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Post #716680

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jerryshadoe
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Last of the Mohicans - Original Theatrical Cut - BD-50 *RELEASED*
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Date created
17-Jul-2014, 5:43 PM

@ BDgeek - thanx for the kind words. The bluray, aside from NOT having a theatrical cut, is indeed an atrocious transfer and whoever approved it for release is blind. I was not aware of the fact that the Brazilian TC DVD is a 5.1 remix. It sounds better than the slowed-down R2 DVD mix.

@ kk650 - yeah, it's a damn shame that we don't have a better source for this. Read on and you will see screenshot comparisons;)

I am wondering if any of you wonderful people would be willing to share the Laserdisc English 5.1 AC3 audio with me for this project. For now, I have the Brazilian Portuguese 2.0 audio, the English 5.1 audio (from that Brazilian DVD), the isolated-score track, Italian 5.1 audio (thanx for sharing Andrea), finally got the French 5.1 audio, German 2.0 audio (there is a 5.1 but all links I found are dead), Polish 5.1 audio (which is still downloading but I should have it by end of day), and Russian 5.1 audio. Also, I have the R2 DVD English audio (which is probably useless for this project as I would have to slow it down and re-encode a lossy into a lossy format, but I do have it too).  For subtitles, I know I have English, Italian, Portuguese, and others I can find online so that should not be a problem. For now, as I'm still working on all of this, none of the audio is synced yet except for the audio I sourced from the Brazilian DVD.

Anyway, after watching this twice, I have to say that I'm happy with it but... This is where I will be waiting for feedback from others, as I think I could have boosted the saturation just a little bit more than I did. In fact, there is almost no visible difference for the most part, except in skin tones (and even that is not present in all scenes) so... well here they are:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/84007

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/84008

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/84010

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/84012

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/84013

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/84015

Am now anxiously awaiting any comments and hoping that someone is willing to share the laserdisc audio. Peace

UPDATE: upon closer inspection, it appears that some of the screenshot on "my encode" are not de-interlaced properly and I will definitely have to do a second encode, however before I do that I am waiting for comments about the brightness/colors/grain first.