Extended Ending.
Running Time - 01:54:45
Original Time - 01:35:45
[Fan Edit] The Game of Death [Extended Cut]
Full Intro Fight W/ Chuck Norris was added
Two Fights were added to extended the Tower Fights (The True Game of Death)
Complete 40 Min Ending Footage was reinserted
Running Time 02:22:00 (No Intro/Credits)
The Monster Squad [Extended Cut]
I have reinserted all the Deleted Scenes (20th Anniversary Edition) 13 cut scenes and 2 were not used, this is the longest and best version available. I made it into Fullscreen Letterbox [sic] and all Cut Scenes were matched best as possible.
I used the original DVD source, and reinserted the Deleted fdootage from the Bluray special features also taking Alternate & Deleted Shots (History Channel) making it the longest Running Time.
Home Alone - Extended Edition
[Fan edit] Grizzly 2 The Predator WORKPRINT [Recut]
Grizzly II: The Predator, aka Predator: The Concert, or a variety of other work-in-process names; it is the sequel to the 1976 Jaws ripoff Grizzly.
Filmed in 1983, the movie never saw a proper release. There is a multitude of stories as to why, the most common involving the producer running off with the budget, or the bills for the equipment not being paid, resulting in the Hungarian government seizing most of the productions materials. In 1987, Cannon Films picked up the movie with the intent of releasing it, but started having financial issues in 1988 and forgot the movie. Its existence was often doubted until 2007, when it finally surfaced, albeit in an unfinished state.
The Plot
Grizzly II is a fairly basic killer animal movie, like its predecessor. The basic story involves a huge concert being held at a national park, at the same time that a massive, prehistoric grizzly bear awakens and starts attacking people in the park. A Native American tracker is called in, who often refers to the bear as an evil spirit, but is unable to prevent the bear from attacking the concert, which is eventually killed.
What Was Finished
The unedited version of the movie is very rough. Most of it is rough filler, using tons of concert footage (performed by Nazareth), most of the bear footage wasn't filmed due to the special effect not being quite finished, and the quality of the film is very poor. The soundtrack is a mess, although a few songs made for the movie are still intact. There are continuity errors near the end, the shadow of the cameraman can be seen in a few shots and nearly all of the scenes that involved the bear are blank films with roaring noises played over it.
Although the animatronic bear was never footage, there was a puppet used in a few scenes. In an old upload of the movie, there was a comment made by someone who worked on the movie which stated that it had been altered and didn't use the puppet they had made. It is possible there was more special effects footage made and unused, but as the movie is relatively obscure, it isn't known for sure. As the old 10 part, the low-quality edit was removed from YouTube; the statement was lost.
This fan edit *supposedly* adds footage from movies like Grizzly, Claws, and Day of the Animals over the blank film.
This will probably be one the most loved UAR version; but I'm stuck with it... sadly, the only good digital full screen version of it (an old Russian DVD) has a strange color grading, different from all the others:
It is similar to many other versions (HD-DVD/Skynet BD, for examples) but not enough; when regraded, it doesn't match the letterbox version (I'm using HD-DVD for the moment) in many many shots...
So, I need your help!
There are three options to solve this problem:
Find an HD letterbox version which used the same master
quite difficult, but not impossible, as there where so many versions... an HDTV recording will do, as long as the logo is in the black bars and it has not pop-ups and too many lost frames near commercial breaks; there is a *very small chance* that D-Theater and/or WMV 720p versions used this master, but, as I haven't seen them, I can't say anything about them.
Find a SD letterbox version which used the same master
this could be a bit more easy, given how many SD versions were available... here, even a VHS high quality capture will do; still, I'd prefer an higher quality version, like a laserdisc capture, or SDTV recording. This will be used to regrade the HD letterbox.
Find any full screen version which used the same master of a letterbox version
as far as I know, only versions available - apart this DVD - are laserdisc and VHS, and TV recordings. This will be used to regrade the Russian DVD.
EDIT: for comparison, this is the full screen laserdisc:
there could be a fourth option, that consists in getting both full screen and letterbox laserdisc captures - IF they used the same master - to regrade respectively the Russian DVD and the HD letterbox version.
Out of sheer curiosity I discovered the ability to capture UHD/4K DVB Streams with my 5 yr. old low cost linux receiver. Here is what happened:
Waiting for the CL match between Liv and ManCity yesterday evening, Sky repeatedly bombed its viewers with commercials for their UHD Sports Channels.
Having some unsorted ideas in mind I tuned into Sky Sports UHD just to see what happens. Of course the screen stayed black, but to my surprise sound was there!
OK, first conclusion:
- tuning into channel: OK
- CAM descrambling: OK
- DEMUX: OK
- decode audio: OK
- decode video: FAIL (of course!)
This was more than I expected.
Now, knowing that the stream recording on this receiver is done somewhere around the demuxing process, capturing this stream should work as it does with HD and SD streams. I set a timer for the first half of the game, and checked back during the half time intermission.
It worked! The stream opened and played in VLC, well, kind of - even my 2016 MBPro i7 QuadCore wasn’t able to play the stream somewhere near 50fps, maxing out all 4 cores at 100%.
I had no time to test other players yet, but I think without hardware acceleration I will be kind of lost on all of my machines.
I will follow up later with technical infos of the stream, screenshots and stream samples if possible.
Let’s hope Sky will launch a UHD movie channel in the near future.
DEBLUR
Quick and dirty sharpening. REQUIREMENTS
fft3dfilter
arearesize
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I wanted to write something that could "fix" blurry encodes. It works fairly well, as long as your source isn't fubar to begin with.
I just posted a few images that should show what can be done with the default settings followed by a bit of denoising (fft3dfilter(sigma=8) for these).
Anyways hope you enjoy the script!
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Code:
function deblur2(clip v,float "blend",bool "clean",int "bsize", bool "show")
{
blend=Default(blend,.75)
clean=default(clean,true)
show=default(show,false)
bsize=default(bsize,4)
osize=bsize/2
v=v.converttoyv12()
v
fft3dfilter(16,bw=bsize,bh=bsize,ow=osize,oh=osize)
Subtract(last,v)
Subtract(v,last)
a=last
a.arearesize(width(v)/2,height(v)/2)
fft3dfilter(16,bw=bsize,bh=bsize,ow=osize,oh=osize)
gaussresize(width(a),height(a),p=1)
Subtract(last,a)
Subtract(a,last)
b=last
b
fft3dfilter(16,bw=bsize,bh=bsize,ow=osize,oh=osize)
Subtract(last,b)
Subtract(b,last)
fft3dfilter(sharpen=4)
(clean==true) ? last.fft3dfilter(16,bw=32,bh=32,ow=16,oh=16) : last
merge(v,last,blend)
x=last
(show==true) ? StackHorizontal(v,x) : x
return last
}
And here are a few images. Left is original, center is blurred, right is the result at the default strength with a block size of 48 (deblur2(bsize=48)).
20,000 Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - 20000_Leagues_Under_The_Sea
WEB LB Vs UAR - usually more image on left and bottom sides; sometimes only on bottom; dealing with two very different master, dunno if it will be possible to get a viable final version using both source for all scenes; a compromise would be to use them for the vast majority of shots, while using just one for the few shots where blending doesn't work.
Alien: Resurrection - Alien_Resu...32618
BD LB Vs UAR - not only more image on top and bottom, in comparison to blu-ray, but also on both sides!!!
Arrival, The (1996) - The_Arriva...s_UAR
DVD FS Vs UAR - this is mostly a fullscreen version with added “slices” on both sides; if there is some interest, I’m ready to turn it in an hybrid fullscreen version instead.
Daredevil TC - Daredevil_BD_vs_UAR
BD LB Vs UAR regraded - gains a bit on top and bottom, and sometimes on one side too! (thanks to zoidberg for the Theatrical Cut project!)
Dark Tower, The - The_Dark_T...print
BD LB Vs UAR moviefingerprint - open matte has logo which is visible in few shots; solutions could be to wait for another open matte version without logo (or with it in another place), or use the plain BD, or crop the top of the image, or try an impaint and see if could work (it probably will in a couple of shots IMHO).
Deep_Risin...37764
HDTV OM Vs UAR regraded - this will be mostly an hybrid version, but it’s interesting to note that, even in full open matte shots (almost all), the UAR has more image on top thanks to blu-ray!
Event Horizon - Event_Horizon_BD_vs_UAR
BD LB (squeezed) Vs UAR regraded (corrected AR) - usually a bit more image on left and bottom sides; few times, on space shots, as in this one, UAR has a lot more image than BD!
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Harry_Pott...58267
BD LB Vs UAR triple source
Jurassic Park - Jurassic_Park_HDTV_vs_FC
HDTV LB Vs UAR regraded - no color reference used, but I like these colors!
Jurassic Park III - Jurassic_P...16897
HDTV OM Vs UAR - as other UAR dual sources, this has many shots in fullscreen with “slices” added on both sides, but in many others the contrary is true, where open matte has more image on top and/or bottom.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Resident_E...09313
BD OM Vs UAR - maybe it will end up using three
Resident Evil: Afterlife - Resident_E..._shot
BD LB Vs UAR regraded - only few scenes are actually really in open matte (and subsequentially in UAR); of course, the French text is not present in the final version!
Robocop (1987)
Robocop_1987_BD_vs_UAR_2
unreleased Sony BD LB Vs UAR regraded - thanks to FS, there is a lot more image on both top and bottom; most of the shots (probably 95%+) are 1.33:1 with small added slices on the sides.
Robocop_1987_BD_vs_UAR
remastered BD LB Vs UAR - gains a bit more image also on both sides
Silent Hill - Silent_Hil...07029
HD-DVD LB Vs UAR - final version will be regraded
Terminator 2
Terminator...04592
HD-DVD LB Vs UAR - test version! I’m still not happy with the color matching in some scenes, so I won’t work on it until I’ll be able to find out a letterbox (even in standard definition) which uses the same master of the fullscreen DVD.
I thought id throw this out to the fanres hive brain
I have 2 VHS captures from 2 Different tapes, its for the audio side of things and the Video side is irrelevant.
Both have dropouts and faults but (Hoping!) not in the same places and the idea is to edit between them for a clean Audio Track.
Does anybody know of any quicker way than just cutting between the 2?
Kind of like a method of removing the difference?
I was wanting to rewatch some of the OT movies. Started with ROTJ and enjoyed it, but now I went on to ESB and saw that the Grindhouse version (my preferred way to watch this) has the 2.0 Dolby Stereo from the 35mm.
Now, naturally, I was inspired to create a 5.1 track out of that using my Dolby SDU4. BUT since this was likely recorded straight from the film, there was likely no account for any Dolby Noise Reduction that was very likely used on the print, so any attempt to reverse the 4-channel fold-down before reversing the Dolby Noise Reduction would be kind of pointless.
So I was wondering if there was any "authentic" and lossless track out there.
I was thinking Laserdisc maybe.
Checked out the Despecialized Edition and that one has a "1993 Laserdisc mix", but only included as AC-3 (meh), not lossless.
Also, what does "1993 mix" imply? Was it changed? Not for the special edition right? Those came out in 1997, afaik.
It also includes a 5.1 and 2.0 track, both titled "1980 mix". Now this utterly confuses me. What does that mean? To my knowledge, in 1980 there was no 5.1 surround for movies. So what exactly are those two tracks? Is it the original 1980 2.0 track and the 5.1 one is basically the same thing I would do (converting to 5.1 with a Surround decoder) or is this some kind of later 5.1 revision?!
I realized that the ROTJ Grindhouse version also has a 5.1 mix called (1983 mix). That should have made me skeptical already I guess, but somehow in my mind I thought, okay, maybe in 1983 they already had surround? But even that isn't the case, I think.
So what are those mysterious 5.1/2.0 tracks on the Despecialized Editions and what's the source and what is the best way to get something that very much resembles the original theatrical experience?
according to HD digest review the surrounds have been poorly remixed on the bluray (too loud)
probably shouldn't be making a request since I hardly use this site but whatever
What better day than Easter Sunday - the day Jesus stood up from the dead - to not only bring you a very good zombie movie, but to bring you an actually REBORN version of a very good zombie movie. And as if this wasn't shocking enough in and of itself, what better day to release it than April 1st? Except this thing actually exists - even though it shouldn't - just like Jesus actually (?) stood up from the dead - even though he shouldn't have. Okay okay, enough is enough.
May I present:
Shaun of the Dead - 35mmized Edition
This is little regrade project. I always found the colors in Shaun of the Dead a bit boring and dull and thought the movie deserved a more exciting look.
I regraded the movie with a couple of 3D LUTs which I generated using DrDre's ColorMatch tool and some snaps of 35mm film cells on eBay.
No idea what those film cells were taken from. Likely trailers. Either way, there is little consistency in them. Sometimes the same scene is present with two different gradings.
But, for what it's worth, I was able to figure out two basic looks with a few variations. The one is a normal kind of warm film look. The other is something that looks like some extreme kind of Bleach Bypass.
I don't know which one of these looks is more theatrically accurate, so I decided to use them both depending on the current scene/context/music/score. Neither really fits in all the scenes, so a blanket LUT doesn't make much sense. Bleach Bypass look usually when zombies are involved, the normal film look in more calm scenes - especially in the beginning of the film, at Shaun's workplace etc.. And then there's one that looks a bit like pushed slide film and on the colder side, which is good for the indoors shots in the bar; but I think that one is just a variation of the normal film look.
Thumbnail comparison:
Here is a screenshot comparison of a few images I semi-randomly picked for demonstration:
Note: The above screenshotcomparisons are jpegs taken from the lossless render and do not represent the actual quality and are only there to showcase the colors. Refer to the actual screenshots for judging the actual encode quality. I have included the comparison in the comparison folder as well.
I don't think there's a big chance of me ever finding out the "true theatrical" colors, but I like my results so far and I think it's a step up from the boring standard colors which look not much more exciting than some random TV show. After all, it's a zombie apocalypse movie and should be a bit flashy/fancy/gritty.
This whole thing also pushes out the grain of the movie a little more, especially in the final scenes.
Screenshots
To be found on Blutopia.
P.S. For those who voiced criticisms in the old thread: This is still the old version. I didn't find the motivation/time to make any further changes, but I also didn't want to leave it unreleased, so here you go.
P.P.S. I hope the embedded screenshots work. Somehow I remember issues with imagebam on here. Let me know. Edit: Fixed the screenshots using postimg.
Edit by admin: ONE screenshot comparison: http://ultimateaspectratio.ga/Shaun_Of_T...raded.html
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