I'm aware that many newbies registered here just to read the forum - it is not possible to read the first post of every thread for unregistered users - and I'm aware also that many are lurkers and maybe think that they have nothing interesting to post, but... if you will NEVER post, you'll never know!!!

C'mon, take a minute, and few grams of courage, and start your thread, or reply to an existing one... I'm pretty sure nobody will "eat" you, because this is a friendly community, with a lot of good persons who are here to help, learn, and have fun...

Waiting for your first post; a good place to start is the presentation subforum!

Looking at member's nicknames, it seems there are few girls here...

It's quite rare to see female users on forums like that, so I'm pretty curious to know something about you, girls!

Dear users, sometimes someone would like to do a certain restoration, and needs to translate/transcript dialogs or subtitles, but have no idea where to find a translator...

So, don't be shy, post here if you can read/speak another language, apart English; this does not mean that you must do every thing a project maker have in mind, but if you think it's interesting, you can give your help!

I start for myself: I'm Italian, so no problem to translate to and from English; I can read and write English quite well, but sometimes I have troubles to understand some spoken "nuances", in particular fastest speeches and accents... I can understand some words of French and Spanish - and few German ones, too - but that's it...

Waiting for your skills!

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This is a new spanish series about time travel.

I usually run away from spanish series because they are SO cheap and try to get the widest audience target they can (they include teen characters along with "grow-ups", "grandpas", children and whatever they can think of just to get the most part of the audience "related" to any of the characters and get them to watch the commercials).

Normally they also look "fake", shot in sets that you see that are sets, too colorful, too "home video". You get the idea. And the stories... they normally tend to be comedies since they seem to be unable to take themselves seriously.

That's why when I heard they were shooting a time travel series ("the spanish Doctor Who" they said at one point), I supposed it whould be shit. I was wrong.

First of all, it's no "Doctor Who" at all. As much as I love the british show, I didn't want an "spanish DW", mainly because when they do "the spanish whatever" it means "the cheaper lamer whatever". So better not walking that path. For the record, there is a "spanish walking dead" in development, called Rabia (Rage). LOL

Anyway, The Ministry Of Time.

Basically, the spanish government has a secret ministry that works on mantaining history as it is. If it was real life they would use that power to steal even more from us, but since it's fiction, they take care of history.

There's a large tunnel under the ministry that has lots of doors, everyone leading to a certain time and place. So no time machines.

An interesting fact is that time passes at the same time at both sides of the door. I mean, a door that in 2013 leaded to 1806, now would lead to 1808, so the missions are kind of one shots, no going back again to solve mistakes. I think that gives more sense of adventure. They talk about a "broken" door which leads to a fixed point in time, I guess it will have relevance later.

Since the first chapter, they say you can't travel to the future. All doors lead to past times, "as far as they know". The fact that there are also other doors outside of the ministry makes me think they could at some point travel to the future if the series gets a second season, but by now they are going to limit themselves to past times.

The series doesn't look cheap and they are taking it seriously. The audience ratings aren't high by now, though. Since it is a production of the national television I hope they make at least a second season since they don't really need to have great audiences as the private networks.

In this week's episode (the 3rd one, 8 have been shot for this season), Himmler (Hitler's right hand man) tries to get to a time door during a real visit he paid to Spain. In real life he was supposedly searching for the Holy Grail, which he believed it was hidden in the monastery of Montserrat, near Barcelona. He believed the mythic Montsalvat or Castle Of The Grail that Wagner mentioned in his opera Parsifal was really Montserrat. In the series he searches for the door, of course. Promising!

By they way, Himmler got his wallet stolen during his visit to Barcelona (really!). He got the full spanish experience. LOL

That's all by now!

Ok, so we are making this Cube 2 BD no one seems to be interested on. XD

So you might think... Why is this guy constantly opening posts about that movie?

I will explain.

We started the project, but now we need some material to make the best edition possible. While in the audio section there is a subforum to request audio tracks, here we just have this subforum to request PROJECTS, but not to request source materials.

That's why I have 2 posts about the same movie in this subforum. One was to start the project and this one is to request material to get it done.

So mainly we would need any NTSC edition with all the special features, since we already have the PAL edition and we (I mean spoRv really) could improve the quality of those extras via his PaNup process.

Come on! At least someone in this forum must know somebody who has the DVD!

I am desperately seeking this one, since it would be a great addition to the BD spoRv is cooking.

A German dub would also be appreciated.

_,,,^..^,,,_ presents The Arrival [spoRv] Bonus Disc

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| PROJECTS: Released | In progress | Future | Mission & Setup |

Mission: to make a bonus disc full of extra material!

Video source: DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, web.
Audio sources: DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, web.
Subtitles sources: custom made.


Overall project info:

The Arrival is available on DVD and Blu-ray, but almost all editions has no extra material... so, I decided to release, along the restored movie - http://fanres.com/showthread.php?tid=90 - a companion bonus disc with all the possible extras available around!!!

Disc Contents

• open matte version 1.33:1, regraded, with foreign audio and subs tracks & commentary
  
• the making of - 21m42s - from promotional VHS
  
• promo reel - 3m46s - from promotional VHS
  
• interviews - 6m08s - from Kinowelt DVD
  
• B-roll - 5m17s - from Kinowelt DVD
  
• featurette - 7m17s - from Kinowelt DVD
  
• documentary - 26m - from Special Edition laserdisc
  
• alternate ending - 3m - from Special Edition laserdisc
  
• various trailers and teasers - around 10m - from DVD and web
  
• picture gallery - from web
  
• original soundtrack - from CD
  

• PAL DVD material is upscaled to 1440x1080, black borders added to the sides to reach 1920x1080, then slowed down to 23.976fps - movie is also color corrected
  
• Laserdisc documentary is denoised, color corrected, upscaled to 1440x1080, black borders added to the sides to reach 1920x1080
  
• Laserdisc alternate ending is denoised, color corrected, upscaled to 1920x1080
  
• VHS material is median interpolated using three versions, to remove dropouts, then denoised, color corrected, upscaled to 1440x1080, black borders added to the sides to reach 1920x1080
  
• web trailers full screen are upscaled to 1440x1080, black borders are added to the sides to reach 1920x1080
  
• web images are upscaled accordingly to their relative dimension and black borders are added to fill the 1920x1080 screen
  
• CD soundtrack PCM is converted to 48KHz
  

• The Making of The Arrival - VHS
  
• The Arrival - German KinoWelt DVD
  
• The Arrival - Italian DVD
  
• The Arrival - Special Edition box set Laserdisc
  
• various material from the web
  

• The Making of The Arrival - VHS
  
• The Arrival - German KinoWelt DVD
  
• The Arrival - various DVD editions
  
• The Arrival - Special Edition box set Laserdisc
  
• various material from the web
  

• Custom made English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
  

• thegroovologist for a LOT of help
  
• DoomBot for audio track help and general advice
  
• Jetrell Fo for The Making of The Arrival VHS capture
  
• jerryshadoe for the Original Soundtrack
  
• allegedly for English transcription from dialog, and SRT sync
  
• jedeitor for Spanish translations
  

I double-checked and triple-checked my Profile Options to make sure that the "Display Images In Posts" box is checked... and it is... but none of these images are showing up in the threads. Is there some other thing I can do to get the images to appear? Thank you.

Great site, keep it up!

...I'm aware that the SD extra material are 60i, but I guess if some (or all) are film based...