i've finished the restoration/re-creation of the theatrical trailer of mad max beyond thunderdome

you can check it out on youtube



i had to make a few subtle changes due to missing frames/footage and use of alternate angles in the trailer.
everything was done to honor the original intend. though, i did change the opening logo to the much cooler
1970's warner bros logo  :cool:

enjoy  

the trailer was edited in final cut pro x

Hey,

I need to get a Laserdisc player in order to rip video and audio out of NTSC Laserdisc (I am from Poland, so PAL here). What player should I get? How much will it cost me? Or maybe someone can do this for me? I'll send you the Laserdisc, and afterwards you'd resend it to me.

Hey,

I am making a composite cut of Jackie Chan movie (Uncut DVD and German HDTV broadcast). I'll upscale the DVD using SuperResolution and other filters (do you guys suggest any?), but I would like to know what tool you suggest to use to make one movie out of these.

Do we have any users here who are capable of capturing HD video from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc? There often are movies there available in HD which have not been released on Blu-ray. It could be very useful to capture them in 1080p, especially since they don't always stay up for very long. I've already missed a few which I wish had been captured. Any interest in this?

Have you noticed that it's 2015, and still no official BD release of "The Abyss", even if it should have been out last year?

Well, Doctor Sapirstein preceded me with his double project:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.c...opic/16302
sadly, he retired it when he heard about the BD release, but it never happened, and, even if it will happen, maybe we have to wait a lot (how much, is too much) of time... the interesting fact is he made two versions, one was an upscaling of the NTSC DVD, while the other was done using an HDTV broadcast as source.

Even if they were technically good, now they could be improved; the upscale could benefit from both Super Resolution and PaNup technique (yes, I know PAL quality is not that good, but it will be eventually used with a lower percentage); the HDTV used was upscaled from a Japanese 720p source, then cropped to 2.7:1 to get rid of the TV logo and subtitles; now the Cinemax HDTV is available, with a greater quality, but unfortunately it has the so-called "Cameronized" color regrade, and it's "only" the theatrical version...

So, there is room for improvements IMHO; I'd leave out completely the upscaled DVD, and I'd use the Cinemax HDTV to reconstruct the Special Edition, while the added parts will be taken from other HDTV that, albeit of lower quality in comparison to the former, are always better than any DVD upscale.

Well, what do you think guys? And gals, too, of course!

Lately I recorded some HDTV movies from italian FTA DVB channels; even if bit rate is not that high - around 7-8mbps, but with spikes up to around 14mbps - they are quite good; of course, in comparison with BD, they retain no grain at all, but tiny details are well preserved, much better than what I supposed...

The only problem is they have all a slight magenta blanket applied to them; if watched alone, it is not that much noticeable, but when compared directly with the BD, this becomes clear, even if not so nasty.

I guess which could be the problem, and if you noted the same with the HDTV broadcasts of your country.

Haven't seen this yet but was wondering what people around here thought of it. Worth going to the theater or wait for Blu-ray?

anyone may have this?

i'd like to sync this audio with the itunes version, which so far is the only hd version in oar available.

I just watched the pilot of Wyward Pines and it looks good.

A lot of mystery and strange stuff.

Before watching it I thought of Twin Peaks. When I started watching I thought of Lost as a reference, but after watching the full episode, I see more influence of The Prisoner here (I mean the original, never saw the remake... Is that one any good by the way?).

Hello.
I'm sure you know about the scene that has been cut from all home video releases, right?
The subject is discussed here:
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=67093

I wonder if that scene could be found (I guess in a 35mm print?) and restored into the film.