Doctor M

Not to get anyone's hopes up, but post 16 turned out to be prescient.

Option 5 it was.  4 hours straight of remixing and re-encoding most of the audio and I have a build ready to preview.

I was actually getting ready to delete the files to clear some drive space (which IS a larger drive) and I realized how much work was already done.

All the deleted scene video was color corrected to match and edited in.  An English subtitle track was synced.  Chapters already marked.

I'll also probably be rewriting my Stereo to 5.1 guide soon too.

Please don't PM me for details, it's way too soon.

Now my toughest decisions are if I'm going to bother with menus and if this will be DVD5 or 9.  I've sort of stopped burning DVD9's now that I'm considering the leap to Blu-Ray.

Anyway, still alive, and evidently not retired from editing.

AntcuFaalb said:

Doctor M said:

No.  It is not good.

While the buildings have cleaner edges, the fine detail of the shot suffers. 

Windows in the buildings are more blurred and the speeder and its occupants are less distinct.

Since this is upscaling to HD, sacrificing detail seems like a bad idea.

So you'd rather have a severely-blurry upscaled image than an upscaled image with less fine detail?

That was a ridiculous comment.

I said that you are trading one blurring for another.  The edges of the buildings are stabilized, but the details of the building, windows and the speeder are blurred.  C3PO is pretty much a gold blob.

No.  It is not good.

While the buildings have cleaner edges, the fine detail of the shot suffers. 

Windows in the buildings are more blurred and the speeder and its occupants are less distinct.

Since this is upscaling to HD, sacrificing detail seems like a bad idea.

I like that the red stripe on the ship looks more accurate too.  Nice.

Whatever came from all this talk?

There are like four Indy4 edits around and none have some of the better improvements talked about here (including Indy firing his gun).

Just an update, the BDSup2Sub jittering issue may only be apparent if you play back on a 480i device.  (Not many people have noticed it.)

Someone new has taken up development of the software and has stated that he will take a look at the issue in the future, so I can't see making a modification to the guide at this point.

If anyone does have an issue with subtitles displaying badly with the guide as it currently is, PM me and I'll post the old (longer) method as a stop gap.

Trying not to ask: Will you be editing DH in 3D?

and failed.

Don't get me wrong.  It's beautifully vibrant and I will watch the hell out of this version when you guys are done.

I was just most worried about Han's shirt.  It is great to see true reds in the picture again.

Screenie of the Technicolor print from: http://savestarwars.com/technicoloribscreening.html

I'm gonna say oversaturated too.  I think there's some color creeping into his black vest as well.

I do that all the time.

Sync the subtitles and when you're rebuilding the DVD use SubtitleCreator to convert them to SUP format.

Unless he catches a ride on the helicarrier and rents a car in NM. ;-)

IIRC the other edit didn't have Coulson go to NM until people were already camping around the hammer and then he put the rest of Iron Man II in (and some other scenes) before getting to A Funny Thing... then immediately having Coulson arrive (no scene between the two).

It felt really odd time wise.  Sounds like your way will be better.

I can't believe I sat through all of this a few days ago, and still can't wait to see your take.

I finally watched the version on Pirate Bay (over several slow days at work). 

My one (non technical) issue with it was that Agent Coulson seemed to take a REALLY long time to get to New Mexico.

Any idea if your timeline on that will vary slightly?

If nothing else, 'A Funny Thing Happened...', could probably have been inserted a few scenes sooner, but I don't know how much difference that would make.

doubleofive said:

http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/5/40/4fbaad4f8d5ea.jpg

Wow.

Just to be annoying: Are you doing anything about the 3 different actors that have played Howard Stark across Iron Man 1, 2, and Captain America? ;-)

From the size of this, will you be releasing an encoded (xvid/x264) version as well (or is it too soon to tell yet)?

Honestly, I'd be perfectly happy if you didn't address the actor change at all.  It's not like we won't understand what's going on.

Heck, unless you're actually putting the Avengers into this, there's not really even a reason to deal with Mark Ruffalo at all (is there?)

Still, with all the Avengers hype this weekend, I just wish this were done.  I'd so be doing a marathon right now.  (Although if you check the last dozen posts, I seem to be the last person still interested...)

Edit: I was just thinking... if you keep the transition clips, you need someone who can do a good impersonation of Stan Lee.

Seamless may work for modern players, but slightly older ones may not handle it too well.

I'd only recommend doing that if you've tested all players you intend to use it with and know they'll be okay seamless.

Thanks, I was under the impression that the extended German version was only a TV broadcast not a disc release.

Now to track them down...

I hate to call back to some older discussions, but I remember it got a bit confusing there.

What are the best versions of the Transporter films (as far as film content)?

From what I can tell:

Transporter 1 - Japan R2 for being NTSC, DTS and having the 2 extended fight scenes.  (Although a fan edit with all extended fight scenes would be better.)

Transporter 2 - France R2 for being uncut and with the improved CGI.

Transporter 3 - Any version.

Sound about right?

Are you going to reinstate the Dentist on the Job false start?  I don't have the BD yet, and it looks like they don't include it, even though it was in the theatrical cut.

Edit: Btw, I now realize the error of my confusion.

I thought you all were referring to a different deleted scene than the Castle Anthrax one... so yeah, have it and seen it a lot, love it, and it's reputed to be the director's intention that it be in the film.  So I'm good.

Weird, I had to check Imdb.  I've never seen the 'get on with it' scene.

I saw this in theaters around 1996 or so, and have 2(?) different DVD releases and it was news to me.

I didn't realize they kept messing with the cut of this film.

The extended Anthrax scene was on Comedy Central's broadcast the first time I saw it, then the 1996 theatrical re-release and the 2001 2-disc Special Edition.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't an original theatrical scene.

I'm confused, isn't the original 2000 DVD release what you're looking for?

The play on words being that the movies have been assembled if not the team.

Really looking forward to this and trying to not watch SpoonWielders while waiting.

Might I recommend one thing: change your title.

If SpoonWielder is already calling his The Avengers Initiative, things will only get confusing.

Perhaps: Avengers Assembled or The Marvel Universe.  (I do dig the first one though.)

SpoonWielder used comics and games?  How does that even work?

I think I'll hold out for what you guys turn out here.