Doctor M

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.

Is that the SpoonWielder one?  Anyone see it yet?

A couple questions for you about HPB since I have a mostly completed extended edit I was working on.

Did you color correct the deleted scenes?  They don't match the scenes in the film.

Also, did you fix the scene that was split to cover up the deleted scene with Harry/Hermione discussing the Marauder's map?

In the theatrical cut, in order to hide that a scene was deleted, the editor cut a scene in half and moved the first part before Harry finds Ron mooning for Romilda and the rest following the scene.  It's actually quite awkward and the script confirms this change.

red5-626 said:

OK! There is a lot I do not Know.

For one I thought that THX optimizer was specific to the movie it was on. When I would watch the GOUT I would use the GOUT THX optimizer if I watch the 2004 DVD I would use the 2004 DVD THX optimizer. Are all the optimizer’s the same?

No, your first statement is correct.  All the optimizers should be different to some degree.

The mind set behind THX is that the optimizer is passed through the same transfer process to the disc as the movie is.  As a result any variation that occurs in the film will similarly happen to the Optimode allowing you to compensate.

Whether this is still true or not is anyone's guess, but it was at its inception.

And I don't know anyone crazy enough to recalibrate their TV every time they put a different movie on.

I know this has been done to death on the other thread (and I've lightly touched on it before), but since you seem to still use some avisynth in this project and there is concern about red tinted faces...

AviSynth's built in Tweak filter: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Tweak has the ability for you to isolate a color (say the reds) and then adjust the saturation for just portions of it you want.

For example:
Tweak (StartHue=80, EndHue=135, MaxSat=80, MinSat=10, Sat=1.20)

These are just numbers out of my butt, but what it does is this:

Start/EndHue selects the reds (80-135) (you can narrow the range if some reds are weaker than others).

Max/MinSat selects only reds that already have a saturation between 10% and 80% of maximum.

This allows you to prevent low level reds that might be errors from being boosted or reds that are already strong enough from being oversaturated.

Now just reds between 10-80% in strength are increase by 20%.

Probably some trial and error needed, but it should let you give the red levels a strong boost, but avoid oversaturation skin tones.

Just a thought.  (My inability to demonstrate this further is from my lack of reference sources, and mild color blindness.)

There is a file called "DGDecode.dll" in the folder with dgmpgdec (DGIndex).

Either add loadplugin("...\dgdecode.dll") to your script or just copy it to your ...\avisynth\plugins folder (which is probably better).

(... of course means to use the full pathname to where ever you have the file.)

Leonardo said:

ha! Looks like Alec Guinness is blowing a raspberry in that last frame! LOL

I was going to say Zombie Alec Guinness.  That's gonna give me nightmares.