International Blu Ray cover (updated)


A superior 4k version was released officially and made this "fixed version" of mine obsolete, so consider it abandoned. You can buy the new 4k release and forget the previous Shout Factory Blu-Ray. I leave this thread here for archival purposes.

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Quote:ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - THE ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE

Mission: to restore Escape from New York as close as possible to its original theatrical look (and sound) by cleaning up and fixing all issues with Shout Factory Blu Ray (list of fixes below).
Video source: Shout Factory Blu-Ray
Audio source: US Laserdisc, Italian Blu-Ray, German Laserdisc (all original stereo mixes)

Final format:
Blu-Ray Disc 25GB including chapters but no menu or extras.
Video: 1080p, AVC video bitrate 25Mbps average, 40 max. (2-pass encode: medium pass 1 + slow pass 2), 23.976fps.
Audio: original stereo mix in English, German and Italian. All in 2.0 uncompressed PCM.
Subtitles: English, German, Italian.

FEATURING A GRAND TOTAL OF OVER 2 MINUTES OF FIXES to the Shout Factory Blu Ray and 221 INDIVIDUALLY-CORRECTED FRAMES

--->COMPARISON IMAGES HERE

[PAVIS is my film preservation "brand", mostly aimed at preserving films how they first appeared in Italy, plus fixing US releases while I'm at it]

Special thanks to DoomBot and MrBrown.

Quote:1, Brightness / contrast needs to be fixed as its too bright (Mgm release was too dark with black crush and zoomed aspect ratio)
2, Blue lines (print emulsion damage) need to be erased and fixed as much as possible in numerous scenes.
3, Blown Out David 14 computer graphic needs to be fixed
4, Moire effect behind Snake in Hauk's office makes the picture look like it is alive.
5, All tracks from original spoRv version need to be synced.

Does anyone have the old Anchor Bay release of AOD? Its the one that had both the widescreen and open matte. I was looking to get a copy of the open matte to try to upscale.

Hello, everyone!

So this is something of a mystery to me. When Disney released the Swedish dub of the Special Edition, they rerecorded the opening narration for some reason. I can certainly understand why they rerecorded the Swedish dub for Snow White, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, but the same can't be said about Beauty and the Beast and as of right now, the only way to see the true theatrical version is a Swedish pre-Special Edition VHS release. Let's change that.

Here is the official Swedish dub as heard on the official Blu-ray (and first premiered on the 11th of October, 2002).
And here is the first track of the Swedish soundtrack, which contains the original Swedish narration as first heard on the 20th of November, 1992. My request is simply to restore the original Swedish narration for Beauty and the Beast, because I myself don't have the means to the restoration myself. Can somebody please help?

I've been informed there is a tv version of Mumm-Ra Lives on Amazon. Edited down from the first 3 parts of the 5 part series. It has some scenes not present and a special title card not including the "part 1" present on the individual episodes.

Amazon have no doubt been sent an incorrect master, and I would like to preserve this version as I was unaware it existed until now.

If anyone has amazon and can help me get this captured, please reply, thanks.

Hi guys

 I ended up poking around with SVP (smooth video player) after finding out that Star Trek DS9 and Voyager may not get bluray releases for the foreseeable future.
I was very happy with the improvement it gives but wanted a permanent file with even higher quality and ended up reading about some of the results on the Original Trilogy site and was impressed to say the least. So getting the best of these Trek DVD's is my main goal.

I'm hoping to try PaNup, super resolution, frame doubling, colour correction, semi automated 3D conversion and adding "SVPlight" permanently in the black bars amongst other things. So it will take me months and months to get up to speed with infrequent spare time available.

Anyway I like alot of the project's going on in there so thought I should say hello. I grew up with 80's and 90's Action, Thriller and SciFi being my favourite stuff so I plan on following a few projects here.  

Is there any good way to correct brickwalled audio tracks? You know when it's so loud as to go beyond the dynamic range of the encoding?

Like most of my preservation efforts, I'm working on a release of this film for the Italian audience, however, I'm going to make use of seamless branching so this project will include both original and Italian versions of the intro titles. And since I'll be fiddling with seamless branching it's easy to add other alternative versions of the same segments, so I wanted to know if this film was ever released on home video in any other European countries with localized title screens? Perhaps in the French or German Laserdiscs and/or VHS? Can anybody check it out for me? I would love to add more localized versions.

Found on a fb :

http://forum.auto.ru/audiovideo/176849/

http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/00/wideo/rus501v.html

http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/00/wideo/rus_wp201.html

I have made a custom BD of Total Recall.  It includes jonno's LD PCM, which I synced to the first UK BD (from Optimum) because the otherwise-similar-looking AVC-encoded BD that Optimum(UK)/Kinowelt(DE) later released had a bit of DNR/sharpening and because I didn't like the colors on the Ultimate Rekall Edition.  The HD DVD looks very similar but has an (admittedly minor) authoring error.

The first Optimum BD is OOP, so it's hard to get hold of it.  I made this version to make it easier for people who like the old color-timing and don't want to resync the LD PCM themselves.

Details
BD-25
PCM from the LD
DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the official BD)
various subtitles

Thanks
jonno

PM me if you are interested.


Please do not:

pass on my links;
remux my releases;
re-encode my releases.

   

Project Info:

This topic has kinda already started in the PDB's BTTF Open Matte Upscale Project.

This is my first real project.
I'm going to be using the famous DCPrip and apply a custom color correction to make it look more "theatrical" compared to the "raw interpositive scan" look of the 2002 master. Some members here will agree with me My main color reference comes from an old VHS TVrip which was sourced on a theatrical print.

My other goal is to add the "To Be Continued" title card that was originally included in the video releases of the movie then removed in 2002. Apparently there is no official and good quality version of this logo so I've decided to recreate it based on the original one. It's no 100% match but it's still pretty good looking IMO and of course, better than nothing.

I'm planning to release a typical x264 MKV file including my capture of the US Laserdisc audio track presented in its original uncompressed PCM form.

Video Info:

File : MKV
Codec: x264
Bitrate: 25 mbps

1920x1038 pixels (1.85:1 OAR)

Audio Info:

File: Wav
Codec: PCM
Bitrate: 1536 kbps

48 KHz / 16 bits

Screenshot Comparison & Sample:

Screenshot comparison between the DCPrip and my custom CC: LINK

One minute sample: LINK

Pics:

[Image: pics1.jpg]  [Image: pics2.jpg]

COMING SOON