Very tragic, and I imagine it would have been quite traumatising for the firefighters who performed CPR as well. I can’t imagine. 😦
If you happen to be reading my thread, here is a small gift to you - some unrelated trailers I had scanned (including the X-Men teaser!) Hopefully I can get some more later on, enjoy.
Regarding the young man struck by lightning, I found this news story, that is pretty sad!
You might want to contact Gigabyte. It probably just requires the same RAID controller. They might have some for instances like this.
Yep, that’s the best place to start. Find out from Gigabyte what your options are. There are a few Gigabyte X99-UD4 motherboards on eBay as well.
But this bootleg is still interesting, even if it’s unnecessary to this project, since it had 640kbps Dolby Digital audio on a standard DVD.
Something many people though was impossible, most people thought than 448 was the maximum, guess they were wrong.
The DVD specification limits AC-3 tracks to 448kbps. You can go beyond that bitrate with DTS, PCM, or MPEG-2 audio. If your disc has a 640kbps AC-3 track all it means is that it isn’t within DVD specifications, it’s certainly possible (and quite easy) to create such a disc.
Yeah I was gonna say there’s only so much a surge protector can do. Hopefully all the Hard Drives are OK.
I’m very sorry to hear about the damage.
Looks like power’s back on for most residents of the town (according to Mudgee Guardian), but there are 1,716 households still without power.
Of course that would be very nice to see (for those are not used to manipulate 35mm reels), unless this take you too much time to do.
Here’s the sample poita posted showing the sountrack on reel 1 of the uk print:
https://mega.nz/#!uUVw1ZhA!z0ochw4-zQ4bMUeyCHPJGaJJvzwkiGVMR9Uruecg0VQ
Yes that’s right, it was censored in Germany on the original release. I guess that proves that Poita’s print really is in German! For anyone interested, here’s a short clip showing the censored cut from the 1984 German CBS Fox VHS: https://mega.nz/#!PxJGQBBI!dhpfWgr2GE_73jj5KY7OOe2AUK6DpMVNaKYk_Scr3ZA
The best way, I found to make an MKV from a BD with multiple crawl, or seemless branching in general (tested with the official BDs, not this but I’d assume it would be the same) is to import not the m2ts files into the muxing program, but the playlist file corresponding to the version you want.
That’s true, but Makemkv does a better job at joining multiple M2TS files than mkvtoolnix in my experience. Mkvtoolnix gives some error frames at joined points sometimes for some reason (I’m pretty sure it did this on one of my Alien discs, so now I only use MakeMKV to convert .MPLS to .MKV).
RU.08’s suggestion seems to be spot on though. The file is a little smaller, but I couldn’t detect any difference in quality between screenshots, even zoomed in.
That’d be because it’s exactly the same file, but in a different container. The extra size on the BD is mostly just the other crawl, the extras on the disc, and the menus.
Yeah, but I want an MKV as well, lol (I really don’t know why, I just kinda do).
Well I know why I want it, so I can stream it from my PC to my TV. Much more convenient than using a Bluray player that might skip, pause, and do all sorts of nonsense while playing!
Oops. I’d prefer to make an MKV without reencoding, but i’m not sure how.
Just use MakeMKV.
Try Williarob, he’s working on a 4K version.
Hello there, new poster to this board and thread. I only just heard a few days ago about the Negative1 35mm scan. This seems like a much better alternative than the Harmy Despecialized version.
It’s not perfect, but it is my go-to version for the moment as I prefer it to Harmy’s Despecialized. But that’s not to say I think one is better than the other!
This is a bit of an unrelated question, but it is pertained to BD-Rebuilder. Is it possible with the program to replace the main video, but keep the menus and everything else in tact?
Yes, if you’re careful. Put the .x24 file in the same folder as the working files, and create a .CMD (batch file) to rename it to the main one and remove the main file. If 00000.mpls is the main file it’d look something like this:
del VID_00000.AVS.264
ren replacementfile.264 VID_00000.AVS.264
Run BD rebuilder, wait for the main movie to extract, then run the CMD file you made. You must do it immediately after it has demuxed and before it has a chance to begin remuxing the file.
We can’t use this version for projects, we can only use it “personally”. Anyway, we could do our own 4K scan sometime and the quality would be much better than the version we’re talking about here. We just have to wait for a print to be available… or find one!
I’m kind of ashamed right now. I’m a 23 year old and been a fan for some 15-17 years by now and only TODAY I discovered this. I thought they were renamed back in 1997-1999, when the whole Prequel thing came to life.
HA! Don’t feel bad, I’m still learning stuff all the time. Also, the 1997 SE was a film restoration - no matter how bizarre that might sound! Lucas made changes I think partially because he had the opportunity to do so while the restoration was done.
I’m pretty sure you know who it’s from. I’m happy to send it to you if you’re interested. The 16mm scan that’s on Myspleen was done by an OT.com member (that’s probably as much as I should say)! I actually didn’t realise I already had it, I’ve already found ways to “correct” some of the problem frames in avisynth too! 😄
That was swift! I thought that would happen, so I nabbed it quickly. Then I realised I already had it - I have the untrimmed version (same encode, but the mkv has trimmed off the lead-in right at the start of the film, 180 frame total). It’s a decent transfer, but it’d be great if we could do our own 35mm scan sometime.
That’s great news mate, very happy to hear it! 😄 Have a great Chrissie and NY.
I really love that sample poita - the IR matte has been used to automatically remove all the green coloured “damage” yes?
If you’re going to Myspleen make sure you check out War of the Stars too!
While I can certainly understand collectors being skittish and extremely hesitant to come forward or share their prints, why would they be fundamentally against scanning them?
Some are extremely cautious of the legalities of copying a print. In the past studios have been known to confiscate privately “owned” theatrical prints, as they technically remain the property of the studios permanently. Depending where you are the law might actually consider it stolen property, and you can be charged just for having it in your possession. Also, studios like Disney and Lucasfilm are known to aggressively pursue their IP. A friend of mine made a Lego Hoth display (without a kit) in the 90’s around the time of the Special Editions, and a local shop displayed it purely as a piece of fan art. Both he and the shop owner received C&D’s and threats of litigation from Lucasfilm.
Considering how much TFA was praised, it’s predictable.
Yeah I just saw it and I’d agree with that. The audience seemed to just love K-2SO. Plus, K-2SO did sacrifice himself for the mission, so I guess that’s a good point.
But beyond that? It seems that since they knew this film was not going anywhere except directly to ANH so they didn’t bother with any character development. I take back everything bad I ever said about Hayden Christensen, Felicity Jones is now the worst lead-actor in a Star Wars film. She’s not even an actual rebel - why not give us the Kyle Reese of the rebellion instead of some outsider that has a sudden epiphany? Come to think of it, it would have helped if Diego Luna was a lot more like Michael Biehn in Terminator.
I will mail my set to anyone who will take this seriously.
Also, my VHS’s have not been played
EVER
Do you think you could scan the artwork that comes with that set at 300 or even 600dpi?
I captured my set on my Panasonic SVHS deck last year, and I have a feeling that all of the ‘special features’ have blended frames from the conversion to PAL from NTSC (with the original duration being preserved), so its not just a PAL speed-up as is the case with the films on these tapes. I’ll have to check to be certain, but I’m pretty sure that’s how it is.
If it’s a a good pre-DEFT standards conversion then it’s straightforward to remove the blended frames in avisynth.
Then I saw a clip on YouTube of the TN1 35mm Renegade Grindhouse of Empire and saw it was pretty orangish, but I’ve heard people have some problems with the grading on that version.
The issue with TN1 was they didn’t have an un-faded reference to compare to, all they could do is choose how the film should be graded.
Mostly because projection is really soft, the lenses aren’t particularly sharp, the screens are ‘rough’ and the image is ‘flashed’ multiple times due to the shutter and the film moves slightly with each ‘flash’, our brain does a bit of temporal processing on that - the grain is much more prominent in the screening rooms at work with really sharp optics, a smaller smooth screen and a film projector without much slop in the mechanism.
I’ve even noticed the difference directly between a DCP and a projected print shown in the same cinema on the same day. I think you’re right about the lens, it just looks different when projected onto a screen compared with being captured by a scanning lens. Anyway, you know how this stuff looks projected, I was pointing it out mostly for the benefit of other members who haven’t seen a 35mm print projected for 5 or 6 years or longer now!
To view on a TV is a much different thing, so I believe for a home theatre release, you do need to reduce the grain slightly, to get the same effect as viewing film in a commercial cinema.
That’s especially true for digital films like Disney CAPS films (BATB, Aladdin, Lion King), 3D features like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and anything shot digitally with even less grain as they come from a digital-out (bypassing some of the film-to-film copying process). It is actually amazing they were able to duplicate film multiple times from the camera negative to release prints and still have them look sharp and detailed.