Yeah, I never warmed up to Witch Hunt. Fred Ward was perfect for this role. I like Dennis Hopper, but he was so wrong for the part.
It also lost a lot of the fantasy/noir tone of the original.
Yup, get the Criterion. Looks like a winner.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_123/the_great_escape_blu-ray.htm
Thank you for all the work you’ve done, and I completely understand. These things, unfortunately, happen. There are people that feel entitled and do crap like this.
I maintain the rule that anyone who asks me for one of my edits, but hasn’t been an OT member for at least a year and hasn’t posted a reasonable amount of comments to a couple threads in that time, does not get links.
Too many people find their way here from Google and sign up just to hit and run for some links.
The Splash digital alteration has had many articles in the past week. It’s really badly done for no good reason.
Lilo and Stitch looks like she’s hiding in an oven now, which seems worse to me.
I don’t know when the opening of Toy Story changed. That’s news to me. It could be with the new BD releases, since we know they made changes to Toy Story 2 as well around that time.
I definitely liked seeing it. Harry miming without the smoke was always so noticeable, especially since we see the effects of that candy later.
Was the puff of smoke new in the after Hogsmeade scene? I didn’t remember that.
While I think it should be more of a jet of smoke (from his ears as well?), it’s a real improvement.
Maybe time it later after Harry puts his hand up or is that harder to accomplish?
I did see that HMV already prints what looks like a theatrical cut DVD. And their details of the Special Edition are thin, but it is a 2 disc set.
It could be just bonus features.
Edit: Btw, there IS a hybrid edit of this already on 'spleen. Pretty nice work. Definitely a labor of love. Technically, the DVD source could have been handled better, but the editing is first rate.
It shows as an HMV Exclusive. They are a UK company, not Australian.
BUT, the PAL runtime for the extended cut is 100 minutes and if they gave a proper 24fps release it really would be 104 minutes instead of 98.
There’s so few details, it’s hard to tell, but good find.
It sounds like your video conversion wasn’t right, and probably why you have jagginess. The movie is hard interlaced and the fields occasionally go out of sync.
I’m a bit rusty and I’m on a cobbled together PC (not my usual one).
Using DGIndex is right. You need an AVISynth script like this:
loadplugin("…dgdecode.dll")
loadplugin("…tivtc.dll")
mpeg2source(“croc.d2v”)
tfm(d2v=“croc.d2v”)
assumefps(23.976) #NTSC Speed
spline36resize(720,480) #NTSC resolution
Then you can use DGPulldown to get soft telecine (23.976 -> 29.97).
For the audio, I’d use eac3to. A simple -slowdown option and you can go from ac3 right to ac3 in one step.
But as long as you’re using avisynth it give you an opportunity to try to adjust the black/white levels and colors if you want.
There are no subtitles, so that makes life easier, but if you want to put in the same chapter stops you’ll need to extract and convert them. Somewhere here I’ve got a guide for PAL to NTSC conversion of full discs.
New Criterion transfer coming May 12th. It might be what we’ve all been hoping for.
https://www.criterion.com/films/29149-the-great-escape
This has been on MySpleen for quite a while. I’ve looked at doing something with it, but the quality is awful. The black levels are crushed, the colors are poor, the image soft and it’s an interlaced mess.
I can’t remember if I tried to figure out the underlying framerate. Interlaced COULD mean blended fields so there might not be PAL speed up, but I honestly can’t remember.
With some elbow grease it might make a source for a hybrid mix with a better source, but it’s difficult to watch in the condition it’s in.
What did you do to make the conversion? Can you post screenshots?
You know, I don’t even WANT to ask how snozzberries could be inappropriate. Just find another forum to troll.
I always figured Warner provided ABC/etc. with the extended cuts, but it sounds like they are homebrew by whomever has the broadcast rights at the moment.
It definitely explains why the official (physical media) extended cuts of 1 & 2 differ from prior versions.
I’m just surprised Warner allows it at all.
I watched some of Deathly Hallows 1 on Syfy tonight. They had inserted the rabbit chase scene, still without the finished effects. Very weird.
No kidding, cogebo. I can’t believe Warner left so much money on the table by not releasing Uber cuts of all the Potter films. We know whole plot lines were filmed and discarded for some of the earlier films. Anyone with sense would have thrown money at some special effects studio to complete the footage and give these the Lord of the Rings treatment.
We’ll probably just have to wait until some ridiculous HBO GoT inspired reboot series to see more officially.
It should be mentioned that a recent revision by JJPotter has the stereo output some flavor of DPL so people with surround systems will still get a surround effect. It is quite satisfactory.
I couldn’t watch Molly’s release. The source it came from was good, but the quality of the release was too low for me to stick with.
I don’t know anywhere you can still get it.
So the Anniversary BD of Cinderella that is now out is the same HD transfer all over again.
Word has it there is a 4k streaming version that will become available, which is ironic since they’ve already scrubbed out any fine detail that would have made 4k better… unless it’s a new transfer(?)
Does anyone know if a new LD rip, improving on Molly’s, ever came about?
Are the 10k’s the ones that come in around 10gb? I never paid attention to there being different quality levels.
That’s terrible… more please. Will there be a longer (sorry) version of the Potter edit?
If you do the Crimes of Grindelwald, JJPotter, it would be great if you did a color corrected (or at least brightened) edition. David Yates must have the eyes of an owl.
Verbatim makes a good BD50, but you have to get the Japanese import, not the ones they sell in the U.S.
You should have asked.
I have VHS sourced subtitle synced to the Laserdisc rip. It’s all caps with a few errors (Slugcraft instead of Schlubcraft, etc.).
I also have a raw rip from the current HBO on demand version. It doesn’t sync to any release, has caps and lowercase, has none of the errors present in the webrip subs (‘It should be to Diana’ instead of ‘A tribute to Diana’, etc.), but matches the censored dialog.
Let me know if you need them.
The devil worshiping for me comes across as stupid (and the child swapping), but the worst problem is a dead character appears after their death. That’s just amateur editing.
As far as editing down the extended cut, there are problems with the colors that don’t seem to be correctable from the BD source. Also, IIRC, there are alternate shots in the extended cut. You would still need pieces that just aren’t present on the BD.
Edit: You know what… never mind.
You probably will be happy with: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-BD-R-Blu-ray-Recordable-Media/dp/B00GSQ4DBM/
Now if you need BD-50 discs, that’s another conversation.