Originally posted by: strangelove9 <snip> I think Rikter didn't realize it's available...
- I had a copy sent to me after it was posted to myspleen (THANKS!!), and I had intended on using it for my version but a hard-core BR fan posted on his site along with some others there in depth review of the transfer; here is a quote from his post…
Alright, myself and other die-hard Blade Runner fans have now taken a hard look at this. And although it is clearly a new HD transfer when compared to every other available source, we are sad to report that something must have gone wrong somewhere in the capture or encoding to MPEG2 for this DVD release by Freak. Now, please don't take this the wrong way, this is meant only as feedback after some very close review by some very talented video people. I personally would love to see a new encode done and a new, updated torrent posted because I simply LOVE this movie, and this HDTV version is clearly 100 times better than the currently available official released.
The problem is, it looks like something went wrong with the pulldown removal or something else. Not sure, except to say that the "cadence" of this encode is screwed up with double-frames that don't change from one frame to the next. It's like you get frame 1, frame 2, frame 3, frame 4, frame 4, frame 5. There are repeated frames all over the place. This is very noticeable to the human eye at the start of the fourth vob file, but better yet, try opening the fourth vob in an editor or player and go one frame at a time forward. You will very quickly see the repeated frames occuring at regular intervals. Worse yet, the repeated frames look ever so-slightly different probably due to some sort of changes during the inter-frame compression of MPEG. Also, this cadence is not simply the 3:2 sequence of 24 fps film inserted into a 30 fps interlaced format. It seems something more is happening, but not sure what exactly. My guess is something happened in the workflow from capturing the interlaced 29.97 fps HDTV feed to encoding the MPEG2. There has been some discussion of this on alt.fan.blade-runner and there has also been a comparison to the DC-DVD (with an example of the cadence problem shown as an animated gif) at this page (which probably will be pulled down at some point soon, so take a look ASAP):
http://www.jv-media.com/temp/br-comparison/
- I really did not want to carry over the "double-frames" into this release, I was aware of Digitalfreaks V2 but was also aware that it MAY be WAY TOO large to include my multiple audio tracks (he’s going for 100% pure quality), SO at this time I've attempted to down convert the 15 gig files (thanks SO much Segaflip!!) to DVD (DL that is) that is why I posted the tester - now from what I've seen and other have said my V2 looks okay - I'm NOT AT ALL in ANY way claiming it's better then the Digitalfreak version 1 or version 2 - AGAIN I'm NOT STATING it's any better (notice that I never asked if it looked better then his?) that is not the point here man. My version is simply sized to fit with multiple audio streams I intend to include, if the Digitalfreak V2 version would fit multiple audio streams then I MAY USE his second version for the final version if I can get my hands on it that is. (or I may have use a HDTV2DVD version if my final output bites!)
Originally posted by: segaflipnot to rush you, but...just wondering how this project is going? Which discs do you have completed or nearly completed?
