Charles Threepio

If you can’t, MKV files would also be fine.

Oh, in case you didn’t get the edit on my previous reply, I also want the special features discs.

Yes, please, I might use that for a Toy Story 2 restoration in four years’ time.

Yes, please send the full ISOs for each (including any special features discs) via PM. Thanks!

All I can do is crop it to 1.85:1, which is how it was exhibited theatrically, but I’ve got the basic structure of the film in its original version worked out thanks to a Snahppy person who’d sent me a rip of his British DVD, which has no doubt been of great help to me even before I found out about, and received, a higher-quality full-length version of the Disney/PIXAR logo for which I had initially requested the rip. (The closing PIXAR logo I took from Geri’s Game, since that was its sole high-definition source.)

Anyway, once released, each version of the restoration will appear on the Snahppy website from Italia. Invitation required for access, or you can PM me beginning on Sunday.

I now have a clear roadmap on how I’m going to proceed with this.

On Sunday, I’m going to release the vanilla restoration, in both 2D and 3D (red/cyan anaglyph), without any fancy effects. This will be v1.0.

Shortly after, I hope to be able to apply the same color correction techniques I’d applied in the Recon Plan C color correction test. This will be v1.0.1.

v1.1, to come out next year, at a date to be determined, will add the French Canadian option, and I’ll also check my restoration against my French Canadian tape to see if any reframing needs to be performed.

Yes, another new project from the king of unfinished projects. This time, I’m going to try to collect everything Akira into a single package. My video source will be the Italian Dynit release.

Audio tracks I’m including for sure:

• Original Japanese
• 1989 English dub
• 2001 English dub
• French dub (2011 revision)
• 2005 German dub
• 1992 Italian dub
• 1992 Brazilian Portuguese dub
• 1999 Brazilian Portuguese dub
• 2002 Brazilian Portuguese dub
• 1992 River Plate Spanish dub
• 1992 Castilian Spanish dub
• 1999 Mexican Spanish dub (VHS)
• 1999 Mexican Spanish dub (Locomotion)
• 2002 Castilian Spanish dub
• 2004 Castilian Spanish dub
• 2019 Mexican Spanish dub
• Catalan dub
• Valencian dub

Audio tracks I’m hoping to include:

• French dub (original)
• 1991 German dub
• 2018 Italian dub

Subtitle tracks I’m including for sure:

• English (Island/Streamline)
• English (BBC2)
• English (Pioneer)
• English (Bandai)
• English (FUNimation)
• English (Streamline dubtitles)
• English (Pioneer dubtitles)
• French
• French (based on Island/Streamline version)
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Portuguese (European)
• Spanish
• Spanish (based on Island/Streamline version)
• Spanish (based on Pioneer and FUNimation versions)
• Arabic
• Bengali
• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Korean
• Malay
• Norwegian
• Persian
• Polish A
• Polish B
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Slovenian
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Vietnamese

Subtitle tracks I’m hoping to include:

• Catalan
• Valencian

I’m also planning to include the Akira Production Report, both dubbed and subtitled, and other known special features, including the trailers and the 2001 restoration documentary. Any help with materials would be well appreciated, especially in regards to the original Japanese closing credits and/or the creditless version of the final animation, which would be useful in recreating the Electric Media version’s closing credits.

Special thanks to SpookyDollhouse for recommending the Dynit Blu-ray as my primary video source and Marc R. Morris for sending me a digital copy of his BBC2 subtitled recording.

Huh, I didn’t know. I’m not very big on the HDTV scene myself, admittedly, so I generally don’t know about HDTV rips unless I happen across mention of them by someone else.

Your best bet would be to seek out a rip of the 3D Blu-ray of the film. I should know, I have a copy myself, and it’s in full 16:9 for the 3D version. Just take the left eye thereof, and you should be good to go for your full-frame source.

Ah yes, I remember seeing that one on my Warner black clamshell VHS, of the first Director’s Cut.

Yeah, logically, since George Lucas won’t allow pre-DC versions to be released nowadays, it’d still have the Kinney Shield.

Out of curiosity, is this from the Wizard Video or Harmony Vision release? Again, thanks!

I started this thread because I noticed there were attached trailers for Watchmen, Body of Lies, and Terminator Salvation on a complete scan of The Dark Knight. This thread is about the trailers we see before movies.

For example, I saw a trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug before the 3D version of The Wizard of Oz at the local IMAX, and I hear the 1998 re-release had a trailer attached for Jack Frost. I still remember seeing the Inspector Gadget teaser trailer before A Bug’s Life, and I think I might’ve also seen the first trailer for The Phantom Menace with the same presentation.

I was asking, of course, because it’s rare to see attached trailers, even if there are any, included as part of a feature film scan. IIRC this is the first time I’ve seen such. Anyway, it gets me curious as to what trailers were attached to other films… but that’s a topic for another thread.

I could recognize the first attached trailer as Watchmen; what was the other, marked at 00:03:07?

Sure, thanks!

1. Not yet, but I’ve been looking to add the Castilian Spanish and European French tapes at some point late this summer/early this fall.
2. Yes.

Here’s my second color correction test.

As we speak, I’m rendering another color correction test, this time using my initial implementation of three-strip Technicolor simulation in Blender’s video editor. The cyan filter is set to Cross, the magenta filter is set to Add, and the yellow filter is set to Screen, and the contrast for all three filters is set to 15.

Here’s the first attempt at color correcting the Recon Plan C scene. The lift is towards the yellows, the gamma towards the magentas, and the gain towards the blues. Let me know what you think, and how I could get it closer to 35mm colors.

Oh, wow… it really does look like it could use a little bit of manual touching up. But the other five screenshots did look pretty great in 4K.

How does that particular shot look, specifically?

Here’s the vanilla Recon Plan C scene, at a low resolution for testing purposes. Obviously, the goal is to get it to look like a 35mm print, like I said earlier.

After the 35mm color test disaster from a week ago, based on the Disney+ trailer, I decided to start from scratch and recolor each scene individually, in presumed order of animation. At first, I’ll upload the vanilla scenes in 2D and 3D, then I’ll take input from users here in regards to how they should be colored to look like a 35mm print.

At any rate, compression was not my intention. Here’s a corrected version of the textless teaser trailer in 2D and 3D, using the exact same videos used to encode the faulty, compressed version, but run through FFMPEG with specific instructions not to compress, unlike last time.

Current version of the restoration’s teaser trailer is v1.0.1. Future versions will utilize an improved color grade, which will be gradually applied as I go through each scene meticulously.