If memory serves, Anchor Bay cleaned the subs up for their DVD releases, but it's been a long time so I am not sure.
Whites do look blown out. Just tone it down a bit.
Fake grain really won't do though. It is what it is and we will have to live with it.
OK. PM me if you are interested in obtaining the HARD BOILED Hybrid. Sorry for delays, chaos and my nervous breakdown.
The rules are nuts, really. Oh well. I am doing a torrent today, so stand by.
I'm on the job. Going to collaborate with one of our own. :) The one thing I'd like to have is the splices or blurred footage for my edit, at the proper 23.976 frame rate and converted to losses. My DVD master seems to have a corruption and I am having trouble with it.
Should anyone be able to help in that regard, it would be great. The actual BD video will be converted to lossless so that I can be frame accurate in the restoration of the footage. H.264 uses key-frames and that would screw everything up.
THIS WILL TAKE TIME It won't be an overnight job.
And I should mention I have absolutely ZERO knowledge of editing 5.1 tracks. My job with this one will be simply to restore the film of its footage and then master out the highest possible quality H.264 encode that can be used for the Blu-Ray. The audio won't be my end, other than 2 channel PCM, which I am fine with. I can handle that side of the audio.
The subtitles have been edited. So yes, they differ from the very first patch.
The audio is the same.
Griff, that's cool. :)
I know that a few people took my Suspria and ripped the audio, posting it online for others to use. A few took that, made their own and took credit for it. Whatever. No big whoops. I just wish they'd give credit where credit is due.
For me, credit goes to drsd2kill. He's the man. he made Suspiria happen. Without him, it wouldn't have happened.
The final, fully EQ'd audio is here...
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or here...
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Final Subtitles here...
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/4968714/lat-sau-san-taam-en
You can't really 'rip' a laserdisc. You can just capture the sound, either via the L/R analog outs or, if you have the equipment, the Optical output. Trust me when I tell you, no one is going to be able to tell the difference. Either way the sound is pure gold.
kaarma33, excellent, I am glad you are taking this on. I am so far behind on my Hong Kong hybrids I just have no idea when I could possibly get to this. I hope you can kick its ass and nail it. I also hope you keep the video at the high bit-rate and don't cram it smaller for a BD25. Might as well make it perfect. :)
My Spleen sure does have a lot of rules. Looks like I cannot just upload it. I have to get permission. I think. Don't really have the time to read pages and pages of rules.
milw50717 said:
I had to re-register some time back. Maybe they had a spring clean of unused accounts some time ago.
I too can send you an invite.
PM sent. :)
I forgot about MySpleen. Gimme a day, gents. I have a busy schedule, but will see about getting this seeded. Once I get it up (bad pun) I will need everyone to participate in seeding. More bad puns. :)
UPDATE: OK, my MySpleen username is now invalid. That's odd. Any ideas?
For hard Boiled, it is so completely spectacularly superior to the other versions, I am satisfied. If nothing else ever happens with this film, I won't mind. I have a version i am happy with.
Now for THE KILLER, it's criminal that we cannot have a true High Def transfer. I've witnessed the film in a theater in glorious 35mm and I know what it is supposed to look like. The Blu-Rays and DVD's do not due it justice.
50/50 shots, with the original RAW Japanese on left and the right side being my re-authored, brightness corrected version.
Gents (and ladies) I would love to share the subtitles and audio. Question is, how?
What would you all recommend? What's the best way?
P.S. For some reason the images get cropped by the forum on the right side. No idea how to fix this.
For me the French release looks sensational, other than the scene that are screwed up for some reason. It's strange that the French release has fewer PQ errors vs. the British release, despite their being from the same master.
solo, that hum is inherent to numerous LD's since those particular titles had the sound taken from the 35mm optical sound tracks instead of the actual mag tapes. I have a lot of work to do on The Killer and Police Story.
Hard Boiled proved much easier. I did not use any hiss or hum reduction at all because it just doesn't need it. Criterion has much better elements to work with on that one.
Sound wise, my DVD of SUSPIRIA will murder each and every release of this film. Period. Hands down. We'll take the Pepsi challenge any damn day of the week. :)
My partner on that one would remember how we captured the audio. It is from the laserdisc but I do not recall how we recorded it.
The DVD's do not have very good sound. The laserdisc's PCM stereo played back via Pro Logic II can't be beat.
That being said, the 5.1 mix on (I think) the British release is close. It is not the Anchor Bay remix. But unfortunately it has a terribly screwed up transfer. The French BD is better.
I've emailed my restoration partner and asked him the status on his BD restoration. He is working on one and I guarantee you, no one will do a better job. No one on this planet.
I still plan on taking care of a Criterion Collection Laserdisc audio restoration. it's just that my plate is full and can only go one step at a time.
If I could get help with the POLICE STORY subtitles, I could finish that off real quick and get right onto THE KILLER.
Sure thing.
Laserdsic sound is in my timeline and partially synced. Thankfully it seems it will not need the hundreds of edits required to fix HARD BOILED.
The audio has a hum, as does the audio on the BD. I'll do what I can to remove it. It's also more than twice as loud as the DD 2.0 mono on the Blu-Ray. With some EQing it should sound a-OK.
Crap. Wish I had known of this. I need to pay more attention!
The Blu-Ray works great. I'm all finished. Ready to Torrent the audio (it'll be my first torrent so I kinda haven't a clue how to do it, lol!).
Amazon Japan and YesAsia both have the Japanese version of the Blu-Ray. Don't buy the American or HK by mistake! Mux the audio and subs and you are golden.
It's averaging $29.50 right now and that is dirt cheap for a Japanese BD.
No, not really. I extended some timing here and there, but did not really check all that much for that.
My issue with that translation is some of the verbiage is very British in nature so I tried to give it a more generic Western style. I also rewrote some lines with my Canto speaking friend. He's always complained about some of the dialog sounding stiff in the English when in the Cantonese their dialog is snappy and "cool."
I have just finished my work and am burning a test disc. Those of you who love this film should really buy the Japanese Blu-Ray. I'll Torrent the PCM audio track and make the subtitles available.
My HARD BOILED Audio is now fully EQ'd so that's a wrap. 16 bit 48kHz waveform that is actually more in sync than any version ever released for home viewing. And frankly, certain sections are now more in sync than the theatrical prints.
Later this week I'll finish editing the subtitles and then try to create my first test burn.