LOST - Season 1, 2 and 3 Finales: Original Broadcast Restoration (ON HOLD)

DISCUSSION MOVED TO NEW THREAD…

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/LOST-2004-2010-ORIGINAL-BROADCAST-RESTORATION-PROJECT-ON-HOLD/id/119991

I’ve written up an edit list for the Season 1 Finale.

Exodus, Part 2 - Complete Edit List:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Huuh_fq7CYvvPi9awOvXRCHqbwc-G9eUwQVN6p0YjUA/edit?usp=sharing

I guess I can take a look at it

SpacemanDoug said:

I guess I can take a look at it

Thank you! PM with a link has been sent.

are you gonna do seasons 4 and 5 as well?

they had the same issue as seasons 1 and 2, the DVD is uncut but the BD and streaming are split

Actually the US versions of 4 and 5 are the original broadcast versions on Blu Ray. Which is why it’s even more frustrating that 1, 2 and 3 were split.

Well the streaming versions for 4 and 5 are split, so a preservation might still be needed

I sent feedback in PM

Update:

All of the edit lists are finished. Again, if anyone has 720p HDTV rips please don’t hesitate to reach out in a PM. They would be invaluable for this preservation.

SpacemanDoug has agreed to add the edits to MySpleen on my behalf for now. I also have Google Drive links if anyone wants to PM me.

Edit Lists:

Exodus, Part 2:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Huuh_fq7CYvvPi9awOvXRCHqbwc-G9eUwQVN6p0YjUA/edit

Live Together, Die Alone:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NLOVWs5Aw0pU_HF-wbRH2SGPuYVxJ5skdNPErcG5fDk/edit

Through The Looking Glass:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11cY0kkrmUPprBe5DD8aC0MOSMtgN0T_A5Nqu5jq8sIY/edit

Bumping this thread to see if anyone out there has a high quality HDTV broadcast of Season 3 Episode 23. This project will greatly benefit from the added quality.

TheBoogeyman1023 said:

Bumping this thread to see if anyone out there has a high quality HDTV broadcast of Season 3 Episode 23. This project will greatly benefit from the added quality.

Unfortunately I doubt any higher quality version of the broadcast recordings for the season 1-3 finales exist, knowing how TV capture standards were at the time (also how in general “HD” broadcasts were still so heavily compressed they look almost like SD)

However I would suggest replacing the DVD footage with the broadcast footage for seasons 1 and 2 because they lack the ugly EE the DVD masters have at least

Now this would be an interesting project

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=250124

Couple people PM’d me for this recently. I haven’t responded yet because I’m actually in the process of working on a Version 2. I don’t have an estimate of when I’ll be finished, I’ll update the first post when I have links ready.

Few things of note…

VIDEO:

• I’m redoing all of the AI upscales across the board. (Version 1 was my first time using the software and I made a lot of rookie mistakes.)
• Removing the 6 seconds of black I added to the start of all 3 episodes. This was done for delay purposes when I was casting to my TV, but I’d rather have the timing be 100% accurate.

AUDIO:

• I’m using a much better method for creating the 5.1 sound mixes.
• S1 Finale: Adding back the whooshing sound that was absent on the DVD, but present on the HDTV broadcast for the Season 1 Finale.
• S3 Finale: I’ll be doing some sound design work to the sequences that I don’t have a 5.1 source for. Mainly Jack driving to the funeral parlor. I thought those parts really stood out like a sore thumb on Version 1.

TheBoogeyman1023 said:

Couple people PM’d me for this recently. I haven’t responded yet because I’m actually in the process of working on a Version 2. I don’t have an estimate of when I’ll be finished, I’ll update the first post when I have links ready.

Few things of note…

VIDEO:

• I’m redoing all of the AI upscales across the board. (Version 1 was my first time using the software and I made a lot of rookie mistakes.)
• Removing the 6 seconds of black I added to the start of all 3 episodes. This was done for delay purposes when I was casting to my TV, but I’d rather have the timing be 100% accurate.

AUDIO:

• I’m using a much better method for creating the 5.1 sound mixes.
• S1 Finale: Adding back the whooshing sound that was absent on the DVD, but present on the HDTV broadcast for the Season 1 Finale.
• S3 Finale: I’ll be doing some sound design work to the sequences that I don’t have a 5.1 source for. Mainly Jack driving to the funeral parlor. I thought those parts really stood out like a sore thumb on Version 1.

Can you also fix that one shot in the season 1 finale you left off from the DVD around halfway? (I remember you said you left it off to keep the quality consistent)

It was an alternate shot in the uncut version

Also this isn’t necessary, but the HDTV broadcast is marginally better quality than the DVD footage only because the DVD has ugly EE not in the TV capture so it should be replaced just as a bit of a suggestion

Actually all that edge enhancement was from my own misuse of the AI upscaler. The DVD is still the best source of the missing footage. All of the HDTV rips I have access to, are so compressed that they’re lesser quality than the DVD.

As for the shot you’re referring to from the S1 finale, it will still be the replacement angle from the blu ray. I can’t get the upscaler to achieve anything remotely close to acceptable in terms of quality for that original angle. Nothing is missing from the episode. It’s just not the exact same camera angle. For some reason the blu ray episode decided to use a different angle of the same shot/action.

TheBoogeyman1023 said:

Actually all that edge enhancement was from my own misuse of the AI upscaler. The DVD is still the best source of the missing footage. All of the HDTV rips I have access to, are so compressed that they’re lesser quality than the DVD.

As for the shot you’re referring to from the S1 finale, it will still be the replacement angle from the blu ray. I can’t get the upscaler to achieve anything remotely close to acceptable in terms of quality for that original angle. Nothing is missing from the episode. It’s just not the exact same camera angle. For some reason the blu ray episode decided to use a different angle of the same shot/action.

I didn’t realize the EE was caused from the upscaling, interesting how the DVD was better

Admittedly that one alternate shot is mostly due to my OCD trying to be as faithful to the original as possible, even if it does mean sacrificing quality a little bit

I did manage to acquire the uncut season 4 and 5 finales in 1080p however

MonkeyLizard10 said:

I probably have the episodes recorded OTA to one of my TV recording HDs somewhere (or maybe burned onto a data DVD). If you still need any of that stuff, tell me and I will keep it in mind as I organize things if I come across them.
I think I got my HDTV recorder for my PC as far back as 2004, I know I have some rare HD footage of the 2004 games. NBC actually ran their HD OTA broadcasts with way less commercials and a lot more coverage than their OTA analog broadcast then, I guess HD was so rare then, they didn’t mind any loss of commercial fees. Anyway so I had to have started recording some HD stuff OTA at least as far back as summer of 2004.

PM sent. This would be awesome!