The Arrival [spoRv] Bonus Disc

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_,,,^..^,,,_ 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
  

Sources used and process info:

The Kinowelt German DVD has interviews,B-roll, featurette and trailers; Italian DVD has the open matte version of the film, plus a trailer; Special Edition laserdisc has a documentary and an alternate ending, plus the commentary; a rare promotional VHS has the making of and a promo reel, repeated four times along the whole tape; the soundtrack is from the original audio CD; some trailers and images are found on the web.

• 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
  

Source Material

Video:

• 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
  

Audio:

• 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
  

Subtitles:

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

Final format: BD-25

Video:

1920×1080, 23.976fps & 29.970fps, 1.33:1 & 1.85:1, AVC encoded using x264, 10mbps average bitrate

Audio (movie):

DD 16bit 640kbps from BD: English
DD 16bit 384kbps 5.1 from LD: English
DD 16bit 448kbps 5.1 from DVD: French, Italian, Spanish
DD 16bit 192kbps 2.0 from DVD: German
DD 16bit 192kbps 2.0 from LD: English commentary

Audio (extras):

DD 16bit 192kbps 2.0 from DVD, VHS, LD, web: English
DD 16bit 192kbps 2.0 from DVD: French, German, Italian, Spanish

Subtitles:

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Notes:

Animated menu
Outside and inside covers, disc label

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"Partners in crime":

• 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
  

Project Status: advanced