Today I just stumbled upon a "movie sync" project on myspleen; then following the link to the website that inspired it, I found a guy that "discovered" some albums could be put in sync with movies, and replace their soundtracks... I thought about the Indiana Jones - Soderbergh version; I quite like the idea, even if I think it's not worth a complete project, but only an audio track that could be muxed to BD and/or DVD - a simple task for our members.

Some links about movie sync:

http://moviesyncs.com
http://www.moviessynced.com
https://videoaslife.wordpress.com/category/movie-syncs/
https://www.criterion.com/lists/171199-t...ovie-syncs
http://web.archive.org/web/2016031013381...logspot.it

Opinions?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062855

Anybody ever seen this one? I have an old VHS of it somewhere. This has never been released on DVD or blu here in the states. I downloaded a fan edit of it some years back, but it's an .avi and not the greatest resolution. I think an Italian DVD was released a couple of years ago under it's original tile, Dalle Ardenne all'inferno but only has Italian audio. UPC is 8028980583025. And apparently Amazon has it as well. I've never watched anything through Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JJ8..._aiv_mv-20

Cast A Deadly Spell is a fun, noir, Lovecraftian mash-up made for HBO television in the early 90's.

For the longest time the last best version available was a laserdisc to DVD preservation that I'm not even sure is in circulation anymore.

But that doesn't matter anymore, because Amazon has a 1080p stream that's also been circulating elsewhere... right?

Unfortunately, no.

This was shot explicitly for HBO as part of a set of 4 genre films written by Joseph Dougherty during that period.
Dougherty is known almost exclusively for writing TV episodes.  These films comprise nearly his entire feature length filmography and shot when TV was square NTSC.

The other films are 'Steel & Lace' (1991), a 1993 remake of 'Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman' starring Daryl Hannah, and a sequel to CaDS called 'Witch Hunt' (1994) with Dennis Hopper replacing Fred Ward.

So the OAR is 4x3.  Amazon has cropped the top and bottom to make this 16x9.  That's nearly forgivable, but HBO has aired an HD version that has been available in their On Demand list for a long time now.  HBO's version is correctly 4x3.

Watching that version recently I found something even worse... it's been censored.   Swear words have been over dubbed or muted.  Yup, HBO censored their own made for HBO movie.  I'm not even sure they know it. But going back, the same edits are in the Amazon stream.

So while I have been considering putting together a new version using an HD source, the laserdisc2DVD audio (or at least patches from it) and some corrected closed captions from HBO, I have reservations.

First, I really need to watch both versions side by side and make sure that nothing visually has been cut or cropped/zoomed, etc.

Also, while the beautiful Amazon rip is floating around, I'm not sure I want to go to this trouble for a cropped image.  I have no ability to cap the HD version from HBO beyond crappy 480i.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I hinted at this in another thread, thinking it was due to interlacing in the footage. After looking at the normal interlaced footage, I think I can somewhat safely exclude this possibility.

Maybe it's more like some kind of aliasing.

Here's a comparison screenshot. Left is the HDTV, right is a WEB-DL (including some DeHaloing):

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You can see how the lines of the font are clear on the right, but "jagged" on the left. 

Any idea what might be causing this and what a good solution would be, if there is any? I'm already combining the two sources, which mildens the effect, but it's still visible.

I get the same problem with finer textures in a few shots, like finer lining on a shirt, resulting in a form of aliasing, whereas the image is rather clear in the WEB-DL.

I doubt it's simple blocking, as it is too ... predictable and constant for it, and the bitrate of the source is also acceptable, in fact it's a bit better than the WEB-DL (although MPEG-2)

Surely you have noted that often HDTV (and SDTV as well) recordings have a slight color blanket applied to them; even if the master is the same of the DVD or BD, you can see they are a bit different, color wise - and often also got different brightness and/or contrast.

I have noted that the same channel have the same blanket - for example the Russian HD1 has more green, and TV1000 has more magenta etc. - so I suspect this blanket is introduced when the broadcaster overlay its logo.


What do you think?

Does anyone know if the HD version sold at amazon is indeed the theatrical cut?

https://www.amazon.com/Nixon-Anthony-Hop...B004JOVMDC

the duration that is noted is of the TC, but amazon is known for making mistakes in products' descriptions.

I have an HDTV stream (29,97 fps, interlaced).

To sync it to the 23.976 stream, I do this:

Hi guys,

I opened this thread because I need your help. I'm starting to rip from Netflix the Family Guy's episodes of the first seasons that were on 480p. My resolution is 4K (3840x2160). In each episode, for the true first 4-5 seconds, shows up the Netflix "play/sound bar". What I ask, is there a way, through "delogo" or similar, to make the frames clean?
I have no experience with avisynth so I hope I could get some help from you guys about it. To make it short, I need a full guided list of possible and concrete solutions.

Attached you will find some screens of the episode.

https://ibb.co/eM8twS

https://ibb.co/ktg2qn

https://ibb.co/fftyVn

https://ibb.co/mgFRi7

Looking forward to a prompt reply, hoping to get some help, I thank you very much.

(continue from this thread: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1627.html)

I thought that a "mere" open matte edition is too easy... so it's time for an AAP-AR treatment, and eventual color regrade.

Predator (1987) Open Matte / Dolby SR 4.0

Title: Predator
Runtime: 1h46m33s
Video format: x264 1920x1080 23.976fps open matte 1.78:1
Overall video bit rate: 14.4 Mb/s
Audio format: AC3 4.0 384 Kb/s English
Subtitles: English
Release notes: Video source is a WEB-DL. Audio comes from the French Blu-ray edition.
Release format: MKV
Size: 10.7 GiB

Screenshots: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/131138/  (Contains 7 screenshots)

Special thanks: Mass_5160 - Muxing the file / BlueBird - Ripping the video