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ray_afraid said:

Is anybody else a fan of TOS only? Or do you even know anybody else who is?
I don’t like TNG, DS9 or… that other show I saw 2 episodes of… I think the Quantum Leap guy was in it?
The only Trek film I’ve liked is TWOK. I haven’t seen all of the films though.
Anyways, I’ve never met anybody who only likes the original Trek. Am I all alone?

I like the films and both TNG and DS9, but I think I ultimately prefer TOS by a fair degree. It’s what I think of when I think of Star Trek. (Though I do need to actually watch more DS9.)

That is way too saturated. You mostly need to remove the green tint and bring back the blues.
NeverarGreat did a very nice LUT that makes it look way better. Outside of a shot-by shot correction, it’s likely the best that release will look. (I’m still surprised no one encoded it with this LUT and put it on myspleen.)
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/885937

Edit: He beat me to it.

Even if you can’t rencode video, you should be able to mux together the DVD-5 video with whatever video and subtitles you choose and make a DVD-9. Use PgcDemux and tsmuxer to demux the DVD-5 and MKV. Then use Muxman to mux it all together to a new DVD. You can get standard-def subs from Project Threepio.

Oh, and if you want the isolated score for Star Wars in lossless, PM me.

This looks very promising. The sample is too pink, but the shots Dr Dre provided look great and I look forward to a version of this material with good color grading.

However, while there’s no question that working on this in 4k is great, I don’t think there’s much benefit to releasing it in 4K with that amount of DNR. It’s not particular bad DNR for 1080p. However, there’s not a ton of inherent detail in release prints; adding an extra step of information loss starts to kill any benefit that a 4K release might provide.

They all come from a 1080i source and are all upscales of awful-looking, smeary SD material. They should look mostly identical. I would choose the one labeled “AU HDTV - 2 Audio Tracks,” because it was rencoded by a forum member (Chewtobacca) at 24fps.

While the resolution is often worthless, the nice thing about the 4k Blu ray standard is the increased color depth. Less banding is always good.

Made for TV sequels used to be more of a thing and it is crazy to discover them. My favorite useless sequel is The Sting II, which got a theatrical release.

poita said:

Yep, it is not in my scans or on the film.

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LexX said:

Does anyone have clean versions from these:

The second one looks like it’s is available in this collection of small posters if you want a cheap thing to buy and scan.

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Art-Collection-Featuring/dp/141971581X
http://dizdude.com/m/catalog/product/gallery/id/1955/image/10277/

That is 4 percent faster and is definitely caused by PAL speedup.

This auction site has the best scans for the first one:
http://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=449605
http://www.comicconnect.com/data/Image/gallery/emp2.1a.jpg
http://www.comicconnect.com/data/Image/gallery/emp2.1b.jpg

Mike O said:

I’m surprised that DS9 isn’t getting remastered given that apparently TNG sold well.

I was under the impression that sales were quite disappointing compared to the large sum required to remaster the whole thing.

Oh, so the NTSC masters have slowed down everything, including Carlin’s narration? That’s real convenient.

JawsTDS said:

Thomas has always been filmed in 25fps (used pulldown for US releases to 60i), so nothing was adjusted. I will do the initial release in PAL.

Cool! I was talking about the speed of the US dubs. I’m assuming they were recorded after slowing down the 25fps masters. Speeding them up from 24fps/60i to 25 fps will pitch up George Carlin’s voice. (Although, now that I think about it, George Carlin probably recorded over slowed and pitched down music and sound effects, so that would go back to being correct and no one will care that George has a slightly higher pitched voice.) So this is actually the best way to release it.

I had thought about leaving it was THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE & FRIENDS, but I wasn’t sure. I could revert it back, but that would be a lot of extra work, because I remastered every single title card ala the restored versions.

No worries. I’m just fond of the original logo. This looks like an incredible amount of work, and I’m really glad you went to all this trouble.

Sweet! I have questions.
So this is the audio from the Amazon release synced up to the remastered PAL DVDs with many errors corrected and custom titles?
This looks to be done at 25fps. I’m assuming the Carlin dub is sped up but then pitch corrected? It doesn’t sound pitched up. Does this mean a PAL DVD release?
This looks great! Thanks so much for your hard work.

Also, annoying stuff that I’m sure would be a pain to do:
Would you consider a version with the original Thomas the Tank Engine logo? It is how it was originally. Also, I don’t think the HiT logo needs to be there for similar reasons.

I never saw this, but I’ve been meaning to give it a look, and this looks like a really cool project.

Sweet. This sounds really great.

It looks like all the remastered US episodes were recently added to Amazon Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FYLYOYM?ref_=aiv_dp_season_select
This is exactly what I have been waiting for, although it is my understanding that some of the remastered versions lack audio cues.
Did you use any of this in your edit?

Yeah! Now if only the other films got this treatment.
On an interesting note, Trekcore pointed out the the terrible digital “correction” of those stairs done for the 2009 disc. Lowry/Reliance seems to do that sort of thing all the time and it’s awful.

JayArgonaut said:

I can’t believe I forgot about this! 😄

All home video versions of The Fugitive from the 2001 DVD onwards have been altered to digitally remove a crew member who was visible (in a ghost like image, apparently) during the train crash scene.

http://www.moviefone.com/2013/08/07/the-fugitive-25-things-you-didnt-know/

The first printing of the Bluray (the one with MPEG-2 encoding) does not have the change. The later VC-1 pressing does. (The change is also done really sloppily.)

Sweet! I was just considering trying to mux a version of Aliens without the colony scenes and you did all the work for me. The TV cut of Aliens sounds like just what I need.
Playing with the seamless branching files is really fun. I once used my HDDVD of Blade Runner to create a lossless version of the 1990s director’s cut which also included the international cut’s violence.

Edit: Also Aliens begins with 01106.m2ts rather than 00750 (the pdf is correct, but your post accidentally uses the Alien 3 guide.)

Accidental Post. Please ignore.

Even with proper colors the bluray still isn’t going to look great. It’s got quite a bit of DNR on it.

This is the master that’s been used on Netflix and on TV airings for awhile now. It is smeary as hell. (Amongst a myriad of other problems.) I would also guess it’s sourced from an old laserdisc master. There’s a logo free version from an Australian channel that’s on Myspleen (Chewtobacca fixed up the frame rate).

I would love a new transfer of this film. It looks ludicrously awful in its current state.

adywan said:

Where did you get the image for the original version, because that isn’t the blu-ray and it’s overcropped? Not sure why the Revisited image looks so blurry too (unless its facebooks compression playing havoc with the image. I’ve replaced the one from facebook here with a less compressed version)

Here is a proper comparison between the official blu-ray and Revisited

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/167763

I just grabbed a still from the Despecialized edition so I wouldn’t have to resize it.