Hey all ...

I want to download some of my VUDU movies and put them in to an MKV format so I can watch them using a different media player but they apparently have drm. Anyone know a way around this?

Thanks,

Shawn

Hello!

I just joined the forum because I am interessted in listen to the original theater sound mix of movies. Hopefully I will find some other people here who prefer that as well and that we can work together on some interesting projects.

Looking forward to

OK, I must admit I've contracted the open matte fever... it's subtle, and I think it's difficult to heal from it... so, meanwhile, I thought about the open matte version of the whole Resident Evil saga...

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2002 — Resident Evil

Aspect ratio: that's incredible... there is a fullscreen 1.33:1 in HD here!!! It was broadcasted as anamorphic 720p (even if the page title suggests there was a 1080 version); it is "simply" squeezed vertically, so when restored to proper aspect ratio, it would be 1280x960, as following:



sadly there are no seeders...

There is a 1.78:1 BD (Poland); also a 1.33:1 DVD, but I'd prefer to work with the HD one!

color grading: it seems there is only one

cuts: theatrical - it seems no deleted scenes exist

1. DVD (nicer and seems quite close to theatrical)
   
2. BD/HDTV
   

1. DVD PAL
   
2. BD, DVD NTSC
   
3. Nova TV, MBC and others (similar to PAL DVD, more green)
   
   plus
   
   
4. TV 1000 (similar to PAL DVD, more magenta that could be "cured" lowering saturation)
   

Looking for a recommendation from the experts. Got an old HD master that on close inspection has aliasing that I want to try to get rid off. Anyone got a recommendation and/or settings?

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When distributors restore or remaster a film from negative they also have no way of reintroducing the original fonts used for the credits and on-screen text since these elements are usually introduced later on in the post-production chain from negative to final 35mm.

I thought this would be a good place to create a list of official Blu-Ray releases which DO NOT come with theatrical titles but rather with a digital recreation of them where the font used is sometimes close-enough, sometimes not even that, sometimes they are repositioned too and in most cases nobody notices it.
If you have some titles on Blu Ray that fit the criteria, please let me know and I'll add them to the list.

Films on Blu-Ray with new fonts, titles or credits

Atlantic City (original font found on HD stream, new font on Blu-Ray) screenshot here)
The Big Red One (new font on WB Blu-Ray)
Chariots of fire (original font on 20th Century Fox BR from France, new font on WB Blu-Ray from USA screenshot here))
Cobra Verde (new font reported on region B Blu-Ray by BFI, screenshot here)
Deliverance (new font on Blu-Ray and some DVD releases) screenshot here)
L'Enfer (BR by Cohen Media Group screenshot here)
Fantasia screenshot here)
Fedora (new font on French Blu Ray by Carlotta Films screenshot here)
Hard Times (new font on BR screenshot here)
Murder on the Orient express (1974) (original font found on HD stream, new font on StudioCanal Region B Blu-Ray) screenshot here)
1900 new font in Dall'Angelo Pictures BR, original font in Olive Films BR screenshot here)
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (new font in all Blu-Ray releases by Shout, Arthaus and BFI screenshot here)
Shaft (new font on Ray screenshot here)
Stripes (new font and new positioning both on Blu-Ray and DVD) more info and some screengrabs here)
Suspiria (for the recent Italian 4k release they digitally recreated the original font and used it for both intro and end credits but originally the end credits had a different font)

More info on this topic and more titles can be found here http://annyas.com/screenshots/updates/re...n-history/

Localized foreign versions of films are part of cinema history too but they have been disappearing since the introduction of the DVD. Aside from their historical value, transfers made in European countries from their own 35mm copies are rarely re-touched and restored and often give us a glimpse on how the film originally looked and in some cases localized foreign credits can even be a key element for creating textless versions in more advanced preservation projects that we do here.

Following the footsteps of fellow member Stamper, here's a list of films published or released in high definition with Italian localized credits.

BLU RAY RELEASES*

ORIGINAL TITLE / ITALIAN TITLE (RELEASE COMPANY)
Mientras duermes / Bad Time (key films)
The Devil's Rejects / La Casa del diavolo (Eagle Pictures)
Drive (01 Distribution)
The Expendables (01)
The Ghost Writer / l'Uomo nell'ombra (01)
Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox)
The hateful eight (01)
Insidious (Filmauro)
It follows (Midnight Factory)
The Last Man on Earth (from Germany "Ich bin Legende" Mediabook, Media Target Distribution)
London has fallen (M2/Eagle)
Machete (Key films)
Machete kills (Key films)
Magic Mike (Key films)
Man on fire (Fox)
Moonrise Kingdom (Lucky Red - CG)
The Neon Demon (01)
Olympus has fallen (01)
El orfanato / The Orphanage (Key films)
The Place Beyond the Pines / Come un tuono (Lucky Red - CG)
Pulp Fiction (Eagle - 8031179932931)
Rogue One - A Star Wars story (Disney)
Rush (01)
En solitaire / In solitario (Lucky Red - CG)
Nightcrawler (01)
Dumb and dumber 2
Sicario (01)
Silence (01)
Snowden
La Vénus à la fourrure / Venere in pelliccia (01)
Wolf Creek 2 (Mustang entertainment)
Dawn of the dead (european cut by Dario Argento) HD e 4K (Midnight Factory)

DIGITALLY RECREATED
Escape from New York (by me -> release thread here)
Kill Bill 1 and 2 (Eagle) - Partially re-created Italian credits but totally inaccurate.

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*This list was created thanks to the help from followers of my blog and I keep it updated as more titles are confirmed to me.
In general, all films released in Italy by RAI / 01 Distribution make use of Italian DCP as their source (list on Amazon here) but I only add titles to the list as they are confirmed to me

Is there any need or want for either of these 2 classics for projects? I acquired them in a box O VHS treasures. I don't know if these have different color timing. audio, or whatnot.

Let me know here.

I'm starting this thread since it could be good if all the info is gathered in one place.

I will list here as I come across them all french localised titles masters I find. This will grow as it goes. Feel free to contribute. Also feel free to start threads for italian, german etc. copies if you live there and have HDTV access.

The idea is, since the advent of DVD, all localised versions are disappearing from the surface of the earth, but some survive on HDTV or licensed DVDs/BDs. Some of them also included french inserts like Dirty Harry, which has the insert of the newspaper Scorpio reads on the roof shot in several languages with different versions, each in it's own language, of the newspaper mock-up. This revisionism must stop and history must be preserved so please indicate here any localised version you know about and I'll add them to the master list.

DVDs original versions:

- Con Air (branching) R1 early Disney DVD
- Enemy of the stare R1 early Disney DVD

HDTV real original versions:

- Die Hard 2 (1990) French HDTV airings saved by fellow forumer here.
- Mission Impossible (1996) French HDTV airings. Original titles, not redux. Looks like the color timing is the original with tons of blue. Worth saving?
- MI:2 (2000) French HDTV airings. Original titles, not redux, also includes all intertitles cards in french.
- True Lies (1994) French HDTV airings look like original titles, but there might be two different versions running around. This is the 2.35:1 version.


HDTV doctored versions / recreations to avoid
- Terminator 1984 French HDTV airings. Title card is remade in horrible arial like font, from the old DVD Pal master which had the text free insert. Useless.
- Back to the Future
- Spider-Man 2
- The Warriors French HDTV redux titles but theatrical cut!

In this thread, we'll discuss the various home media editions of the Walt Disney Black Diamond Classics across home media, from 1984 to 1994, and beyond. The objective, naturally, is to figure out what the best version of each would be for my Walt Disney Classics documentary project, so as to ensure the preservation community doesn't get its wand in a knot, as the wizarding world likes to say. ;D

The films this thread will look at are:

1. Robin Hood
   
2. Pinocchio
   
3. Dumbo
   
4. The Sword in the Stone
   
5. Alice in Wonderland
   
6. Sleeping Beauty
   
7. Lady and the Tramp
   
8. Cinderella
   
9. Bambi
   
10. The Little Mermaid
    
11. Peter Pan
    
12. The Jungle Book
    
13. The Rescuers Down Under
    
14. Fantasia
    
15. 101 Dalmatians
    
16. The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective
    
17. The Rescuers
    
18. Beauty and the Beast
    
19. Aladdin
    
20. The Fox and the Hound
    

When encoding interlaced video files, I personally swear by FFMPEG. For over two months, I've been using Hauppauge's WinTV-HVR 9550 TV tuner to capture quality true HD footage from my PBS station–and when I was on vacation in Birmingham over the Easter weekend, I captured the same from my sister's PBS station–and then encoding the results via FFMPEG using the Yadif filter. Below is the formula I've been using for each encode, entered into Command Prompt:

ffmpeg -i in.ts -vf yadif=1 -acodec copy -vcodec libx264 -preset superfast -x264-params cabac=0 out.mp4

Tips on encoding interlaced non-broadcast video via FFMPEG will come later.