dunno if anyones interested but I noticed the audio has been been changed in the SE DVD & Blu ray


part where they shoot at the tiger :

original mix (from image DVD)
30 seconds in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-bIMxB4zA8

SE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FVkRn2krYg

FLASH!!!
NEEDS HELP!

I love this picture. It shouldn't work, but it does and has tons of heart. It represents everything missing from modern superhero-dom.

However it is a mess in HD. Universal made a remastered DVD and ported it to BD. It is a over DNR'd scrubbed mess that also ruins the color and makes everything seem garish. Also they remixed the audio and made a godawful sounding dull 5.1 mix.
In the UK they made a new master for DVD and ported to BD but it is far too bright and the color seems off too. Then the audio track is somehow pitched too high.

I run the LD and it looks stupendous and has the badass balls to the wall Dolby Stereo that obliterates the BD hdma. I'm currently after the first DVD which is supposed to be identical to the LD and hope to one day sync the LD PCM.
Review with comparisons:
http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/flash-gordon.html

It also seems the original serials are OOP and best available on the old Image LD/DVDs.

I confess: I'm a crazy project maker, fan restoration/preservation lover, and I'm guilty of many things!

First of all, I presume to be responsible to fix/improve EVERY movie - a sort of film fixer superhero much more than what I can manage; and each time that I promise myself "no more, not unless you will release something", someone bring to my attention a new movie "that can't be left as it is", or "should be improved, fixed" etc.

And my ego is too big to refuse, to pass; can't resist the challenge! At the end, I have more than 10TB full of half-finished projects, multiple audio/video sources, huge temporary files that "would be used soon"... sometimes it happens, but too many titles are still there, waiting for a release.

Memory: as anybody knows, my memory lacks; I try to write down everything, to save any single useful file, but sometimes I forget to do that, then time pass, then someone, after months, writes to me "Hey, do you remember...?" - and, every time, I answer that no, I don't remember, which is not an excuse, but a sad truth... maybe it's because I'm getting old, my neurons started to die too fast, dunno! So, don't worry to repeat me things, you have to!

Tools: I continue to use the old avisynth, even if I'm well aware of better software around... or, maybe, let me say easier, not always better... if I can do everything with this, why should I bother to start to learn something new? "If ain't broke, don't fix it!" - yes, I know, I'm an old dinosaur, but you know what? I love to be a T-Rex!

Another problem is the release time: often I write that "this will be ready in X days/weeks/months", and many times it doesn't happen. Sometime I feel stuck, because I lack the knowledge, or I can't find a good filter, or a satisfing source, so that project is halted - letting people sad or angry.

So, I'm sorry for anybody who's still waiting for a certain release; please understand this: I do my projects primarily for me! Then, I release them to let others be happy with them, to have fun, to watch a movie in a different/better way. And remember, I'm not paid to do them; at the contrary, I spend a lot of time on them, and quite some money in electricity, internet connection, hardware, sources etc.

With this, I don't want to ask anything to anybody - even if I must admit it was a pleasure to see ONE donation lately, that would help to buy that famous HDD so much needed - but at the same time I can't do every... single... project!

Said so, I'm happy to have found again a motivation to start again with fresh ideas, and techniques; found many member that helped a lot, and hope to release "that huge saga everybody knows" as a Xmas gift!

A hint for anybody crazy enough to think to start his "career" as a project maker: FOCUS on a SINGLE project, at least at the beginning; I know that the "restoration fever" is strong, but you have to resist... think that a difficult project could take months, years to be finished, so don't split your attention between several ones, but choose THE one you want to make before every other - the film you love, the movie that must be saved, the title nobody cares but you - and stick with it. After your first release, you'll find out that, even if many people (if you are lucky) have actually downloaded your projects, only few would leave a "thank you" or post a comment, but slowly, you will build up a fan base; it will be rewarding to know that someone else, apart you, your family and your cats/dogs, is eagerly awaiting for your next move...

Thanks to anybody here; we are growing slowly, but steadly, and hey, it's a niche world, at the end!

I was thinking, I'd like to do an English fandub of Der Untergang, titled The Downfall, and invite everyone and their family to audition for roles in this drama about the last ten days of Hitler and the fall of the Third Reich. The roles are as follows, using English-language ranks via translation convention:

Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the Führer himself
Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary
Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels
Magda Goebbels, Goebbels's wife
Eva Braun, Hitler's wife-to-be
Maj. Gen. Hermann Fegelein, who deserts and is executed without a trial
Minister of Munitions Albert Speer, Hitler's architect-in-chief and the Nazi who said sorry
Lt. Col. Dr. Ernst-Günther Schenck
Brig. Gen. Wilhelm Mohnke
Maj. Otto Günsche, who informs Hitler of Fegelein's desertion
Field Marshal Heinrich Himmler, whose surrender shocks Hitler in the middle of a dinner
Gen. Alfred Jodl, who objects to Hitler's plan involving Steiner and Wenck
Lt. Gen. Hans Krebs, who points out a flaw in Hitler's plan involving Steiner before he explains how Wenck factors in
Lt. Gen. Helmuth Weidling
Lt. Col. Prof. Dr. Werner Haase
Gerda Christian
GAF Robert Ritter von Greim
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Lt. Gen. Wilhelm Burgdorf, the drinker
Walther Hewel
Prime Minister Martin Bormann
Lt. Col. Heinz Linge
Air Marshal Karl Koller
SFC Rochus Misch
Lt. Col. Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger
Lt. Col. Erich Kempka, the guy in the garage from whom Günsche needs gas for Hitler's funeral pyre
Lt. Col. Peter Högl, who arrests and guns down Fegelein
Lt. Col. Franz Schädle
Hans Fritzsche
Lt. Gen. Ernst-Robert Grawitz, who kills himself and his family to keep the Soviets from taking them after being denied permission to leave Berlin
Hanna Reitsch
Constanze Manziarly
SSG Fritz Tornow
Erna Flegel
GAF Hermann Göring (barely gets in a single word, if that, apart from crosstalk during the extended version of the Hitler Planning Scene)
Gen. Vasily Chuikov
...and others which I am not going to bother listing here.

If anyone is interested in auditioning, feel free to PM me, and I'll send you a line or two to record.

Hello guys !

Did anybody of you have the Starz Encore Westerns channel ?

If yes, did it could be possible to do a 1080i HDTV capture of the 1988 made-for-TV remake of Red River ? It airs next Monday at 8:05 AM.

From what i'm aware, this one never got a Blu-Ray or DVD release, and i would like to made a fanmade Blu-Ray release for the film.

Thanks !

I've always had a hard time making out the features of the "dark smileys". A close-up look reveals that only the eyes are white. It's features, and edges of overlaid hands (or whatever), are almost as dark as the black face. A simple one-shot application of brightness and contrast could give it better clarity, like the original smileys . .

"Grindhouse version"  HD transfer from a rare German 35mm cinema copy made in 1969, HD, 98:48 min
Official released in Germany.

If someone want to sync English audio from Blu-Ray, DVD or LD can be great.
Japan Blu-Ray:  English DTS HD MA mono
And if it's possible to correct it in some other ways, maybe colors....


This is my first Spaghetti Western, but of course I don't saw it in cinema.

I wanted to make a search for "VHS" and realized I couldn't because it was less than 4 characters. 

Would be nice to be able to search for shorter terms too.

I got a few Cinema DTS discs and on one of them, in each file after precisely 2 minutes a locomotive-like noise comes in, garbling the audio and making it unusable.

Any idea what this might be?

It does not occur in the trailers-file, only in the main files.

Update: Here's a short example of what I mean: https://www.sendspace.com/file/qzmk1y

Just saw this on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Feature-Fi...Sw9gRaIa~L

Has some nice shots in the article description that could possibly be used for a simple LUT color matching. It does seem to look better than the Blu Ray, from what I remember.

UPDATE: The seller was so kind as to provide his scans in a bit higher quality: https://imgur.com/a/LtcFd