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Post #893774

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GoboFraggle1983
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The Vaultbreakers Collection - Disney Preservations
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Date created
6-Jan-2016, 12:50 PM

Molly said:

Just tested my chops on a DVD of the Winnie the Pooh shorts.  This crosses the line into custom territory, and the encode is low bitrate - let me explain.

1. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree - laserdisc rip (IVTC’d; bumper added)
2. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day - R1 rip (IVTC’d)
3. Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too - laserdisc rip (IVTC’d; bumper added)
4. Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore - R1 rip (untouched)

I standardized the encode on the format of the fourth short - 3 Mbps/192 kbps, prograssive.  That isn’t a lot - the DVD’s only a little over half full.  If you want high quality, at the cost of integrity of the first three shorts (the fourth is exactly the same as presented here), you’ll need to get the Many Adventures DVD.  The first three shorts’ quality is nothing to write home about even before re-encoding them, though!  Lots of film noise.

Keep in mind that I’m not good at authoring DVDs.  The background image is taken from the opening titles, and the font is the same one used in the opening titles of Many Adventures (1977) and Day for Eeyore.  I do think I managed to get a Play All option working, though, as well as a Play One option.

Just a suggestion, but for your Pooh torrent, I think you should’ve used “A Day for Eeyore” from the LASERDISC version (the one bundled with “Blustery Day”) and here’s why: the DVD version incorrectly credits Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom, and Tress MacNeille as Pooh, Rabbit and Kanga (respectively) instead of Hal Smith (who is still credited as Owl), Will Ryan, and Julie McWhirter Dees. There’s also another and even rarer version of the opening titles (in a different font), as seen on the 1984 VHS and laserdisc release of “Winnie the Pooh and Friends”. I made a comparison of those opening titles and posted it to YouTube (just search “pooh day for eeyore opening comparison”), though the 1984 footage I mentioned is currently incomplete and in very low quality.