Can you tell me what sources you have? You don’t have to give them to me.
You know, I already offered you to collaborate a few posts ago and I mean it, but I’m not sure that telling you my sources without giving them to you and then letting you do the job is the way of collaboration I expected 😃
To be fair, most of my sources are the result of one year’s job by deeply searching every possible official or unofficial video and photo source (and sometimes buying items like the VHS, VideoCD and Laserdisc), including early 35mm photos made 19 years ago and unofficial CAMS (i.a. the famous Z bootleg, but also another NY VHS CAM), contacting people on several forums, merging multiple sources to get a new one (cf. ^…^'s PaNup), learning a lot about video and audio restoration, acquiring softwares and hardwares sometimes expensive (Photoshop CC 2017, Video Enhancer 2.2, Izotope RX 6 audio editor Advanced), making my own LD captures - color-calibrated to NTSC-J colors with 7.5 IRE correction (and acquiring 3 LaserDisc turntables, a Leitch DSP-575 and a 300$ video card), financially participating to poita’s 35mm scan and even involving myself in Harmy’s 3.0 project, subscribing to a paid subscription on letsenhance.io cloud platform, eventually comparing every versions that I found to clean them on a frame by frame basis in Photoshop, regrade the colors of each scene, and then start all over because I found a new source with better quality…
So for now, if I share my sources today, I will have the impression that I give up all this journey just before finishing it, and I’m not sure that it will help you since your way and mine are quite different.
Honestly, when I tried a few posts ago (maybe clumsily, because English is not my mother tongue) to tell you about other sources than yours, about color regrading and about ^…^'s PaNup technique, you answered that your sources were good enough for your project, that you had no interest in regrading the film without a true reference, and that you “hadn’t quite got your head around the PaNup thing”. Actually, you didn’t seem to want to know more and I felt a little disappointed.
On the other hand, I already asked you details about one of your sources 10 days ago but you did not even answer me:
“no home release ever had the subs burned in.” So the VHS releases don’t count then?
Yes they would, but with the OT they didn’t always use the theatrical font. I presume the OP wants to see what was actually on release prints.
Yep. The Old HDTV has burn in that has the wrong font, style and timing, Theres also a new HDTV version with the correct timing, very similar style but not quite, and a few corretions.
Getting a close look at the 35mm is what i need for my TPM restoration (yeah, im doing one too.)
Could you please tell me more about this new HDTV version with correct timing ?
So for now, I think that the best move is that both of us release our own v1, and then that we benefit from this sporty “competition” to eventually unite our efforts in a v2 if it seems then to be feasible. I sincerely hope it will be!
Anyway, I’ll tell about the sources I have and explain everything in a new thread on this forum when my version will be done, I promise!