I started to hear something about this lately, that most wanted actors/actresses had received a digital "anti age" treatment on film, to let them seem younger, and let their career last longer (and the studio earn more!)

Don't know exacly who is involved, nor which films are "polished", until I discovered myself this:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/130552
(note: BD image is untouched; top white "garbage" was still there!)
OK, blu-ray.com screenshots in in JPG, but that doesn't remove so much details, and think that the trailer has a meagre 9mbps bitrate, and a more active image (1920x912 vs 1920x800) compared to BD... (also, the trailer JPG size is four times less than the BD one!); take a look at the eyes, and other parts of the face, where the details are the some; but there are clearly a manual blur under the eyes and somewhere else; these kind of things would pass unnoticed in motion, of course.

By the way, I LOVE Milla - I'd marry her, if only I was a millionaire movie director!

What do you think?

Annie Hall's got a questionable Blu-Ray transfer at best. It looks fairly desaturated and magenta-pushed even compared to the DVD:

http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=711&d2=710&s1=7159&s2=7149&i=3&l=0


But, also irksome is the fact that the famous Annie/Alvy dialogue on the rooftop now has player-generated subtitles. Does anyone know or remember approx. what type of font was used in the original version of the scene?

Since it was released the same year as Star Wars (and beat it at the Oscars), I'm curious whether it might even be the same font as the Greedo scene. 


In any case, I know there's a new 4K restoration (which may or may not have improved subtitles for the scene), but haven't heard any movement on its Blu-Ray release.

DE-DUTCH™

What is the De-Dutch™ technique?

It is another, extreme unconventional aspect ratio... it consists in rotating the frame of a scene shot with the dutch angle (wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle)

Why should I use it?

You shouldn't (usually)... unless a whole film is shot using the dutch angle, like Battlefield Earth... not that you could save that movie, but at least you can feel (a bit) less sick!

untouched:

De-Dutched:


When an AAP-AR version using three sources isn't extreme enough... De-Dutch a film! Have fun!

I'm a subscriber to the 'Midnight's Edge' You Tube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrd6Vt...g/featured
For those that have not heard of them there slogan is 'Spin Free news and analysis of Comics, Film, Hollywood Corporate Politics & More'. Which pretty much sums up there content.

They have just produced a video on the history of Home Video format wars which i found a great sum up and very informative.



I figured people here would find it interesting also

Just got into an argument over FLAC vs. lossy compression.

Was challenged to do a ABX test. 

Done:
   

I admit I don't know how the math behind this works, but this tool says I can tell a difference with 100% confidence between FLAC and 320kbps MP3. 

So maybe most people just have shitty sound hardware? I used a Fireface 800 with AKG K701 headphones.

Either way, eat this, haters!

This thread is where I'll put my test and demo releases, beginning with the Inspector Gadget pilot, "Winter Olympics", on February 9. Test and demo releases will not use any of my logos for their home video logos, only studio logos as applicable. Releases formatted as screeners, however, will use my logos.

Contents of the initial test release, a DVD, will include the feature presentation and a trailer reel featuring largely unformatted (except to use the full frame of the 4:3 image) trailers for upcoming and future projects.

[EDIT solution here https://fanrestore.com/thread-2010-post-...l#pid40310]

I'll try explain my situation. Maybe some of you can tell me why this is happening and what to do to avoid it.

I work on Adobe Premiere CS6, video and audio tracks on the timeline are the same length and there are no gaps in the audio.
I export audio and video separately (video exported as uncompressed avi and then converted to h264) and then rejoin them later using TsMuxer to make a Blu-Ray folder or an ISO.

If I export the audio as PCM wave then this situation occurs: when I join audio and video to make a blu ray with TsMuxer, at the very end of the film I get a terrible loud noise of scrambled data that goes on for a few seconds (over 10 seconds), as if the video and audio are not the same length.

Maybe the fault is with Premiere that exports a WAV file of a different length or perhaps TsMuxer is not working correctly, right? These are the two main possibilities. Well, let's add some mystery to this.
I took the PCM wave file that I exported from Premiere and I converted it to AC3 with Audacity then with TsMuxer I created a Blu-Ray using the usual h264 video and the AC3 audio file (which was converted from the same WAV that created the audio issue before), well, what do you know? The Blu-Ray this time came out perfectly, audio and video end at the same time, with no weird sounds.    

So why PCM files always give me this problem at the end of the film while THE SAME FILE converted to AC-3 doesn't?

Anyone had similar expriences? Or any idea why is this happening? I basically can't use PCM audio for my projects and this is unacceptable.

PS it's late at night and very tired, I hope I explained the situation well enough.

Addendum: I once used EasyBD lite to create a blu-ray by muxing h264 video and PCM wave audio and the program wouldn't even start muxing but gave me a "different length" error.

Here I go again... yet another planned Spring offering, this time from Paramount's Roman vaults...

Danger: Diabolik

This is the trailer I plan to use when promoting the restoration project on my other projects. Needless to say, it'll probably look better on the trailer reel than in the link provided.

Initial specs are as follows:

VIDEO
Resolution: 1080p (BD), 480p (NTSC DVD), 576p (PAL DVD)
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 (BD and DVD, with English titles only), 1.37:1 (DVD only, with either English or Italian titles)

AUDIO
Italian (mono)
French (mono)
German (mono)
English (mono, 1968 dub)
English (mono, 1992 dub)
Castilian Spanish (mono)

SUBTITLES
English
English SDH (1968)
English SDH (1992)
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Danish
Finnish
Japanese
Swedish
Turkish

The above spec list is not final, which is most true for the subtitles; I might have to drop some of the subtitle options, ultimately, and I have no illusions that I'll be able to get everything I want for this project. But I'll do my darnedest with what I do have.

I just noticed that The Fellowship of the Ring (theatrical version) was recently added to Netflix (USA). I scrubbed through it and it appears to be a VAST improvement over the theatrical Blu-ray! There doesn't appear to be as much of the ugly DNR. The grain feels much more natural. Does anyone know how to do a full 1080p capture of a movie on Netflix? If so, this would be a good one to capture and preserve!!

Hello world! The name is Lavon. And I'm very new to this wonderful website! I'm a 20 year old amateur film maker that have yet to reached the levels of mainstream and been making movies for about 5 years now. I don't have anything else to say besides that but let's hope that this forum is a pretty nice place for me.