Honestly I gave up on this project earlier this year since other projects did similar regrades and there seems to be TV cuts around now. With no more space to mine I lost interest pretty close to the video being done after extensively revising the luma. Oh well.

Once PDB looks at that documentary footage and if needed I will rip and send him a copy if needed Because what I think he has done so far looks incredible but I think the laserdisc is a little or slightly misleading... Like the scenes on the sulauco when they eat have a yellow tint.

But also the warmth say of newt talking to Ripley in Bed are warm but not quite as warm as the reference posted here.

Basically I am pretty confident that if PDB looks at the documentary footage he will have it all in the bag! Which would be fantastic and would be further a true representation of a print which is really I think PDB's end goal.

As far as my ideas go I don't really care that much getting it looking right is the main thing but people would go crazy for extra aliens being blown apart and I would offer to do sound effects for these small parts if needed and match to sound mix depending on the source.

Basically I think this is a very important thing and PDB is very very close...

Edit you gotta be kidding me you can't delete that work it looked great!?!

I am upset by this....

(2017-08-06, 07:16 PM)PDB Wrote: Honestly I gave up on this project earlier this year since other projects did similar regrades and there seems to be TV cuts around now. With no more space to mine I lost interest pretty close to the video being done after extensively revising the luma. Oh well.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

If you don't mind, I'd like to pick up where you left off.

I ended up smashing through the whole film yesterday on a 10 hour focused regrade using the documentary I mentioned as a reference on the original special edition dvd release.

I am really pleased with the results if you want a reference for what I came to as a comparison upon using the 35mm footage as a guide and manually matched I will be happy to give you some caps.

It was not that difficult at least using that as a source because it was fairly similar.

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Not saying it's right but this is where I kind of ended up getting to with it in terms of using the reference.

I think I'm going to resurrect this project. I was going through my files while working on MM2/RW and had a desire to finish this and another Aliens project to go with it. The plan it to finish the TV Cut/LD grade and then do a theatrical cut using all the 35mm materials I have gathered. For now the TV cut is rendered in Lag AVI and I need to sync the PCM soundtrack but I did a lot of tweaking to the original project, particularly with curves. For now, MM2 and Blade Runner 2.0 are still my priorities at the moment.

BD/LD Regrade

Great news, really keen to see what the 35mm regrade ends up like - the pics you & Servo shared looked great, very different to the BD (and LD to be fair).

(2017-08-06, 07:54 AM)Ronster Wrote:
you should use the alien saga mail order DVD for references of the 35mm.

Check the EPK featurette and the Grunts in Space documentary + profile of James Cameron & Sighorney Weaver. It's great reference material and probably left out because it contradicts the release so much.

But the Colors I think are really great on most of the footage and it definitely reminds me of how it used to look on VHS. I strongly  suggest looking at this documentary.

But I like what you are doing I think it is great.

EDIT.

The TV Cut is an interesting version in it's own right.... Is there any interest in Restoring an uncensored version? Sorry and apologies made a mistake with footage regarding Burkes uncensored Death from DVD Documentaries.

I think it's good that the Colony scenes are gone... But it would be good to handle it as "Newts Tale" as a supplemental extra. Like it's own little film.

I own that documentary too, very well done.

Anyone can make an uncensored version of the TV cut at home, there's a playlist to match to mkv on the OT.

As a huge fan of Aliens, I can't wait to see the final result of this!