Slipstream 1989 (WIP) — Page 4

The trailer is scanned but not finished

That’s great! Can you post several choice, raw frames? (I just love sprocket holes and frame edges.)

I posted in DrDre's Star Wars Trilogy SE bluray color regrade - page 20 and perhaps he can chime in or even run a sample of his Awesome Algorithms™ on the sample frame to see how works out.

I can do something this week yes, why not use the UK dvd over the UK LD?

Enjoy

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/167010

dvdmike said:
Enjoy
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/167010

LOL And awesome, too! Thanks!
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… why not use the UK dvd over the UK LD?

I only have the beginning fragment-downloads of the JP & UK laserdiscs. But that was enough for a proof of concept. It exposed the deficiency of JP – blue channel damage. I don’t know how it became a mess (it would help to know, so a contrary approach could be intelligently formulated) and unsuccessfully tried a few ideas to single-step mitigate the damage. I’ll keep musing over it (the brain won’t let me stop … and loving it!). BTW, could you also post a full-sized UK DVD snapshot of that frame I used for my testing? It’s at the beginning of the movie and is the 1st frame of the first inside-the-cockpit shot.

In the meantime, DrDre may come through with something that could simply bypass the whole problem (I hope, I hope).
😃

If I can find my UK DVD sure!
Think I know where it is, maybe

http://s14.postimg.org/76n4b11xt/TRAILER_Slipstream_2_K_FLAT_FG_mp4_snapshot_00_28.png

Thanks for the trailer clips! So those are “raw”? They look pretty good as is. Is that the consistent image across the entire trailer (I would expect)?

Of course, I couldn’t resist trying a “standard” color correction – whites are white, blacks are black, contrast for the situation (in sunlight here), very little DNR, and Technicolor accenting. How does it look (it’s hard for me to tell on this laptop’s LCD screen – I used an eyedropper for the main color settings)?

Another thing that may require extra work is those burned-in subtitles. Here is a quick example of JP with “place-holder” subtitles covered by an area cutout from UK (keep in mind the UK pan&scan shots often could be off-center, as in this demo):

As (not) shown, the UK overlay on JP must have a spot-on color match to cleanly erase the subtitles. Any missed characters would need other approaches, like a de-logo filter (on moving backgrounds) and temporal-frame-overlays from clean frames (on static backgrounds).

Edit: Accidental double post

And this is why I love this place. Pick an obscure, practically forgotten movie that’s been tragically abandoned on post-VHS home video formats, and someone around here is probably scheming to preserve it. I really love Slipstream, and it deserves a widescreen preservation – it’s ridiculously obvious when watching the available 4:3 cuts that you’re missing half the picture. I hope one day such a preservation will happen. Honestly I’d take even just a straight transfer of the Japanese LD, hardsubs and all, but I know you guys are going to do your damnedest to go beyond that, and that’s just incredible.

I was revisiting Slipstream and wondered of the status of this project or any additions? (Haven’t seen new sources on eBay.)

Spaced Ranger said:

I was revisiting Slipstream and wondered of the status of this project or any additions? (Haven’t seen new sources on eBay.)
Bar the Jp laserdisc and my trailer we don’t have anything new sadly

dvdmike said:
Bar the Jp laserdisc and my trailer we don’t have anything new sadly

I’m still puzzling over the technique to auto-repair the blue-channel’s crush with green-channel’s or/and red-channel’s non-crushed detail.

BTW, after looking closer at Rikk Wolf’s postings, I think the UK capture was improperly resized/de-interlaced/re-framerated. I haven’t checked into PAL-to_NTSC procedures, but it should come out perfect. Note, too, that the same scanline artifacts are in the JP capture. It shouldn’t be an issue with JP laserdiscs at all.

https://www.amazon.com/Slipstream-Restored-Mark-Hamill/dp/B0141P0X2E

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.de/itm/161879726415

Ok what is going on here?
Anyone?
These are both new and new to me, restored edition is interesting
It’s rent or buy on amazon video also, but won’t let me as I am in the UK

Pineapples101 said:

Heads up!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slipstream-Gefangene-Windes-FSK-Jahre/dp/B012YNLBPS/ref=sr_1_4?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1485339311&sr=1-4&keywords=slipstream

Damn, the German listing on eBay says it’s still 4:3 😦

Edit:
And here: http://www.alive-ag.de/index.php?page=artikel&ArtikelNr=6416254

I liked that above, can anyone in the states try the Amazon video version.

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/44579/thekillerscifi3pack.html

Hopefully its not the dreadful 4.3 DVD version on blu ray.

Holy shit! I bloody well hope not

SGL have it streaming here: https://killermovies.vhx.tv/videos/slipstream

And they are doing that bluray

dvdmike said:

SGL have it streaming here: https://killermovies.vhx.tv/videos/slipstream

And they are doing that bluray

OK rented on Vimeo from SGL and its the old master yet again, I have no hope but have contacted SGL

Murry Sparkles said:

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/44579/thekillerscifi3pack.html

Hopefully its not the dreadful 4.3 DVD version on blu ray.

It also has all three movies on one disc.

Murry Sparkles said:

Murry Sparkles said:

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/44579/thekillerscifi3pack.html

Hopefully its not the dreadful 4.3 DVD version on blu ray.

It also has all three movies on one disc.
I can live with that if it’s at least a new master

Very much agree on that