Hey everyone!  New to the site...kind of.  But NOT new to FanEdits!

I guess you could say that the first "FanEdit" I ever saw was possibly the best "bootleg" of Halloween 6: The Producer's Cut that one could find in 2006. I don't know who put it together; the back of the cover references a no longer functional website, onegoodscare.net, but no individual responsible. I was so excited to have it I made a LightScribe DVD for it (remember LightScribe??), and printed out the DVD cover and slid it into a case, and put it all together to fit in with my DVD collection. The edit was bewildering to me.  They used the theatrical DVD for all of the common footage and seamlessly blended in the footage from the best source of the Producer's Cut they could find. It was amazing! I felt like I was in on a secret that only a few people knew about. I felt like I was a part of something underground that was built by people like me, people who had a love and passion for movies...only they had technical savvy and could make these projects. Still, I felt like I was in.

It wasn't until a year or two later, I believe, that I came across what is probably the gold standard of FanEdits, though at the time I still didn't really know that there was such a large community. It was Star Wars, Episode IV - A New Hope: Revisited by Adywan. Halloween 6: The Producer's Cut was one thing; that was a bootleg of a cut of a film that just hadn't been professionally released, something that would circulate around conventions that I could never attend. ANH:R was something else entirely. Color correction, audio fixes, rotoscoping laser beams that had sound but no visual, removing lame Special Edition changes (and further subsequent studio edits) that didn't add any real value or even made things worse. The list of edits was so long my jaw hit the floor when I read them all. This wasn't just a new cut of Star Wars...this has become the DEFINITIVE cut of Star Wars, Episode IV. It was also my gateway drug to the FanEdit world.

FanEdit. Fan Restoration. FanFix. Preservation. FanMix. So many styles of editing a movie to tweak it one way or another, and I enjoy many different styles. I like aDigitalMan's extended version of The Terminator, and others like it, like Captain Khajiit's The Last Of The Mohicans: Hybrid Cut and Adabisi's extended cut of Se7en. I'm also enamored by the choices made by editors like JMB with Batman Begins: Dark Cut; using footage from another movie to change the way events unfolded in one small scene to make more sense of the story was brilliant! And I love how Dr. Sapirstein was able to use footage from the trailer that didn't end up in the final cut of the movie to make Evil Dead that little bit creepier.

I've always been a movie fanboy, and I love that there are talented people out there who can make these cuts and restorations so that OTHER fans can enjoy those movies in other, and sometimes better, ways. Arrow, Criterion and Scream Factory don't always get their hands on some of the movies that need to be restored or reassembled from other cuts of the movie that got lost to time. The super active members of this community (like admin spoRv) are the people who might be able to make it happen first, or even at all! And sometimes a fresh perspective on a movie makes it better for me to enjoy when I didn't fully enjoy it the first time, like Avid4D's Man Of Steel: Recut (which I can't find anymore!). I might not be able to contribute much, but I want to be a part of this community in some way. It would mean to me what these movies mean to all of us.

Can demodulation of the RF AC3 track be done via software (ie applied to a capture of the analogue track of adequate resolution) or can it only be done via hardware? I doubt it but I thought I'd ask anyway.

This project will primarily focus on two things. First of all, upscaling the transfer found on the Scanbox and Worldwide Cinema DVDs, which is arguably the best transfer available for this film. There is an official Blu-ray release, but the transfer on that is itself an upscale from an SD transfer. Here's a comparison between the official blu-ray and my upscale: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparis.../picture:0

If nothing else, at least the colours are much better.

Secondly, reconstructing the extended version. As you may know, there was a version of this film, about five minutes longer, that played in film festivals before the general release. It includes the infamous "piss drinking scene". To the best of my knowledge, this version has never had an official home video release. I have a VHS rip which is reportedly from a bootleg tape. I will be reconstructing this version, using the available material.

I'm also hoping to be able to present the alternate ending via seamless branching.

Video
Scanbox DVD and Worldwide Cinema DVD as primary source. Hong Kong Blu-ray for the Chinese opening titles and credits.

Audio
The main source for the Cantonese and Mandarin tracks will be the Hong Kong Laserdisc. Although, the movie is actually edited on that release to fit on a singe LD, so missing segments will be sourced from DVD. The English dub will sourced from the Scanbox DVD, which has it in good quality. I'll also include the Bey Logan audio commentary from the HKL DVD.

Subtitles
Most likely the English subtitles from the HKL release.

Extras
TBD

LIST OF WORKPRINTS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS DIFFERENT/ NOT AVAILABLE ON RELEASED MEDIA

Updated 2017-02-04 - 1250 entries on the complete WORKPRINTS Master List

LIST OF OPEN MATTE AND VARIABLE ASPECT RATIO MOVIES

Updated 2018-01-24 - 3092 entries!

At the moment, there are almost more than 3000 entries, and, even leaving only titles and few data, the list will still be cut in a quarter, maybe, if posted here, due to space constrain; so, I've decided to not post titles here anymore, but leave them all in the master list:

http://blog.sporv.com/open-matte-master-list

Hope you would appreciate all the hard work behind compiling and maintaining the list updated; as usual, additions and corrections are welcome.

Have fun!

Because there is an increasing interest in open matte and full screen versions of movies, I think it's time to start a main thread about this, a bit like the one found on our preferred Russian tracker.

Its main goal is to find out eventual differences between full screen, open matte and letterbox version of the same move, and *eventually* help project maker to release an AAP-AR version using two or three sources. Also, to have confirmation (or denial) of a DVD/BD/WEB release, or if it's available only on HDTV/DTV/ATV etc. - images and comparisons are extremely welcome!
Note that quite often 1.85:1 are released in home video with a 1.78:1 where there are top and bottom "slices".

Note: I copied and edited some posts that I feel relevant from the open matte master list thread; if you want to just add/correct titles which are not in the list, with no thoughts or pics, please post there, thanks!

Few and simple rules:
Title of the movie should be in bold, to facilitate grasping it in the post
OAR = original aspect ratio : the one found in theaters and in most home video versions
OM = open matte : here, it would be referred to 1.78:1 aspect ratio
FS = full screen : here, it would be referred to 1.33:1 aspect ratio
P&S = pan & scan : avoid to post a pan&scan title only, unless it contains more image than letterbox version
(when I write 2.40:1, it could be indeed 2.39:1 or 2.35:1, generally referred to anamorphic filmed movies)

Reference:
LIST OF OPEN MATTE AND VARIABLE ASPECT RATIO MOVIES
http://blog.sporv.com/open-matte-master-list

Anybody have this Laserdisc?

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/02992/12009/Sorcerer

The Blu-ray 5.1 remix is quite revisionist, even more so than most 5.1 remixes, most notably *SPOILER ALERT* by adding a gunshot sound effect to the final shot.

If someone happens to have the LD and can rip the audio, then I hereby express interest in seeing it ripped and synced to the Blu-ray.

EDIT: I'm seeing now that the French BD has an English Stereo option. Don't know if it's the original mix or a downmix. If it's the former, then the LD might not be necessary.

Does anyone have a capture of the audio for Last Man Standing on Laserdisc in either version of the disc?

Was released with a Dolby D track and also DTS.

Thanks

I'm at my first rendering of/exporting a 98mins on Adobe Premiere with many effect layers and I'm wondering how normal is to have 55-60 hours expected rendering time with my computer set-up (i7 4790 CPU, 16GB RAM, GeForce GT 730 graphic card)
(I usually edit 30 minutes videos from FUll-HD files with a great deal of additional layers and it takes them 1 or 1 1/2 hours. Working with 720p source renders almost in real-time)

hey guys, anyone knows what would be The Crow original sound mix ? There's apparently a very cheap UK DVD in full screen with the stereo track (probably is Dolby Surround?), the current mixes on Blu-ray are crappy and not the original sound. Thanks if anyone can help. If you have an old LD, you're welcome to rip it