If you can get me few matching frames from each scene I'll take a look and see if repairing the original HD frames would be possible.
Did they just alter frames in the censored version or remove them altogether? If they just altered the frames, I could probably find a way to restore the portions that are altered rather than replacing the entire frame with an upscale. I did that on the Roger Rabbit projects.
Well, all the content is compiled. I need to convert the slideshow frames into animated slideshows since user-navigated slideshows would be too complicated with all the still frames this would involve.
The 24.94 gb torrent is the original uncensored mkv with as near to the original bluray quality as I could get. OldSkoolFan's AVCHD torrents are smaller versions for those that wanted something with a more manageable size.
I just realized that I never did upload the uncensored version of Trail Mix-Up anywhere. I need to fix that.
It would be nice if someone could get one of the film prints and start a preservation project on this one.
I got the discs from Dark Jedi a few days ago. I haven't had the time to view most of them yet but I did check out the Maximum Overdrive disc. It's a really nice package. The menus work well with animation that doesn't bog down the interface and the bonus features are really interesting.
The scenes I sampled from the movie looked great overall though there were definitely some limitations in the source materials that were available. Team Blu did a really good job though. This one is definitely worth getting. I liked the feature that lets you view segments of the movie with only the AC-DC music. It was a nice alternative to an isolated score.
Will you be upscaling the missing footage and editing it into the bluray footage or is there an HD source for the footage available?
As jimjimmyjones said, amazon.fr ships internationally and the site is pretty easy to navigate if you're familiar with the US site, same goes for the amazon.de site. I ordered the Army of Darkness sets from those sites without a problem. They even use the same login as the US site so you don't have to create a new account.
Are you talking about syncing the audio or other tasks?
Yeah, I'm just going to get the ones you linked on Amazon and have them shipped to you.
Looking forward to the upcoming Team Blu releases. Are you still working on The Black Hole?
I'll send you a spindle of BD25's after I get my next paycheck (It looks like you use more of those than the BD50's). I lost your address, though.
How do I supply the blanks?
Fixed that error.
I just have a few more galleries left to work on with a lot of interesting content.
Transformers: The Movie is still in progress. I noticed that you have it listed as having already been released.
Does the Madman PAL release use speedup or frame blending to convert the framerate? If I could get the DVD rip, it wouldn't be hard to sync the english audio to the blu-ray.
Maybe you could send them to people who provide useful extra feature items for your upcoming projects?
I haven't been able to get good copies of the UK adverts that aren't watermarked or really low resolution.
Ok, I'm near the end of the tunnel as far as compiling all the content. I just need to finish up a couple of galleries of pre-production materials and stuff like promotional posters and materials. The galleries actually took a lot more time than I thought the would. I have a lot of material to go through.
I've lost contact with the group that was going to help get all the material compiled onto a single blu-ray so I may need to figure out a backup plan if I can't get back in touch with them.
I've got all the audio and video files edited and synced. Still working on the image galleries, which are taking quite a bit of time because they are going to be quite extensive.
The reason varies. There are many HDTV transfers were created long before there was a blu-ray release. In some cases, the HD transfers were created when the DVD release was being remastered so that they would be ready for HDTV or HD video when it was available. During the time that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were duking it out, a few companies created initial transfers and waited to see what format would win out. There were also HDTV transfers that were created straight off the film or negative without as much processing because they were created for HDTV and there was no video release confirmed for the immediate future. With TV broadcast, a lot of presentation standards are lower than those of a video release so DNR, EE, color and contrast adjustment, etc... are not used as heavily. When a film is released on video, these "enhancements" are generally made to try and make the film look more like modern releases so it is more attractive to casual viewers.
As far as Mokushiroku, I will only be including segments. The digital version I have had some other stuff added onto the beginning that's not part of the original tape but it seems to be missing a couple of other non-movie-related segments in the process. If I can get a better digital transfer off of the original tape, it might be a project on it's own.
As far as the lines in that pan, fixing them isn't difficult, just time consuming since I would have to edit them out frame-by-frame. I've considered a couple of more involved projects for later, including an enhanced version of the movie that fixes most of the fixable animation errors and maybe a restoration of the "Transformers The Movie: Reconstructed" video without all the blended fields, so maybe I'll leave them in this version since they would have been in the original presentation, and remove them for a later project.
I'm in the process of assembling all the slideshow galleries now. I have a lot of material to compile, so it's taking a while.
Ok, I could use some feedback on something, if anyone is still watching this thread. I've done a number of small fixes to remove some of the more obvious scratches and spots that showed up on the original 1080p transfer. There is one scene I'm not sure if I should fix, though.
After the back of the shuttle is blown up, there is a pan that has two vertical lines running down it. They looked like thin film scratches at first but upon closer inspection, they are an artifact from the animation process. Should these be removed or left in place since they were animation flaws and not actual film flaws?
You can see an example of what I'm referring to here:
http://i.imgur.com/JVL6O5K.jpg
Yeah, pans and zooms are often done at 24fps while the cel animation is done at 12fps, so you may get a few frames where both fields are blended and can't be restored but, usually, at least one of the fields will have the animated parts without blending. If the blending is limited to the background on pans and zooms, it's usually not as noticeable. The biggest problem is the fact that you may only have one unblended field to work with for some of the frames, so that frame will take a hit in picture quality.
If the source videos are interlaced, have you tried unfolding the fields? The animation itself was done at 12 frames per second so, even with field blending, you should be able to get at least one field that is clean for each frame of animation. If your source videos are no longer interlaced, this won't work, though.
Ok, so I finally have all the frames decensored for the Trail Mix-Up scene. Now I need to put them back in the original video in the right place.