Hello guest, if you like this forum, why don't you register? https://fanrestore.com/member.php?action=register (December 14, 2021) x


Welcome, Guest
You have to register before you can post on our site.

Username
  

Password
  





Search Forums

(Advanced Search)

Forum Statistics
» Members: 5,218
» Latest member: Ponchovil
» Forum threads: 5,800
» Forum posts: 84,871

Full Statistics

Latest Threads
Lethal Weapon UHD resyncs
Forum: Requests, proposals, help
Last Post: Beber
4 hours ago
» Replies: 19
» Views: 1,741
Rambo trilogy original mi...
Forum: Requests, proposals, help
Last Post: dvdmike
5 hours ago
» Replies: 81
» Views: 62,461
The Dollars Trilogy 4K UH...
Forum: Official and unofficial releases
Last Post: marin888
Yesterday, 12:26 AM
» Replies: 15
» Views: 2,519
Hello
Forum: Presentation
Last Post: JCStuntMan
Yesterday, 12:25 AM
» Replies: 0
» Views: 26
Rumble in The Bronx (紅番區)...
Forum: Released
Last Post: Dame310
2025-07-01, 10:47 PM
» Replies: 45
» Views: 22,838
Hello
Forum: Presentation
Last Post: XanderLeoarro
2025-07-01, 09:32 PM
» Replies: 0
» Views: 25
Silence of the Lambs gets...
Forum: Official and unofficial releases
Last Post: Beber
2025-07-01, 08:20 PM
» Replies: 91
» Views: 76,494
"The Insider" (1999), Mic...
Forum: Official and unofficial releases
Last Post: Beber
2025-07-01, 05:57 PM
» Replies: 5
» Views: 410
Film logo preservation an...
Forum: Requests, proposals, help
Last Post: Bianjumu
2025-07-01, 07:18 AM
» Replies: 125
» Views: 106,998
"Reservoir Dogs" open mat...
Forum: Released
Last Post: Bianjumu
2025-07-01, 05:34 AM
» Replies: 3
» Views: 456

 
  UHD color difference
Posted by: spoRv - 2017-08-23, 01:55 AM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (7)

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? Big Grin ) is a bit too green for my tastes

[Image: %5Bwww_KATZeus_com%5D_Pacific_Rim_(2013)_2160p_4K_Ul.jpg]

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

[Image: Pacific_Rim_BD.jpg]

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.

Print this item

  Hello from Western Washington, US
Posted by: MattMahdi - 2017-08-22, 05:45 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (4)

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?"

Print this item

  Hi!
Posted by: inquadwetrust - 2017-08-21, 10:08 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (2)

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  Smile

Print this item

  TRUST NO ONE ... especially Google ...
Posted by: BronzeTitan - 2017-08-21, 08:11 PM - Forum: Everything else... - Replies (5)

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 . .

[click on these large thumbnails (hey, I'm a bronze titan) for the full size screencaps]

[Image: OSL_-_CC_tn.png]

Up popped this Google cache webpage . .

[Image: OSL_-_CC_GC_1_tn.png]

Also immediately, it was gone and replaced by this . .

[Image: OSL_-_CC_GC_2_tn.png]

!! CAUGHT IN THE ACT !!
[Image: mind_blown.gif]
Send in the gods, I mean, the cops ... and lightning-strike, I mean, arrest them all!

Print this item

  Menu design
Posted by: Koopa Luath - 2017-08-21, 05:42 AM - Forum: General technical discussions - Replies (4)

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.

Print this item

  The Little Rascals (1994) Extended Version
Posted by: crissrudd4554 - 2017-08-19, 05:32 AM - Forum: Released - Replies (8)

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! Smile

Print this item

  Peter Gabriel - POV (JAPAN LD) PCM
Posted by: Jetrell Fo - 2017-08-18, 10:41 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - No Replies

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

Print this item

  Aliens, Ripley/Queen fight
Posted by: deblock - 2017-08-17, 08:07 AM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (11)

How many here saw Aliens in the theaters in 1986? Anyone see Ripley cutting off the Queen's tail during the finale fight?

Before the Queen gets sucked out, if you freeze-frame, the Queen's tail is cut off.

I read on an internet post that this scene existed, perhaps in early showings and was cut. Sorry if I already posted about this.

Print this item

  the "happy web places" thread
Posted by: spoRv - 2017-08-16, 11:46 PM - Forum: Everything else... - Replies (19)

I'm writing here just because this is my home, but as some of the users here are members of the other places, they would know as well...

Of course, FanRes: this little community has growing (relatively) a lot, thanks to new users lead to us by not only search engines, but also by other members, and posts made elsewhere. I'm happy to see some of them to be very active, and I must tell there are some that acts "behind the scenes", helping me (and some other project makers) with needed files, test watch and so on. So, thanks to everyone!

Another one is, as you can expect, OriginalTrilogy - without it, this community probably would never exist. It's a lot bigger than us, so it happens to find out some less-than-polite members there (it's the rule of big numbers, I think); but I can say they are almost all very nice and helpful as well.

Then, I should mention MySpleen and Blutopia; I don't visit the former's forum, so I can't speak about it, but I read often the comments on the torrents, and they are almost always nice and polite, and, if negative, usually constructive. On the latter, I visit forum frequently, and I've found nice and helpful people there - some now members here as well!

Doom9 forum: I visit just the Avisynth subforum, so I can speak only for that; it's a very focused subforum, so someone can react a bit over the line sometimes, but I can say that even there I found help for some problems I didn't know to solve otherwise; there are few gurus there with very high knowledge, and following their advices would lead to a sure solution.

Last place I want to mention is Rutracker; I visit just the open matte thread - mainly because it's very interesting, and because I haven't the strenght to use the online translator to visit other threads... well, even there almost all members are nice and helpful, many helped me, and also some are members here, too.

So, I'm too optimistic, lucky... or both? Happy

Now, which are your "happy web places"?

Print this item

  posting in the same moment another is posting...
Posted by: spoRv - 2017-08-16, 11:24 PM - Forum: Bug reports and suggestions - Replies (7)

OK, I should admit it doesn't happen frequently, but, as members are growing, and related threads/posts too, it would be more frequent in the future.

So, I wonder if there is a plugin that "prevents" you to post your comment, and that tells you something like "hey, while you were writing, another one has posted a comment... why don't you read it and eventually edit your post?"

It is what rutracker forum does - and probably others, but I noted it only there.

Print this item