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Posted by: Tony Hankypants - 2018-10-23, 06:12 PM - Forum: Presentation
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I'm new here, but I have many years recollecting classic and old films/tv shows until the 90's.
Was a coincidence to find this awesome site, and the staff who works here, congratulations and thanks so much to do all this.
I'm administrator of a Spanish community with more than 6 thousand resource, so if I can help here, I'm with all you!
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| Mac DVD ripper? |
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Posted by: SiriusGen - 2018-10-18, 02:40 AM - Forum: Capture and rip
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I'm looking for a decent Mac DVD Ripper. I've seen a bunch, but all seem to be 5min demo types.
I was looking at MacX DVD Ripper, but their purchase page shows an image of PayPal but when I went to fill in my details, they wanted credit card details and no PayPal option. It also says 24/7 support which I've emailed, but no reply to my PayPal question.
So, what Mac DVD rippers do you use?
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Posted by: SiriusGen - 2018-10-18, 12:18 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Hey all,
Stumbled onto this site whilst researching open matte features. Was very pleased to see a blog post I wrote regarding comparisons between grading and aspect for Terminator 2 was being discussed. Fantastic to find technical people putting together stuff, restoring and archiving stuff.
Big fan of Terminator 2, Aliens, Lost Boys, Labyrinth, Flight Of The Navigator and Tron. I have a handful of import laserdiscs and on the hunt for the ultimate UAR version of Terminator 2 (which I've seen a 2 minute version of by spoRv and was very impressed!).
Thanks for having me. Hopefully I can contribute with some of my knowledge.
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| [Ignore; Was Oblivious] My Bloody Valentine (1981) Restoration |
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Posted by: LucasGodzilla - 2018-10-17, 07:40 AM - Forum: Archived projects
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One of my single most favorite slasher movies ever made was a rather early 80s Canadian flick titled My Bloody Valentine.
Unfortunately, it was absolutely butchered by the MPAA at the time and in order to get an R rating, nine minutes of footage had to be chopped out. Good news: Three minutes of footage got added back in a special edition of the movie back in 2009. Bad news: Six minutes of footage is still floating around and the three minutes of footage that did get released are in pretty crappy quality with noticeable scratches, grain, and different color grading. You can check out the footage here.
Being honest, I don't mind the grain and all that too much, same goes for the color grading; Probably due to the fact that it gives the movie a grittier more exploitative / grindhouse-ish feel. However, what I DO have an issue with is that this is inconsistent with the rest of the footage. It's incredibly jarring when you're watching the movie with the footage added back in.
This is where this thread comes into place. Does anyone by any chance have the know-how to fix up the movie? My best guess as to how to approach this maybe is to look back at the laserdisc release of the movie since it would likely contain not only the theatrical mono audio (which is something I don't entirely trust in the special edition release), but it also would have a more accurate and more vintage look to movie.
I'd also like to bring up that although–as far as I know–Paramount (of course) never released that leftover six minutes of footage to this very day, I'm wondering if there's anyone who somehow by sheer luck or something may be aware or has access even to some of this excised footage; Maybe a workprint of the movie even somehow? Highly doubt it but I felt it was worth a mention. I'd also like to ask if an open-matte version of the movie exists, perhaps as a part of one of the older releases? Not quite sure it even exists either, and even if, I wouldn't know how to properly add that in with deleted footage, but I'm still curious. Maybe as a separate rip?
Anyways, I, unfortunately, do not have anything handy since I am not in possession of the laserdisc copy of My Bloody Valentine (let alone a way to rip a laserdisc, to begin with) nor a Blu-Ray rip of my special edition copy since I am ill-equipped to rip Blu-Ray discs sadly enough.
So, is there anyone on this forum who would be interested in the project of fixing up this movie as it deserves?
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Posted by: RiderofOstriches - 2018-10-16, 11:30 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hello Everyone,
I first heard about this site from the truly impressive color-correction of Curse of Frankenstein by The Aluminum Falcon. I am very passionate about film and film preservation and am glad to be a part of this forum.
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Posted by: spoRv - 2018-10-13, 06:56 AM - Forum: Official and unofficial releases
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First of all, thanks to Evit for his wonderful blog about Italian dubbings: it is a precious source of info, and very funny! So, my idea is originated by his own blog.
We, not-native-speakers who watch movies (series, documentaries etc) in another language, got them usually in one of these "flavours":
- dubbed (each actor with his/her voice, normal for the Italian market, and not only)
- voiceover (usually a single voice for any actor, like the dreadful "lektor" in Poland or Russia; we in Italy usually have this for docs or news)
- subtitles (mostly used on northern Europe and in many other countries, I guess)
Now, leaving out voiceover, we (read: this forum's member) could work to fix translations errors, I guess...
Subtitles should be simplers: just fix the soft subs (or replace a "bad" one with a "right" one, like we do with audio tracks)
More difficult would be to "fix" dubbing... it is not easy to extract perfectly a voice from an audio track, yet is not impossible... still, it is quite difficult to find out one that has a voice very similar to the original dubber... but, sometimes it would (could?) be preferable to have a slightly different voice that "tells the right thing", instead a perfect voice that tells something plainly wrong/out of place...
Dunno if such kind of work is feasible and worth the hassle, but, as a fan of good dubbing (in particular of the one made some time ago, when sometimes the dubber voices were great and so similar to the original, if not better), it will be nice to fix very few wrong things to get a "perfect" dubbing...
Opinions?
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Posted by: LucasGodzilla - 2018-10-12, 01:44 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Considering how I didn't even notice this for a few days, I just thought I'd make up for that now.
To keep things simple, I'm a young Californian who's into horror movies and am heavily interested in seeing workprints and fan-edits of films for the sake of viewing them.
I may not be much help when it comes to the technical aspects of all these movies so don't expect much from me. I'm just here to just enjoy the forum and see what everyone here's got to show and offer.
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Also minor side note, I can't seem to send PMs and I don't know entirely know why considering how I didn't see anything about it in the rules.
Either that or I'm an idiot and skimmed over it.
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| Creepshow DVD mono |
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Posted by: NeonBible - 2018-10-11, 10:11 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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I was watching Creepshow this week and something is seriously off with the stereo track. Some of the music and effects are way too loud and the vocal volumes vary like crazy. This doesn't sound like a mix from the 80s, more like a modern one.
Apparently the original theatrical mix is stereo but dvdcompare states that the French and Scandinavian DVD releases had English mono tracks. Does anyone have these? And do they suffer the same dynamics as the stereo?
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