Doctor M

leesa said:

"Supercut?"  That sounds cool to me... except... different actors, silly.

Not entirely.  I just don't know if there is enough overlap to be able to extend anything

Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, William Morgan Sheppard (Blank Reg)... and Max.

From what they were saying in Shout! Factory's forum, I get the impression it took them a long while to sort things out too.

No word on the UK movie, but S!F are known for their plethora of extras... and there are a lot of Max stuff out there.

It's funny, I just finished watching the DAP Project releases.  I guess I don't need to save them now.

Soo... is anyone thinking of fan editing together the UK movie and U.S. pilot now to make some sort of super cut?

From TheDigitalBits.com:

In announcement news this morning, you may have heard the good news from Shout! Factory: Thanks to a new partnership with Warner Home Video, they're bringing the original Max Headroom... TV series to DVD later this year! Yes, you read that right! They're already hard at work creating a wide range of new bonus content for Max Headroom: The Complete Series, and will be mastering the episodes from original elements to ensure the highest quality. VERY cool news indeed - TV fans have been waiting for Max on disc for a LONG time. Watch for additional details in the coming weeks.

Yes... it's wonderful, isn't it?

It also doesn't hurt to buy really good blank DVD+R DLs.  Many common brands like Memorex can have failure rates as high as 50%.

Verbatim is the best way to go.

I was wondering if anyone has heard of a workprint of Killshot.

Novel: Elmore Leonard, Director: John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Starring: Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Thomas Jane, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson.

The movie got bounced around for several years before going straight to DVD.  During that time it seems the Weinsteins performed a hatchet job on the film.

According to Wikipedia, audience found the plot ‘too confusing’, which usually translates as ‘too smart for them’.  They also disliked Johnny Knoxville so his entire subplot was removed.

Now I’m not a fan of Knoxville (at ALL), but his character was supposed to be unlikable.  I consider that mission accomplished, and not a reason to cut a film.

Anyway, considering the quality of the cast, director, and source material I can’t help thinking this is another case of the Weinsteins cutting a pretty good film until it’s tasteless, homogenous, soylent green that the masses can digest.

So again… has anyone heard of/seen/smelt of a workprint?

Edit 11/12/2010:

I decided to rename this thread after sitting through Burt Reynold’s nearly good film ‘Stick’ tonight.

It has the elements you would expect from Elmore Leonard, but none of the humor or offbeat/stupid crooks.

Reading up on the film, it turns out Burt DID shoot that film as scripted by Elmore, but Universal insisted he go back, reshoot more action and cut the humor.

Leonard Elmore divorced himself from the project and we’re left with a merely OK film.  Although I still haven’t found a Killshot workprint, I’m going to add the long shot of a request for info leading to a ‘Stick’ workprint.

I’m starting to realize that a LOT of Elmore Leonard’s films were mishandled by people who didn’t seem to get what makes Elmore’s books so great.

Anyway, if anyone wants to see about adding requests for other EL workprints or to maybe to offer some up, post away.

I can only cap in 720x480 anamorphic at best.

If no one can help you out, let me know, I have an account on a hard to join HD torrent site.

RoccondilRinon said:

Oh for the love of...

His point was that the PAL version of ANH:R has better resolution. Obviously it doesn't apply to HD, because in HD PAL and NTSC don't exist, and there isn't a HD version of ANH:R anyway.

xD  But if it WAS available in HD, there's some people on this thread who just aren't interested.

I wasn't aware any version of this had been released yet, just the scripts for DIY'ers.

@Monroville - This thread does not need to become an PAL vs NTSC vs HD argument.

Your arguments are mostly valid, but the PAL v NTSC article fails to take into account the horrible things PAL does to audio to reach 25 fps, that NTSC on a true interlaced NTSC TV is almost impossible to see combing on, and that it isn't uncommon for PAL DVDs to just be upscaled from NTSC masters or interlace or blend fields, etc.

BUT all things being equal, more lines of resolution is always better, and only a one-eyed idiot (with the good eye swelled shut) can't tell that HD looks better than SD no matter what size the screen.

And of course there is the 'comfortable distance' qualifier.  HD was first used in Japan because the rooms tend to be small and sitting that close you can see the scanlines on standard definition.

From Cnet:

(Sorry if this has been asked, but the thread is crazy long now).

I have the Revisited DVD9 NTSC edition, and decided to recode and burn a DVD5 to preview before burning a final DVD9.

Using DVD Rebuilder I made a disc.  The movie stutters and skips.  It first occurs quite badly at the beginning with C3PO and R2 walking down the corridor around 'There'll be no escape this time."

I made a new encoding, I burned to a different DVDrw, nothing fixes this.  (Tried 2 different DVD players).

Both the original DVD9 and my recoded DVD5 play just fine on my PC.

I've never seen DVD rebuilder cause this and I'm afraid to burn a DVD9 in case there is a problem inherent in the disc.

Suggestions? Ideas?

Take a look at AsianDVDClub.org.  You might find some materials you need there.

Are you aware that they are currently remaking the series as a set of movies?

I don't know if you'll find where they go with it an imporvement or not.

Googling around tonight I realized the only guide for upmixing 2.0 audio I can find is still Doom9's very out of date thread ( http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=83384 ). 

The problem is it uses intervideo's processor fx from WinDVD and an older version of ffdshow (which has improved to the point of being able to handle the job all by itself.)

Womble Mpeg Video Wizard will upmix, but dialog is spread across all speakers.  Sometimes that is fine, but I suspect most people here are more intersted in Pro Logic II's Movie Mode where dialog is anchored front and center.

Anyway, the guide would pretty much involve GraphEdit (or GraphStudio), ffdshow... and that's it.  Sounds simple but there are plenty of options including bitrates to 640kbps, and channels in any combination up to 7.1.

Wgman did an excellent job of turning the PotO into a music video for the London cast.  It also got me thinking.

Today I started the first few cuts of a new edit where the London Cast libretto would be the guide to the story, the movie actor’s dialog would remain their own, and the movie cast’s singing voices would be redubbed with the London cast recording (upmixed via DPLII to 5.1).

The premise was that I always felt that the movie cast just wasn’t strong enough vocally, but listening side-by-side, I realized they actually do a very good job.  It’s my memory that’s faulty.  (Don’t get me wrong, Gerard Butler still sounds more like a petulant child than a menacing presence.)

So scrapping the project, I was wondering if an edit would still make sense.

The movie moves the chandalier falling to the end of the film, which although true to the original original source material, isn’t true to the Lloyd Weber’s show.

My other big complaint is Madame Giry’s added backstory for the Phantom.  It’s suppose to make him more sympathetic, but to me it’s actually pretty dull and makes him seem even less dangerous than Gerard already made him.

(Actually, I even toyed with the idea of the sword fight in the cemetery involving the Phantom throwing fireballs with his left hand while sword fighting with his right.)

Is anyone interested in a fan edit of this film?  Suggestions?  Comments? One hand clapping?

JohnBR said:

Hi everyone! I'm another fan of this movie who would LOVE to see the Third Stage Edition, but like so many others I have been unable to locate a valid torrent and I can't find this movie anywhere. I do own the official DVD release and I would be only too happy to supply blanks and postage or whatever else is required in order to get a copy of this, whether as a download or on DVDR. Please contact me if you are willing to help, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks,

John

Check your PMs.

spookymizu said:

Can anybody give me a pointer on where to pick this torrent up?

 

Thanks Ridgeshark!  This should be awesome, once I can get a hold of it.  :-)

Check your PMs.

Is there any difference between the DVD5 and DVD9 release content-wise or is it just the compression level?

Ok, subtitles are (probably) finished.  I still need to edit the main menu (adding a subtitle on/off button), rebuild and proof the new disc.

Can anyone provide a 1 minute clip from Mentor's disc (live action scene) so I can test if a new video clean up is worthwhile?

I started to watch this tonight and found a pretty serious technical flaw that I can find no-one having mentioned in the thread.

I know there was some discussion about the troubles with upmixing stereo deleted scenes to 5.1 (btw, if you use Womble, it does that just fine automatically if you set the output to 5.1.)

Anyway, although the audio stream is 6 channels, what we are hearing is 2-channel stereo packaged in 5.1 @ 448kbps.

That means only 149kbps is actually being used, the other 299kbps is wasted on dead air.  (AFAIK Dolby Digital is discreet CBR channels and doesn't share or conserve bitrate.)

That is unfortunate.

You've been working on this for at least 2 years, I think we can let you have a breather.

Jaiman Tuckuh said:

It's finally going up on the newsgroups (Usenet) - alt.binaries.dvd and alt.binaries.multimedia.startrek (the nzb is crossposted to a.b.nzb).

 

Sorry for the delay. Planned obscelesence keeps rearing its ugly head. Makes life complicated...

 

If the upload gets interrupted, don't worry, it'll be back up within a few hours. (I'm bracing for a couple of failures that could chose to happen during the posting).

Found the NZB, thanks.  Shows what I know about newsgroups, I didn't know you could have an NZB before actually posting the pieces.

Btw, IIRC wasn't there going to be  2 other cuts to go with this or have they been shelved?

Any word on usenet or rapidshare-style releases?

Does anyone have a source for Mentor's PAL disc?

I'm nearly done (yes after all these years) and I've noticed Srestore has progressed to the point it might be worth doing an update on the video while I'm at it.

I just can't find my source disc. PM me if you can help out.

Our breath is suitably bated.

I know I'm late to the game here, but is this recut chronologically or is it just both films pushed together with deleted scenes added?

While supposedly Tarantino still intends to release a cut like this (with some new added anime scenes),  I've read in a few places that it will be chronological.

That has the advantage of better mixing the action of the first film and the slower character development of the second film.

Sorry if this has been asked but I searched the thread for "chronological" and couldn't find any info.