MJBenito

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Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that anyone wanting a link should DM me. It’s just time-consuming for me to click on each reply to this topic to create a private conversation. Thanks for your understanding.

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Hello there.

Here is my attempt to get a definitive edition of the first Terminator movie by using the best of each world and merging them all into a single release. What does that even mean ?

Now that the official ultra hd bluray is released and confirmed to use AI, I went back to the original remastered bluray and decided to give it my own 4K Filmized remaster treatment.

Using the original MGM DVD as reference, I color graded the remastered bluray image close to the original color timing. Most of the new yellow/teal tint that was applied at the time is now gone but the color palette is not perfectly matching the original color grading. That’s why I’m not calling it a neutral color grading. But still, this new color grading has been upscaled to 4K (without Topaz or any AI tools) and a light 4K film stock grain has been applied to match source with its new size.

Original US Mono Mix and International Dual Mono Mix (including different sound effects) have been sourced from laserdiscs and synced. Dolby Atmos Mix from the UHD is synced as well. French audio tracks in Mono and DTS-HDMA 5.1 have also been synced (thanks to the QTZ team that did the whole audio sync work for their encoding of the 4K image in light format)

Here are screenshots to give you an idea.

Original DVD (scaled to 4K)

Remastered Bluray (scaled to 4K)

4K UHD (tonemapped to SDR)

4K Filmized Remaster

Original DVD (scaled to 4K)

Remastered Bluray (scaled to 4K)

4K UHD (tonemapped to SDR)

4K Filmized Remaster

Original DVD (scaled to 4K)

Remastered Bluray (scaled to 4K)

4K UHD (tonemapped to SDR)

4K Filmized Remaster

Original DVD (scaled to 4K)

Remastered Bluray (scaled to 4K)

4K UHD (tonemapped to SDR)

4K Filmized Remaster

Original DVD (scaled to 4K)

Remastered Bluray (scaled to 4K)

4K UHD (tonemapped to SDR)

4K Filmized Remaster

Original DVD (scaled to 4K)

Remastered Bluray (scaled to 4K)

4K UHD (tonemapped to SDR)

4K Filmized Remaster

Close-up of the Remastered Bluray (scaled to 4K)

Close-up of the 4K UHD or should I say Waxy Schwarzy ? (tonemapped to SDR)

Close-up of the 4K Filmized Remaster

Here are new screenshots of HP8

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V2

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V3

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V2

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V3

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V2

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V3

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V2

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V3

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V2

4K Filmized Hybrid Open Matte Scope Remaster V3

UPDATE 11.08.24

The whole saga is getting a 4K Filmized Remaster update, using my better experience and the V3 treatment of this process I developped and used on my recent LOTR trilogy remasters (available on this forum). What will change ? Less artificial upscale of the image, less grain reduction and more consistant film stock grain overall. The Theatrical cut of HP1 will have the correct English audio track with the alternate “Sorcerer” scenes instead of “Philosopher” scenes, so the whole theatrical cut will now be open matte. Freezing frames on HP8 will also be fixed. It will also be an opportunity to encode them all in 2160p 4:2:0 10 bits since the previous 8 bits releases caused macro-blocking issues at some point on HP 2-3-4-5-6-7.

Stay tuned for screenshots.

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Boobafett2 said:

Is there a specific reason you used the remastered blurays, considering they have a lot of detail scrubbed by ai in certain scenes?

Remastered blurays are less dnr’d than 4k counterparts and better color palette than original blurays. I wanted the modern color grading tonemapped down to a neutral color grading. And other people have done the OG blurays already.

“Rebel Moon - The Third Cut” is ready and clocks at 3h17 with ending credits.
You know what to do if you’re interested. Take care.

Hi everyone, I was able to trim down the final battle. “Rebel Moon - The Third Cut” is now 3h20 including credits, which means the actual edit is 3h11. Might final check it tonight or tomorrow and if everything is good, it will be available to all by the end of the week. Stay tuned.

Hi everyone,

Here is a thread about my upcoming fanedit project called “Rebel Moon - The Third Cut”.

Using director’s cuts of the original movies, the main goal of this project is to combine them into a single movie with a faster pacing. Only essential scenes to the main plot are preserved and repetitive sides of the story are cut.

To give you a few examples :

• Movie is now beginning with Kora’s childhood in the Mother World. That means the exclusive intro scene from the director’s cut is cut, as well as the Kora / Gunnar scene that was introducing the flashback.

• The opening flashback is also faster. I got rid of the Mother World rules for Kora to get a husband and have children, since her so-called husband is dying in the next seconds.

• Exposition scenes on Veldt including Kora farming, Sindri’s scenes talking during night and sex scenes are cut. Kora’s flashback scene is followed directly with people of Veldt farming and noticing a ship in the sky. You also get to know differently why Kora was hiding on Veldt because previous over-explaining scenes are also cut.

• Most of the footage not including Kora or not referring to the main plot is cut. No more James introspection scenes. His appearence during the last fight from the second movie will be more impactful. No more love story between Sam and Sky. Kora’s original ship is already repaired but hiding from the farmers.

• Kora’s quest to find a team is also faster.

• Whole sequence on Levitica is slightly faster. Exposition scenes are cut.

• Ending of the original first movie is now seamless with the opening of the second movie. Repetitive scenes are now cut.

• Other Kora’s flashback are also shortened. No need to see her begin as Princess Issa’s personal guard because we understand it during the last flashback scene.

• Love scene between Kora and Gunnar is slightly shortened.

• The biggest point : no more table scene and flashbacks for secondary characters. Kora’s quest to find them is already long so their backstories are unecessary to the main plot.

• Second movie’s final battle is almost intact at the moment but I’ll surely cut it for faster pacing.

The first cut is actually running 3h30 and I’m still working on it. Everything from the first movie is holding really well that way. I’d love to bring down parts from the second movie to get close to a 3h10 cut without ending credits but it will depend on a lot of things.

I’m working on 4K HDR copies of the Director’s cuts converted to SDR for an easier work.

Rebel Moon - The Third Cut will include original audios in English and Truefrench in FLAC 5.1 16/48 and AC-3 5.1 16/48.

Stay tuned.

I still don’t have figured out how to get throught the framerate problem. I think I might just export the 29.97 fps fullscreen filmized remaster and remux it with the original DVD lossy audio. The remaster is ready, the audio is the only issue.

Hi everyone,

Here is probably the biggest project I’ve been working on and the one I’m the most proud of.

Using both theatrical cut and assembly cut, I wanted this new Alien³ cut to create the feeling of a definitive movie with the best of both worlds.

What has been used, changed and altered ?

• Assembly cut’s opening sequence is used but slightly faster

• Prisoners trying to rescue the EEV with Spike the dog but slightly faster. No more ox. The Alien is coming from the dog and the funeral sequence is from the theatrical cut. During the ventilator cleaning scene, Murphy is no longer mentionning Spike because the dog died in the same room where he finds him earlier with blood on his head. Murphy is also not saying the line “what kind of animal would do this to a dog ?” anymore.

• No more prayer in the beginning because we will see Dillon do it later with the prisoners. The religion side of the prison is really repetitive in the assembly cut.

• Extended autopsy sequence from the Assembly cut is used

• Probably the biggest change of this cut. No more love story between Ripley and Clemens. I’ve never liked the fact that Ripley was so easy to move from Hicks and Newt’s funeral to a love story with an unknown doctor on an unknown planet in an unknown prison. Every scene mentionning their love story has been removed and you know what ? It works! Without those scenes, Ripley takes time to trust Clemens. There is indeed some kind of seduction between them but the love story doesn’t feel forced. It adds nothing to the main plot so she still seems touched by Hicks’s loss and on the other side, Clemens seems to develop feelings for her. It just feels more engaging but also more nihilist. Because of this, Ripley doesn’t mention the barcode on his neck. Dillon doesn’t mention Ripley and Clemens’s relationship anymore when they’re trying to trap the alien but he still sees she doesn’t look good. Director of the prison doesn’t mention his time with her during their conversation in his office.

Most of the Assembly Cut’s last hour is used with the Golic subplot and the Alien trap.

Theatricut cut’s ending is used with Ripley holding the Alien queen.

And with all of that, I think we have an amazing sequel with a greater pacing. Without the closing credits, the movie clocks now at 2h07. ALIEN³ (1992) Theatrical Redux is now available in 1080p remux, FLAC 24/48 5.1 audio files in English and French, AC-3 16/48 5.1 audio transcodes and full subtitles in English and French.

No VFX or altered CGI have been used for this project.

I might revisit it when A34K will release their version in October 2024 with updated VFX.

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ALIEN³ (1992) Theatrical Redux

Probably the biggest redux project of the Alien saga and the one I’m the most proud of.

Using both theatrical cut and assembly cut, I wanted this new cut to create the feeling of a definitive movie with the best of both worlds.

What has been used, changed and altered ?

• Assembly cut’s opening sequence but slightly faster

• Prisoners trying to rescue the EEV with Spike the dog but slightly faster. No more ox. The Alien is coming from the dog and the funeral sequence is from the theatrical cut. During the ventilator cleaning scene, Murphy is no longer mentionning Spike because the dog died in the same room where he finds him earlier with blood on his head. Murphy is also not saying the line “what kind of animal would do this to a dog ?” anymore.

• No more prayer in the beginning because we will see Dillon do it later with the prisoners. The religion side of the prison is really repetitive in the assembly cut.

• Extended autopsy sequence from the Assembly cut is used

• No more love story between Ripley and Clemens. Probably the biggest change of this cut. I’ve never liked the fact that Ripley was so easy to move from Hicks and Newt’s funeral to a love story with an unknown doctor on a unknown prison. Every scene mentionning their love story has been removed and you know what ? It works! Without those scenes, Ripley takes time to trust Clemens. There is indeed some kind of seduction between them but the love story doesn’t feel forced. It adds nothing to the main plot. She still seems touched by Hicks’s loss and on the other side, Clemens seems to develop feelings for her. It just feels more engaging for us because deep inside we hope Ripley will finally find some kind of peace and hapiness. And it doesn’t happen because of Clemens’s death in the nursery. It feels more nihilist. Because of this, Ripley doesn’t mention the barcode on his neck because. Dillon doesn’t mention Ripley and Clemens’s relationship anymore but still see she doesn’t look good. Director of the prison doesn’t mention his time with her during their conversation in his office.

• Most of the Assembly Cut’s last hour is used with the Golic subplot and the Alien trap.

• Theatricut cut’s ending is used with Ripley holding the Alien queen.

And with all of that, I think we have an amazing sequel with a great pacing. Without the closing credits, the movie clocks now at 2h07. ALIEN³ (1979) Theatrical Redux is now available in 1080p remux, FLAC 24/48 5.1 audio files in English and French, AC-3 16/48 5.1 audio transcodes and full subtitles in English and French. No VFX or altered work have been used for this project.

I might revisit it when A34K will release their version in October 2024 with updated VFX.

UPCOMING

ALIEN³ (1992) Theatrical Redux

Probably my biggest redux project of the Alien saga and the one I’m the most proud of.

Using both theatrical cut and assembly cut, the main goal of this new 2h13 ALIEN³ redux is to :

• create a cohesive sequel with Ripley’s character story in previous movies
• get rid of repetitive scenes
• keep the faster pacing of the theatrical cut with essential scenes of the assembly cut

I’ll give more insight about everything that has been cut or altered in my next post, when project is ready and released.

Stay tuned

1080p Widescreen Filmized Remaster is now available. Use DM for more info.

Hi everyone, thank you for the interest in the 4K filmized remasters and fanedits. Unfortunately, I have to take a break from this amazing journey because of other priorities. The Alien Saga Redux will probably be my last thread on this forum until a long time. Every project teased and/or released until now will still be available. You’ll always be able to reach me in private. Anyone being active on the forum will always get a DM. But on the other side, anyone creating an account only to send me a DM won’t have any reply. During the last days, I’ve received many link requests from new accounts that unfortunately cannot be trusted. I hope you’ll understand. Take care everyone and thank you for your reviews and replies. It’s been a lot of fun.

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ALIENS (1986) Director’s Redux using the unaltered ultra hd image.

Why did I produced two versions of the same fanedit ?

Because the bluray is the last official master to preserve most of the original film grain and the ultra hd is the final master approved by James Cameron, even if it’s been using AI. I think the grainy look fits more the saga than the AI look but everyone has an opinion on it so both are available.

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ALIEN vs PREDATOR : REQUIEM (2007) Unrated Redux

This project isn’t even a fanedit but rather a new color grading and remaster of the complete unrated cut. Most of the details that weren’t visible in the original color grading are now restored.

During the remastering process,

• I used the unaltered bluray image to apply the new color grading
• I used Topaz Video AI 5 with my own settings to get rid of the chroma noise
• I applied a film stock grain over the new remaster.

ALIEN vs PREDATOR : REQUIEM (2007) Unrated Redux is now available in 1080p remux with unaltered DTS-HDMA 24/48 5.1 audio file in English and AC-3 16/48 5.1 in French, AC-3 16/48 5.1 audio transcode in English and full subtitles in English and French.

Here are some comparison screenshots below.

Unrated BD

Unrated Redux

Unrated BD

Unrated Redux

Unrated BD

Unrated Redux

Unrated BD

Unrated Redux

Unrated BD

Unrated Redux

Unrated BD

Unrated Redux

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ALIEN : RESURRECTION (1997) Theatrical Redux

The basis of this fanedit is the theatrical cut including the following scenes from the special edition back into the movie :

• Ripley awakes during the surgery
• Doctor shows Ripley the picture of a girl and she hesitates because she seems to remember Newt
• Ripley seems to remember Fury 161

Why didn’t I included alternate opening and ending ?
The theatrical opening and ending works better with the rest of the saga.

Why didn’t I included other exclusive scenes from the special edition ?
Because most of don’t add anything to the main plot. I hesitated to include 2 more scenes in my theatrical redux :

• Ripley telling Call how she had failed to save a little girl (Newt)
• Call talking about dreaming and Ripley telling her she can only dream about aliens

but I found them too repetitive with the added Ripley scenes in the beginning.

ALIEN : RESURRECTION (1997) Theatrical Redux is now available in 1080p remux with FLAC 24/48 5.1 audio files in English and French, AC-3 16/48 5.1 audio transcodes and full subtitles in English and French.

digitalfreaknyc said:

MJBenito said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

No offense but AI is atrocious. It looks like a cartoon or a painting.

You know that movie is stuck in 480p, right ? So what you see here is the best result I could get at the moment with AI technology. IMHO it looks better in motion than the best official source. Look for comparison screenshots between the two in the first post.

I’m fully aware. My comment was based on the screenshots – ESPECIALLY that last 2 shots. Holy Hell. It’s wax.

Completely 😅 but it is what it is unfortunately.

Hi everyone,

Here are new 2024 fanedits of

• ALIEN (1979) using the unaltered ultra hd bluray image and sound
• ALIENS (1986) using the unaltered bluray image and sound and/or the unaltered ultra hd image and sound from the unaltered bluray
• ALIEN³ (1992) using the unaltered bluray image and sound
• ALIEN : RESURRECTION (1997) using the unaltered bluray image and sound
• ALIEN vs PREDATOR : REQUIEM (2007) using the unaltered bluray image and sound

ALIEN (1979) Theatrical Redux

Over the last decades, many ALIEN fanedits have seen the light of day but I’ve never quite found the perfect edit I was looking for. So I decided to create it myself from scratch. I’ve always thought the pacing of the theatrical cut was much better and interesting than the fast pacing story of the so-called director’s cut. I’ve also always thought that subtle changes from the director’s cut should have been included at the time in the theatrical cut.

So here is my attempt at creating a definitive cut of the first ALIEN movie. The whole basis of the project is the theatrical cut, almost unchanged BUT including the following scenes from the director’s cut back into the movie :

• Kane examinating the facehugger egg more accurately.
• Crew scene during the laboratory scene with Kane where Ripley comes in and Lambert slaps her.
• The 2 shots of the lurking alien above Brett and the alien hanging on chains, but not its director’s cut form. Those 2 shots are included during Brett’s long shot under water from the theatrical cut.

ALIEN (1979) Theatrical Redux is now available in 2160p SDR with an average video bitrate of 48 Mb/s, FLAC 24/48 5.1 audio files in English and French, AC-3 16/48 5.1 audio transcodes and full subtitles in English and French.

Why didn’t I included Parker and Ripley’s scene from the DC in my edit ?
Because it feels more natural for them to not know what happened to Brett.

Why didn’t I included Dallas’s scene from the DC in my edit ?
Because it slows the pacing of the third act and it feels more accurate to discover more of the alien’s backstory in the sequel.

ALIENS (1986) Director’s Redux

This is the director’s cut without the 5 minutes Hadley’s Hope scenes in the beginning. I’ve always thought those scenes were killing the suspense regarding every character and added nothing at all to the main story. I restored the the theatrical cut’s transition of the two scenes between this segment and now I feel this is the perfect cut for this amazing movie.

ALIENS (1986) Director’s Redux is now available in 1080p and 2160p SDR with FLAC 24/48 5.1 audio files in English and French, AC-3 16/48 5.1 audio transcodes and full subtitles in English and French for both versions.

Why did I produced two versions of the same fanedit ?
Because the bluray is the last official master to preserve most of the original film grain and because the ultra hd is the final master approved by James Cameron, even if it’s been using AI. I think the grainy look fits more the saga than the grain-less AI look but everyone has an opinion on it so both masters are available.

Thanks for the review. I already trimmed down the yellow tint of the original bluray, but not that much. Given the source, it is really hard to get a neutral color grading and keep the other colors intact. After a few tests, the upscale is more visible on the fullscreen version because this master is only available on DVD. On the other side, the widescreen version is looking really better with the upscale but has less image, of course. Both versions will be available but if you know, you know 😃