OK, there is no automatic way to become Power User or Project Maker, so you could ask to be promoted...

to Power User:

• if you are a notable OT member (long time registered and/or great poster)
  
• if you are a notable fanres member (long time registered and/or great poster)
  
• if you helped a lot OT and/or fanres members with their projects
  
• if you think you deserve it for any particular merit - for example: great poster on another movie-related forum, audio/video blogger, industry insider etc.*
  

• if you have released at least three fan preservation/restoration projects
  

OK, the little niche community is growing, so there are some questions that need an answer; one of them is: should a user be able to delete his/her own threads and/or posts? What's about mods?

Waiting for your opinion!

The audio on the BD of the theatrical cut sounds distorted. It might be an idea to preserve the PCM from the LD.

Happy to announce that fanres.com and originaltrilogy.com are now officially "sister forums"!

You could read about it also here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.c...topic/5950

This is a great opportunity for our little niche community to grow even more; thanks a lot to our friends at OT - admin, mods, and all the members! :hearts:

It would be really great to get a decent widescreen version of this since I watch it every Christmas.

I do own a fanedit which inserts the Pan & Scan version of When Love is Gone segment in. This is currently my goto version but I think it could be better.

Does anyone own the widescreen laserdisc edition of the uncut version with Love is Gone song intact? I have a complete LD rip of the movie, but the quality is pretty terrible so would be better to get a fresh capture by someone who has the skills. If not I can provide the Love is Gone clip which could be cleaned up somehow. I also have the AC3 audio from the P&S DVD.

Is anyone up for the challenge and can do this movie justice?

Happy to be here! Still relatively new at this, but hope I'm able to contribute.

https://vimeo.com/user915081/videos
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I see some familiar names here, and in the past few days two friends of mine have asked me to join this forum and say hello, so here we go.
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I'm Garrett, known at some sites as Ocpmovie or Tygerbug. I am a professional artist, writer and filmmaker, and I've been doing film restoration and fanediting as a hobby (and sometimes professionally) since the 90s. You may have seen some of my projects.
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I have put out more DVD and web restorations of rare material than I can count or keep track of. It's in the thousands. This has all been non profit and available for free on the web. I started out in 2005 with Star Wars: Deleted Magic, a documentary about how Star Wars was saved in the editing room, as well as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Talking Pictures, and a Monty Python Youtube channel. I currently run Henson Rarities, a Youtube channel and email list dedicated to restoring the work of Muppet creator Jim Henson.
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But my biggest restoration has been The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut, which took seven years of research and over two and a half years of frame by frame restoration work for the HD "Mark 4" version. I believe it is the most complex restoration of any film anyone's ever done, certainly on an independent level. This also involved an associated research project and archive of material dedicated to the animator, Richard Williams.
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Richard Williams is the three-time Academy Award-winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and writer of The Animator's Survival Kit. He is considered by many to be the greatest animator alive today. The Thief and the Cobbler was his dream project, on which he spent nearly thirty years [starting in the early 1960s]. After the success of Roger Rabbit in 1988, Warner Bros decided to fund the film, but after disagreements with Williams, they shut production down with the film still unfinished. The Completion Bond company handed it to another director to finish as quickly and cheaply as possible, and the result is unrecognizable.
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In 2000 and then 2006 I created the first "Recobbled Cuts," an attempt to show what Williams had in mind. Hundreds of animators and crew who worked on the film offered their support, and many offered rare materials no one had seen previously. I also had a ton of help from friends and fans of the film. After seven years of work and research, including frame by frame cleanup of the entire film, the transfer of 30 minutes of HD 35mm material, dozens of DVD preservations of Williams' other work and even new art and animation, the "Recobbled Cut Mk 4" was complete in HD as of September 2013.
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https://vimeo.com/132568455
https://vimeo.com/133186269
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheThiefArchive
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For more information you can visit http://orangecow.org/board or the Recobbled Cut group on Facebook.
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I began the project in 2006 while still a member at OriginalTrilogy.com. While putting out a Star Wars "Classic Edition 2.0" I had a disagreement with some forum members - and moderators - who were doing a laserdisc project. Some rumors started about me [which were not true] and I was banned from that forum, and one or two other fanedit forums. I moved the project to my own site, Orangecow.org, and didn't look back until today. I'd rather not bring up old drama as it's been a long time, so hopefully we can move past that.
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I was a consultant on releases like Skot Sodawood's "Army of Darkness: Primitive Screwhead Edition" and Dennis' "The Darker Crystal," and have created hundreds of restored DVDs from VHS and other sources, including many Muppet projects. Partial list from memory:
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Star Wars: Return of the Ewok and Other Little Films
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure/The Little Island
Star Wars: Classic Edition trilogy [now obsolete]
Bonzo Dog Band: Talking Pictures [3 discs]
Star Wars: Deleted Magic
The Jim Henson Hour [complete series]
Little Muppet Monsters [6 episodes, 3 previously unseen for 30 years]
The Innes Book of Records series 3 [and many other Neil Innes projects]
The Thief and the Cobbler / Richard Williams archive
Night Trap trailer
Various Muppet specials
MST3K The Expanded KTMA Scrapbook
Rock & Rule soundtrack
Beach Boys SMiLE 3971 edit
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together
The Muppets at Walt Disney World
The Tale of the Bunny Picnic
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Muppets A Celebration of 30 Years
Rutles Related Rarities
The Great Santa Claus Switch
Animaniacs Broadcast Nuisance Uncensored [now obsolete I think]
Monty Python Audio Rarities
Richard Williams Studio Animated Ads and other films
Richard Williams' A Christmas Carol
The Little Mermaid's Island
Julie Andrews & The Muppets: My Favorite Things, One Step Into Spring, One To One
Keep Off My Grass! with Mickey Dolenz
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And so on and so on. I probably shouldn't admit all that, as I often keep my work invisible. It's often a hobby I use to wind down inbetween working on my own artistic projects. [The very popular Star Wars: Deleted Magic came about one weekend when I was too sick to edit my feature of the time.]
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I also directed a Marvel superhero feature called Shamelessly She-Hulk back in 2007-8, wrote and drew a comic called The Chosen Ones, wrote 1.5 novels and fourteen screenplays and am currently working on a videogame project.
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If you ever need me for any reason you can say hi over at my forum at orangecow.org, or email me through that site.
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I've heard some stuff about what you've been up to, since some restorationist friends of mine have been involved in this forum and I've sort of been involved on the side. My best wishes to you.

Hello guys,

Because I am waiting for the Bluray release of First Strike for now to proceed with my project, I took on my workshop Брат, Aleksey Balabanov's movie, a Russian cult film. The movie has never gotten actual HD release, no Bluray, no HDTV and many fake upscales labeled as HDDVD on internet.

Luckily, I managed to snatch a 1080p transfer of it, and quality is outstanding when we compare it to two DVD transfers.

Early DVD release: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/136249
2003 Remaster: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/136251

I didn't do anything with movie yet, this is raw quality I have there. I need to take care of that big red tint that can be noticed (any suggestions how?), run it through some filters (suggestions?), sync it to DTS audio from DVD (which I am unable to aquire ANYWHERE, but I know it exists).

At present, I use Mega.co.nz. It's good because there are no captcha codes for the downloader, but the upload speed isn't great. It takes me ages to upload a BD-50.

Can anyone recommend a (free) alternative that might be quicker?

Hey guys,

I have few WEB-DLs and HDTV that are only in 720p and are pretty low bitrate (filesizes from 1.5GB-4GB), but details are noticeably better than DVD versions. I wanted to know what could I do to get the best out of these. Of course I will do Superresolution, but what after that? Regrain? Anything else?