Heyyy everybody. As I'm sure some here know, there's long a been a heap of evidence re: everything cut from Batman Forever before it was released. Some of it finally made its way onto the DVD box set that came out in 2005, though there's still more buried in WB's closet.

The idea behind this edit was to realize what an earlier cut of the movie might've played like, with as much extra footage included as possible, as well as restoring the original narrative. Think what Charles de Lauzirika did for Alien 3, only with some guy on an old Macbook Pro running Final Cut 6 and a movie not as many people care about. All deleted scenes from the DVD are included, along with alternate shots from the trailers. Some of the additional material is tweaked to help it flow, as it appeared to be lifted from a very rough cut. A lot of care was taken in making the transitions as seamless as I could, especially with sound and music. I utilized selections from Elliot Goldenthal's scores for Forever and Batman & Robin to complete the soundtrack -- one of the big differences between this and other edits out there, most of which use Danny Elfman's themes to up the Burton-factor. I also did some minor tinkering with the theatrical footage to reflect some of the other differences one might find in a workprint.

As a side note, I'm not an overly technically savvy person. Looking around here, I'm clearly out of my depth in terms of being on point with specs and such. I did do a few things to downgrade the quality of the theatrical footage so everything could bridge together more convincingly. Most of the decisions in this respect were just based on what 'felt right' at the time. This also goes for my encoding/exporting which I'm sure is goofy, though I think the roughness around the edges kind of helps. It's in SD, and everything was taken from the 2005 DVD with the exception of some of the trailer shots which had to be sourced elsewhere.

The only problem was a framerate issue that cropped up in some of the deleted scenes when ripping, only effecting certain shots within the footage. I tried to get to the bottom of this several times to no avail (this was several years ago), so I'm not sure if it was an issue with the program or me just not being able to troubleshoot it successfully. At any rate, I don't believe it detracts much.  

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It's online for viewing and/or download. If anyone wants a link, let me know!

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Would it be possible to have the quick links - View Unread Posts etc. - at the top of the page so they never expire?
I mean, for example, I like to always be on the View Unread Posts link, but when I load the page the next day or so it says "An invalid search was specified. Please go back and try again." and I have to click the link again.
Yes, just a minor inconvenience, but still an inconvenience.

Without spoiling much about the project I'm putting together, I was wondering if anyone has/could share the Original English Mono PCM from this laserdisc?

Many thanx in advance

Just came across this forum a few days ago, liking the looks of it! I have some stuff I can hopefully contribute myself soon. Keep up the good work, everybody

I've got some Godzilla VHS tapes that I think I will start capturing. They might come in handy when some folks are doing the Toho restorations that some of us love dearly. I know I mentioned this a bit over at OT.com and I think Spaced Ranger mentioned some interest.

Anyone here want to chime in, add some suggestions, feel free to do so.

http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/film-restor...-hong-kong

This includes a great John Woo's movie - A Better Tomorrow

Okay, so there are famously 4 versions of this film. There's the theatrical version, there's the work-print, there's the 2003 special edition (aka assembly cut), and there's the 2010 updated special edition version. What's always bugged me though is that an audio change was made in the 2010 version that went backwards: in the 2003 special edition the convict that finds the alien hiding doesn't call the dog - and it makes that scene scarier. Yet in the 2010 version he calls the dog - even though we never see it! The reason is that on the BD both versions of the film us the same file (00757.m2ts) for that scene.

I would be most greatful if there's someone here who could edit the DTS-HD audio track on the file and remove the dialogue where he calls the dog.

This custom BD of Rear Window is likely to have a rather limited audience.  It is sourced from an HDTV broadcast of the Harris restoration, which was not used on the official BD.

Is the Harris restoration better in some way?  I'm not really the best person to comment because I don't know this film particularly well, though some might prefer the (obviously different) color-timing.  To be honest, I prefer the official BD, but it's important that we try to preserve film history.  

Although the broadcast was not of the highest quality, it's the best that is available.  The custom BD is synchronized to the official one, so people should be able to mux in whatever dub tracks they want.

Details
BD-25
DTS-HD MA (from the official BD)
various subtitles

Thanks
alps
The Aluminum Falcon
PM me (preferably on ot.com) if you are interested.


Please do not:

pass on my links;
remux my releases;
re-encode my releases.

Well, I didn't think I was going to like this movie, but at the end is not that bad - at the contary, it's pretty funny! In particular, Jason Statham is great - not like in Crank 1 & 2, but he's really funny!

Many interesting locations, good gags, great actors... yep, I liked it; any 007 fan should give it a try!

Note I have no experience with Cinavia, but I was reading this page yesterday on the CinEX HD website. Seems Slysoft doesn't know how to remove Cinavia protection and they claim they can prove it with a file that restores Cinavia from a source "fixed" using the "mutilation" method to make the signal re-detectable.

So it seems that CinEX HD is the only program that actually removes the signal instead of simply mutilating it beyond software detection. Or at least that's what they claim, see what you think. In any case Slysoft forces transcoding the entire soundtrack to AC-3 whereas CinEX HD allows you to keep the track in the original format (although how much of it gets re-encoded isn't made clear on the web page).