Hey all,

I purchased a few Widescreen Edition VHS tapes.  I really wanted the cool ass info cards that came with them.

Anyways, would anyone be interested in these if I cap and transfer them?  I purchased ST IV, Generations, First Contact, and Insurrection.  I am working on getting the TWOK which has an info card as well.  These are the only ones I've found on fleabay so far but I will search out the rest.  

Now I know it's VHS and there are LD, DVD, and Bluray versions but some of us watched them like this first.

Let me know.



If you like a specific part of this thread PLZ quote a post that mentions it when posting so that folks know exactly what you're interested in.

Thanks

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... that means "Hello from ancient Greece!"

(If those greek characters [and where do you think Jason And The Argonauts came from, anyway?] magically carried over from Google-Translate to the thread subject, then Middle Earth isn't the only place of magic. But, like everything else, "sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't"*.)

* Chief "Old Lodge Skins", Little Big Man (1970)

First off, I'm aware that there are threads on this site about softwares that will record analog. But I'm looking for something a little more specific. First off I have the Honestech Video Capture software. It works pretty good but here is my problem. The exported video has a 'ghosting effect' which I believe is called interlacing?? I'm not too knowledgeable in this field. Anyways below is a screen grab showing what I'm talking about. Note the image on the upper right has the 'overlap'. Also the device I used seems to be recording very bright, note the image on the bottom right. The images on the top and bottom left are from a DVD a friend captured for me some years back. He used EyeTV Hybrid for Mac. Now the brightness thing isnt that big a deal although I'd like to avoid it but I havent been able to find ways to work around the overlap with my main software. I'd try EyeTV Hybrid but its very expensive. Anyways any capturing software that anyone could recommend me where I could avoid all this and in a good price range?? I dont care if its for Mac or Windows. My Mac is my main computer but I actually do most of my video stuff on a spare Windows computer I have.

Hello,

I would want to know if anyone played around with playlists on Blurays. Basically I want to add two different cuts of movie on my Bluray, when having separate file for deleted scenes.

So I would have regular cut on one playlist using file 1.m2ts, with all it's audios and subtitles, but I would want to have playlist two, that would use 1.m2ts and place various parts of 2.m2ts where it's told.

I'm likely to move the active Project Threepio thread from OT.com to FanRes in the near future. Since it's not a preservation per se, but supplemental material for specific preservations, which subforum would it work best in?

Yeah, and this probably isn't even the best subforum for this question either. I just don't want to mess with whatever organizational system is already in place.

The following is a list of members of this community and their general locations, that are willing to help with bit-perfect capturing of Laserdisc audio:

- (?)Buster D - Japan - (NTSC)

- Lil Brutto - Vancouver, BC, Canada - (NTSC)

- Colek - Poland (NTSC & PAL)

- schorman - Miami, FL, US (NTSC)

- bendermac - Germany

...this list is a work in progress

....


Can members that are willing to help with this, please respond and I will update the list?

Hello,

This has been brought up before, but the 20th Anniversary remix of Grease is utterly butchered, especially in the music. A lot of additional reverb, sound effects that are almost louder than the music, and it's just generally an overproduced mess.

For most films, it'd be easy to obtain PCM Dolby Stereo from laserdisc. Not so with Grease. You see, it only ever had an analog release in the U.S.

Supposedly, there was a stealth digital reissue, under the same catalog number, but SilverWook and I have come to the conclusion that the person who added this info to LDDB was mistaken, because we've acquired at least one copy that claimed to be digital, but it was just analog. The best copy we have is from the 1990 hi-fi VHS. (The theoretical PCM LD would probably have used the same master?)

There are only two known releases that do have the 1978 English mix in PCM: A Japanese reissue from the 90s, and a Dutch release. The Japanese one is exceedingly rare, so I'd like to put out a request: Can anyone obtain the Dutch disc, and do a bit-perfect transfer? It would just need a 4% slowdown to be able to do the sync work. (Then, the theatrical version could be preserved by taking the 2.35 Paramount logo from another contemporaneous release and putting it back at the head/tail to replace the modern logos.)

Here's the LDDB listing: http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/34199/21.04.002/Grease

Is there a way to remove or mitigate laserdisc noise in a capture? I'm trying to avoid using pure noise reduction since that would cut into the grain also.

Hello lads,

Using ESI Juli@ and Pioneer LD-4300D I ripped audio from Japanese Laserdisc of Jackie Chan's First Strike @ 32-bit/96kHz.

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Now, I have no experience in working with audio, but I would want to get the best out of this. This is already an improvement to the DVD, but I was wondering if there is anything else that can be done here for this. As you can see it is a bit quiet, would using Normalize in Audacity do the job?

Hello again, I was curious if anyone has considered preserving the audio for Frankenstein (1931). For starters I am quite displeased with the audio mix on the BluRay since IMO it is a bit flat and muffled. Also theres portions of the sound track missing. This is also the mix used on every DVD release since 2004.

About two years ago I had sent someone the audio tracks from the VHS' of Dracula and Frankenstein which he was going to sync up to the BD. I messaged him a few times and he said he was working on it and finally said it would be ready by Halloween 2014. As far as I know the project wasnt completed and I havent heard from him since (if you the one Im speaking of are reading this, understand Im not calling you out since I know people get sidetracked with other projects). 

Which brings me to here. After doing some comparisons, I realized that my 1991 VHS copy while a bit hissy sounds crisper than the BD. However the VHS may not be the best source. The copy was only viewed once or twice by the time it was digitized so it still came out pretty good but some scenes may have some VHS crackle and there was one minor glitch in one scene which actually isnt all that noticeable but might stand out when trying to sync to the BD. I noticed that the VHS is actually going at a somewhat faster pace than the BD. The exact fps I do not know. I believe the guy who was working on this said he was having a bit difficulty with the syncing. Please keep in mind Im no expert when it comes to syncing audio tracks which is why I seek everyones help.

So perhaps another source is in order. Does anyone by any chance have the 1987 'restored' Laserdisc and might consider digitizing it? Since the 1987 'restored' VHS uses the same print as the 1991 VHS, maybe the Laserdisc would be the best source. A headsup though. This 'restored' print is missing the line 'Now I know what it feels like to be God', a line that was restored circa 1999 and hence on the BD. Whether to restore this line to the Laserdisc mix or just leave the line censored will have to be discussed.

Anyways below are two comparison videos I made some 2-3 years ago. The first I wanted to point out that I feel the VHS sounds crisper while the other points out the missing bits. Leave some comments and hopefully we can make something of this. Understand that I respect all opinions so lets be on the same page everyone.

https://vimeo.com/56206935

https://vimeo.com/57318682