We wouldn't be doing the cinema experience justice if we focused only on THX, now, would we? There's also Regal, Carmike, AMC, Cinemark, GCC, and other policy trailers, and also ye olde Astro Daters. What I'd like to see as a filmophile is theatrical policy trailers and other assorted bumpers at a 1080p24 or higher resolution.

The world of classic theatre bumpers and which go where in a traditional theatrical presentation is one realm I would like to see explored at some point, in some way.

Hey, guys.

This past July, I attended to 5 screenings of Se7en in 35 mm in Paris, France. During 3 of them, I've made about 1200 pictures in total with my iPhone 4S to document the look of the film and cover pretty much the whole movie. I will attend to another screening on sunday October 22nd in another theater, a better one, in which I won't take pictures though. I'm aware that Se7en, because of Darius Khondji particular photography had to be printed in a particular way, and the guys at the theater could not tell me the specifics of the print, except that it was from back then (1995) and was made for the French release (it had subtitles). Now, Khondji being French-Iranian and France being the mother country of cinema, I guess what I saw 5 times now and soon 6 times is the actual intended look of the film. Khondji, before that, worked with Jean-Pierre Jeunet and I know the Jeunet movies were properly printed in France to render Khondji's cinematography. And from what I've seen on video (PAL VHS from Metropolitan, TV broadcasts, DVD from Metropolitan, DVD collector from Metropolitan which is the twin of the NewLine Platinum, Dutch Blu-ray, also a twin of NewLine Platinum except HD, and Metropolitan/Warner Blu-ray) over the years is very much different though close enough here and there, depending on the release and on the scenes. Here are some examples :





Here, you can see the Warner Blu-ray (picture 4) is the better match for low brightness but would need more warmth in the browns. Combining the Blu-ray with the colors from the 1st French Metropolitan DVD (picture 2) should do the trick.





Same here: Metropolitan DVD colors are the better match, but the DVD has blown out whites as we can see in the sky, where the electric lines should be seen.





This all scene (as most of the precinct scenes except for the one near the beginning when Somerset wants to drop the case) is supposed to be very cold, like bleached. The closer match is the NewLine Platinum and its twins like the Dutch Blu-ray. The Metropolitan, although too warm and too bright, has got somehing in its color that looks quite right.





Here, all video releases are way too bright and reveal the practical effect of the third arm along his body. The scene in 35 mm is so dark that the whole shot is actually conceived for the audience to look at what the flashlight is showing: the missing hand. In 35 mm, you can't see the real arm, you can barely perceive it and you'd have to know it's there to notice it. On video, well it's obvious! It reminds me of the mood also using a flashlight from this scene in Face-off , also ruined on video by being way too bright (courtesy of THXita from OT.com):





And finally, 'cause it's starting to be a long post:





In this scene, the NewLine Platinum is almost dead on! The darkness and the golden hue is what it's supposed to look. The Metropolitan DVD is too bright, and the Blu-ray is a complete revision that now sets the scene way later in the night all the way to the final shot with the Hemingway quote...







So all this to say what? That if one of you color-timing-video-editing-software wizzards is willing to work on Se7en, then I can be of quite a valuable assistance in providing video sources, as much as 1200 (!) pictures along with my memory of 5 recent screenings that I went to in a 2-week time, plus a future 6th one on October 22nd.

WOW!

First, I should say that this is a movie I wanted to see maybe since twenty years ago... yes, a rollercoaster, non-stop ride full of action and violence! This is not a movie for the faint of heart; you may feel sick sometimes, nausea, headache, due to very fast action and the whole POV shot style. But if you can resist, this is an amazing experience, gorgeous, exilarating, surprising... (add your superlative adjective here, probably it will fit well).

What can I say? Did you love Crank (and Crank 2)? Well, take it, multiply it for a great factor, and you can have an idea of what this movie is! Visually, it's stunning, long uninterrupted shots of parkour, flying vans after accidents, gun and rifle shootings, and so on and on for 90 minutes.

Sharlto Copley was amazing is his roles, funny, over the top; Henry was interpreted by no less than ten different persons - surely because wearing that kind of camera put a lot of stress on the neck, but I presume also because some of them are better on parkour, others with fighting, or stunts etc. - there are a lot of different action, and you can take your breath for few seconds every dozen minutes, as the action is almost non-stop, really!

The director, Ilya Naishuller, is specialized in POV footage, as you can see in his previous works, but here reached a very high level of perfection; I've never felt the action faked, always focused on what's going on on the screen without thinking for a moment "it looks so fake" as often happens seeing other films, even the high budget Hollywood production. You can also think about it as a first-person shooter video game gameplay, with a very strong plot and video quality.

What can I say more? Maybe I'm a sucker for this kind of movies (Crank 1 & 2, as written, but also Gamer), but I really liked it; think also that with a limited budget of only 2M$ they were capable to do so much! I strongly advice to give it a chance, unless you can't watch too violent content - and I bet you're not that kind!

Vote: 9/10

Found a UHD screenshot of Pacific Rim, and noted that snow (yep, I'm a snow-should-be-whitish-at-least-during-the-day guy, so? ) is a bit too green for my tastes



in comparison, BD is (almost?) right (take in account only colors)



Now, I wonder if this is due to different color spaces, or wrong conversion between color spaces, HDR Vs SDR etc. or just a different grading choice.

Greetings.

According to my profile I've been here for about two and a half years, but it was only a few weeks ago that someone reminded me that I had an account.

I've been active in the OT forums' Star Wars Holiday Special thread, and I suppose that tops my list of interests.

Tied with that, though, are Disney's The Little Mermaid and (almost at the same level) Beauty and the Beast. I enjoyed the live action BatB far more than I expected, and while it may sound heretical parts of it did seem superior to the animated feature. Its major downside was LeFeu's lyrics about how he was illiterate; that moment fell completely flat for me.

Aside from the SWHS, though, I've only posted sporadically.

My avatar is from the Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson short story "The Sands of Dune". Great image, weak-ish story (as are all that weren't by Frank Herbert) and I refer to it as "What happens when Shai Halud gets struck by a nuclear blast?"

I'm very grateful to join this forum! 

If any of you are visitors to Quadraphonic Quad, I'm the same Inquadwetrust that very occasionally posts over there. 

I've been doing my own preservations and restorations as a hobby for about a year now and have spent a lot of time testing various acquisition work flows for Laserdisc capture in my home set up. I'm not coming from a traditional capture card angle as thanks to a broadcast industry friend I have been able to loan stand alone encoders and broadcast IO cards as well as frame syncs that offer a number of other features. I've also bought some legacy devices that have also added other ways to enhance the capture process. I'd be really interested to discuss the methods I have used and I'm happy to post pics and discuss settings. This is most of the gear that I have or can borrow:


AJA Ki Pro Rack SD/HD UDC ProRes 422 recorder
AJA Ki Pro Ultra HD/2K/UHD/4K ProRes 444 recorder
AJA Io4K - allows capture of SD ProRes 444 and 444 XQ also DPX/TIFF and others
AJA FS1-X - up/down/cross scaler frame sync with detelecine
AJA LUTbox 
Leitch DPS-475
Oppo-105D (benchmark player for output, also used for in-line capture process comparison)
Involve Surround Master (4.0 dolby surround decode)
Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (1:1 audio capture)
Sony EP9ES - AC3 RF convertor 
LEADER LV5700A WFM 
KUMO SDI router for signal management
Star Wars ANH LD Technidisc corrected pressing X 3 (used as a benchmark for anything new)
Star Wars ANH LD CAV 77' audio (another one I have seen so many times I use it with anything new)
Video Essentials LD
A Video Standard LD
Video Essentials DVD x 2
Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark Bluray
Sony BVM-A24E1W HRTrinitron 16:9 HD-SDI monitor - calibrated (does 1080i48 for 23.98/24 IVTC QA)
Sony Analog CRT HRTrinitron monitors - 1 x 16:9, 1 x 4:3 
CLD-D703
CLD-D704
CLD-97 (waiting to be repaired)
CLD-99 
LD-S1
Panasonic DMR-E20 DVD Recorder (used as TBC for LD-S1)
LD-S9 (waiting to be repaired)
JVC 46" Calibrated LCD for HDMI QA
Epson Home Cinema 2000 Calibrated for QA at 7 feet diagonal

All discussions welcome and thank you again for letting me join this forum 

That's right! Google is a slippery, slimy customer but it's no match for a bronze titan!

I caught them (yes, the whole co-operative of evil!) in their nefarious deed while looking up a webpage for the Computer Chronicles: 35th Anniversary Edition project. Reviewing the OldSchoolLaw - List Of Computer Chronicles Shows, I clicked on the link to a Google cache . .

!! CAUGHT IN THE ACT !!

Send in the gods, I mean, the cops ... and lightning-strike, I mean, arrest them all!

If and when you make menus for your releases, what stuff do you consider in the design process? For example, for my Computer Chronicles 35th Anniversary project I'm planning on incorporating elements from all known Season 1 episodes and making it an animated menu, which I will, of course, do at a framerate of 120 FPS for easy downconversion as necessary. I know I'm planning on starting the menu animation sequence with the HP 150, the first touchscreen personal computer, zooming in against a black screen. However, I'm still trying to figure out what comes next.

This just sorta became a fun project of mine this past week. Anyways its been on my to do list to capture the 1994 Little Rascals movie whenever it came on television again mainly because it includes extended and/or deleted scenes not in the regular cut or included as extras on the video releases. Years ago I did record the TV edit to a VHS but not sure where it is now. Anyways this past weekend I found the TV edit in HD for free on OnDemand in the Freeform section and finally got around to capturing it. There was no master plan with this. I was mostly gonna capture it, cut out the commercials, and join the remaining parts together and call it a night.

However, there was things that I wanted to restore to the film from the theatrical cut such as censored dialogue, the outtakes montage during the closing credits as well as the full closing credits. I figured maybe I'd use this chance to also remove fade ins/outs for the commercials and have an essentially uncut version of the film. 

Some downsides. I had to capture composite so the final result is in 4:3 letterbox. Furthermore I don't have the BD or an HD version of the theatrical film on hand so to restore the bits I wanted to restore I had to capture my old anamorphic DVD to 4:3 letterbox so it would blend in better with the version I captured on OnDemand. For the most part the results aren't too bad. This was mostly a project for myself anyways but wanted to present it incase anyone was interested. Furthermore the TV edit isn't on OnDemand anymore presently so I cant for the time being do a recapture. 

Some details of the capturing and editing. Video was captured with ION Video Capture while audio was captured with a VIDBOX capture device. Audio I edited together in Nero and exported as .wav while the video I edited together in Sony Vegas Movie Studio. The final video was rendered as an .mpg.

Some details of the extended/deleted scenes, some of which I think enhance the film somewhat:

1. Extra bit at the end of fishing scene between Buckwheat and Porky where they are able to interpret Petey's barking as telling them to go to the club's emergency meeting.

2. Longer emergency meeting including Spanky announcing that the go cart tournament will be on the upcoming Sunday.

3. Slightly longer scene between Alfalfa and Darla in the row boat including her complimenting his voice and questioning if he's embarrassed to be seen with her which he denies.

4. Longer fire fighting scene. There's many extra bits here including: a rascal attempting to stop the fire with a sprinkler but ends up squirting himself in the face, Buckwheat and Porky arriving at the telephone line, Waldo arriving at the scene, a fire truck driving by causing the gang to cheer but they are disappointed when it turns a corner and disappears. 

5. Longer court scene including Stymie questioning Buckwheat who testifies against Alfalfa. This scene IMO is better and cuter in this cut than the theatrical.

6. Slightly longer bank scene which adds more to the irony of the gang running into the similarly clad bearded men outside. The men go inside the bank and the teller played by Mel Brooks initially thinks its the kids coming back and tells them to leave and yanks their beards. He's shocked to discover the beards are real and that the bags the men are carrying holds $2 million. The men say they will take their money elsewhere and leave, leaving the teller speechless. Another scene I think should have been left in the theatrical cut.

7. Slightly longer scene at Darla's porch showing Buckwheat pulling more stuff out of his pockets and Darla asking if this will take all day.

8. Extra bit in the scene where Butch and Woim first attempt to steal The Blur. When Butch says it'll be like stealing candy from a baby, Woim reminds him that the last time they did that they got the chicken pox.

9. Slightly longer scene where Alfalfa asks Ms. Crabtree for a spot in the talent show. She tells him they are unfortunately tightly booked but he manages to get her to give him a slot in the show when he lies that his ill stricken aunt from Bulgaria has come to see him sing.

10. Deleted scene where Darla confronts Alfalfa after his performance. She says this is worse than the picnic, locking her in the clubhouse, and wooing her. Its here she discovers that it was him she had spoken to at the ballet recital. Waldo arrives revealing he will be in the go cart race. He says he doesn't know if he'll enjoy his winning or Alfalfa's losing more before walking off with Darla. 

11. Deleted bit of the gang doing a spolioli when they gather at the hill above the ruins of the club house.

12. Deleted bit in the montage of the gang building the second Blur of a mother pushing a baby stroller who stops to tie her shoe. While she's not looking two rascals swipe the wheels from the stroller and run off. 

Some video specs:

Run Time: 1 Hour, 28 Mins., 16 Seconds.

Size: 3.91gb

Frame size: 720x480

Frame rate: 29f/s

Audio: 2 Channel Stereo

File Type: Movie Clip (.mpg)

Again I did this mostly for fun but it was a preservation project of some sort in the end and hence wanted to bring it up here. Yes a real HD version would be nice but unfortunately I'm limited in what I can do but still happy for the most part with what I ended up with. Audio syncs up pretty well. Some scenes the video may be a fraction of a second ahead of the video but not so much that its distracting. I also added custom black bars to make the cuts between both sources a little less obvious. Anyways I don't have any immediate plans of where to present this but if anyones interested message me and I'll see what I can do. Any questions please ask! Thanks guys!

Hey all,

Does anyone here have the Japan LD release of POV by Peter Gabriel that would be willing to rip and share the pcm audio from it? The Bluray audio sucks as it's been tinkered with and remixed by Peter Gabriel and it's just not the same anymore.

Huge thanks for any assistance obtaining this.

~Jet