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Funny thing. I had found the soundtrack several years back and I have no idea what the source was. It even has Born in a Trunk. Now I wish I asked questions.

Edit: Wait. Are you saying the Philfrog version is no longer anywhere? I just checked a couple of the usual places and I don’t see it.
If the new release is another dud, I’ll have to do something about it.

I can’t wait to see some reviews.
Of course I wouldn’t be surprised if they cropped the left and ride sides of the cropped-to-widescreen version.

I’m just chuckling that you are still working on these. Will you be working on the scene where they are wiring the bridge to explode too? I was always sorry that wasn’t finished.

This still exists. While I stand by the creative choices I made in this edit, there is no denying that the audio and video quality of JJPotter’s extended cuts are superior and are my current preferred version.

You could give iuVCR a try. I used to use that when I had a capture card. It’s a bit old but you could choose Lagarith. http://www.iulabs.com/iuvcr/
There’s also a newer iuVCS from the same people, but I’ve never tried it: http://www.iulabs.com/iuvcs/index.shtml
Also, VirtualDub used to have capping capability.

Consulting my copy of FBaWtFT, I’d guess the flying bug is a Billywig.

Btw, this edit is very good. (Of course Rowling is crap with screenplays and David Yates should have stuck with directing TV, but none of that is JJPotter’s fault.)

Edits are invisible, video quality is VG, and audio is stereo and upmixes well via DPLII. A couple scenes have unfinished effects, but not terribly so.

(Which I hadn’t actually gotten to testing yet.)

No word of a new transfer, so it probably isn’t plus a couple short bonus features.
A couple screenshots on Rotoscopers look the same: http://www.rotoscopers.com/2018/06/08/blu-ray-review-peter-pan-walt-disney-signature-collection/

This will be different than the version you had before?

AFAIK the people that do this have specific versions of smart devices like Roku or Chromecast attached to splitters that ignore the copy protection and then pass the HDMI signal to a hardware HD recorder. Even then, at best, they are recording the decompressed signal that is re-encoded on capture.

It likely isn’t cheap, isn’t easy, won’t get you fully lossless recordings, and possibly outside of site rules to discuss in detail.

Wow. I watched the color corrected version of Half Blood Prince tonight. I brightened the picture on my edit, but this came out much better. Of course that’s not always good… those Inferi are going to give me nightmares.

(Finally) watched the first of these tonight, Prisoner of Azkaban.

A few thoughts:
Great picture quality and a completely professional editing job.

I’m pretty sure the BD doesn’t have a stereo track and IIRC the deleted scenes are stereo, so I can completely understand why JJPotter went with a full downmix instead of trying to upmix the extra scenes.
I just don’t love the audio. I felt like I was moving the volume up and down a lot, and even through a DPLII tuner, I don’t recall hearing anything behind me. Maybe if I pushed it through two speakers it would have sounded better.
I think I’m going to sync some English subtitles in the future though.

I was ready to say something about the Whomping Willow catching the same bird twice with the deleted scene addition, but I recall a conversation with ADM, who said that officially that’s how they edited it. So if it’s wrong, it’s at least wrong officially.

Overal, I love it and I’m ready to toss ADM’s old DVD.

Edit: Wow, I completely forgot to mention the extra extra scenes. The Knight Bus spin was fun, but Sirius breaking into Griffindor Tower was so well done you wouldn’t know the scene was incomplete. ❤️ having that back in the movie.

Edit 2: Goblet of Fire - My opinion is the same. I did switch my AVR to 2-channel output and the volume was fine. The tracks don’t upmix well.

@Freddy2 - Wow, I never bothered with the official extended cuts because I just assumed they were as seen on TV.
Something to definitely look into.

Thanks, yes, I see that he didn’t put Harmy in the name of the torrent so it didn’t turn up on my initial search.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the work flow was Harmy’s Lossless source, re-encoded to 20-ish gb MKV file (when it became v2.7) and then re-encoded to a more compatible BD format?

You did not use a lossless master?

Is this the same release as the one on MySpleen with subtitles added or the one NJVC described in the comments?
There NJVC said:
“Hi all, I created this bluray. I’m currently working on a new version which will have a better video quality (thanks to Towne32 providing me with the lossless source file), hopefully DTS audio, and subtitles. I will also be working on a dual layer 50GB version with many extras added.”

I remember the Harry/Dudley shaking hands scene had some massive green screens. I’ll have to see if I can find which of your links has that scene.

Edit: Technically, SORCERER’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets have official extended cuts, but they definitely were not done very professionally. I think it was most likely someone at ABC not Warner.

Chamber of Secrets had obviously recycled shots, wrong music cues and various other issues. I’ve been sticking staunchly to my extended DVD only because all I see are the seams when I watch the retail version.

I can’t recall anything in ‘Stone’ that smacked me in the face (of course I didn’t spend hours dissecting all the scenes either), but even just going over the official version and dubbing in ‘Philosopher’ wouldn’t be awful.

JJPotter, if you wanted to add those to your impressive collection here, there is a reasonable argument to be made for the effort.

JJPotter: Have you had the opportunity to see my extended version of Half-Blood Prince?

There were some real challenges that left me traumatized. Chief among them was the quality of the delete scenes (on DVD, the BD was better), matching the color timing, and adding back the Harry/Hermione discussion of the Marauder’s Map.

The last item reveals a ridiculous piece of business where they split a scene in half and tried to treat it as two scenes. (Details of changes are in the first post: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harry-Potter-and-the-Half-Blood-Prince-Extended-and-Enhanced-by-Doctor-M/id/12793 ) PM me if you are interested in seeing it.

Anyway, I love that you took on some of the green screened deleted scenes. I assume you did that for Deathly Hallows as well?

When final full versions are available I would love to see these as well.

I just noticed in the first post… what are “ropey special effects”?
I’m assuming it uses macrame.

It does provide little incentive for companies to spend the money on preserving or restoring old films.

Which brings us back to my post: If you circumvent a copy protection scheme like CSS or AACS you are in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Period.

It doesn’t matter who does or doesn’t hold a copyright. If MoMa creates a 1080p restoration and another studio thinks they can just dump that to a disc and resell it without being given an unprotected version from MoMa, they will end up in court.

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So nobody has the Song of the South 35mm 1080p Version anymore?

There’s a great copy on the spleen.

I can’t find it there! I’m logged in but i can’t find it!

Check the PM I sent you bud 😃

Hi. I’ll be interested to get a copy of this scan myself if anyone here has it. Don’t hesitate to PM me please.

Thanks

I didn’t PM him a link to a copy, I was told the person in charge of the scan didn’t want it shared & I always respect the wishes of those in charge when it comes to film scans. I figured he was most likely bullshitting about being a member and I asked a ? to get confirmation.

Is this the scan from the person who likes to charge money for that and Pinocchio, or a different person altogether (I know there are several)? That particular person loses their vote on the share-ability of the product, in my opinion, because they sell it for profit. And they often just collect the money and don’t send it. Better to share it far and wide to prevent him from ripping more people off.

My apologies and retraction if it’s about an honest scanner/sharer.

Honestly, I don’t know. He did tell me he was trying to get people together to pay for a professional transfer from LD of Fantasia with Deems Taylor. He goes by the name Class316 if that helps.

GoboFraggle1983 said:
Just curious, who exactly sent you that Japanese laserdisc edition? Does he have any more Disney Japanese laserdisc editions?

A MySpleen user, I don’t know if (s)he is even on OT. I asked about Fantasia, and I was told there is already a restored Pastoral version on MySpleen, but no Deems.

I didn’t ask about anything else. What are you looking for?

With an eye towards a v2 of Make Mine Music, a friendly 'Spleener sent me a clip of the ‘nudity’ in Make Mine Music from the Japanese laserdisc.

OMG, the colors. What the heck happened there? They are so far apart I have no idea which is correct.

And so so much dirt. (Although I think I’d hit a v2 with a de-halo filter.)
I’ll consider working on this if anyone has solid suggestions, but I’m not sure there is anything worth pulling from the source.

I can’t believe I got an analog TV/VHS source looking that good. (Btw, the VHS has colors about halfway between these two. I’ll add snaps of that if anyone is interested.

Easier to answer than you think.
In order to copy the disc you must defeat a digital copy protection scheme. That is a crime by itself regardless of the movie’s copyright status.