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  Digital versus film photography
Posted by: Revolverheld - 2015-06-03, 11:35 PM - Forum: Official and unofficial releases - Replies (3)

Which one do you prefer?

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Popular supporters of classical film/film prints: Tarantino/Nolan/..

Supporters of digital cinema: George Lucas/Peter Jackson/..

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  Your favorite 60s/70s Movies
Posted by: Revolverheld - 2015-06-03, 11:22 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (10)

Just name your favorite movies of that period and let's see if there is a broad agreement or also some pleasant surprises.

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  Hello!
Posted by: valien - 2015-06-03, 03:47 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (3)

Hello, I'm an Italian PhD student in film studies. I'm particularly interested in film sound and film preservation.
This seems to be an amazing forum! Thanks everybody

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  Hola
Posted by: jerclay - 2015-06-03, 02:44 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (1)

Hey, jercaly's here. Never knew how to properly introduce myself, never done this before, so... anyway. I'm kind of a movie freak, lucky to have a job in film distribution business (So what do you do for living? - Um, watching movies mostly Smile ). Never done any restoration/preservation myself - I'm not that technically advanced, so I'm more of a lurker and an admirer of all the guys doing such a tremendous job of preserving films the way we remember them from our childhood. Smile So the passion was born in 2005, when I first came across OT forum and was there to enjoy all the good preservation stuff for a while. Then life happened - wife, kid, ya know how it goes Smile And then HD happened and all those great opportunities to enjoy all the goodies like Team Negative ESB Grindhouse and Harmy's Despecialized again in HD, and it kinda pulled me back in. So, basically, that's why I'm here - to enjoy and admire. Okay, too much text, over and out.  :cool:

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  Dolby Surround captured tracks - options
Posted by: spoRv - 2015-06-03, 01:46 PM - Forum: Capture and rip - Replies (29)

You have a beautiful mixed stereo track encoded in Dolby Surround, ready to be captured and sync'ed with the latest BD which, of course, has the *wrong* audio track...

Now, there are few options to treat this track...

  1. capture the track in stereo, leave it "as is", untouched (apart eventual 44.1->48KHz conversion) and leave the task of decoding to the BD player/amplifier/PC software
  2. capture the track in stereo, decode it with a software decoder, then save the decoded output as uncompressed PCM/lossless compressed DTS-HD MA/lossy compressed DTS or AC3
  3. decode the stereo track with an hardware decoder, then capture the multichannel decoded output and save the result as uncompressed PCM/lossless compressed DTS-HD MA/lossy compressed DTS or AC3
why? Well, actually all Dolby Surround - better, ProLogic (I, II etc.) are on the same Dolby Digital chipset, and its quality is lower than ancient, vintage, Dolby Surround (ProLogic) dedicated decoders... also, software decoder seems to be not on the same level of hardware decoder...

So, option #3 seems to be a great alternative to the other two...

Opinions?

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  To Wong Foo, thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Posted by: spoRv - 2015-06-02, 02:18 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - No Replies

A very nice comedy; great actors with a difficult task - to play the role of a drag queen could be not easy - but at the end they acted in a convincing way; a story that makes you think, even if it's not original - infact this is a remake of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, an Australian movie shot just an year before, but hey, Hollywood is often short of new ideas...

Apart that, a movie that worth to be watched by everyone - man, woman, drag queen or alien!

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  Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
Posted by: spoRv - 2015-06-02, 01:55 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (2)

As a fourth installment in a cheap (in comparison to other sagas) franchise, you can think Tremors 4 is a complete loss of time, uh?

Is it a masterpiece? Forget about it!
Is it a crappy piece of crap? Absolutely not!

It's a honest monster-based comedy set in the Far West, with good actors, and a nice story... faulty CGI effects, I must admit, but I've seen a lot worst...

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  Hej
Posted by: mrkhyron - 2015-06-02, 12:13 AM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (2)

I don't think I've posted anything here yet, so hi
Smile

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  [request]Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers Laserdisc audio
Posted by: CatBus - 2015-06-01, 10:50 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (6)

Someone mentioned in another forum that the original version of The Wrong Trousers has entirely different music, and that this needed to be altered for home video release (i.e. "Happy Birthday" replaced with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", penguin's radio music changed, and I think some background TV audio is changed as well). If someone had a Laserdisc version of this and ripped the audio, it should be easy to sync the LD audio to the Blu-ray and re-create the originally-aired episode in high quality.

Hey, it's my favorite episode. I'd do it if I could get the raw materials. Not as interested in VHS audio, other than to better know what the differences were.

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  Is this thing on?
Posted by: CatBus - 2015-06-01, 10:28 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (16)

Hey, so uh, CatBus here. For people not familiar with me from OT.com and Project Threepio, I do mostly Star Wars subtitle related stuff, and try to keep it pretty limited to that, because my projects tend to sprawl way out of control. But I'm certainly happy to help with other projects, with info I've learned along the way. Subtitles are an often-overlooked topic, and technical expertise in the area is hard to come by.

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