ray_afraid said:
Hey guys. I was looking to see if anyone was working on a preservation on THX 1138 and just found this thread. Sounds like you guys are on it! I've read through most of this but maybe we can have a recap on the sources that are available and what is to be done with it. I mean, taking whats best of each source or picking the best one ect. Just wondering where we're at here.
Where we're at...
...at the moment I am waiting to recieve the files from, SilverWook so I can begin work on the subs that we need for the alternate cut. On the project as a whole, I actually don't know yet. Do we want the Italian Cut (theatrical cut;) that erri_wan so kindly shared, on a DVD just as it is with an additional English sub-stream? maybe converted to NTSC? --I would be perfectly happy with that.
SilverWook own two Laserdiscs of the Original Cut on Laserdisc, one which he has kindly already captured, to make use for in a preservation attempt and the other (Japanese) one which he hasn't yet compared with the US LD in minutia. --Do we want a combination of the two transfers for best results? maybe upscaled to 16:9 with additional clean up a'la g-force? -- I don't know, I would be perfectly fine with just a straight transfer of one of the LD's in 4:3, I've heard the new TV-equipments is much better at resizing than the avisynth-scripts anyway. (IIRC the THX 1138 transfer looks overall much better than the DC LD of SW? no DVNR-smear and aliasing am I right?)
That's the easy way out ;) my dream would be to have a nice preservation set of these two cuts on a double DVD-set with all extras we have in our possession, the only problem is, neither I or SilverWook are good in this field, sorry if I talk on your behalf, SilverWook. ;) and this George Lucas debut doesn't seems to be that important in many eyes these days? erri_wan may have the theatrical cut here for f**ks sake, to me it's like a holy grail!!
Anyway, there you have my recap, ray_afraid, thanks for showing interest in this project.