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Alien: Covenant - IMAX edition [spoRv] (Released)

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Alien: Covenant - IMAX edition [spoRv]

Original title: Alien: Covenant
Original runtime: 2h02m03s
Source: Blu-ray (for widescreen shots); Korean IPTV (for open matte & IMAX shots)
Video processing: combined widescreen and IMAX shot to get best quality; 35mm grain plate
Audio processing: none
Video format: x264 1920x1080 23.976fps VAR (widescreen OAR 2.40:1, IMAX and open matte 1.78:1)
Audio format: DTS-HD MA 7.1 English, DD 2.0 192kbps Italian (low quality), DD 2.0 224kbps English commentary
Subtitles: YAO black bars, English, Italian, English SDH, Danish, Finnish, French, Norwegian. Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish (movie); English, Danish, Finnish, French, Norwegian. Spanish, Swedish (commentary)
Chapters: 24
Release notes: the widescreen picture was overlaid onto open matte version to get high quality IMAX shots; the amount of IMAX shots is around 12.5m while open matte shots total around 3m; there are some hardcoded Korean subtitles remains in lower part of some IMAX shots; they were blurred to be less noticeable, but you can always get rid of them just selecting the YAO (yet another overlay); at the end, there are about 11 minutes of IMAX and open matte shots free from any artefacts; Italian subtitles track was corrected and put in sync
YAO subtitles hack: this kind of subtitle overlay black bars on selected shots; it was tested on MPC, MPV, SMPlayer and should work even on hardware Blu-ray players; to have both black bars and another subtitle, you should use SMPlayer with YAO as first subs track, and the selected language as second subs track
**Release format: **mkv (BD compliant)

Screenshots (first image shows blurred subtitles):

Comparison (top BD, middle Korean, bottom IMAX)

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Has anybody seen it in an IMAX theater with a varying aspect ratio? My screening was in a digital IMAX with 1.90 AR screen that desperately stayed in 2.40 from start to finish, just like “Logan”, “Rogue One”, “Jack Reacher Never Go Back” and “Spider-Man Homecoming”. I hate these stupid LIE MAX screenings.

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As the movie isn’t out on Blu Ray in the U.S. yet, (or is it?) not sure if this thread is bending the rules or not.

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Where were you in '77?

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Not sure if we’ve updated the rules to include digital releases, but I’ll consult with my fellow mods.
The window between theatrical and video is getting freakishly short this year. What are the studios going to save for the holiday season?

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Where were you in '77?

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I’ll accept any decision. 😉

What it prompted me to post this is mainly the fact it’s possible to get rid of “unpure” shots (the ones with blurred subtitles remains) just selecting a subtitle track - the first instance in a fan project AFAIK, and rarely seen in official releases - and to get some feedbacks on this - compatibility with hard/soft players, and what the viewers think about it.

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IMAX/OM shots look great. Looking forward to when you release this! It’ll of course be better if the blurring isn’t visible and everything looks more or less seamless. All the best!

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It was released several days ago… and I know it would be better without blurred subs, but that’s the only source, so… just select YAO subtitles, and the shots with blurred subs and/or logo would be just matted to 2.40:1!

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Struggling to find this or your GotG Vol.2, any hints?

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They are on blutopia, along with other projects.

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drop me a PM, we’ll see… 😄

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Just watched this, you’ve done a great job, I do like movies with the expanded IMAX scenes as they enhance the spectacle of certain sequences. Shame that the subtitles couldn’t be totally removed but I’m sure that one day a clean release will surface.
As for the YAO, it is a great addition and I think all retail Blu-ray with shifting ratios should have this, although I probably wouldn’t use it.
Nice release Sporv, keep up the good work.

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Thanks, happy to hear that. Most probably future HDTV broadcasting will be open matte, so the subtitles would not be there.

And yep, YAO is a great feature!

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To whom it may concern: the new version is out - Alien: Covenant IMAX [Fundamental Collection] - now all the IMAX/open matte shots are perfect, no more subtitles and/or logo remains, and eventual top/bottom “slices” differences in brightness and/or color, due to the use of two sources, are completely gone.

More, it’s the usual multi language edition (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish audio and subtitles) plus the Russian tracks, and the English commentary with related foreign subs.

Now you can find it in that demonic place. Have fun!

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ilyasdesign40 said:

the blurry version has a green tint looks awful

Are you referring to a particular picture?
The color matrix of the open matte version was changed to be as much similar to the BD one, that’s the only color “fix”.

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^…^ said:

To whom it may concern: the new version is out - Alien: Covenant IMAX [Fundamental Collection] - now all the IMAX/open matte shots are perfect, no more subtitles and/or logo remains, and eventual top/bottom “slices” differences in brightness and/or color, due to the use of two sources, are completely gone.

Solid effort! Now, I needs me buy myself a new HDD.

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ilyasdesign40 said:

the blurry version has a green tint looks awful

Are you referring to a particular picture?
The color matrix of the open matte version was changed to be as much similar to the BD one, that’s the only color “fix”.

no the rips posted on forums for bluray the whole film has as blanked of green tint, bluray films these days have too much yellow and green tints
makes the picture look awful don’t know why the industry release them like that

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Well, in motion it works well, as the green blanket is not severe as on other films released this year (Wonder Woman or The Mummy, for example), hence I decided to leave it “as is”.

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^…^ said:

Well, in motion it works well, as the green blanket is not severe as on other films released this year (Wonder Woman or The Mummy, for example), hence I decided to leave it “as is”.

wonder woman looks awful its so green, sorry where do you post your releases?
sorry i’m new!

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blutopia

sorry mate is that a torrent site? if so I don’t have a clue have to use them only use filehost links

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I put it also into a demonic torrent tracker, so anybody could grab… hope this would help.

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