ChainsawAsh

Nick66 said:

I think via a Google search you’d find a ton of commercial products that would do it.

Just saw this edit to your post.

I mean…do you think I haven’t done this? I already said that KeepVid and Freemake Video Downloader didn’t work, and I’ve also already said that I have a crippled-at-best internet connection at home, so I don’t exactly have the ability to test out a bunch of different methods myself. That’s why I’m asking here, where a lot of talented people have a lot of experience in stuff like this, so if someone here were to say “Yeah, X program works perfectly!” I can just get that one instead of wading through mountains of adware eating up my limited data alottment trying to figure it out myself.

I created this thread for it rather than in the technical section because I felt creating a “How to capture video from Hulu” thread might be misconstrued as a “How to pirate shit from Hulu” thread, which would very much be against the rules here. That and the tehnical how-to’s section is one of the least frequently browsed section here. I thought this might get more traction.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Sicario (2015)

Denis Villenueve and Roger Deakins could beat the shit out of me and I’d probably thank them.

You pretty much just described Prisoners.

Well, that’s the whole reason I started this thread - I don’t know how to do that! 😄

Obviously capturing from Hulu is the first step. The rest is to have a Blu-Ray set to put on my shelf that sits next to the official episode Volume sets - preserve this season as it aired the way those sets (mostly) preserve those seasons as they did. And in that scenario, I’d want them to look and sound as good as possible, and streaming Hulu will always be inferior in both respects to a Blu-Ray.

But as you say, the most important part of all of this is capturing from Hulu in the first place, so like my first post about this says…does anyone have any ideas on the best way to do that?

35mm film is the original stuff! 😉 And I believe Poita has access to all three, but it costs money to scan prints, hence the need for donations. He can also only do one at a time as far as I know, so right now it’s ANH.

By all means, continue with your project! I know we have the Laserdisc 5.1 audio for all three in the wild, as well as the theatrical DTS audio, but I don’t know that there have been any quality Laserdisc preservations yet.

It’s not an improvement, it’s preservation. They would be accessible if and when Futurama gets removed from Hulu, or the episodes get changed to the 90-minute versions. This is the first time to my knowledge they’ve been available in this form outside of the TV airings.

If they only exist on one streaming site, and they’ve only been made available recently, there’s zero guarantee they’ll consistently be available. And it’d be nice to have them offline anyway, even if they stay on Hulu.

You should consider donating to Poita’s 1997 Special Edition 35mm 4K scan project!

To be clear, this will not be the episodes with cut stuff from the movies restored - it will be the episodes as they aired, so whatever Fox/Comedy Central cut out for the episodic versions will remain cut.

I may do a “fan edit” of the episodes that does restore these cut bits down the road, but the first goal is preserving the episodes as originally aired in Blu-Ray quality.

Well, ideally I’d like to convert the Blu-Ray video to lossless Lagarith, convert the audio to uncompressed WAV, then throw that and the capped Hulu episodes into Premiere and reconstruct the episodic versions using as much of the Blu-Ray video and audio as I possibly can.

Shots and audio that are exclusive to the episodic cuts will use the Hulu captured video/audio, which is why I want to get the Hulu episodes captured in as close to 1:1 quality as I possibly can.

For the first two movies, I’ll probably upscale the DVDs to 1080p, then throw the upscales, the 1080p iTunes downloads, and the Hulu episodes into Premiere and use the best quality version of each shot to recreate the 22-minute versions in HD (or near HD) with as close to Blu-Ray quality as I can.

Finally, once I have lossless Lagarith video and uncompressed WAV audio copies of my reconstructions of the 22-minute episodes, I’ll encode those to Blu-Ray format with (hopefully) DTS-HD lossless audio (which I might need assistance with), then use Encore to create menus that emulate the Volume 5/6/7/8 BR menus as closely as possible and author a Blu-Ray disc or two with all sixteen episodes on them.

End result will be a “Volume 4.5” Blu-Ray set to put between the official Volume 4 DVD and Volume 5 Blu-Ray releases, which can either sit alongside or replace your copies of the four unedited movies.

Overall, it’s about preserving the sixteen episodes as originally aired on TV in the best possible quality, since they’re currently only available to own as four 90-minute movies.

Waste of time? Maybe, since the movie versions are longer and the 22-minute versions have bits cut out, but it’s an alternative version that isn’t widely available outside of (as far as I know) one region-locked streaming service.

Yeah, there’s a few places (cough Reddit cough) where if you even mention Harmy, Despecialized, fan edits, or OT.com, you basically get crucified for suggesting that anything other than the official Blu-Rays of Episodes I-VI should even exist.

Quote I saw the other day from someone replying to a comment meant to explain why fans like us dislike the SEs:

so their problem is that they’re not available in HD? why wouldn’t they want to watch them how they originally watched them? If that’s what the big deal is?

That’s honestly the mentality of the majority of SW fans. It’s incredibly frustrating.

I’m a couple weeks behind on season 3, but I’ve gotta throw this out there:

Power through season 2. It’s much slower and character-focused and not much “happens,” but whatever your opinion of it, it’s completely necessary for setting up the (so far) absolutely incredible season 3.

End goal would be to make a “Season 5” Blu-Ray set with the episodic versions of the movies for preservation purposes, as close to the quality level of the Blu-Rays of seasons 6 and 7 (volumes 5-8) as possible, since the episodic versions have never been made available for purchase or download anywhere, just the movie versions. To my knowledge, Hulu is the only place they’ve been made available in any form outside of airing them on TV.

Warbler said:

Jeebus said:

I really don’t like turkey.

It needs to be cooked just right. You need to be careful you don’t dry it out. If it is cooked right and it is nice and moist and if there is good gravy to go with it, I find it delicious.

Ham > turkey no matter how well the turkey has been cooked.

With the caveat that I’m once again watching these clips with my phone’s speaker, I think that one looks and sounds pretty much perfect! 😄

I’m not super sold on the two wipes so close together thing, I think a hard cut would work fine from the space shot to the shot on the surface, but I think you said there was a reason behind that and I don’t think it’s weird enough to totally take me out of the movie. If you can find a way to avoid the second wipe that’d be awesome, but I think I can get used to it pretty quickly if you can’t.

I wouldn’t be opposed to a more natural burn scar/skin graft look, but the charred black “crispy” look doesn’t fit with it being two decades after the incident to me.

I know, I have those. I’m looking for high-bitrate, lossless-audio Blu-Rays, like movies 3 and 4. If I can get the Hulu episodes capped, then IMO there’s little point in replacing the Hulu video with another digital download since any quality difference would likely be marginal at best.

And no, no luck. I can confirm that the Hulu copies are the sixteen 22-minute episodes rather than the four 90-minute movies, but I can’t figure out any software to capture and download the stream.

Freemake Video Downloader and KeepVid both no longer seem to work to capture Hulu streams, and I don’t know that I trust the quality of screen recording software. I also have zero idea how to capture video over HDMI, or even if I can with a laptop with no capture card.

Suggestions and/or help would be appreciated!

I mean, he looks kinda shitty either way. I don’t mind whichever Ady goes with, but my suggestion is for no eyebrows. And if he can reduce the eggheadedness, then awesome!

TV’s Frink said:

Tobar said:

I picked up the VHS season 1 set this morning. Great deal.

New stuff is still being released on VHS? What?

Target has released season 1 in a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack in a VHS-style case (and recently, a UHD BR/Blu-Ray combo in a similar case, but with a white background instead of black, though as I mentioned above the UHD release was rushed and has issues).

JEDIT: Shit, didn’t notice Jason’s reply. My bad.

I find a lot of the time, if I’m feeling more miserable than usual I feel like I have to make a big change like that, but if I just hang on for a couple days, that feeling goes away. Hopefully either that happens for you, or the job hunt starts to go better.

The Nemoidian dialogue sounds a little weird, but that might just be something I need to get used to. Would you be willing to consider matching your subtitles to the OT theatrical style as seen in Harmy’s Despecialized rather than the thinner yellow font you’re using?

Also, there’s some glowyness/haloing around the Federation ship above Geonosis that could probably be smoothed out/blended a bit better.

Other than that, looks pretty good!

DominicCobb said:

PT or not, the story is that Vader took a tumble into lava. I don’t see any reason to omit the eyebrow removal change just because it kinda references the PT.

Yep, pretty much this. The lava has been part of the story since the ROTJ novelization in 1983 anyway.

Sadly the 4K edition is not HDR (though the Netflix stream is) and only has lossy Dolby 5.1 (though the 1080p BR is lossless TrueHD 5.1)…blech.

If you can point me to Bender’s Big Score and The Beast with a Billion Backs on Blu-Ray in any region, I’ll gladly purchase them right away and be forever grateful to you.

As long as you’re not quitting your current job until you have a new one lined up, I don’t see anything wrong with that. Good luck finding something better. I’m planning on doing the same next summer after I have two years’ experience under my belt at my current job.

I agree with you from a purist standpoint, but this isn’t a purist edit, as Ady’s work on ANH (battle droid in the sandcrawler, ROTS music in the duel) and ESB (modified 2004 Emperor) has proven.