AntcuFaalb

doubleKO said:

Another good answer, but not the one I'm looking for.

Fixed it. Look again!

doubleKO said:

This is another lateral thinking one I remembered, someone should be able to get it without any questions:

 

A man lies dead in a field. Next to him there is an unopened package. There is no other creature in the field. How was he killed?

Was he fatally hit in the head by the package when it fell from the sky?

Oh, wait! His parachute failed when he jumped from the plane!

The Halloween Extended Edition DVD (2001; Anchor Bay) claims to be 29.970 fps, but I'm not seeing any combing during playback.

Is it possible that it's really 23.976 fps and the DVD is setting some kind of flag?

TServo2049 said:

Uncorrected PAL is 720x576, corrected PAL should be 768x576. 768x326 is basically 2.35:1, so the 768-pixel width seems right.

I know. I'm getting 768x576 before cropping and 768x326 after cropping.

Leonardo said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Leonardo said:

Bingowings said:

I was going to suggest, "use your imagination", that's what I do when I want to watch something I don't have access to (or sometimes a pair of binoculars and a step ladder *sorry Ray Stevenson*).

WHAT?! You shaved?!

I liked the look of the beard...

Well...

OMFG

Grow it back!!! :-(

No updates?!

What. The. Hell.

Where are you, pat man? We need our updates.

We pay you enough for them, don't we? Your service has really been lacking lately, so I might choose to go with one of your competitors in the near future if you don't shape up.

I expect a full and timely refund for all of the missed updates.

Leonardo: You should totally grow a long flowing Merlin beard.

Leonardo said:

Bingowings said:

I was going to suggest, "use your imagination", that's what I do when I want to watch something I don't have access to (or sometimes a pair of binoculars and a step ladder *sorry Ray Stevenson*).

WHAT?! You shaved?!

I liked the look of the beard...

TServo2049: Is the PAL AR off then? Considering the PAR, I'm getting 768x326.

Thanks, You_Too!

(I like the blue stars...)

Oh, whoops, I meant: nnedi3_rpow2.

Meh. I decided to check the source code and it looks like those spots are occupied by NNEDI3's attempt at fixing the "center shift" problem.

Is there a way to specify src_left and src_top to NNEDI3's cshift function? I'm using Spline36Resize for it and I'd like to crop-and-resize in one invocation.

Mackey256 said:

Never mind my last post. 

If you are working at DVD resolution then you can just take that youtube footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sKuZMlgcg) and add some film grain to it and it would look fine blown up for your edit. 

I was under the impression you were making an HD Fan Edit.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time or resources to work in >DVD quality.

Furthermore, the Halloween Extended Edition (2001; Anchor Bay) was never released in HD. Did they ever release the Halloween deleted scenes in HD?

princethomas said:

Does Luke OWN that X-Wing? Is he stealing it? Is it a parting gift?

Well, the Rebellion did give Han Solo all that money, so why shouldn't Luke get to keep his X-Wing? It's not like they're short on cash.

msycamore said:

AntcuFaalb said:

What do you think about the davisdvd.com info I posted?

Like I said earlier, I believe this isn't the case as they are two separate telecines but made from the same master.

Ah, I must have missed that or forgotten...

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

AntcuFaalb said: Is the 8mm footage just crappy or does it also suffer from digital video artifacts, e.g., blocking?

 

All of the above, unfortunately.  It's a real shame because for the first time in years, a Halloween film was feeling "connected" to the beginning story.  Perhaps the footage can still be used somehow, but I'm just not sure how.  Like maybe it was "newly discovered" and disclaimed as "highly damaged" or something.

Also, for the UPDATES portion, can we have the source media listed?  Such as (DVD) or (BD)?

They're all going to have to be DVD except for the Halloween II deleted scenes.

msycamore said:

Thanks Russ! the info that was provided on the old davisdvd.com site regarding the pan & scan transfers is simply wrong, I thought David C. Fein might have confused the HBO with the ITV broadcast transfer somehow.

What do you think about the davisdvd.com info I posted?

Darth Mallwalker said:

Okay so we'll forget about that wipe to Tatooine.
Instead of three, just consider two instances of shrinkage (70632 & 128032).

I've presumed the shrinkage happened at the telecine stage.
Imagine the telecine operator finishing a reel at 5:00PM then going home.
Next morning he starts the next reel. He hasn't turned any knobs or changed the machine settings from the night before; nevertheless, the machine hasn't reached operating temperature yet, so the framing ends up slightly different.
I've imagined a scenario like that ... but he would've been using 1000ft reels in that case.

Now let's throw that idea out the window.
Let's imagine the shrinkage was introduced earlier, whenever the 1k chunks were printed onto 2k reels.
Then the 2k reel suffered the blob damage later in its life.

Is -1 following this thread? I wonder if he could provide uncropped images of these four frames.
If we could see those frames uncropped with sprocket holes and all, do you think their exposed areas would align?

The following is from davisdvd.com...

The letterboxed Japanese transfer was used to create this edition and since the picture on that had been shifted up, some slight re-adjustment was necessary to equalize the letterbox bands and place the 2.35 frame closer to the center. How this was done was through a "controlled video scroll" (like adjusting the vertical hold on an older TV set) to move the picture to the approximate center of the screen. The top of the frame, now vacant of the original picture, was matted over with a black letterbox band. Now here's the kicker: since this was all done by eye, at some point during this correction process the top letterbox band began over-matting onto the top edge of the picture. This essentially changed the aspect ratio of the film midway! To check for yourselves, grab this laserdisc and chapter to the cantina sequence. Go up to your screen and mark where the top letterbox band meets the top of the picture frame. At the point Greedo gets shot, the top black band will creep down lower than its original position. And to make matters worse, this happens a second time somewhere during the course of the film. So by the point the rebels are preparing to attack the Death Star, the film's aspect ratio has changed from 2.35:1 to 2.55:1. This "Incredible Shrinking Ratio" was later corrected in 1992 and issued on both VHS and laserdisc. See below for that  [ Very Special Thanks to David C. Fein ]

The Special Editions are missing a lot of stars. WTF

Sending a PM to -1...

Do you also plan to sell TESB, -1?

Are you guys done digitizing it?

Which composite is seen on the CED?

-1 released it a few years back.

I edited Post 2 to include a list of sources.

Are there any flashback scenes available in any of the other Halloween movies?

OK, I'm willing to set aside some things to get this done before Halloween, but I'm pretty short on time nowadays, so I'm going to need some help.

What I need is: a big list telling me exactly where (frame numbers are preferable, but time/scene-description would be fine as well) each deleted scene should be inserted.