Masquerade Overture

Sammy123ABC said:

Masquerade Overture said:

Sammy123ABC said:

Masquerade Overture said:

Sammy123ABC said:

Masquerade Overture said:

AB Groupe’s never finishing their remasters (I believe they got in trouble with Toei over using the Broadcast audio). Been using Selectavision’s instead and unsharpening / adding film grain + color correcting & adding grain to Kai’s footage.

Have a batch of episodes I’d like to upload but Archive’s showing a “This content is not available” message when trying to edit the saga playlist.

Fuck.

DAMNNNNNN dude that sucks. Archives been bugging. Maybe try to move everything somewhere else like dropbox or google drive. Is it the rest of namek that you got ready? Cause that just made me super excited lol. Also Ive been looking into all the voice acting at that time and I think gokus kai voice is much better for namek especially when he goes super saiyan. The contrast is much more than I realized. Same thing with final form frieza. I have an edit from this other fan edit where he takes kai and puts faulconers soundtrack over it and I think thats a pretty good vision of namek. Except for gohans voice where Nadoly is much better in my opinon. And completely off topic but vegtas super saiyan for the first time speech is much better in z than kai and his speech in the buu arc during the tournament is also better in z than kai. Also you can try making me a new playlist for the time being if it keeps doing that. Damn I cant wait tho. Hopefully all is resolved before me and my girlfriend get there.

You’re in luck because total functionality has now returned and episodes are uploading as a type.

Great news! Hopefully all goes well. Btw whats your estimate on when the frieza arc will be done?

January.

Hey I just wanted to check on the progress on the frieza arc. How much would you say is complete?

Went back to recut some of the Saiyan saga episodes and update the audio tracks for all of Saiyan/Namek bc I’m an anal-retentive prick, so 0%.

No timetable. It’ll be done when it’s done.

Sammy123ABC said:

Masquerade Overture said:

Sammy123ABC said:

Masquerade Overture said:

AB Groupe’s never finishing their remasters (I believe they got in trouble with Toei over using the Broadcast audio). Been using Selectavision’s instead and unsharpening / adding film grain + color correcting & adding grain to Kai’s footage.

Have a batch of episodes I’d like to upload but Archive’s showing a “This content is not available” message when trying to edit the saga playlist.

Fuck.

DAMNNNNNN dude that sucks. Archives been bugging. Maybe try to move everything somewhere else like dropbox or google drive. Is it the rest of namek that you got ready? Cause that just made me super excited lol. Also Ive been looking into all the voice acting at that time and I think gokus kai voice is much better for namek especially when he goes super saiyan. The contrast is much more than I realized. Same thing with final form frieza. I have an edit from this other fan edit where he takes kai and puts faulconers soundtrack over it and I think thats a pretty good vision of namek. Except for gohans voice where Nadoly is much better in my opinon. And completely off topic but vegtas super saiyan for the first time speech is much better in z than kai and his speech in the buu arc during the tournament is also better in z than kai. Also you can try making me a new playlist for the time being if it keeps doing that. Damn I cant wait tho. Hopefully all is resolved before me and my girlfriend get there.

You’re in luck because total functionality has now returned and episodes are uploading as a type.

Great news! Hopefully all goes well. Btw whats your estimate on when the frieza arc will be done?

January.

Sammy123ABC said:

Masquerade Overture said:

AB Groupe’s never finishing their remasters (I believe they got in trouble with Toei over using the Broadcast audio). Been using Selectavision’s instead and unsharpening / adding film grain + color correcting & adding grain to Kai’s footage.

Have a batch of episodes I’d like to upload but Archive’s showing a “This content is not available” message when trying to edit the saga playlist.

Fuck.

DAMNNNNNN dude that sucks. Archives been bugging. Maybe try to move everything somewhere else like dropbox or google drive. Is it the rest of namek that you got ready? Cause that just made me super excited lol. Also Ive been looking into all the voice acting at that time and I think gokus kai voice is much better for namek especially when he goes super saiyan. The contrast is much more than I realized. Same thing with final form frieza. I have an edit from this other fan edit where he takes kai and puts faulconers soundtrack over it and I think thats a pretty good vision of namek. Except for gohans voice where Nadoly is much better in my opinon. And completely off topic but vegtas super saiyan for the first time speech is much better in z than kai and his speech in the buu arc during the tournament is also better in z than kai. Also you can try making me a new playlist for the time being if it keeps doing that. Damn I cant wait tho. Hopefully all is resolved before me and my girlfriend get there.

You’re in luck because total functionality has now returned and episodes are uploading as a type.

AB Groupe’s never finishing their remasters (I believe they got in trouble with Toei over using the Broadcast audio). Been using Selectavision’s instead and unsharpening / adding film grain + color correcting & adding grain to Kai’s footage.

Have a batch of episodes I’d like to upload but Archive’s showing a “This content is not available” message when trying to edit the saga playlist.

Fuck.

Sammy123ABC said:

Masquerade Overture said:

jjay278 said:

Hey super interested in this project! Can you DM me the link as well?

Whatever’s uploaded so far can be found on the Internet Archive (Just search Dragon Ball Z Ascended Cut).

Hey since internet archive is done and I can’t check, how much is done? Also I might be remembering incorrectly but did you do an edit for the original dragon ball too?

Original Dragon Ball is perfectly paced in my eyes, so nah.

Everything up to Goku landing on Namek is done. Thanks to the magic of Perseus AI voice-separation tech though, Frieza Saga episodes will start populating soon without taking too much of a hit to my free time.

Internet Archive is already back up and will be out of “read only” mode by Monday, hold your horses people.

jjay278 said:

Hey super interested in this project! Can you DM me the link as well?

Whatever’s uploaded so far can be found on the Internet Archive (Just search Dragon Ball Z Ascended Cut).

FVDnz said:

Thanks for the link. Unfortunate though that while copying them 6GB files to a HD to watch on my TV, I can’t seem to watch them (I have an LG OLED btw). Maybe I’ll have to convert them somehow…

Do you have a Blu-ray player or PS5? If you plug your Flash/HD/what-have-you into one of its USB ports you should be all set (PLEX servers are a godsend in these cases too if you ever want to go that route). Direct into the TV tends to cause issues for Hi10 video files and/or lossless audio.

My bad on the massive file sizes, but I went that route for archival reasons. If anyone else wants to make a smaller encode that retains its quality / minimizes artifacting, be my guest!

I’ve changed the name of this project to The Ascended Cut. The word “Legacy” keeps leading people to Legacy of Goku-related shit in searches and the “30th Anniversary” moniker is outdated by now (and confusing considering the existence of those compromised Blu-rays of the same name).

I’ve also begun to implement A.I. very sparingly in cases where the dialogue was obviously censored for the original VA’s and/or any inconsistencies that may come up using both the Kai and original voices.

Here’s a test:

https://streamable.com/4scv5p?src=player-page-share

Not a good look that THIS is what I use as the first AI change (I’m probably on a list now), but it is what it is.

You’ll begin to see The Namek Saga / 1st half of Ginyu populate on Archive.org this week.

^ Not too concerned about the most accurate color correction as I am having the different sources I’m cutting from look consistent.

Saiyan Saga complete batch discoverable in the Internet Archives. Look out for a new batch for Namek Saga / Captain Ginyu Pt. 1 episodes of this cut to begin uploading this week.

As strange of a decision as it is, I did end up including the fake Namek filler… but managed to cut it down to one episode. How? OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO…

DriftK1ng said:

I’m glad I discovered this project! I was always hoping for something like this. Is there a Google drive link to this or is it all on Archive?

Internet Archive.

Just search “Dragon Ball Z Legacy Cut” and you’ll find it immediately. Just know that only half the Saiyan Saga is up now due to how long it takes to upload 6GB files on there. I’ll see if I can leave my desktop on the whole week to get these going through faster.

lol actually this upload is taking longer than I thought. At this rate it’s accepting one file every 6 hours, so it could be several days before the entire Saiyan Saga is up there [24 episodes].

The Saiyan Saga is finally in The Archive. Enjoy before it inevitably gets taken down.

Now I really would like to make a Japanese audio track for this, but I have neither the time nor am I a native speaker. If someone would like to volunteer, I’ll give you the raw materials necessary to attempt this (note you’d also have to play it by ear/vision as I never took down any cue times for this stuff).

Please ignore / delete

I could do that.

Actually, I’m dumb. There’s a couple extra Level Set episodes that were exclusive to Xbox. I’ll take a look at those to see what I can do with them (as well as punch up some of the audio) before dumping the Saiyan Saga on archive.org

Stay tuned.

Rome0621 said:

I forgot to ask too, is this project cancelled?

Nah, just infinately delayed because I want the best video source possible before I can replace some of the footage I already have and move forward.

I was waiting for the Selectavision blu-ray, now it looks like AB Video out of France created a master that trounces the Selectas (currently those are still on DB, so it’ll be another year before they get to Z).

Realistically, I’d say 2025 will be the completed release for this project.

whatevers brub said:

This sounds amazing is there any updates on when this will drop, im trying to get my mate to watch dbz for the first time but i want him to watch the best possible version.

It’ll drop saga by saga.

When the first two will officially? I can’t give a definitive answer as it all depends if / when I get my hands on the Selecta BDs.

Which leads me to this necessary call to action since I’m on the fence about purchasing yet ANOTHER version of this show just to get this project done: If anyone here has Box 2 & 3 of the Selecta Vision blu-rays, please PM me.

AzureOrange said:

Hello @Masquerade
Are you still continuing the project? I’ve seen that Nandato went down …
Regards, Azure

Yes. I will dump all of what’s been completed so far (Saiyan / Namek / Captain Ginyu Sagas) onto Archive.org soon.

The issue is I’m waiting on the Selectavision Blu-rays in order to continue this project. I’m swapping out a lot of what I had done using the 30th Anniversary steelbook footage for the Spanish BDs just because the latter is THAT MUCH of a massive leap in picture quality (ironic considering it’s an AI upscale of an SD source unlike Funimation’s hackjob of their film scan).

Once I have that new workflow down between the Selctas and the Kai BDs, I won’t have to spend so much time color grading either.

Woah woah WOAH… who changed the title here to “released?” I’ve released segments of it but it’s nowhere near finished (I’ve actually not touched this project since June bc life & my graphics card is ass).

I won’t hand out anymore links until I’m at least finished with the Frieza saga. If I win the fight against procrastination here, that’ll be completed in time to be a Christmas present for 2021.

Watched it! Smoothest Dune edit I’ve seen so far. I have a couple notes though:

There’s a handful of instances where the music buries some of the dialogue. I found this problem to be exclusive to the Extended Edition scenes.

1:00:46-48 looks choppy for some reason (as if the frame rate halved for those 2 seconds), and then the shots inserted from the window at 1:00:53-55 and 1:01:07-14 look very much like static stock images with a lack of dimension & motion blur. A shot of those respective landscapes but taken from a video source like you did from 1:01:39-46 would benefit greatly.

One slight thing I always thought could be easily improved from the original was the lack of VFX for gunfire from 1:19:52-57. Easiest way to take care of this problem is to add a white strobe frame for each gunshot with opacity varying between 30-60%, then up the contrast and lower brightness for the frame after each gunshot by about 20%.

There are also a couple shots from the original that I still think could be removed outright:

• The obviously rubber worm at 1:05:09-11. The worm’s presence is much more effective just burrowing around below sand until the reveal at 1:06:20.
• The soldier landing on a barely-disguised stunt mattress after being thrown off a bridge at 1:20:35.
• Paul hanging on the worm in a hilariously bad matte extreme long shot from 2:01:08-11.

There’s probably some more shots that could be axed since they look less like they came out of high-budget 80’s sci-fi flick and more like it was done by that one perpetually-stoned slacker fired from ILM for pretending to animate Hipgnosis album art instead of, you know, working; but there’s only so much that could be done before the movie gets hacked to pieces (again).

Cum on my back and call me Shirly, this is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for. What’s the encode specs? May I get a PM link?

I also have A.I. upscales for the deleted scenes if you want them. They still kinda look like they were wrecked in a shredder, but look WAY better than they used to.

Never was a fan of JJ outside of Force Awakens (and maybe Super 8) to be honest, and the former was thanks to having his OT redux look presentable at first glance with Kasdan’s writing chops. Oh right, to “help” JJ, let’s add the writer responsible for some of the worst written DC movies but kick out Trevorrow for a box office flop he didn’t even do the screenplay for while he already had a fleshed-out end point for Star Wars… the FUCK kinda decision making is that?

I still stand by MI:3 being the worst Mission Impossible movie.

I’m looking forward to this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhCnW79f-z0

I really don’t see the point in not releasing deleted scenes much like Solo or Rogue One unless there were such drastic changes that LucasFilm wanted to sweep that footage under the rug.

There is no reason why fully filmed scenes (like the Eye of Webbish Bog, the one or two additional Rose scenes, the full Luke / Leia training sequence, Lando’s daughter backstory, etc.) wasn’t made available in the same way Last Jedi’s or every Lucas-fronted Star Wars movie has. Even TFA had them for as sparse as they were.

HD version does not exist (it was cut from a deluxe DVD set) and some of the deleted scenes look like ass considering they’re SD scans of dirty workprints.

I am doing an HD Dune cut that’s slightly shorter than SpiceDiver’s version (about 2:45:00-ish) but still quite a bit longer than the theatrical. Figuring out a way to upscale the more degraded-looking deleted scenes too.

RogueLeader said:

The shitty thing is that no matter what we can change or alter with this film, there’s no way we can really give Rose more of a presence, without any deleted scenes. Rose goes from a prominent character with her own theme in the last film, to a background extra in the last film.

'Tis why someone’s gotta hack into LucasFilm’s data banks.

Who wants to volunteer?