Peter was not responsible for the scanning whatsoever. You can tell because it’s actually a good scan…
Okay, thanks. I was just thinking that I need to know if anyone who did the scan still has the raw scans so I can get in touch to get access to them.
So this is something that I and someone I know have been working on for a while. Our job was to revive the leaked 35mm scan to make it the ultimate presentation of the film as originally seen in cinemas back in 1995.
So for those who are unfamiliar with the revival, lemme give you the tragic backstory (seriously!).
Back in 2023, TristAndShout64 started a donation project for a 4K scan of an Australian 35mm print of the film, meaning it has the original English version and not from another language (i.e., from the German 35mm preservation of The Lion King and the open matte preservation of the West German print of Back to the Future.). However, during its near completion, along came the leaks and cyberbullying, so in June of '25, he cancelled the project.
However, help is on the way as someone came in to give me the link of the leak so I can go ahead and revive it. When I meant ‘revive’, I meant look frame complete, since even though Trist said there was a splice at the beginning of reel 3, there was also a splice at the end of reel 4, as well as regrading it with the LD footage since the color does look faded to me. In fact, this is how the film was originally going to look based on what the opening night bootleg looks like. Eventually, based on the review copy file I made, his Discord pals approved to let me do it. However, looking back at the review copy, I felt like something is wrong with it, especially with the color grade. I used VEGAS Pro’s Color Match plugin using the LD footage as source. This led to color bleeding with the footage, and it honestly felt very distracting, so I decided to make a LUT file for future cases and when I tested it, it looks way better.
Though I did do a better take, I’m honestly not a fan of the 4K file, since it has alot of rare blocky AVC artifacts, such as the Disney logo at the start, which isn’t the case in the 1080p version. Though I was able to get access to the 1080p version by him recently, which I knew is the exact same file that was leaked on 4chan (no im not joking).
And speaking of the files, let’s talk about the leaked ones. I’ve honestly hated them. Though it is cool it is in 4K, like I said, it uses presumably a variable AVC codec, since MediaInfo couldn’t figure out if it was constant or variable, and I think anyone who processed it went with the lowest average the software can allow with the max of 50mbps, resulting in…well, you already knew, but also:
So, even though I already did make my own reconstruction of the original theatrical mix (if you weren’t aware), I did my own takes on the other audio tracks for my digital theatrical reconstruction, and they were way better than the leaked files, including the Dolby Surround mix, where I used the standard CLV disc as the main source and added patches from the Deluxe CAV release and even used the original unedited 1996 commentary from the latter release, captured by noogai3. Oh, and for the SFX track, it was a direct copy from the UTB DVD, not a FLAC conversion by KBJ Comix.
So for this preservation, I was thinking of doing a much better version than what was officially put out, especially since, like I said, it was cancelled. Though, the first thing I need to do is to find the raw scans of it since they would’ve been processed from either FFV1, ProRes, or AVI uncompressed, meaning it would contain the best video possible, regrade it using the LUT I made, and sync it with the UTB DVD, along with patches from the LD footage I would record. Though it seems they were lost in time now for obvious reasons to my theory.
This preservation will use the same audio and subtitle tracks from v2 of my digital theatrical reconstruction, with 2 exclusive tracks, including the raw optical audio, and a 4.0 (LCRS) upmix of that optical audio using SurCode for Dolby Pro Logic II, just for anyone who wanted to recreate the nostalgia of their cinemas still using Dolby SR back when the film came out.
The 1080p 35mm scan has a AVC bitrate of 25mbps FWIW.
Thanks. I’ve been told the errors weren’t the case as well. In fact, I just received the version.
Interestingly the full 4K 35mm scan of Toy Story from the UK was leaked last month and is much higher in quality than those DVD releases.
I would say I would agree with you, but there are parts where it felt like Trist just borderline used a variable AVC bitrate from the max of 50mbps to 1bps, hence blocky parts like the flash in the Disney logo or the movement of the Pizza Planet truck as it arrives at the restaurant.
Speaking of which, someone and I were thinking of reviving the project, though I already did do the color grading to match the LD (as it was close to the opening night screening bootleg), though since his friends did approve it, and I haven’t received a word from him about the potential updates, I still need to wait for the OT mods to come in and see if they are okay with. Though because of the crappy variable bitrate, and since I think Trist really wants to stay away from the project, I don’t know if I will ever get the raw scans so I can do a perfect render of it, so a regrade and the UTB sync of the leaked 4K 35mm scan is for the best.
UPDATE (06/08/2025): Got the Italian DVD. Nothing to explain as well since there are no Italian subtitles on it, so the dub is the only option.
I think the 2005 Italian/German DVD does have Italian subtitles, but I don’t know if it’s timed to the said DVD’s remix?
Very interesting, though I should mention that the subtitling style is very different in the later release. Here’s the 2000 Dutch/Belgian DVD and the 2005 UK DVD as an example of French subtitles:
Though I want this preservation to based on the UTB, LaserDisc and various 2000 international DVD releases as well (since this was supposed to bring back how Toy Story was first shown audibly and visually before 2005; despite a couple errors in the 2000 re-render), so unfortunately, especially with the subtitle styling, I will not include the Italian subtitles. Sorry.
UPDATE (06/08/2025): Got the Italian DVD. Nothing to explain as well since there are no Italian subtitles on it, so the dub is the only option.
UPDATE (31/07/2025): I decided to do something that no fan preservationists have done before…Dolby Headphone! So one day while I was messing around with my Windows XP VM and PowerDVD 7, I was like, “Hey, what if I make a Dolby Headphone track? No one, I think, has ever done it before.” In fact, Dolby Headphone has been used in only a couple films I can remember, that being the Ultimate Edition DVD of T2, and Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor. But since Dolby Headphone is so amazing on my own headphones, I felt like it would be fun to have a go. But because you can’t export a 5.1 audio file to a Dolby Headphone mix file, I decided to do my own take. I first set the mode to DH2 (conference room model) since DH3 (movie theater model) felt way too ringy with its simulated reverb, especially since DH2 sounds just right from my ears, then playbacked through a lossy DTS stream of my theatrical reconstruction since this is the best I can do since PowerDVD seems to have problems playing a DTS-HD or MLP stream since it’s expecting the DTS-HD stream to be a “.cpt” file, but the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite can only use “.cpt” for the DVD DTS stream, and even if I change the extension from “.dtshd” to “.cpt”, it sadly doesn’t work on PowerDVD. And for the “.mlp” stream, I think it only supports playing stereo MLP streams, since the MLP stream I tried along with previous tries gives me an unknown error in the software, so the 1.5Mbps lossy DTS stream is the best I can do, especially since it works fine. I would then record the entire film using a direct PC audio capture with Audacity, synced it with the UTB DVD, then saved it to a 16-bit FLAC file.
I’m just wondering what settings did you use for Dolby Headphone?
Like I said, DH2. DH1 (small room), DH2 (conference room) and DH3 (movie theater) models are the only settings used in the program.
sorry about the double post, not sure how that happened. what are your thoughts on the new toy story film by the way?
Haven’t seen it, though I did hear from some people it’s just a needless cash grab, which shows.
UPDATE (05/08/2025): Finally got the Spanish DVD and it works this time. Nothing to explain there since I already included the Castilian Spanish and Portugal Portuguese dubs and subtitles into the .mtxcfg file, ready to be multiplexed once I got everything I can find and easily import to the UK.
UPDATE (01/08/2025): Just bought the German LaserDisc, though because the seller wanted a minimum of $25, I also bought BTTF on LD too because why not, though he literally gave me the entire trilogy, which I didn’t ask for. I was also thinking of redoing the Dolby Surround mixes since I previously used to do the LD captures on Audacity, though after trying REAPER as recommended, I found out that REAPER does a way better PCM decode than Audacity, so I decided to do the English, French, and Spanish Dolby Surround mixes when I feel like it, since I have already done the German mix using REAPER.
So I have three discs of each film from DTS’ forgotten accessibility system:
Though I was able to successfully preserve the audio description tracks thanks to Audacity, I unfortunately couldn’t find a way to decode the captions, since they’re specially made for the DTS-CSS software (https://www.datasatdigital.com/cinema-product-support-legacy/dts-css-system/). Though I was able to dig in to what the captions are like. To quote my archive:
“…the CSS captions are a series of bitmaps for closed captions that were compressed in a specially made “.SBT” file archive, meaning I can’t find a way to extract them, even though if you use a hex editor, you will be able to see the original names of the “.BMP” files of the captions. Also, if you were able to take a piece of the bitmap data, put it into a blank file with a hex editor, then use it on BerylRose’s BitPlot web app, you’ll be able to see what the bitmap file would’ve looked like. I attempted this with the captions for the Bill and Buzz test film included in the update file included on some discs, just to give you an idea on what they might look like, and I’ve included it in this archive for all of you to see. For the rear window captions, they were stored in a “.CAP” format where it manages to contain readable English text for the captions, albeit in backwards, and the time for those captions was just binary data, meaning it is impossible to determine the actual time when the captions were shown. Also, according to DTS themselves, many of them were also made to be compatible with the Rear Window Captioning System.”
So I just wanted to post this topic just for anyone who has a prior knowledge of how we can find a way to get the “.CAP” files to be compatible with the text-based subtitle files, and “.SBT” files to an image-based file, like VobSub or PGS.
Let me know if you found a way or actually got access to the DTS-CSS software.
The archive is here (https://archive.org/details/dtscssarchive)
UPDATE (31/07/2025): I decided to do something that no fan preservationists have done before…Dolby Headphone! So one day while I was messing around with my Windows XP VM and PowerDVD 7, I was like, “Hey, what if I make a Dolby Headphone track? No one, I think, has ever done it before.” In fact, Dolby Headphone has been used in only a couple films I can remember, that being the Ultimate Edition DVD of T2, and Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor. But since Dolby Headphone is so amazing on my own headphones, I felt like it would be fun to have a go. But because you can’t export a 5.1 audio file to a Dolby Headphone mix file, I decided to do my own take. I first set the mode to DH2 (conference room model) since DH3 (movie theater model) felt way too ringy with its simulated reverb, especially since DH2 sounds just right from my ears, then playbacked through a lossy DTS stream of my theatrical reconstruction since this is the best I can do since PowerDVD seems to have problems playing a DTS-HD or MLP stream since it’s expecting the DTS-HD stream to be a “.cpt” file, but the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite can only use “.cpt” for the DVD DTS stream, and even if I change the extension from “.dtshd” to “.cpt”, it sadly doesn’t work on PowerDVD. And for the “.mlp” stream, I think it only supports playing stereo MLP streams, since the MLP stream I tried along with previous tries gives me an unknown error in the software, so the 1.5Mbps lossy DTS stream is the best I can do, especially since it works fine. I would then record the entire film using a direct PC audio capture with Audacity, synced it with the UTB DVD, then saved it to a 16-bit FLAC file.
I bought Toy Stoy on blu ray recently. Them taking out the original intro (Which was fully scored and part of the soundtrack) and replacing it with their 2009 new CG intro just makes it unwatchable for me. Instantly puts me off.
To see that intro put back in the film would make the kid in me so happy.
I honestly think the Dolby Atmos remix on the UHD was even worse. I honestly don’t know why they changed everything from the 2005 mix that makes the movie “better”, but still, I understand why Disney and anyone who wanted to see changes to the Atmos mix wanted to do that.
UPDATE (29/07/2025): I decided to do an update on the Russian dub on this preservation. The reason is because I didn’t like the execution I did, looking back at it. In this new update, I patched the missing first frames of the audio, as well as included the closing Russian version of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from the 2009 redub since it does sound like it was recycled from the original 2004 dub as well, alongside most of the original recorded lines from it.
I also forgot to mention about the Hindi dub. Apparently the Hindi dub was done in 2007 according to the official certificate from the Central Board of Film Classification here (https://dubdb.fandom.com/wiki/File:Toy_Story_(Hindi)_-_Central_Board_of_Film_Certification.png), though before you panic, I’m still keeping this dub, mostly because despite only being in mono, it does sound close to the theatrical mix when I compared it with the official English Dolby Surround mix. I mean, it does show that Disney still has the theatrical mix for a while (look at the ABC 2008 HDTV broadcast) until it was butchered in favour of the 2005 mix when the film received a new remaster for the Blu-ray, based on the 3D re-release.
Now you might be wondering, “How would you know it was close?”, well, the best solution is that the 2005 mix has an extremely unnoticeable delay problem with each stem, so when I compared the SFX and music stems of the Hindi dub to that of the English Dolby Surround mix, they sound really close.
Apparently, The Dubbing Database made an error. The bootleg voiceover wasn’t done by Yuri, it was Sergey Sergeevich Vizgunov, and from the high quality of the film’s audio, I’d assumed it was from an official PAL English VHS release, not a telecine bootleg.
UPDATE (24/07/2025): Just wanted to remind you I have updated the description so I can include the tracks that will be coming to this new update. And yes…IT IS HUGE!!! Don’t worry, it will get updated over time once I grab those pre-2005 DVD copies I can find. Stay tuned.
Does anyone know how to make instructions for anyone who wants to use Usenet in 2025? Because I seem to have problems with it, but I don’t know if this is my first time or my ISP is banning Usenet access since I have connection problems with NZBGet.
Are the German subtitles dub-titles or direct translations of the English script?
I did check a bit of it, but I think it could be a direct translation. Reminds me of when Disney did the same thing with the English SDH subtitles on the 2003 UK DVD release of Kiki’s Delivery Service.
Okay, I finally compared the German regular and SDH subtitles. Turns out it was transcribed from the dub.
UPDATE (21/07/2025): I just realised while I was doing a test MKV file to see what it almost looked like once it’s complete, and I found a goof. I forgot to include the video FX for the long pause of the distribution credit at the end, so I fixed it and did another render.
Ghost in the Shell is one of my all-time favourite movies, mainly thanks to its beautiful cinematography, cyberpunk elements, and an amazing score from Kenji Kawai. But did you know this movie was part of an obscure format called MovieCD? Never heard of it? Well, let Phelan Porteous give you the knowledge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw5gutjmByc)
So, I decided to go ahead and do my own take on what a MovieCD preservation would look like. Keep in mind that the format is only supported through 16-bit Windows PCs, meaning it won’t work on Windows 10 and 11. Besides, every disc would only just contain an installation for the player, the MVI2 codec, and the video file for the film split into 2 discs.
How I made this preservation was that I used my Windows XP VM with the NT version of the MVI2 codec installed, then used TMPGEnc 2.525.64.184 to save the two files into a raw uncompressed AVI file, then merged them together to another uncompressed AVI file using VEGAS Pro, then converted it to HEVC using HandBrake with CRF 0 and the chroma subsampling to 4:4:4, then extracting the raw PCM streams from the original two files using Avidemux, then merging them using Audacity, resulting in a near 3GB file, much higher than the original two files combined, only being 1.1GB.
And for fun, I noticed that these discs seem to have problems with the aspect ratio and the mastering. Even though the film is in letterbox, notice how it looks like it is shown in the raw NTSC square pixels and how Sirius used a PAL master of the film instead of the NTSC master. So I decided to make a fixed version of it, where I stretched the film to the NTSC pixel aspect ratio, slowed down to NTSC Film (23.976 fps), and helped with ChatGPT to figure out the frame rate to prevent a much higher file size when set to 60fps. ChatGPT concluded, based on what I figured out, that the slowed-down FPS from the Half NTSC frame rate was 14.4 fps. Turns out the AI was right, since when I compared the final raw AVI file to the project while changing the setting to 60fps to make sure, there aren’t any noticeable dropped frames in there, so that was cool. This fixed version also cut out the FBI warning and logos since I know right off the bat you just wanted the film.
By the way, I noticed that the color grading looks weird in this one. Even though it does look close to the Premium Box LaserDisc I have, which honestly looks way better than the UHD, it was way more saturated and brighter, though I can guess this was due to the master that Sirius had, since you can see the grading from the screenshots on the back of the front cover as well.
Also btw, English dub only, so English opening text, English ending credits, and “One Minute Warning” by U2 and Brian Eno, though notice that the latter song immediately cuts out as the credits finish instead of letting IT finish. That wasn’t me or any software, that was how the file for the second disc ends.
So I wanted to do this preservation just so anyone can have a look at what this 90s FMV version of a 90s cyberpunk film looks like, especially for those who prefer to play this on modern video players rather than just fire up a Windows 95 VM just to watch it.
I would’ve originally included the ISO images too, but since you can easily find copies of it on eBay, I’ll give it a pass.
Of course, be sure to PM me if you want to see it.
UPDATE (19/07/2025): Just did an alternate AC3RF track since I finally found a way to capture the raw AC3 stream of the CLV disc to put on the patches of the CAV audio. It will be a FLAC or DTS-HD MA 5.1 track since I’m not an expert on trimming and merging AC3 audio yet, especially since all 5.1 channels on the CLV disc is 4dB higher than the CAV disc.
I decided to make this track because the loud mono parts (e.g. Scud’s wake up growl, the banging on Sid’s door, the banging on the van lift, etc) on the front channels seem to be off, though I don’t know if this was intentional, the DTS track’s compression algorithm on the right channel is very less than the rest, or the parts I mentioned had that mono effect due to heavy AC3 compression. Besides, like I think I said, the AC3RF track still goes up to 20kHz unlike the DVD where it goes up to 16kHz. Though the mono parts do still feel there such as the jazz drums in the final cue of the film’s score, so I don’t know.
I know this new version is taking SOOOOOOOO long, but, unfortunately there will a hiatus on it since I’m on holiday to Afantou in August, so deep apologies. Hopefully it may be done by the end of the year, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, enjoy v1.0 if ya can.
UPDATE (17/07/2025): Just made Original Theatrical Reconstruction v3.2. The reason is because I figured out from the spectrogram comparing the front left and right channels that the right channel has higher treble frequency ranges than the rest of the channels. I mean, this would make sense since, if you listen really closely (best to be heard after the Disney logo at the end of the film), you can hear analog static playing throughout the entire movie.
Also, I’ve managed to find two Chinese bootleg DVDs on eBay. Though since the genuine releases seem to be hard to find, I felt like this would only be it for me. Considering that there are two Mandarin dubs, one for Taiwan and one for China, I’d assume that these two bootlegs could, in high chance, have the Taiwanese dub, or, in low chance, the Mainland Chinese dub, since they were only credited as Mandarin, though it’s stated it’s in 2.0, so either that’s what Disney prefers if this is the Taiwanese dub, or I’ve finally got the Mainland dub. Also, one bootleg claims it also has the Indonesian and Thai subtitles as well, though I need to make sure once I get the two to see if the formatting is exactly like the authentic NTSC English, Spanish, and Portuguese subtitles. If not, then it’s done by bootleggers and not Disney, leading to a ‘Backstroke of the West’ situation for the Indonesian and Thai speaking people. I mean, bootlegs to me are fine AS LONG as they are copies and contains subtitles and audio tracks of the authentic release, like the DVDR Arakawasam copy of the R4 NTSC DVD, since it was the only way I can grab Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese subs (as well as the dub of the latter language) since importing DVDs from Latin America is pretty much impossible as far as I know.
Are the German subtitles dub-titles or direct translations of the English script?
I did check a bit of it, but I think it could be a direct translation. Reminds me of when Disney did the same thing with the English SDH subtitles on the 2003 UK DVD release of Kiki’s Delivery Service.
UPDATE: (12/07/25): Finally got the German DVD. As expected, it has the German, Turkish and Bulgarian dubs (first two are in 5.1). It also has German SDH subtitles in there too, so that is interesting.
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