I have a stack of old VHS tapes lying around that I'd like to capture. I don't feel like taking them to a professional, it would cost too much, especially considering how bad the shape of many of them is. Currently I don't even have the option to play them, because power supply in my old VCR was toasted a couple of years ago for some reason.

How good results would I get with a generic VCR and the cheapest capture card available? I mean one of these Chinese ones:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-USB-2...eb201560_9

Preserving those tapes in maximum quality is not my goal, but I wouldn't mind having semi-decent audio and video good enough to see what's on the tape.

I checked VCR offers in my area and I can get Panasonic NV-SD450 for really, really cheap. Is it a good unit? I'm completely out of the loop on VHS.

Despite having a nonsense name like the previous movie, Ghost Protocol, I thought overall this was a pretty damn solid action film. Anyone watch this yet?

Taken straight from my FB page to here and written by myself. My hat is off to ALL our Veteran's

Quote:To ALL my fellow soldiers across the planet, alive or passed on, I salute you on this Veteran's Day.

I am honored to have served our country like so many before me and all those that will come after me. It is a calling for us. We answered it. We'd answer it again if we were ever needed in such a capacity. We go in knowing full well that we could end up anywhere and that it is possible we may not return. We accepted the challenge and the burden freely. We took the oath and never looked back. We are survivors of an honorable legacy.

We will always be soldiers, we ARE Veterans.

Be safe and responsible while honoring our troops.

NEVER forget.

https://www.facebook.com/shawn.arndt?fref=nf

Here is a link to my FB page. Since I work with most of you on some basis or another I gladly welcome you to send me a friend request. Having extra avenues of contact can always be helpful.

Cheers,

Shawn

I am working on the audio for my SitS project and have discovered that there is a couple of lines of dialog that is ONLY present in the French dub. It always bothered me that in this scene you can clearly see Merlin talking but there is no dialog. What makes this more interesting is the fact that even the French subtitles (on ALL DVD [both R1 and R2] and BD releases) do NOT contain these lines.

I have uploaded the very short clip onto youtube, with all French subtitles on-screen during the shot I'm talking about. Can any French speaker PLEASE transcribe those two lines for me in FRENCH so that I can include them in the subtitle track AND so that I can finally figure out what Merlin says there, as I can just use google translator to get it into English??

Thanx, in advance  

An old project I contributed to over at OT has been stalled for a long time for lack of someone fluent in Japanese...

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Monty-P...l/id/14138

The plan was to translate the entire Japanese dub track off the original Criterion Laserdisc. (Which has never made it to any other domestic release, AFAIK.) Only a couple scenes were ever translated as an extra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV8b7mB4HTU

Catbus and I would be most grateful if someone could help? I really want to know what the voices yelling over the closing credits are saying before I die.

Anyone watch?

Hi. I'm looking for a way to build my own film scanner, but I really don't know where to begin and what to get do build it. I do know that some people here, somehow, managed to do it or have at least the necessary knowledge to do so. Can those people (like Poita, among others) please help me with this ? It'll be very, very appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Does anyone know about this release or have it? I believe it is Japan only and probably on LD. I would LOVE to find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TamoeNLUk_E

Thanks,

Shawn

It seems others have been able to create this project before the completion of this one. So I'm officially canceling it.



Project Info:
I, like many, assumed that there would eventually be a IMAX version Of Ghost Protocol on Blu-ray. With movie number 5 being released on home video soon, one might think it would on been released by now. Compound that with the fact that the director has expressed he prefers the 2.35 version only for Blu-ray, it appears that an IMAX version is not going to happen anytime soon. So I thought this would make a good project.

When MI4 aired on pay cable TV in the US it was in 16:9 and while the 2.35 scenes were cropped, the IMAX scenes were expanded to the full 1.77 frame. Unfortunately, I was unable to get the initial logo/bug free broadcast but later acquire the FXX broadcast which has a logo. Further I acquired the Telemundo broadcast which is also bugged but in a different place. I was hoping to combined these two to remove the logo from the FXX broadcast but the Telelmundo broadcast has some of the worst compression (among many other problems) making the matching difficult (see the logo removal thread).

I gave up on this project for a while but came back to it now. By blurring the Telemundo braodcast and duplication of certain frames to remove bad compression, I think I have gotten better results then my first attempt. Further re-graining (both HDTV versions were de-graining a bit) helped to further cover up the merge. I think I can now get about 85% to 95% there in hiding the logo, so I am going to release a version 1.0 of this project till a better HDTV (ie logo free) shows up. Its far from perfect but should make for a good watch.

Video:
Video from the US Blu-ray with IMAX scenes from the FXX HDTV broadcast and Telemundo HDTV braodcast

Audio:
DTS-HD MA 5.1 From the Blu-ray

Subtitles:
TDB

Output:
MKV compatible within the spec for a 25GB BD

Pics:
BD/IMAX Version


Thanks:
jedeitor: Big thanks for removing the logo and fixing the frames I couldn't
jerryshadoe: For testing, advice and insight