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The Beach (2000) Special Edition |
Posted by: alleycat - 2022-10-11, 12:36 PM - Forum: Released
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The Beach is one of those movies like True Lies and The Abyss that is completely absent from Blu Ray. And whilst it's not on the same level as those movies I have a soft spot for it.
There are two different HD versions floating around, a HDTV recording in the original aspect ratio and a cropped open matte WebDL. For this project I used AutoOverlay (I actually got it to work!!) to place the WebDL on top of the HDTV, as the WebDL was higher quality. Color was matched to the HDTV, so the far left and right side of the image is from the HDTV and the rest is from the open matte. The matching worked great, aside from two shots everything lined up perfectly.
Next that file was run through upscaling/downscaling, cleaning, slight sharpening and dehaloing in AviSynth. Then into Phoenix for dirt and dust removal. Finally into After Effects for re-graining. I did not fully trust either the open matte or HDTV to have an accurate representation of the grain due to the lower quality of the clearly older master, therefore I used the match grain function and matched it to Gangs of New York - which according to imdb was shot on the same negative stock.
Thanks to @PDB for some AutoOverlay guidance.
I would have loved to get the Laserdisc audio for this but sadly it's a very rare and very expensive disc - the only one I could find was on eBay for $900! So the audio tracks and extras have all been ported over from the DVD, along with a few interviews I found on youtube. English SDH subtitles are also included, but these required a lot of manual retiming. Some appeared early, some on time and some late, it was all over the place.
- BD25 with animated menus, background video, pop up menus and resume function
- 1080P AVC Video
- English AC3 5.1 448 KBPS from the DVD
- English AC3 2.0 192 KBPS from the DVD
- French AC3 2.0 192 KBPS from the DVD
- Audio Commentary by Director Danny Boyle from the DVD
- English SDH, French, German, Italian and Spanish Subtitles
- Making Of
- Deleted Scenes
- Entertainment Tonight Segment
- Take2Mark Interview
- The Priory Segment
- Music Video
- Theatrical Trailers, Teaser Trailer and TV Spots
PM me for the links, contributing/long term members only please. Contributing means active members of the forum who post and/or make their own projects - i.e. not newbies who have never posted a single thread.
High Resolution cover and disc art available from @Pineapples101 Here.
Before (left) / After AutoOverlay:
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Introduction |
Posted by: Bungalow Bill - 2022-10-06, 07:23 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hello, I'm Bungalow Bill. Like everyone, I am a film buff and a lover of fan edits and preservation. So honored that I could be here in the community.
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Hi-Ho! |
Posted by: maxrockatansky - 2022-10-06, 11:59 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Great to join a community that is sick of the crap that the major movie companys are giving to us and doing their own thing by restoring and creating the movies that we all love so much!
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Hello! |
Posted by: GreedoNeverShot - 2022-10-05, 08:27 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Hello everyone! Like all of you, I also happen to be a cinephile and a fan of film preservation. Glad I could be here in this community.
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Hello Everyone! |
Posted by: BlightedTomato - 2022-10-04, 09:17 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Great to find a community like this. I had Laserdiscs back in the 90s and went in hard on DVD. Skipped blurays mostly, but I'm back in a big way on 4K trying to get my final editions of my favourite movies. I love the fact folks here are trying to restore original theatrical audio from all the original sources. Look forward to trying to contribute if possible.
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Hi there |
Posted by: Wyzzy93 - 2022-10-02, 09:37 PM - Forum: Presentation
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I'm brand new here. My main interest is the work people are doing in 35mm scans for preservation. If I can donate or help in any of those projects I will.
Are the scans from previous projects available on request or only for donators?
I love the scans they look great.
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