Does anyone have the facilities to transfer professional 1-inch PAL videotape? [Late seventies or early eighties.]

Anyone have any suggestions for this? I got an XBR960 a few weeks back, spent way too long tearing my hair out fixing geometry and overscan in the service menu...only to see that LD looked terrible. Some discs are better than others and after adjusting to VE and it's digital counterpart (thanks for suggesting that Antcu!) it has gotten better but still pretty unwatchable.
My DMR-es25 I used for comb filtering will upscale to 1080i via the hdmi port but it still seems rather fuzzy and I can't decide if it's just better than running straight in through composite and using the set's comb filter. Plus the 25 seems to mess with color and brightness no matter what I do.
Zooming without cropping or distortion works on everything but the HDMI input. For that I have to set the es25 to display full then the TV to Vertical expand. Filling the screen properly just magnifies image problems though.

I'm guessing I need a better unit for upscaling...but sadly I'm broke at the moment.

Thanks for any input guys.

Hi there,

Was hoping someone can help. I've got some PAL DVD commentaries ripped to mka files that I would like to convert to NTSC speed so that they match the blu-rays.

Is there a simple (and ideally free!) program that would do?


Many thanks

Alex

Hey all,

As some of you may know, Doombot and myself have worked on a copy of the DVHS color timing version of the Director's Cut of Alien. We also have a DC trailer scanned from film as the only bonus at this point.

We NEED a menu person to help complete the project to that it may be released for everyone to enjoy. I know we have folks here that may be working with others so we aren't expecting them to come on board and help unless their respective team mates are okay with it. In the meantime, we'd like to put this out there so that anyone proficient with making BD menus can might consider offering their skills to help out.

PLZ pm myself or Doombot if interested. You may also post here. Thank you in advance for any takers or inquiries we might get.

Cheers,

Shawn

The Taiwanese cut of Island on Fire is nearly 35 minutes longer than the original theatrical release. I watched both cuts, and I have to say that the Taiwanese one is way better, as it explains plot way better with it's extra scenes.

Complete comparsion can be found here: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=935

Last year, this movie got it's Bluray release in Japan - without English subtitles, but interesingly it was fully restored to HD quality, but it has it flaws.

Colors are pretty faded, close to no grain at all, poor lightning on some scenes.

So I decided to give it a go and make uncut Bluray copy with English subtitles (sourced from hardcoded, poorly translated sadly, subtitles from Taiwanese cut and superior Hong Kong Legends DVD subtitles).

I have been playing with the settings in Premiere Pro so far and this are the results on the Bluray copy

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/141094
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/141096

Let me know guys if you have any complaints, suggestions etc

Does anyone remember this/have this?

Had quite a few clips from great movies all together and sounded fantastic.

Hey guys,

I have three copies of this movie:
- PAL DVD (for subtitles)
- Custom Uncut NTSC DVD
- Japanese Bluray

So the uncut DVD is very poor quality but has over 40 minutes of scenes cut from both PAL and Bluray. Upscaling it didn't really gave me much quality upgrade, as I said it is already pretty bad. I would want to correct the colors though. Now, should I just go 'by my heart' with the uncut's scenes color or is there any other way?

PAL DVD - http://i.imgur.com/ExiKNLR.jpg
NTSC Uncut DVD - http://i.imgur.com/xfRjzjn.jpg
Bluray - http://i.imgur.com/lH5panz.jpg

Just noticed that the uncut DVD's aspect ratio might be fricked up as well when making these screens.

I still swear the audio track on the laserdisc outshines the BLU currently available.

Theres just something missing in the mids when John is pounding poor Karl's head near the end.

Or when Hanz dry fires John's baretta, the bass units in my speakers used to almost jump out on the LD version.

Cracking mix and sorely missed.

Can someone please magic this with the BLU video quality.

Hey Guys,

I came across this forum from Original Trilogy and it was the restoration works that intrigued me so.

I was a firm Laserdisc user and still believe that the soundtracks I listened to oh so many times still sound better
than some of the DVD and BD tracks that have followed. So i was amazed to find people with the same opinion it would appear!

I'm no tinkerer of such wizardry as you may be but I have a keen eye and ear and I'm a fan.

Now, I'm still trying to watch a certain movie favourite of mine, Escape from New York, to no avail I have followed all the
cryptic clues to watch but I have been met with the greatest of dead ends.

I'd appreciate another avenue to watch as the others mentioned are either closed or not working.

Anyway, Thanks if you read, no worries if you don't!