I personally would be all for super high bitrate versions of Lord of the Rings, Mad Max II and Terminator 2. :) Thanks for all your work on these.
kk650, do you know of a way I can play any of your encodes on a BD-ROM without re-encoding to account for the black bars not being encoded on your files? I assume you are just watching these on a PC? Would prefer not to re-encode your great work and risk lowering the quality. I typically max out the bitrate on any re-encodes, but still....
I have to admit, a good majority of the 3D conversions I've seen after a while I barely notice anything's even in 3D.
So far, the titles to beat in 3D have been Avatar, Prometheus, Guardians of the Galaxy and Mad Max: Fury Road. Everything else I've seen hasn't quite blown me away.
Will definitely contribute to keeping the seedbox going in a couple of months. I am in mad love with the Blu-Torrents site.
Now for the real challenge. Can you regrade the 3D version? :)
Looking forward to finding out more details. :)
Interesting about the audio fixes. Do you recall where you cleaned up the audio in spots? Would be interested in knowing what sections had issues. Thanks!
Got a chance to skim a few sections last night and I think it looks beautiful. Everything just looks like it should to me. Been a very long time coming! By the way, newguy, do you have the original DTS-HD file that you could upload for those that may want to mux it in with the video? If not, no biggie.
Do you do your final encodes in Premiere? Looks great from what I saw. Still very much interested in the full Blu-Ray version if possible. :)
I play everything on Blu-Ray so I humbly request a full 1920x1080 file. Would prefer not to reencode and possibly lose quality. If it goes into BD-50 territory wouldn't bother me a bit. Also, are you going to include the DTS-HD lossless or just a DTS 5.1 file? I'm hoping the former as so much work went into this, might as well make the audio as great as can be too. :)
TV's Frink said:
Well, considering how money is not supposed to be involved, I don't see why it should be required to acquire one of these projects.
We don't allow money to go to the project creator(s), why allow it to go to the newsgroup company?
Following that line of reasoning we shouldn't allow any money to go to the manufacturers of the recordable Blu-rays we'll be burning the files to also.
Personally, I say Teamblu should feel free (no pun intended) to post their completed projects wherever they see fit. Personally, I'd rather pay a bit for say a secure file locker access or newsgroup access to get these little gems than not have them at all.
I think some of us would prefer Teamblu create these wonderful projects, burn them to disk, package them and send them to everyone free of charge. Good luck on that one!
I think I hear crickets chirping. ;)
Considering that most Team Blu releases are practically the definitive editions of their respective films, a little money out of pocket to get them is well worth it. Some of us want greatness, but don't want to pay a dime for it. Doesn't quite work that way usually. :)
One question, kk650. I am in the process of downloading the parts for your 50-gig Phantom Menace regrained but it appears it may be too large to fit onto a BD-50 disk. Do you know if this will fit on one?
I would be curious to know what the rest of Teamblu make of this situation. Just seems like a lot of bridge burning going on, but maybe didn't need to play out that way? Regardless, for everything released thus far, I think I can speak for all of us and say that it's much appreciated.
Unfortunately, the file won't work for my purposes because I need something that's BD compatible as far as aspect ratio. Has anyone created an avisynth script that can correct from the Japanese black levels to the US and if so, would you be willing to share?
Oh nice! You happen to remember where you might have snagged this?
Been playing around with fixing the black levels on this as the Media Blasters release had the incorrect PC black levels. I have no idea what I would even write for an Avisynth script in MEGUI though. Anyone have any ideas or experience with something like this?
Got to share the theatrical cut of The Neverending Story with my 6-year-old via that TeamBlu release. Thought it looked very filmlike and nice with no compression issues whatsoever. The DTS 5.1 sounded very nice. Great work once again! My boy said that he wants to see part two and three now ... and I haven't been able to break it to him just yet that they probably suck. :)
After having listened to the 7.1 audio for each of the first six movies, I think all the mixes are faithful to the original sound design without any noticeable modifications. I will say though that the music in TMP was much more prominent than I remember though. Sounded pretty fantastic I thought. Besides the better grain structure, I'm hoping someone can get the director's cuts of II - VI onto a preservation as who knows when they may turn up (if ever) on an official Blu-Ray. As far as sound editing goes, the extra scenes would have to be artificially bumped up to 7.1 to work with the new track.
Any of you who have the HD Director's Cut have any way you can share ... or point us in the right direction of where we might find it online currently? :)
Eagerly awaiting the final results of this!
Man, H265. Gonna need a bigger computer now! My 2008 Dell (Don't laugh) ain't gonna cut it for 4K!
Yes, it's been going very well with many, many different people doing it. Thank you!
Might be waiting a while on that response...
I'm kind of surprised nobody has taken the Ultimate Hunter Edition Blu, color corrected it and added a grain plate. Curious if that could make it look better than the first edition Blu...