Echo3

July 5 update:

The recent passing of Roger Moore has revitalized my interest in finishing this project. Good news: its nearly done. Ive aquired Adobe Premiere Pro, so the editing process has taken a major step forward. Thankfully, the 5.1 mix isolates the Bill Conti score to the left, right, and surround channels, so removing it while keeping dialoge and sound effects intact has proven much easier than anticipated.

Final touches are happening now.I hope to be sharing this cut on the spleen in the coming weeks.

some comparisions: original followed by recolored
http://imgur.com/a/3WjzB

downloading now. other than the opening credits, how is this different from the US version? is it a different dub, with different voice actors?

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

GMA seems like a weird forum to announce such a thing. Then again, the little commercial hardly hints at the unveiling of a trailer, nor does the language evoking the anniversary suggest a charity announcement. So who knows?

ABC is owned by disney

Could it be?
http://movieweb.com/star-wars-40th-anniversary-announcement-good-morning-america/

SwissArmyTin said:

Has Flight of the Navigator been released in HD anywhere outside of Europe yet? I know they got a Blu-Ray release from Second Sight…also, how is that transfer? I’ve heard their (region-locked) release of the Super Mario Bros. Movie was superb.

Flight of the Navigator [Blu-ray] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097A2LTW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Jqi2yb2251FZ2

Lacerated said:

Colson said:

The TV cut honestly looks pretty rough, but I imagine that’s as good as it will ever look

I watched the TV cut and it’s different than the mkv that I saw. The mkv has a channel logo throughout and audio on one channel. I only watched the beginning of it as I got bogged down on doing A/B comparison with the movie cut before writing down the minute differences with time codes. I’ll have to watch it again and see if it’s the same cut as provided on the BD extras.

Regarding the broadcast TV cut on the BD set, that’s probably the version I saw on a major TV channel. I’m guessing Universal probably has broadcast quality tape somewhere, but probably due to budgetary reasons it was not used and we got a VHS recording instead.

The mkv source is from me. i recorded on TBS in the early 2000’s. It was broadcast in mono, but i didnt realize that the encode i did moved the mono sound to one channel. Nothing is absent in the sound you are hearing, its just all moved to one channel.

matoman said:

I wonder how the colours of the original compare to this clip of the super 8mm?

The super 8mm certainly looks different to the blu ray…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axq6AA3geqE

not a reliable comparison. old super 8 prints will have extremely faded colors.

RayRogers said:

DrDre said:

RayRogers said:

Will this be a BD25 or BD50?

The current plan is to do the initial release as a 30-40 GB mkv, so a bluray version will be BD50.

Guess you’re using H264 and not H265 which is the vastly better codec including halving the filesize. I’d rather wait for the BD anyway.

H265 is better at reducing file size, but H264 is overall considered a better codec for maintaining image quality.

Avatar_Emil_Borg said:

OMG! Is that a open Matte print I see? The Blu-ray has a aspect ratio of 1.85:1, so your print at least has the benefit of extra picture information.

this is an old topic, but extra picture isnt always a “benefit”. The filmmakers never intended for that area to be seen. Its obvious even in these shots. Lens vignetting is visible, and there is odd framing for the actors.

regardless, this is a cool thing to see.

i made these based on the japanese poster. Not as nice as video collectors, but good enough for use on my HTPC.

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/iuJ8tB304FOYnEbRpnk5sxBBEor.jpg
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/3y3cq2TGDZtUoXmfCjxpClZcEqQ.jpg
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/uPXlSchhY5QDDgw0MaeeLBETr0h.jpg

Those look fantastic. Thank you for your hard work.

i check this thread seveal times daily… the suspense is killing me

*checks “notify me when someone replies”

I cant wait! Very excited.

Im so excited for this. My fav Godzilla film along with Ghidrah.

Theres a fun fan commentary for this available here http://commentaries.kaijucast.com/

God Save Pop Punk said:

The reconstruction is available from all the usual platforms; I hope you all enjoy it!

Merry Christmas, everybody!

It looks amazing. Honestly, the opening logo and title are almost too clean… they need film grain or some gate judder… 😉

Jetrell Fo said:

Echo3 said:

Thanks!! Ghidrah and Monster Zero are my fav Godzilla flicks.

Did you capture Monster Zero or any of the others?

All of them. I wont have time to look at them for a few days

Thanks!! Ghidrah and Monster Zero are my fav Godzilla flicks.

Based on previous airings, they are not HD, all presented in cropped 4x3. They looked pretty bad, like watching them on tv 30 years ago.

I really have no use for them, personally, but it seems that this type of thing is popular on myspleen. If theres no demand, i wont bother.

Awesome! Cant wait.

Ps

Im recording the ElRay marathon. I missed the first 30 mins of it, but my tivo will be going nonstop all weekend.

Ill try to put the whole thing on myspleen.

You are my hero. I have been craving HD versions of those US versions. I tried to do my own HD restoration of Zero, but had major problems with frame dropping/ judder.

check out a sample here https://www.dropbox.com/s/qy6p3vgj3urb899/Invasion Of Astro-monster (1965).m4v?dl=0

I was also very distracted by a problem with the japanese HD copy. It has a problem with every edit in the film print they used.

Warning, once you see it, it cant be unseen, as it plagues the entire movie. Look at the bottom of the frame.

http://i.imgur.com/n72YmNT.png

triplepost

doublepost

skoal said:

Colson said:

I’d say the HDTV 720p. Although it’s 720p and not 1080i, it is at a far higher bitrate, so I’d bet it looks better.

Great, 1080i is 540p which is worse than 720p.

Thats not entirely accurate.

heres some samples… sorry about the poor quality. final version will be 1080p.

opening gun barrel sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWila6QHdk

Opening scene clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYT-x5dRmCE

Thank you mods for moving this to the right forum.