[Request] Highlander US Theatrical Cut

[zoidberg]

PDB, what exactly goes wrong with the HDTV cap when you try to IVTC?

[Chewtobacca]

PDB, if you send me the relevant part of the capture, I'll have a look. I wish the old cap of the U.S. Theatrical were still around...

[PDB]

PDB, what exactly goes wrong with the HDTV cap when you try to IVTC?

Getting what I would describe as really bad frame blending or even ghosting. Here is an example from the 60i which is what it was broadcasted as:



You can really see it when a shot change occurs.

I've IVTC these kind of caps before successfully many times so I'm at a loss. Though admittedly IVTC-ing and the issues surrounding it are far from my wheelhouse.

PDB, if you send me the relevant part of the capture, I'll have a look. I wish the old cap of the U.S. Theatrical were still around...

Was there an old capture somewhere?

I appreciate the offer of help Chew since you know more about this then I do. Here are 3 short segments of the captures I did:

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[Chewtobacca]

Yeah, there was a cap long time ago. It's long gone.

I'll try to have a look at the sample later in the week. I've no access to my computer at present. Thanks though!

[Ronster]

Actually I came across a problem of de-interlacing when I was looking at Conan... and although it was de-interlaced I still had gosting frames and Interlaced artifacts.

I actually found that I needed to De-Comb and not De-interlace. THere is a speed variable I chose Fast as the slow one did not work.

So try a De-comb instead of De-interlace that might sort it out actually I reckon it will sort it out or fingers crossed for you anyway!

Stick it in Handbrake...

I use the auto crop and the AVG bit rate for quality to be the same as the overall bit rate 2 pass encode with the H264 preset set to Fast or medium. You should get a decent re-encode of it with little loss.

You might have to do Decombe:bob as it's come in at 60fps

Also looking at the screen caps I did notice that it was a bit Magenta and my old dvd shares that but It's a single LUT fix the colors are pretty good overall the only thing I found was that magenta sort of odd. I remember Earls Court Car park pretty well since I used to work there!

Just reading up about 1080i once that is coverted progressive you will end up with 540 horizontal lines so probably best to go for a 720p upscale

[Chewtobacca]

Here are 3 short segments of the captures I did:

It's definitely field-blended, which is a real shame.  Whether it's in the broadcast or the way you are capping it, I don't know.  Sometimes I think this cut doesn't want to be reconstructed....

[dvdmike]

There has been a 35mm on eBay for a while

[PDB]

Here are 3 short segments of the captures I did:

It's definitely field-blended, which is a real shame.  Whether it's in the broadcast or the way you are capping it, I don't know.  Sometimes I think this cut doesn't want to be reconstructed....

Crap. Aw well, thanks for looking Chew.

[PDB]

There has been a 35mm on eBay for a while

You have a link?

[Chewtobacca]

Aw well, thanks for looking Chew.

How long is that shot of Detective Bedsoe?  If it's short it might be possible to handle it frame by frame (and field by field) and get something out of it.