I form part of two-man restoration project that requires, among other things, matching multiple sources of differing visual quality. This project began in May 2016, has never been attempted before and carries with it a certain degree of historical significance. I would strongly urge you to read this post for more information:
Until some months ago our team included a third member - an Avisynth plugin developer who was helping me with writing a script to match sources as best he could - but it has since become apparent that we cannot rely on him. As such, the project has been at a standstill for nearly 6 months. Therefore I am reaching out to all of you for help. I realise that animation is significantly different to live action and that many of the skills that are applicable to live action do not transfer over directly to animation. Nevertheless, if you feel that you can help, we would like to hear from you. I make no attempt to hide the fact that we are desperate, so please get in contact with me either through this thread, private message or the email provided at the link.
For this project, I'm planning on doing a restoration of The Land Before Time and its first four sequels. Everything will be done in HD, and I plan to restore as much footage to the first film as possible, using techniques similar to what was employed for restorations of A Star Is Born, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and Superman II.
This five-disc restoration, for Blu-ray and DVD, will consist of the following films:
The Land Before Time: Extended Edition
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
Something that i've been thinking about lately is the restoration of films with 2K Digital intermediate, which is pretty much every film from the last 10 years.
Lets say you have a film shot on 35mm but DI'd and mastered at 2K. How plausable would it be for a film to be rescanned at 4K, reconfomed to the 2K edit, and re-renderd with 4K elements. We know it can be done, Seinfeld, the Wire, Friends, all reconformed to original neg, going from video masters to HD masters. But what about 2K to 4K.
I cant think of any 4K UHDs that have had such a treatment. We are pretty early days into the UHD era so that might change.
I think it wont be done, the improvement would be largely minimal for a large expense. 2K looks fine on every screen, even IMAX, and 2K UHDs are selling regardless. And for films with an obnoxiously complex image chain like Lord of the Rings, the process would be incredibly difficult (but id love to be part of it).
Hi all. I love a good project, be it a classic Chevy, fan edit/preservation or cover artwork and someone told me that this was THE place for at least 2 out 3 of those things. I don't have a lot of experience in film related projects, but I love films and I am a life-long learner, (as well as a bit of a smart ass), so hopefully I can learn some stuff and contribute when able.
My name is ThePlayer and I'm Italian. I'm new and I hope to stay here for a very long time. I like this forum because I think it's like a Pandora's box: in it I can find everything. I love to mux movies with italian audio.
In the last two years I released some movies (with Bluray quality): F.I.S.T, Death Wish Collection (Il Giustiziere della Notte) [at the moment I'm working on the 5th title], Waterloo, Julius Caesar, Mr. Klein (Alan Delon) and I'm working on some series like: Two and a Half Men (Due uomini e mezzo), Buffy - The Vampire Slayer and Malcolm in the Middle (1080p Amazon Video - Audio DVD/TV).
I like doing this because all I'm working on is still and unfortunately not edited in Italy.
I hope to share with you my works or just my audio.
Original title: Alien: Covenant Original runtime: 2h02m02s Source: Blu-ray (for widescreen shots); Korean IPTV and Russian WEB-DL (for open matte & IMAX shots) Video processing: combined Korean and Russian IMAX and open matte shots 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; DTS 5.1 French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian; DD 2.0 224kbps English commentary Subtitles: YAO black bars, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian (movie); French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian (commentary) Chapters: 24 Release notes: the amount of IMAX shots is around 12.5m while open matte shots total around 3m YAO subtitles hack: this kind of subtitle overlay black bars on selected shots; it was tested on MPV and SMPlayer and may 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: BD-25 folder
Screenshots:
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I know for a lot of fans this is a big deal. I've read so many message board threads among various sites that focus on the AR on this film. The guy who posted that thread ain't getting any hits, so I figured this site has fans that'll take notice
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