Molly

This is going to be a little weird and a little long-winded, so please bear with me.

About 4 years ago, a friend of mine not on these forums said he was looking for a movie he used to watch, because his tape wore out. We were able to identify it as “Aladdin to mahou no lamp”, a 1982 anime film from Toei Animation, but we couldn’t, at that time, find the localized version he was looking for. We did, however, find it in English (as “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp”), and shortly after, another friend turned up a copy in Polish.

So we got to digging, and we found another English dub (this one called “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp”), a Spanish dub, a Dutch dub, a French dub, a Hungarian dub…and eventually the Portuguese dub we were trying to find in the first place. What we couldn’t find was the original version, in Japanese. Eventually we found that too - but only on a DVD from Italy.

We’ve been collecting these resources for a project, which will also include English subtitles. It’s fairly far along, but I’ve got no idea on an actual release timetable.

Now here’s the other part…

It’s hard to get any information on this thing. There’s 2 English dubs - one was released on VHS in 1988 by “Media Home Entertainment” and seems to be the base for most other dubs, and the other is from the 1990s and seems to be connected to “Samuel Goldwyn Films”. sometime between 1982 and 1988 when one of the VAs died and released by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. (Edit 2015/08/06)

The “Media” version appears to be a made-in-Japan English dub from the early 1980s, sharing voices with old dubs of the first Lupin III film and Arcadia of My Youth. Don Johnson is credited as providing a voice. I’m mystified as to what the actual production info is of this. Also, where are web sites getting the claim of Rankin-Bass being involved? The names Dale and Jane Baer appear in the credits for “Original Characters”… There seems to be a lot of mystery, or perhaps just misinformation, surrounding this film.

I want to say kei17?

It's the fusion of a couple older sites, I think.

Supermartyoh said:

I also heard somewhere on Kaishenzu (is that spelt right Molly?) that a Scandinavian company (Future Film?) released all the DBZ movies using Toei's Dragon Box masters. I hear they may (or may not) have the Japanese stereo surround in addition to the Swedish audio, along with 1-9 using the Big Green track pitch and speed corrected to the DB source. They may be field blended NTSC-PAL conversions, but some sources say they are in pure NTSC format and are region 0. I need to know if that's true because if so, we could technically have cheaper Dragon Boxes with proper transfers and maybe the original Japanese stereo, but a worse English dub than Funi's and hardly any extras.

You mean Kanzenshuu?

I thought only TPM was even done on film?

I'm aware of some of it, mainly through Gonbe.

There's apparently a French DBZ movies boxset from AB that has crap masters of movies 1-6 and 12-13 but good masters of 7-11.

Not bad, not bad at all. The title part could use a little work, but well, it is just a rough draft.

My weird suggestion: I think it would look better with at least most of the As flipped around to slant the other way.

I suppose the first is https://i.imgur.com/Wq1C9w8.png (next episode preview) and the other is the episode title? That seems to be the norm.

(Mods: I tried to insert unicode text, it failed, then I tried adding an image link and got a blank page instead of the insert image menu. 😕 That’s why I wound up having to just leave a url in there instead.)

Edit by Mod to show the picture linked above in this post:-

In theory, at least.  In practice, that's another story - I can't think of any instance where analyzing the source file should suggest the proper way to handle any file as almost CBR, which is what x264 almost universally did when I used its 2pass mode.

Probably has to do with 1000 vs. 1024.

I don't go there. But I've talked to other more experienced anime encoders and they almost invariably say "CRF or bust", unless you're making BDMVs.

I say because from experience 2-pass doesn't actually appear to *do* anything with the data from the first pass - the running bitrate average is like that of a 1-pass encode.

I thought Chewbacca was renamed in France too?

One should never support the commercial pirates who sell fan edits.

My experience is that x264's "2-pass" mode is broken and should not be used. If it worked like xvid's 2-pass that would be another story.

Well, I have a team, but we don't post as one... ;)

Stuff like "Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?".

THX11384EB said:

Molly said:

The 1971 print we have has the Buck Rodgers clip in it...

I understand that, I am talking about the original theatrical release which supposedly had a 1-minute clip from "Things to Come" (1936) before the opening credits; instead of the Buck Rogers segment we currently have.

As I said the print we have is from 1971 and would therefore reflect the original theatrical release...and it has the Buck Rodgers clip.

The 1971 print we have has the Buck Rodgers clip in it...

Oh geez. x.x

I would be surprised if Disney hasn't acquired 100% of the rights to X-MEN TAS by now (part through buying Saban Entertainment, the other part through buying Marvel)... There oughtn't be any issues holding up a proper release other than, well, the Rat being the Rat...

Been watching that MKV up on the Spleen.

Impressive.

Most impressive.

Actually, I was wondering about that too, whether x262 could be used to make vobs (especially from Avisynth scripts, for which I currently use tmpgenc 2.5).

JSC and Technidisc are different releases, but from the same master.

Something different. Those were ordinary Super 8s.