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#124598
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Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124598/action/topic#124598
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Originally posted by: charlie_k
Guys, maybe your work is pointless. Looky here:
Frighteners SE


That also seems really spotty to me for a number of reasons. I keep myself informed on DVD releases in many countries and I've never seen this announced. In addition, that supposedly came out almost two weeks ago, yet it has next to no information on the DVD itself. Either way, though, Boba is right, it probably doesn't have everything that the laserdisc does, few DVD "Special Editions" of laserdiscs ever do.
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#121363
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Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121363/action/topic#121363
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Possibly. The only thing I'm sending out today is the front cover because that's all I had time to scan. I will do the rest upon my return from New York City.

EDIT: The one raw thing that I have seems to be 222MB because I scanned it at 450dpi and saved it as a Photoshop doc, with multiple layers for the different sections of the scan. I'm sorry guys, this isn't something I have time for at the moment. I'll post with my progress when it occurs.
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#121473
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Ultimate/Archival Editions of the OT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121473/action/topic#121473
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Originally posted by: Jedikev

New scenes and some special effects and a few changes to the OT (as long as there good) might be added to the OT. For Example "Emperor and Vader in Coruscant in the end of ANH, Fett escaping the sarlaac in ROTJ....

Really, those scenes make no sense. Vader and the Emperor at the end of ANH would ruin the cliffhanger of Vader flying off into space and Fett escaping from Sarlaac is just plain stupid. If one was to follow the way it was done in the EU (which is an important fact, mind you, as George Lucas never gave much credence to the character at all), we would have to cut back to Sarlaac way way way into the rest of the movie, sometime during the Battle of Endor at the earliest, which would completely take the viewer out of the primary action.
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#121139
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Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121139/action/topic#121139
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Okay, I've run into a snag, and it's a really annoying snag. It turns out my scanner is a bigger piece of garbage than I had originally suspected. I knew that it wasn't big enough to scan this stuff all at once, but I thought I could scan the different pages in parts and then just put it all together. Well, the proportions are wrong and I don't have the time to really work on this stuff before I leave for yet another trip on Thursday morning, from which I return next Tuesday.

Kary or MeBe: Got a scanner with an approx 14"x14" bed?
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#120926
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Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120926/action/topic#120926
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Originally posted by: klokwerk
ReverendBeastly;
have you scanned them yet? Because I was told once that you should scan at 600dpi. Then after the image has been scanned, to change the dpi to 300. That way it's slightly better than scanning them in at 300dpi. Also, are you scanning directly to jpg? Or will you scan to .bmp/.tiff? In any case, couldn't you get someone to upload a torrent of the scans? Although... that's probably not best (copyright stuff). Sorry but I can't offer webspace. But I can suggest sharing systems like YSI or similar.

I've never heard this, but I'm not unwilling to do it this way, it'll just take a bit longer. All of the images are scanned BMP, and when I save them (using Photoshop), I use the highest quality, which makes for hefty file sizes. I'm not sure how well a torrent would work with me, my upload speed with torrents is absolutely terrible for whatever reason.

Originally posted by: Davidian
What are we looking at here, around half a dozen 2 meg JPEGs?


It'll be 8 JPEGS, a lot bigger than 2megs apiece.

Originally posted by: Yocke
I can store them on my friend's webserver. Mail them to me at joakimhammarstrom (at) yahoo.com


I'll shoot you an email tonight.
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#120815
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Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120815/action/topic#120815
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Hello everybody! I'm back!

And, of course, there is news. I have recieved the laserdisc set and, I've gotta tell ya, it looks wonderful. Maybe a smudge or two on the discs, but no scratches or disc rot and the case/liner notes are in fiiiiiine condition. I will get on scanning these tonight and will post here with further developments.

From here, they go to Karyudo to capture the sound, then to MeBe for the actual video encoding.
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#119240
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Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119240/action/topic#119240
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That cover looks mightily nice, and I bet it will look even better when a few of you are able to work with the scans I'm going to do. Still away right now, but just checking in to see how everything is on the board.

Originally posted by: Cassius76
Man, just caught this thread. I have been dreaming about this project yaers ago! I own a criterion se7en on laserdisc (for the different supplementals) and would love to see that one day as well. When the frighteners is available, count me in! :-)


Hire MeBeJedi! I saw that in a store the other week and didn't buy it because 1) I didn't have any money and 2) I didn't think I'd have a way to transfer it. I'd love to see the extra supplements (outtakes, dailies!) from that set.
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#118071
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DVD encoding question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118071/action/topic#118071
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It's 8 hours. Like I said, it will be multiple DVDs (at the very best, it will be 2 DL DVDs, but most likely 4 SL ones). Either way, though, I'm not going to be pushing it in terms of cramming a lot onto one disc. It's also black and white and from a film source, so there won't be excess video noise inherent in old reel-to-reel video.
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#118068
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DVD encoding question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118068/action/topic#118068
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I'm currently being hired to make a set of DVDs out of a very long set of film reels (already transferred to video). I can't really say what this is, but it's an important work by an important artist. A museum in the UK wants to screen this work in its entirety, projected onto the side of a building, very large scale. Is there anything special that should be done in the encoding process that would make a difference when a video is projected on this scale? Basically, what I'm asking is if any compression artifacts are more likely to show up this way?
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#117814
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Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117814/action/topic#117814
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Originally posted by: JMoomer
I am taking my time with, and might even eventually finish transferring my Criterion laser disc of The Fisher King. Not so much a transfer, but trying to append the director's comm to the released DVD, as well as the deleted scenes, costume tests, scene analysis and trailers, none of which made the jump to DVD. Has anyone else done it? Is anyone interested?


I actually just bought a copy of this disc in hopes of basdically doing the same thing. I also bought the Criterion version of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
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#117731
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Discussion: Post your Star Wars Collection Pictures here - 56k warning tons of pics
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117731/action/topic#117731
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Originally posted by: Obi-wonton
Actually the coolest thing I got is a projector toy, that has real film tapes (no sound) and you can watch the film (I had about 4 tapes). Whats cool is this was before VHS and beta in like 1978 and some of the scenes never even made the final cut. Hmm. Anyway, maybe I should dig that out.


You should do that. Right now. DO IT NOW! If there was anything unique in those old tapes, there's a LOT of people over in the Preservation & Edits board (myself included) that would kill to see them.