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:

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COMING SOON

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This has taken me a little longer than I had planned  

Over a year ago, Buster D sent me a rip of his Japanese Total Recall LD for syncing. He pointed out at the time that StudioCanal's current BD transfer is presented on disc in 24fps (not 23.976) and this might cause some problems - he wasn't wrong!

In the end I had to abandon the waveform match method and switch to a visual sync method. I needed to buy a copy of the disc so I had a video reference for the PCM sound, and (from the few options available in the UK) opted for the US ID7779IV release, which has the 'bonus feature' of being open matte.

Next I converted the BD video to the more conventional film rate (more on that in a moment), ripped and IVTCd the LD audio/video, and got syncing. The LD transfer begins with the Carolco logo, so I added the Tristar logo sound from the PCM on the Jacob's Ladder BD; the StudioCanal logo is left silent (more on that in a moment too).

Now, if you're planning on muxing this track with the BD video, you'll need to mux the video stream at 23.976 yourself; otherwise the sync will slip by around 7 frames by the end of the film. Presumably this is a straightforward option for MKV folks, and the original 44.1KHz version is available for this purpose. If you're making a Blu-ray, add the video and 48KHz audio, and set 'change fps' on the video stream to 24000/1001. I'd also recommend that you 'enable cutting' and set an inpoint at 21 seconds; this will start playback at the Tristar logo, as was the case theatrically (note that you'll also need to make a chapter point at 00:00:21.000 for this to take effect).

Hopefully it will all be worth it - it's a strong track and you can't go wrong with that Goldsmith score cranked right up  

Recently have started doing audio captures with my LD-V4300D, but I am only capable of capturing it via RCA connected to my Marantz PM5004. The outcome is great audio, but quiet. Therfore I would want to ask you what is better, to already capture with gain, or to normalize after the whole recording is done?