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  Hello World
Posted by: Synaesthesia - 2015-12-08, 09:01 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (5)

Cool to still see you guys at it. I was an observer back in the days of the old forum, was curious to see how some of those projects progressed. Smile

Keep it up fellas

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Big Grin How to combine LD video captured 1 side at a time?
Posted by: Jetrell Fo - 2015-12-01, 02:59 PM - Forum: Capture and rip - Replies (7)

Can someone provide a simple how-to with pictures for combining separately captured sides of a laserdisc using Virtualdub? I've got the SE Trilogy and TPM captured. I used 1 disc for each side so that I could combine them and edit out the side breaks. I am unsure as to how I would properly edit out the blank frames properly so that all sides fit together without losing any audio or frames. Having visual examples with some basic instructions would be easy for me to work with.

Thanks,

Shawn

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  Telecine transfers in Russian Blurays
Posted by: titanic - 2015-11-29, 05:55 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (10)

I wrote it as a comment at myspleen but I thought to start a new thread here too.
With these 2 recent uploads at myspleen of telecine transfers in Russian Blurays of 2 films (The Mechanic and Shutter Island), I was wondering if there are other Russian Blurays like this, of pre-2000 movies.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/151274
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/151276

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/152459
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/152462

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  Morphine / Морфий - 1080p Bluray - TheRealThunderbolt
Posted by: Colek - 2015-11-29, 12:24 PM - Forum: In progress - Replies (3)

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Morphine is movie directed by Alexei Balabanov - Russian cult director - which is mostly known for Cargo 200 and Brother. The film itself is based on semi-autobiographical short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Powerful and bizarre tale of the young medical doctor sliding into the abyss of drug addiction as the country around him slides into the horrors of civil war. Even so the revolution and the war is hardly shown in the movie (which is set in a small Siberian village), one could feel it's dark presence in every scene, every dialogue. Surprisingly well captures the spirit of autobiographical novels of Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia's greatest and most controversial author of the 20th century. Strongly recommended for everyone who enjoys Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, classical Russian literature and history. Also, it's a great tribute to the director/screenwriter Sergei Bodrov Jr. who died so tragically at the height of his career.

So the movie never received real HD release. Only HD transfer that exists is one on Russian iTunes, and it has lots of flaws that I managed to minimalize or completely get rid of. The worst issue from all is crushed blacks and the horrible color timing that doesn't even come close to what is seen on DVD release of this movie.

Using DrDre's Color Correction tool I managed to correct it. Then with some AviSynth plugins and other programs I came to result that is noticeable better than it's source.

DVD (cropped to match iTunes)
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iTunes (raw)
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iTunes (color corrected)
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Final
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I synced the DVD audio from original DVD to this release as well as Polish voiceover ripped from TV. What is interesting is that DVD was actually PAL speedup, but it wasn't big issue. I used English subtitles from AsianDVDClub Custom DVD as well as many others custom subtitles I could find throughout the internet. I can only confirm that English and Polish ones are very good translations though, as they are the only languages I speak Smile

Audio:
Russian - 5.1 DTS sourced from DVD @ 1536 kbps
Russian - 2.0 AC3 sourced from DVD @ 192 kbps
Polish voiceover - 2.0 AC3 sourced from TV @ 448 kbps

Subtitles:
Russian
English
Spanish
French
Polish
Czech
Bulgarian
Croatian
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Chinese (T)
Arabic

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I am in process of authoring the disc right now and it should be done within few upcoming days. It will be available on MySpleen.

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  Adding custom Bluray name to show up in player
Posted by: Colek - 2015-11-29, 10:44 AM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring - Replies (5)

Hi guys,

I was wondering how could I add name for my Bluray disc that would later show up in players, like SpoRv does with his releases.

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  MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE S01 UNCUT preservations
Posted by: Stamper - 2015-11-28, 04:37 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (2)

Hey everyone,

I'm in search of fans so that we can get finally some of the Season 1 of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE episodes uncut.

I'm looking for someone still owning a VHS version, probably UK in Pal format of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE S01E01 UNCUT so that we might preserve it.

For anyone not informed, the current master that is available on DVD and iTunes HD is cut, especially in the beginning of the episode.

Here's the cuts

- As Briggs arrives in the warehouse, he wanders about, then he eyes the woman, and walks to her. In the official DVD, he doesn't wander, we do see him eyeing the girl, then immediately he's through the door. The scene is reduced, for no apparent reason.

- After the record self destruct, we miss shots of Briggs arriving at home, dresses off, pours himself a drink, grabs the folder. The available episode resumes right there, missing the whole action. You can hear there's a cut because the music abruptly changes and can see the drink on the table, that is almost empty since Briggs savored it while thinking the mission.

I think there is more. The late 90's UK VHS were complete and uncut. One would like a preverv.

There are other cuts in season 1 episode, including one episode that have the mission tape scene replaced with one from another episode, with just the actual audio from the episode edited in place.

This one was also released on UK VHS intact. Here's a link with VHS info http://www.mission-impossible.tv/english...deoEng.htm

I will google for more info and post them here when I find them.

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  Hello, all! =D
Posted by: TonyWDA - 2015-11-27, 01:06 AM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (4)

Definitely from OriginalTrilogy.com as well, and I've been creeping this site for a while now without properly introducing myself, so here goes a-nothin'! =)

I'm very excited to be here, and can't wait to see what else gets proper preservation/restoration in the future. ^-^

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  Good Evening
Posted by: dvdboy - 2015-11-22, 07:55 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (5)

Hi,

Used to be a member over at AMPS before the reddit migration.  Looking forward to seeing some interesting projects coming out of the community.

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Question [Help Request...]Various frame rates in single project
Posted by: jerryshadoe - 2015-11-20, 09:51 PM - Forum: Audio and video editing - Replies (10)

Ok, so I'm working on a multi-source project at the moment that contains video streams with three different frame rates: 23.976 - 29.97 - 59.94 - ALL progressive video(!!)

I need footage from all sources (I have 27 videos that are split between these three frame rates) and am wondering how to go about making everything play as smooth as possible.

My biggest problem here is the video that is at 23.976fps, because for the other two; I can either double the 29.97fps video stream or drop/blend (although don't want to blend) half the frames of the 59.94fps video stream BUT how do I "conform" the footage from the 23.976fps video??

Any suggestions are welcome because this is so broad of a topic that google yielded me nothing usefulSad

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  [request] Akira Bluray Original Stereo Audio
Posted by: iguanaclerk - 2015-11-20, 12:46 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (3)

Does anyone have the original Japanese stereo audio from the 2011 Bluray of Akira?
I own the 2014 Bluray, which drops this track and only has the Japanese 5.1 remix.
The 2011 Bluray is out of print and I would love to mux this track to my copy of the film.

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