My hybrid open matte releases

[interaser]

Hello random.next, 
long time ago you considered doing Watchmen (Director's Cut) in Open matte combining Blu-ray with Web-Dl OM
Out of curiosity, are you still planning on doing it and would you keep the frames with special effects cropped or with the black bars on top and bottom?
Thank you.

[X5gb]

Another one I would love to see is a Judgement Night Open Matte hybrid combining both WAC blu-ray and Goodtimes Open Matte dvd (quality not brilliant but I’ve seen Random manage it with other ropey sources) but not sure it would work alignment wise due to been totally different transfers.

[X5gb]

Is there an easy way to do this? I tried avidemux but it doesn't show the frame count.

Best way would be to use a smart renderer like VideoRedo so outside the edit points no re-encoding necessary.

[dwalkerdon]

Another one I would love to see is a Judgement Night Open Matte hybrid combing both WAC blu-ray and Goodtimes Open Matte dvd (quality not brilliant but I’ve seen Random manage it with other ropey sources) but not sure it would work alignment wise due to been totally different transfers

It's truly a night and day difference between the three transfers, because the Goodtimes DVD came out in Early 1998, and the Universal DVD came out in 2003-2004. 

I made a post two years ago seeing if anyone could Attach the Universal Logo to the WAC Blu-Ray since they removed it on the Remastered version so I could sync the Dolby 2.0 Mix from the Goodtimes DVD, the DTS 5.1 mix from the Universal DVD, and the English AC3 5.1, the Spanish Dolby 2.0 Mix, and the French Dolby 5.1 mixes from the Universal DVD.

[X5gb]

Shame even the STARZ one was 2.35:1, obviously no HD transfer of the Open Matte one exists.

[dwalkerdon]

Shame even the STARZ one was 2.35:1, obviously no HD transfer of the Open Matte one exists.

There was an Open matte Version that  aired on Universal HD way back in 2006-2008. I remember reading about it on a forum a long time ago.

[X5gb]

Was it true HD though, maybe an upscale?

[dwalkerdon]

Was it true HD though, maybe an upscale?

I believe that it was true HD in 1080i.

here is the press release that Universal posted in May 2007 that is archived on avsforum where they mentioned it
https://www.avsforum.com/threads/univers...ay.842187/

[Preserve]

It's available at bluebird like all other releases. Usually they are reuploaded to public trackers after some time.

I don't have a bluebird account, but I'm really looking forward to both Arrival and Blade Runner UHD, they are two of my all-time favorite movies, and I'm a big fan of open matte releases. Thank you random.next for your work to create such high quality releases! From your list in the first post, I think I've seen a few of your other releases.

I do have one question, would you mind confirming the file size for Arrival? I found one source so far but it's not the source I prefer, I think they might have added extra audio tracks, even if they didn't rename it. Of course I could always remux it and remove tracks I don't want, but it's extra download time/bandwidth, and I always like to see the original release by the creator. For those of us hunting for your releases, it would be nice to see a bit more information about them. As a side note, I don't know if nfo files were ever included in your releases, but if they were, they are never included on the torrents, and having those would be nice.

Thank you again!

[Hitcher]

Here's the media info for Arrival -

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Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 640 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 533 MiB (2%) Title : Dub Language : Russian Service kind : Complete Main Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #2 ID : 3 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 384 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 320 MiB (1%) Title : MVO Paradox & OMSKBIRD Language : Russian Service kind : Complete Main Default : No Forced : No Audio #3 ID : 4 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Title : VO Serbin Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Audio #4 ID : 5 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Title : VO Gavrilov Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Audio #5 ID : 6 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Title : VO Vizgunov Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Audio #6 ID : 7 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Title : VO Esarev Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Audio #7 ID : 8 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Title : VO Dasevich Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Audio #8 ID : 9 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Title : VO Matveev Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Audio #9 ID : 10 Format : DTS ES Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Commercial name : DTS-ES Matrix Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel(s)_Original : 7 channels ChannelLayout_Original : C L R Ls Rs Cs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Title : VO Nazarov Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Audio #10 ID : 11 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 56 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.23 GiB (5%) Language : English Default : No Forced : No Text #1 ID : 12 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 29 min Bit rate : 1 b/s Count of elements : 26 Stream size : 1.17 KiB (0%) Title : forced Language : Russian Default : Yes Forced : No Text #2 ID : 13 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 54 min Bit rate : 86 b/s Count of elements : 1267 Stream size : 72.6 KiB (0%) Title : full Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Text #3 ID : 14 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 50 min Bit rate : 71 b/s Count of elements : 760 Stream size : 57.8 KiB (0%) Title : MartinaG Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Text #4 ID : 15 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 49 min Bit rate : 85 b/s Count of elements : 1199 Stream size : 68.7 KiB (0%) Title : Е. Воронин Language : Russian Default : No Forced : No Text #5 ID : 16 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 2 min 33 s Bit rate : 7 b/s Count of elements : 8 Stream size : 151 Bytes (0%) Title : forced Language : English Default : No Forced : No Text #6 ID : 17 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 48 min Bit rate : 53 b/s Count of elements : 1231 Stream size : 43.1 KiB (0%) Title : full Language : English Default : No Forced : No Text #7 ID : 18 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 48 min Bit rate : 52 b/s Count of elements : 1438 Stream size : 42.2 KiB (0%) Title : SDH Language : English Default : No Forced : No Menu 00:00:00.000 : 00:00:00.000 00:09:54.385 : 00:09:54.385 00:17:38.015 : 00:17:38.015 00:24:31.595 : 00:24:31.595 00:33:58.620 : 00:33:58.620 00:43:51.212 : 00:43:51.212 00:52:30.564 : 00:52:30.564 00:57:39.039 : 00:57:39.039 01:03:10.912 : 01:03:10.912 01:09:33.669 : 01:09:33.669 01:17:23.681 : 01:17:23.681 01:25:26.288 : 01:25:26.288 01:35:41.527 : 01:35:41.527 01:41:00.429 : 01:41:00.429 01:43:42.967 : 01:43:42.967 01:45:38.207 : 01:45:38.207

Pretty sure random.next includes all those audio tracks as he's from Russia himself.