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I finally have Making of Alien Resurrection laserdisc on the way. It will be in my hands on Wednesday, I guess. Meedermow, should I borrow it to you? There were two LD editions of this documentary - German and Japanese. The first one is overdubbed in German language with no subtitles while the second one has Japanese subtitles and original audio. I decided to buy the German one, of course. The high quality video is what we need and any subtitles are decreasing its value. The question is: are you able to transfer the LD onto DVD and then add English audio from that pale VCD version I once sent to Jonno? If you do not own it yet, I can send it to you as well. This can be a challenge, you must change the speed a bit to plant the audio to the PAL video.
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Originally posted by: triffid
I finally have Making of Alien Resurrection laserdisc on the way. It will be in my hands on Wednesday, I guess. Meedermow, should I borrow it to you? There were two LD editions of this documentary - German and Japanese. The first one is overdubbed in German language with no subtitles while the second one has Japanese subtitles and original audio. I decided to buy the German one, of course. The high quality video is what we need and any subtitles are decreasing its value. The question is: are you able to transfer the LD onto DVD and then add English audio from that pale VCD version I once sent to Jonno? If you do not own it yet, I can send it to you as well. This can be a challenge, you must change the speed a bit to plant the audio to the PAL video.


If it's a German LD, he'd need a PAL laserdisc player to play it, methinks.

Meeder, what happened to the NTSC version of the first Alien disc, hmmmmmmmm????????
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I hope he has one. He lives in the UK. I can make the DVD copy here (Czech Rep.), but the man who owns the required equipment is constantly busy. Finding a gap in his working schedule may take many weeks. By the way, his Pioneer LD player plays both NTSC and PAL discs. I hope Meedermow can do the work much faster, that is why I am offering the LD directly to him. This Alien project seems to came to dead end, and it is necessary to do something before it becomes abandoned.
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It seems that Meedermow is busy now...
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Has anyone on the boards heard from Meedermow? haven't heard from him in ages! hope he's alright!

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I sent him an email three weeks ago, no answer
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Hello! It's been almost a year since we've started Alien appendix project and we haven't moved much on, haven't we? The purpose of this project was to archive rare "making of"/"tv hype" footage, but somehow we got sidetracked into fan edits and re-cuts of the movies which, honestly, should be at another forum.

I have contributed with many rarities including Alien war & Aliens: Ride at the speed of fright footage and I'm wondering if these and other materials would be available anytime soon to the hardcore Aliens fans on this forum... I sincerely hope we can get some spare time and concentrate on finishing this project. I'm not sure who's in charge of production any more, but if that person is unable to do it, I'm willing to pick it up.

In the spirit of holidays I'm attaching a rare treat you can download from this link - a 43 second Alien War promo that was part of an EPK. It's a 25MB zip file containing DVD files ready for use: mpg & ac3. Happy holidays!

http://rapidshare.com/files/9404777/AW_promo.zip.html
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I've been trying to get a hold of this documentary for a while. I recorded off Channel 4 in the UK when it was first aired, but the tape is in terrible condition. The torrent on Myspleen is dead, no seeders. Does anyone have this and is willing to trade?
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The Making of Alien Resurrection lasedisc arrived two days ago. As you may remember, there were two LD editions of this documentary - German and Japanese, in both cases it is a part of Alien 1-3 set (the same set released in France does NOT contain this bonus and the documentary is not available on any UK or US laserdisc). I chose to buy the first one, which is dubbed in German, and has no subtitles, while the Japanese one has in-picture text and English audio. Also, I prefer PAL over NTSC because of the higher resolution. And, most important, the German version was much cheaper (30 Euros incl s&h). Meedermow can restore the English audio track back later when editing the next Appendix, either from VHS or VCD copy of this documentary. For the first time we can even release something with two audio tracks.

The problem is that the man who made LD to DVD transfers for me in the past is not answering my emails. He also mentioned several times in mid-2006 that he is going to sell his LD players because he moved to DVD and possibly to BluRay. I am sending him one last email and I hope he will answer this time. Otherwise, I must lend the disc to somebody here. DigitalfreakNYC can't play PAL LDs. What about Meedermow?

Guys, does anybody have BidPay account? I need somebody who can pay for another Alien video in my name because the seller accepts this payment method only. Not a big deal, approx 30 USD.

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Faustus - send me a PM.

triffid ! So good to hear from you - unfortuantely I don't have a bidpay - but can happily synch up the image and the audio as mentioned in your thread

Can't do PAL LD's unfortunately - though surely someone else on this forum can ?

Many thanks for carrying on trucking triffid and keeping the dream alive.

#3 is looking gooooooooood already !
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I can do PAL LD to DVD tranfers. I live in France
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Great! Give me one last week. I would prefer to copy the LD here in CR for obvious reason - if I send it to you, I must pay another two postages to get it to you and back. If my old friend does not answer within a week, I will PM to you and ask you for your home address in France, OK?
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Guessing it's the Czech Republic if memory serves.

Regardless how the friend comes through triffid, should you need any part of this bank-rolling (postage costs etc) just let me know and I'll be happy to pay for it.
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Hello!

Doe anyone still have an NTSC or PAL copy of the uncut "Alien Evolution" documentary they'd be willing to share?

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy