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#283149
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Info & Help: looking for... Superman 1 KCOP?
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I just got the 1982 Australian telecast. While it's certainly the extended cut, and thanks for sending this, I'm still asking around for a rip from KCOP for a few reasons.

1. The quality of media and of broadcasting improved between 1982 and 1994, so even an unwatched tape recorded in 1982 won't be as good quality as a comparable recording from 1994.

2. The Australian rip which Rikter released is from a very worn tape, and a 1994 recording would be in much better condition.

3. The Australian rip being in PAL will require additional tweaking - granted, such a tweak would be trivial for me, but I don't really like having to use digital slowdown to speed-correct a video. (I live in NTSC-land and my project for which I need the International Cut will also be NTSC)

(Some of this I mentioned in earlier replies.)

Obviously a Restored International Cut (which is kind-of my objective) would need the best possible source
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#282979
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Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back (!) - Original Theatrical Version (Released)
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I think someone put fansubbed dual audios of movies 6-8 on Asian DVD Club?

Any rate, I did a bunch of OGM dual audios (no subs), you might even have seen some of them. I released I think up to about episode 40, plus all of the 9th season.

(But in fact, I did up to 160, plus several 6th, 7th and 8th-season eps including the last 15 eps of the 8th season, plus movies 6-9. Not all of this stuff's been released though. I also subtitled episode 1, but finding a translator for Pokemon is like finding a needle in a haystack. I also have a quality-upgraded English dub Episode 18, which was never released to DVD.)

I suppose I should start releasing more of these too, they do give Pokemon a somewhat different feel.
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#282706
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Info: Your work is being sold
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What about watermarks? I know, ew watermarks...but still, I suppose they'll make this easier to spot...

What I did that got eBayed was a musical, that I subtitled. Someone pointed me to the page, and lo and behold, I saw my very distinctive style of subtitle typesetting on every one of the screenshots. This despite a prominent "Not for sale or rental" bug during the opening.

Sheesh.
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#282648
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Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back (!) - Original Theatrical Version (Released)
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I'm debating: release now or finish re-editing the old fansub script...

Meantime I made 4 cuts to show the difference. The times referenced here are approximately where they are located in the US DVD release. They're OGM and have both the Japanese audio track (took it from the DVD as it's much better quality and at least the audio track wasn't altered) and the English audio track (also taken from the DVD)

Mewtwo conjures up a storm 17:51 15.1 MB
New Island Castle and Mew flying in the clouds 25:34 2.2 MB
Entering the Castle's main hall, CG's especially blatant here 28:02 13.5 MB
You can't do this, Mewtwo... I won't let you 51:34 12.8 MB

Most of these clips are a little over a minute long, the second's only 20 seconds.
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#282575
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Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back (!) - Original Theatrical Version (Released)
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Yeah. Pokemon. I suppose I’m wasting my time and breath, but hey, it is a preservation of an original version of a movie!

Some time ago, well, a little over a year ago, I was given a copy of an HK that preserved the rare Japanese theatrical version of this movie. Obviously HKs aren’t the best of quality so I did the best I could to clean it up, the result was a 640x360, 700 MB AVI with a slightly shoddy audio track and a sharp and bright but rather grainy video track.

A little history on the movie might make it a little clear as to why.

For the US release, a lot of scenes were reanimated with CG at the request of the American producers. At this time there was no release to DVD in Japan yet. When the Japanese DVD was released, it was essentially the American edition, with the Japanese title card - and an additional 10 minutes of footage added to the beginning. The English dub was included on the DVD. (It is, btw, uncut. The only differences from the R2 to the R1 are the title card, credits and the aspect ratio; the R1 is pan-and-scan. The subtitle of the movie, “Mewtwo Strikes Back”, is the same in both versions, and is said to be a nod to “The Empire Strikes Back” - the Japanese titles match too - Mewtwo no gyakushuu, Teikoku no gyakushuu.)

Essentially we have somewhat of a Lucasized anime movie.

I decided to take what I had and combine my sources, so atm, I have a dual-audio OGM, with the Japanese and English 2.0 mixes. I can probably pull up some good comparison shots if anyone’s interested.

By the way…the theatrical short that preceded this movie was mostly unaltered…so less of a need there. A couple signs (one in Japanese) were painted-over, the title card and credits redrawn, no real biggie.

I might torrent this sometime with the improved audio and English - might wait until I’ve finished work on subtitling it, been doing that too.

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#282275
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Superman 2: Enhanced RIC (this one's for real!) (* unfinished project *)
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I figured at least this one would be viable.

http://www.usotsuki.info/s2eric43a.jpg

I decided to make changes to my RIC recreation project in order to make it more viable: it’s now pan and scan and contains some TV footage. The pan-scan was to integrate the TV footage better. Actually it’s a center-crop (720x480 -> 396x352 -> 720x480).

Current progress (8 chapters or about 1/3 of what disc 1 of the RIC DVD contained) - 18 minutes - covers to the prison scene (“Slasher Fogelstein’s a bedwetter”), which I took from the Donner cut. This is extremely straightforward and I should be able to pull it off without difficulty.