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'Beyond the Sea' U.S. Bluray (* unfinished project *)

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The severely underrated film by Kevin Spacey has not gotten a proper release on bluray in the states, even though it has in France, somehow… Anyway, my plan is to get the french bluray of the film and despecialize it. Why? Because there are a couple of significant errors with the French bluray, there are French subtitles burned into each song section which makes no sense at all. The other issue that should be noted is that the DTS track is DTS-HR not DTS-HD MA, technically classifying it as lossy audio, but that issue will be figured out in the future. The main game paln is with the picture. What I plan to do to fix that is photoshopping each frame and replace the subtitles with the dvd upscaled to 1080p (similarly to the techniques used in the Amadeus theatrical restoration). The dvd is in pretty tip top shape so it should not be too much of an issue. If color or other things become too much of an issue, I’ll use Dr Dre’s color correction tool to tweek it. After all that, I’ll release the video part (mkv most likely around 20GB & possibly a smaller version around 10GB) & getting around to creating a proper English bluray!!!

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Dude, YES.

“You don’t really mean you’ll kill me, do you?” - Juror 8
“Silence, Earthling! My name is Darth Vader. I am an extra-terrestrial from the planet Vulcan!” - Calvin “Marty” Klein

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Amazon Video has the movie available in the USA in HD. I’d recommend using that to fix the subtitled areas, rather than an upscale of the DVD.

EDIT: Actually VUDU has it in HDX format (just really high bitrate 1080p stuff). You’ll want to use that rather than the Amazon version.

“You don’t really mean you’ll kill me, do you?” - Juror 8
“Silence, Earthling! My name is Darth Vader. I am an extra-terrestrial from the planet Vulcan!” - Calvin “Marty” Klein

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Really, you might just consider somehow capturing the VUDU version.

“You don’t really mean you’ll kill me, do you?” - Juror 8
“Silence, Earthling! My name is Darth Vader. I am an extra-terrestrial from the planet Vulcan!” - Calvin “Marty” Klein

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That sounds great. The only problem is I do not have a capture card and prefer not to buy software. Do you have any suggestions for capturing it? I have a desktop pc with windows 10.

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You’d have to find a source that will play Vudu at 24fps. Most devices only play 60fps. It took a lot of searching, for me. Finally found a blu-ray player that will do it. I capture with the Hauppauge.

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Wait, you recorded it? If so, shoot me a pm, if not, shoot one all the same 😉

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Little update, I bought the vudu hdx version and I have come across something interesting. They managed to obtain a copy with the image opened up to 1:85:1 seeing as the original was 2:35:1. So new plan going forward, I’m going to make three versions, one with 2:35:1 setting, one with 1:85:1 setting, and a changing aspect ratio one (for select mudical sequences and important scenes, basically an IMAX version).

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I joined to ask about this. How’s it going?