Treasure Island (1990) laserdisc preservation (Released)

I'm in the middle of reading this book at the moment, which is a very good read by the way.  For those interested, the book can be legally downloaded at the Project Guttenberg site.

Is there any chance someone can please re-seed Joes DVD5 version?  I love the Charlton Heston version of this story and haven't seen it in many years and would dearly love to see it again.

Many thanks in advance.

I've been fooling around with this a bit, thinking about doing a v2. Well, it's more like a v1.8 since it could really use a fresh capture, but that is out of my hands unfortunately.

The source/cap has a lot of problems, primarily some very heavy chroma artifacts/rainbowing and annoying dotcrawl.

My avisynth clean-up script uses the following atm: ssiq for the chroma noise/rainbowing, tfm for ivtc, fft3dfilter for more chroma smoothing and eedi2 to remove dotcrawl/aliasing.

I have been unable to completely eliminate the worst of the rainbowing but it is mostly gone or subdued. The filtering does affect the general chroma, perhaps it looks a bit desaturated, but I don't really mind tbh, as the shimmering mass of colors that was before looked a lot worse to me.

A few screenies:

Since dvds are soo yesterday ;) I'm currently planning to do this as a x264 mkv. If anyone following this thread has a huge problem with that please let me know.

Comments, ideas etc. are welcome...

Erk!  That's some nasty rainbowing!  Arr matey, I know you mentioned this before, but having not downloaded the movie, I had no idea how truly bad it was.  By thunder (arrr), nice work on the script as it seems to have made a HUGE improvement to the end video.  Could you please post the script that you used because I'd love to see how you did this?  You're right about the desaturation of the colours etc as well.  If you were to bump the saturation up a bit, do you think it would make the rainbowing more obvious in the finished video?

Ohh, and I live in the past and would love a DVD version of this if that's possible please.

Cheers,

Orinoco (shiver me timbers) Womble.

Using the 2 disc version as source.

Ok, I won't have time to look any more at this for some time, so I'm posting the script as it is now for any who's interested in creating their own version.

It can probably be improved by someone wiser than me. ;)

Plugins used: ssiq, tivtc, eedi2 (or eedi2mt/eedi2_imp), fft3dfilter/fft3dgpu/fftw3, and of course dgindex/dgdecode. Depending on your setup you might want to try the multithreaded version of avisynth as well.

########## setup stage

SetMTMode(2,4) #Comment out if not using multithreaded avisynth

#Change paths as needed
Mpeg2Source("C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\downloads\Treasure Island (1990) DVD (Christian Bale, Charlton Heston)\disc1.d2v", cpu=6, cpu2="xxxxxx", iPP=true)+Mpeg2Source("C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\downloads\Treasure Island (1990) DVD (Christian Bale, Charlton Heston)\disc2.d2v", cpu=6, cpu2="xxxxxx", iPP=true)

SquarePixlz=true
#Set to false for dvd-ready output
#Set to true for pc-screen ready output (square pixels)

ComparePixlz=true
#true=output orginal and filtered video side by side
#false=output only filtered video

UzeGPU=false #true=use fft3dgpu instead of fft3dfilter

############ de-rainbow + ivtc

org=last
AssumeTFF()
SSIQ(7,200,true)
tfm(pp=0, slow=2, mchroma=false).tdecimate()

UzeGPU==true ? FFT3DGPU(plane=0, sigma=1.0).FFT3DGPU(plane=2, sigma=3.0) : FFT3dFilter(plane=0, sigma=1.0, ncpu=4).FFT3dFilter(plane=2, sigma=3.0, ncpu=4)

########## minimize dotcrawl/aliasing + crop/resize

Crop(12,0,-8,-0,align=true)
EEDI2().TurnRight().EEDI2().TurnLeft()
SquarePixlz==true ? Spline36Resize(640,480) : Spline36Resize(700,480).AddBorders(10,0,10,0)

fin=last

org=ComparePixlz==true ? org.tfm(pp=0, slow=2, mchroma=false).tdecimate().Crop(12,0,-8,-0,align=true) : org
org=ComparePixlz==true && SquarePixlz==true ? org.Spline36Resize(640,480) : org
org=ComparePixlz==true && SquarePixlz==false ? org.AddBorders(10,0,10,0) : org
org=ComparePixlz==false ? org : org

ComparePixlz==true ? stackhorizontal(fin, org) : fin

Oh hey, I downloaded this a while back after reading the book, heard some good things about it.

Haven't watched it yet, but thanks JBS (and to whoever did the original two-disc).

I finally managed to get the 2-disc version and ran the script on it which looks mightily improved.  Many thanks Satanika.  I'm impressed with how much more film like it now looks running at 23.976 fps progressive.

Any idea on the best way to encode this to run on a DVD player?  Scenarist tells me that 23.976fps is illegal for the DVD standard.  Do I need to start over and re-encode to 29.97fps again?

Thanks guys.

EDIT: I've been searching and searching the net and 50% of pages mention that 23.976fps is outside the DVD standard, the other 50% say that you can simply set the 3:2 pulldown flags for DVD playback.  Now I'm even more confustered :/

http://neuron2.net/dgpulldown/dgpulldown.html

Many thanks mate. Will give that a go  :)

I came across this post on IMDB which I thought might interest some people here.  Hopefully we will see a DVD release of this movie sometime soon from WB Archives through their Made To Order DVD - MOD service.  From what I understand the MOD release DVD's are generally not remastered or specially re-transferred, so it's likely to come from a broadcast master tape or maybe even the same master that was used to create the LD.

Unfortunately, it looks like MOD releases are only available in the USA, so it's  kinda suckey for the rest of us elsewhere in the world who dearly want to enjoy this movie in decent quality.

Funny it has the old TNT logo on the poster, they haven't used that in YEARS.

I know beggers can't be choosers, but.......... 16:9!? :|

Hmm. That's the first time I've heard that, but I guess we'll find out.

...unless it was shot unmatted.

Dolby Stereo logo noted ;) But it also says "(c) 1989 Turner Network Television" right after that, so...

Thanks for the heads up SilverWook, it's great news that this movie is finally getting a decent DVD release.

Could someone please suggest a way for those of us who are outside of the USA to order a copy of this DVD?

EDIT: DOHH! It looks like this will be available through Amazon.com

So I watched this preservation again the other day, and it does look a bit like it was cropped to 4:3, but I guess we'll find out (deja vu!).

http://www.wbshop.com/Treasure-Island-1990/1000208970,default,pd.html