Hey, I finally got around to signing up today after receiving the email about this place 2 months back. (Derp.)

The Welcome email links to http://fanres.com/announcements.php?aid=1 which for me comes up with a Cloudflare page saying it doesn't exist. The correct link includes forum.:

https://fanrestore.com/announcements.php?aid=1

Hi there:
I hope this forum sticks around because I see a lot of
fan preservations on original trilogy forum that take quite a while
to get done.

My fan preservation is the Macross Do you remember love? theatrical movie.
The recent Macross DYRL? BD had two blurred out censored scenes and an
unnecessary opening title card.

The current status of the Macross DYRL preservation is starting
all over again because of a loss of 2 main
hard drives which did have my preservation video files on them.

So, it has taken three months to recover the rest of my missing files, shuffle
around files to other hard drives, back up as much as possible and then
establish a Synology NAS for long term back up use.

It's a good thing I typed out all my preservation work notes on the forum, so
I just need to re-rip the BD and remastered DVD again to get back on track.

Evening all,
I'm ProgMetalMan of OT. I'm 17 and find archives and reconstruction quite fascinating, but probably won't be of much help on the matter. Anyway it's nice to see you all again!

I don't think I've posted anything here yet, so hi

Yesterday a new user made his first post, and guess what? A spam post... it occurs few other times; while I ban the guilty users temporarily, they spammed again when the ban period finished, so...


WARNING: from now on, users that will post spam will be banned forever!

Recently I started a thread on OT - http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.c...opic/17854 - and, because I never did it before, I thought to restore a trailer... easy task, I said myself... well, not hard like restoring and entire movie, but a bit difficult; in particular, the audio, because I'm not that expert in that field...

OK, I'm working on EP7 trailer #2; took the DCI rip as main source - that is really superior even to 4K youtube versions, and iTunes download (resized to correct aspect ratio) to replace non-English audio and video; next will be EP7 trailer #1, then some 1997 SE trailers.

Stay tuned!

Update 2015-05-31 00:43 CET: both EP7 DCP and SE 97 trailers released

Well, we (the FanRes members) are ready to release some interesting projects, and I wonder if you would like to adopt a catalog number system for the releases...

It will be great if we have a given number for each release, so we could refer to that call it, for example, 10001-BD instead of "movie title [release name] version 1.1 with audio fixed and color improved"...

I thought to use #####-XX, where ##### is the catalog number, and XX is the project format, like

• BD = Blu-ray
  
• DV = DVD
  
• UB = UltraHD Blu-ray
  
• MK = MKV file
  
• etc.
  

• 1 = movie
  
• 2 = animation
  
• 3 = music
  
• 4 = bonus
  
• etc.
  

Soft+Open Matte™

What is Soft+Open Matte™?
It's a method to display an open matte video with or without soft matte; applicable also to the open matte scenes found on variable aspect ratio sources.

Why?
Because someone would prefer an open matte version, with more images on top and bottom, while someone else would like to watch the OAR version.

How does it work?
Using a matte mask that will be overlaid on the open matte version, masking top and bottom parts of that, recreating the OAR version.

It's too good to be true...
You know what? IT IS TRUE! Of course, there are pros and cons...

PROs:

• avoid to have two different versions - open matte and OAR
  
• less BD-R discs/files
  
• works with BD-R and single file
  
• filesize increase negligible in comparison with having two versions - actually, it would be a bit more than just half that size
  
• retains part of the images that would actually lost in an OAR version, giving at the same time the chance to see it in both formats
  

• one frame gap every one minute unavoidable in most players, except MPV and SMPlayer (up to date); hardware behavious to be tested yet
  
• no subs with the OAR version*
  

Those of us that have worked on various projects have, at some point, had to deal with de-interlacing interlaced footage. Now there are numerous different ways of doing this, with some rather decent results to complete nightmares. All of this is usually dependent on the resolution of the video, the bitrate (the lower it is the more macro-blocking/noise/artefacts get introduced) and the Codec used (mostly MPEG2). I don't want to discuss the various methods as everyones "mileage will vary" depending on numerous factors.

However, while working on the "Something Evil" project, that finally has a new source (more in this thread) I noticed something in the de-interlaced footage. (I was using TDeint in Avidemux 2.5 exporting using Huffyuv)

I really like the real-time preview in Sony Vegas of multiple different video source on a frame-by-frame basis that is extremely easy to navigate. This is how I noticed that the footage that I de-interlaced (top-field-first) on many scene/shot change would have a chroma-bleed of frame A into frame B or chroma-bleed of frame B into frame A, at various spots, interchangeable, with no particular pattern. I thought to myself, "what if I reverse the field order when de-interlacing the footage?" The result is now that the chroma-bleeds happen at EXACT opposite frames, therefore, each frame can be salvaged.

Andrea suggested screenshot comparisons and this is a great idea

frame 84694 and comparison between de-interlaced top-field-first and bottom-field-first:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128834

frame 84695, same comparison as last frame, but you can see the chroma-bleed reversal in relation to choosing different first field:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128836

frame 3851 was chosen here for a few reasons... it is NOT at a scene change and shows how more detail is brought out by overlaying the bottom-field-first at 50% over the top-field-first helps produce a slightly sharper image as all horizontal info from both fields in present in the single progressive frame instead of just half (granted, at this lower resolution the difference is not as big, but I suspect this could help a lot with HD sources)... especially noticeable in the "for sale" sign and phone number underneath
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128837

So... yeah, just some weird stuff I noticed. With this particular source, I noticed this problem with almost every de-interlacing method I tried and the same difference when altering first-field order...