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?

I made a custom BD of Star Trek VI.  It is sourced from the Sky HD broadcast.  I replaced a few shots from the escape from Rura Penthe that have always looked terrible in all the pre-BD releases, but the rest is pure HDTV.  The custom BD is synchronized to the official one, so people should be able to mux in whatever dub tracks they want.

Details
BD-50
OAR
PCM from the LD
DTS-HD MA (from the official BD)
various subtitles

Thanks
Andrea
Buster D
combspecialist
Mangoat
Mic
The Aluminum Falcon

Please do not:

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

Was capturing the LD PCM of The Keep ever discussed? There are various encodings of the old LD master floating around these days, but I haven't seen any with lossless audio.

Just watched the trailer for The Revenant and got to say it looks really good.



Not a particular fan of Alejandro González Iñárritu or Leonardo DiCaprio (I do like Hardy). I am a fan of westerns or specifically in this case mountain men movies or just survival movies in general. So I really like that aspect.

What I'm really excited about and what I was waiting for; is this is the first movie production to use Arri Alexa 65. Unlike previous Arri cameras (or Red, Sony, what have you) that have Super 35 size sensor (something less then the 4 perfs used in anamorphic film), this camera's sensor is the size of 65/70mm film (6560 x 3102, 14 stops). So you can use spherical lens to capture a giant scope-ish picture without the cropping the top and bottom like in S35 sensors. In the hands of the seriously great cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki , it looks just great:

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I love the panning around, it gives me a Cinerama feel. And the camera doesn't seem to be a slouch using low light. I'm still a film devotee and I can't wait to see Quentin Tarantino's (who I'm not a super fan of either) answer to this, in the Hateful Eight. He is using real 65/70mm film with an anamorphic lens. I can't wait to see both through technical eyes, I just hope the movies' stories are there too.

I've been using Adobe's Media Encoder to change my H.264 files to AVI (Lag or Magic) just fine. But I notice when it comes to VC-1, I seem to be gaining about 3 second inexplicably. That's enough to cause all sorts of sync errors. So does anyone know another (better) way to convert VC-1 to AVI? I tried Vdub and it didn't like VC-1 either.

Also I can't get TSMuxer to accept VC-1 when I was trying to convert my MKV to a TS, anyone else have this problem?