Working restoring some of the classic animation era of Disney and looking for some workprints. There have been a number available over the years, but had no luck tracking any down, can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Something that would be interesting to do but It's something I am not sure it would be possible.
Basically the signature series 2 disc edition has a special feature on the disc that has the MPAA cut's which were dropped for the original cut rather than have a I think perhaps 18 Rating (UK).
When the extended version was released the violence cut's were not re-instated and people were left scratching there heads a bit on why not?
The footage on the DVD in the "Treasure Chest" does have some really fantastic shots in it and it's not all violence related some of it is simple cut down for time or other reason but it has a overlay of very thin vertical lines. At least it does on the UK edition....
I am wondering if the footage can be found without the vertical lines or a way to possibly remove them?
Found Some here without the Vertical lines... This has his son being actually run over by the horse and the cut's to the first battle to tone the film down.
^ this is actually a joke video but this is the part with the most graphic footage cut for censorship Including the impalement at the end of this battle. The Hand being cut off I can't remember if that is there or not, also after the fight a guy comes around crushing people heads to make sure they are dead. And a Vulture is also pecking at a dead body also.
Basically I think it would be quite cool to actually do an unrated cut of the film.
Been lurking for a while. I think part of it is simply because I don't have a membership with some of the trackers used here, but I still love keeping up with this stuff. I suppose my exposure to fanedits was the Alternative Edition of Dune, and it was a slippery slope from there. I love that we live at a time when technology has reached the point that fan edits, regrades, restorations, etc can be done by regular people, and some of these end up being better than what's commercially available. Pretty crazy. Keep up the mighty fine work!
I've been a member for a while now and it seems like the Thank You button finally works for me. So I've been going through threads and thanking people because at the time for some reason I couldn't hit that little button of appreciation.
So I thought I'd make a thread to thank everyone properly who have welcomed me, helped me with things and advised over the last couple of years. This place reignited my love for Laserdisc and now I have my player again and a modest selection of essential titles to enjoy. I dabbled in muxing audio and video from different sources thanks to the people on here. I don't feel I'm anywhere near your level guys to bash out projects. But I want you to know I'm an avid fan and will watch your projects with gratitude and provide feedback should you want it.
Going forward I'd like to see if I can rip the audio from any of the laserdiscs I have to help people out on here who may need something.
Just a heads up guys; I just viewed the Alien: Covenant blu-ray, and can confirm the colour grading differs from the theatrical release; the blu-ray has that blanket green tint that Fox loves so much.. it wasn't too obvious at first until the night scenes, which (as I'm sure others here who saw it in cinemas recall) should be a really dark blue with deep blacks, but now is noticeably green. Also, the scenes in David's layer used to have very vibrant flames, but they are more muted on blu-ray (the scene now look more like the Alien 3 blu-ray, a sort of soft brown) i think applying the same fix as the done in the Aliens and Alien 3 fundamental regrades would put it where it needs to be :-) Beyond that the picture is nice - and the CGI doesn't seem to leap out at you and slap you in face like it did on the big screen/is much more forgivable and enjoyable :-) **update** A friend over at one of our video groups also noticed the issues I've listed above and has confirmed the blanket green and muted tones in the UHD 4K release as well.
Original title: Alien: Covenant Original runtime: 2h02m03s Source: Blu-ray (for widescreen shots); Korean IPTV (for open matte & IMAX shots) Video processing: combined widescreen and IMAX shot to get best quality; 35mm grain plate Audio processing: none Video format: x264 1920x1080 23.976fps VAR (widescreen OAR 2.40:1, IMAX and open matte 1.78:1) Audio format: DTS-HD MA 7.1 English, DD 2.0 192kbps Italian (low quality), DD 2.0 224kbps English commentary Subtitles: YAO black bars, English, Italian, English SDH, Danish, Finnish, French, Norwegian. Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish (movie); English, Danish, Finnish, French, Norwegian. Spanish, Swedish (commentary) Chapters: 24 Release notes: the widescreen picture was overlaid onto open matte version to get high quality IMAX shots; the amount of IMAX shots is around 12.5m while open matte shots total around 3m; there are some hardcoded Korean subtitles remains in lower part of some IMAX shots; they were blurred to be less noticeable, but you can always get rid of them just selecting the YAO (yet another overlay); at the end, there are about 11 minutes of IMAX and open matte shots free from any artefacts; Italian subtitles track was corrected and put in sync YAO subtitles hack: this kind of subtitle overlay black bars on selected shots; it was tested on MPC, VLC, MPV, SMPlayer and should work even on hardware Blu-ray players; to have both black bars and another subtitle, you should use SMPlayer with YAO as first subs track, and the selected language as second subs track Release format: mkv (BD compliant)
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Encoded date : UTC 2017-08-07 15:18:04
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I came across this a couple of times. Either clicking on the "Smilies" sometimes only produces and text equivalent text ... at least, on this system. So I thought to go through all of them (methodically) to root out possible candidates for correction. The "TEXT" ones have spaces between each character so they don't auto-convert. Also, the images jump back to text as I edit here. It generally clears up on preview or post. Sometimes (It happened) here, auto-convert throws in an extra colon and then the smiley doesn't show (or the wrong smiley). Also, I put "??" for non-standard smiley text, which I don't know. Others I'm grabbing from Cool Smileys: List of Text Emoticons – The Ultimate Resource .
NAME IMAGE TEXT entry (auto-converted) & TEXT shown (with spaces)
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"Tongue" : : P
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"Angry" X X (
"Sad" : : (
"Undecided" : : \
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"Sick" : : S
"Blush" ??
"Confused" ??
"Dodgy" ??
"Heart" < 3
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"Cry" : : ' (
"Happy" : : )
"Money" ??
"NothingToSay" :X : X
"Shocked" : : O
"Kiss" :* : *
"Eek" : : O
"Scorn" >:X > : X
"Thrilled" : : D
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"Woo" ??
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"Huh" ??
"Shy" ??
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Been asked to share this here and hope you enjoy the journey. I am not too fast with this stuff and it's a bit of a learning curve.
Basically the main focus of this project is to restore the deleted footage numbering approx 50 shots if not more.
Get the film looking like how it used to look or what it should look like.
Change a few things but nothing major either enhancement or general fan edit but with a view to getting scenes in the correct order of sequence rather than being shuffled up and continuity issues fixed using the deleted scenes restoring shots to their proper locations in the timeline.
Restoring music cues as necessary and adding deleted audio also.
Here is an updated clip of a sequence I have been working on and will give you a good idea about what I am trying to do.
Wondering if you remember the old VHS for this film and how it used to look? Hopefully the clip will jog your memory. I am using old documentaries and clips and stills for references.
Any Thoughts / Questions / Suggestions / Ideas / Criticism / Feedback / Help are Welcome
It's a fan edit with some considerable restoration in mind.
![[Image: Alien_Covenant_Imax_Edition_cover.jpg]](https://s20.postimg.cc/ib6qemjil/Alien_Covenant_Imax_Edition_cover.jpg)
![[Image: AC_IMAX_009211.jpg]](https://s20.postimg.cc/krmsh2mod/AC_IMAX_009211.jpg)
![[Image: AC_IMAX_045457.jpg]](https://s20.postimg.cc/frpc94h1p/AC_IMAX_045457.jpg)
![[Image: AC_IMAX_098335.jpg]](https://s20.postimg.cc/6in5z085p/AC_IMAX_098335.jpg)
![[Image: AC_IMAX_139459.jpg]](https://s20.postimg.cc/c5jiwhaod/AC_IMAX_139459.jpg)
![[Image: AC_comparison_bd_om_imax.jpg]](https://s20.postimg.cc/qapbyajpp/AC_comparison_bd_om_imax.jpg)
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