AntcuFaalb

emanswfan said:

If SE, they ain't getting ANY of my money!

If the original unaltered, I will be there to get it DAY 1!

Same here. I hope someone replies to my e-mails.

I've e-mailed both RMW and Jazmyn.

satanika said:

doubleofive said:

Harmy said:
Oh, no, they are just in the order in which the donations came. I will probably try to put them into alphabetic order. Anyone know how to do this easily? I have them as a simple .txt file.

Copy them into a spreadsheet program, sort A-Z. Should work. If you don't want to do it, just PM them to me.

 Psh, young people these days...

sort acb.txt > abc.txt

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's always nice to find another *n*x user around these parts.

Has anyone taken a look at the Japanese Peter Pan LD from 1985?

Fang Zei: Which DC theater is this? I live in Columbia, MD, so I'd like to check it out.

Yep, it's uncensored. I collect LDs, so I would've purchased this even if it were uncensored on DVD.

SilverWook said:

I'll see what I can do. My house is a mess again as the home improvement horror continues, and I'm not sure where my captures are.

OK, thanks! Good luck! :-)

HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP!!!

I just purchased the (ultra-rare Japanese exclusive) Make Mine Music LD for $8.

SilverWook said:

The albino lizard shot.

Any shot of a video screen.

The white void when THX and SEN meet SRT. This was the scene where there was some video smearing around SRT's head when played on my CLD-D704.

All I can think of at the moment...

I wish I knew this film better. Can you give some rough time estimates for those shots?

SilverWook said:

Will you be posting some screenshots soon?

Sure! Is there anything you'd like to see in particular?

I finally have an excellent capture of each of the three LDs. It's one tremendous (415GiB) 10-bit v210 (YUV422P10LE) file.

This took more time than I expected because of minor undocumented things, such as the fact that the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle sets its gain based on the first frame it receives. My solution to this is to turn off the Runco LJR-II's fluorescent display before turning the computer on to ensure that the first frame the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle receives is a completely black one.

The transfers were done completely flat with the pre-amp set to 0dB gain for Y and C. I could have calibrated it using the color bars on GGV1069, but I decided against this since what I really want is the closest digital approximation of the Runco LJR-II's s-video output. Plus, the aforementioned gain issue really screwed with my attempts to calibrate and it got too frustrating.

I'm currently working on temporal alignment and it's going well. The Runco LJR-II—believe it or not*—occasionally inserts a duplicate frame, but this is easy enough to detect and fix. This is where Avisynth's Subtract function really shines.

And, yes, I said Avisynth. I'm really happy with the colors as they are, so I felt comfortable dropping to 8-bit Huffyuv (YUV422P) for post.

(* I know it's the Runco LJR-II rather than the capture card because, if it were the capture card, the duplicate frame would be bit-for-bit identical, but it's not.)

SilverWook said:

Lucas once wanted to be the guy working outside the Hollywood system. He seems to have ended up becoming just like those he was rebelling against.

Something similar happened to many Americans around the same time; e.g., a 15-year-old hippie in 1969 becomes a 30-year-old yuppie in 1984.

AntcuFaalb said:

Harmy said:

I also wonder how they originally created the effect - I would have expected a still image to have been painted in the widow but the characters are actually moving.

Some kind of projection technique, perhaps? I remember hearing that some kind of projection technique was used for the "train on Mars" shot in Total Recall (1990).

From here: http://www.maxim.com/movies/19-things-you-didn-t-know-about-total-recall

While Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is riding the train on Mars there’s a moment when it pans away and you see him looking out the window. Since the whole set was a miniature, and CGI wasn’t the norm, the effects wizards projected the image of him on a tiny screen that doubled as a window.

Harmy said:

I also wonder how they originally created the effect - I would have expected a still image to have been painted in the widow but the characters are actually moving.

Some kind of projection technique, perhaps? I remember hearing that some kind of projection technique was used for the "train on Mars" shot in Total Recall (1990).

SilverWook said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Do you own any DTS LDs, SilverWook?

 Just Mortal Kombat.

Perfect! http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/SUCCESS-Bit-Perfect-Audio-Capture/topic/15988/

Here's a discussion of this thread on another forum: http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/true-original-star-wars-trilogy-blu-rays-coming-in-2014-or-2015-from-disney.324294/page-7#post-9243527

FWIW, this is just a "Look what I found" post. I don't know enough to say whether or not I agree with Derek Gee, but I sure hope he's right about Snow White.

Do you own any DTS LDs, SilverWook?

little-endian said:

Maybe we could also setup some kind of forum-internal site where we could host all the preserved audio tracks, custom versions, etc. Before anyone screams about piracy: none of this would be necessary of the labels would do their damn job right: to really provide any movie in its highest quality.

This is why I created AMPS.

I vote D.

D) Keep the rounded corners on the whole thing.

FWIW: It should still be possible to implement the rounded corners as a graphical subtitle track, as Laserschwert said.

DavidMerrick said:

Or just, you know, rethink your priorities in life.

I'm neither for nor against the rounded corners, but I think this is a cheap shot. Ad hominems don't fly around here.

Someone (e.g., many TFNers) could just as easily say the same thing about how we feel regarding the special edition changes.

The fact of the matter is that many of us come here to escape the drudgery of daily life; many of us enjoy minutiae; and, believe it or not, many of us have our priorities straight.

Harmy said:

OK, here's a comparison video of the announced surprises from the WP and here's a gallery of screenshots from said video.

Excellent work, Harmy!

Harmy said:

Well, I'm sure Laserschwert or some of our other German members are more qualified to answer that but I'm pretty sure laser, being of English origin is read the same as in English and then the Rs are pronounced differently in German.

Interesting!

Harmy said:

I'm pretty sure that I said it like how Laserschwert is pronounced in German (or at least it should be in the ball-park) :-)

I haven't listened to the sources documentary. Would the proper pronunciation sound like the following?

laser-shvert, where the "a" in "laser" sounds more like the "a" in "ass" rather than the "a" in "ace"?

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

There is some hope for a virtualdub filter, so it could work during video capture?

It would probably be too slow. The optical flow algorithm I'm using is pretty exhaustive and I call it several times.

I'm shooting for quality and low artifact risk rather than speed.