[Released] Mad Max (1979) original color timing & mix

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Managed to divide the film in two parts - because they have different frame size; final version would be 2.40:1 (near the 2.39:1 original theatrical ratio), to "fit" both HDTV and DVD frames; first part (up to about 18m) has a smaller AR, that I decided to "normalize" to 2.40:1 (and it does not show "squeezing" problems); encoded the first part in different chunks, as a whole it would not work; so far, these are some notes:

- encoding took about 6hrs for first part, so it will take further 24hrs at least to make the rest
- final quality is pretty good, with few instances where the small "ambilight" corners (usually only one at a time) could be barely noticed - if you know where to watch, but, in normal viewing, they should not be so much distracting
- few frames were not yet in sync - dunno if due to HDTV lost/repeated frames; nothing too difficult to repair
- image is pretty stable, apart in one shot, where there are few consecutive frames (2 and 3) with bigger borders that should be cropped - again, nothing difficult to fix

to do:
- encode second part (I'll divide them in 20m parts, so I can encode them without fear of crashing)
- fix first part (previous notes, plus vertical Japanese sub at the beginning)
- remove WOWOW logo in the second part
- fix eventual problems in the second part
- opening and closing credits will be HDTV only, as they do not align properly as UAR, and no one needs 2% more black on the sides, I think!

I guess it will take few days to do everything. If only I knew I had to work so much, I had simply to say "I am not able to remove those subtitles... sorry!" (said with a feeble voice) but no way, I can't not fix it... (should I fix my frenzy to fix everything, perhaps!)