THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released) — Page 68

AntcuFaalb said:

I'm getting very close to having everything in order for my THX 1138 captures.

My capture chain will be Runco LJR-II =(svideo)=> Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle (Thunderbolt).

The Runco LJR-II's builtin comb filter is better than my Extron YCS-100 because it was tweaked by MSB specifically for it, so that's one less A->D->A conversion in the chain. ;-)

I own three copies of the US LBX LD and I intend on doing a full median-of-three (basically, a TooT) with them. Thankfully, the Blackmagic Media Express software stops capturing if even a single frame is dropped, so I don't have to worry about any dropped frames in my completed captures.

Is it easy to manually IVTC this beast? How many wonky cadence changes does it have?

JEDIT: Also, do we have a bit perfect rip of the PCM track?

I f**king love you Antcufaalb. :) The IVTC on these are pretty straightforward contrary to what you may believe from this threads' history... cadence change mid-reel, nothing weird.

Spaced Ranger, no receivement?

Now that I'm inching closer to capturing these damn LDs, I'd like to get some kind of team together for a non-raw release. (I will, of course, upload my raw captures to Usenet, as promised.)

At this point, I'm mostly interested in color-correction. I'd prefer to either have one blanket setting for the entire film or one setting for each (preferably, IP) reel.

I'm not one to go deep into post-processing. IVTC, color-correction, upscaling (for an anamorphic release), and maybe low-pass filtering (Y: ~5.5MHz, C: ~1.3 MHz) is all I'm interested in.

Shoot me a PM if you're interested in joining. Even if you only have knowledge to contribute, that's fine; the more, the merrier.

Spaced Ranger said:

Wow, very nice! Is this a single pass Runco LJR-II =(svideo)=> Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle clip? Or is it the median-of-three result?

The former. I just tossed the LD in, did a quick capture of ~5s, and took a frame from there to post.

I'll post some median-of-three samples when I actually do the capture(s). :-)

SilverWook said:

If you have time, do a quick capture of the spot that gave msycamore so much trouble? I'd like to finally nail down if it's something unusual with the LD master or an anomaly with my DVD recorder.

I'll gladly do a quick capture. Can you reply with a hyperlink to the post(s)?

SilverWook said:

As it buried back in a 68 page thread, it's going to take a while to find. ;)

Yep, same thinking here. Should I just PM him?

SilverWook said:

Good idea. I can't find it, and some old images aren't showing up anymore.

K, sent.

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of changes in the DVD/BD release?

Try this for starters...

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=541751

it might be some of what you are looking for

russs15 said:

Try this for starters...

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=541751

it might be some of what you are looking for

Excellent, thanks! I guess I'm just worried that they might have missed something. I trust the people around here more than people elsewhere on the web.

My ideal, which I did try to pull off and failed, was to do a split-screen comparison of the LD vs DC. I would still love to see that done and it would also prove what all the changes are...

I'm working on calibrating my capture card this week, among other things. I can get pretty close (accurate 75% grey ~(191,191,191) and almost-accurate white ~(240,240,240)), but I'm still not entirely happy with it and I want to fiddle with it a bit more.

I don't have a full 10-bit workflow and I'm struggling with determining when it's best to drop to 8-bit.

Any tips, guys?

I'm thinking about dropping to 8-bit immediately after capturing, color-correction-be-damned.

SilverWook said:

If you have time, do a quick capture of the spot that gave msycamore so much trouble? I'd like to finally nail down if it's something unusual with the LD master or an anomaly with my DVD recorder.

Hi SilverWook! I think the spot you're thinking about is the conversation between THX and LUH when he get to know about her shift change. But the problem was that the captures lacked frames/fields in different spots, so unfortunately something weird happened when these were being recorded. I wish there was an easy way for us to figure out what exactly caused this, I suspect the recorder being the culprit as captures on different players have these issues. Not funny if future recordings are to be made and not knowing if they will be all right or not. :(

Any theories on what could have caused this weird hiccup anyone? Both fields and frames missing on different spots between captures. I can try to post a sample of a problematic spot. Not that I think we would be any wiser from it. The only thing I can think of is if you could check other recordings you've made with the same equipment and see if you can perform IVTC on them successfully.

Nice sample frame, AntcuFaalb. Thank you for doing this! I would definitely like to help you out if there's anything I could contribute with, not sure if I have the time at the moment though.