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I’ve been working on compiling everything for a personal project to make my own blu-ray restoration of the 1986 animated film, Transformers: The Movie.

Hopefully, I will have some help getting this all packaged into a nice Blu-Ray.  I plan to repair/restore some of the more heavily scratched/torn frames in the transfer. I’m also orrecting the matting to the true 1.85:1 aspect ratio.  I probably won’t do much with the colors since there is not definitive color reference and the Metrodome release apparently already had the colors corrected as closely as possible to the original intended colors.

I have a large list of extras that I’ve been compiling and creating, which is about 80-90% done, but there are a few things I’m still looking for.

Is there a better copy of Stan Bush’s “The Touch” music video than what is on Youtube or the Blu-Ray?

Here is what I have so far:

[Movie]

HD Theatrical version - 1080p widescreen transfer
[COMPLETE] English DTS 5.1 Surround soundtrack
[COMPLETE] LPCM Stereo soundtrack
[COMPLETE] Running commentary by story consultant Flint Dille, director Nelson Shin, and voice actress Susan Blu
[COMPLETE] Fan commentary featuring prominent fans of the franchise - Paul Hitchens, Rik Alvarez, Joe Moore, and Alex Weiner
[COMPLETE] Running commentary by Chris McFeely
[COMPLETE] custom isolated music and score track
[COMPLETE] Subtitles: English, Spanish, French

SD International TV & video version - 480i fullframe
[COMPLETE] reconstructed English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
[COMPLETE] Spanish Language mono dialog track
[COMPLETE] French Language mono dialog track
[COMPLETE] Japanese Language stereo dialog track

[Trailers]

Promo Reel
[COMPLETE] restored original audio track
[COMPLETE] running commentary by Paul Hitchens

Teaser Trailer

Theatrical Trailer
[COMPLETE]  original audio track
[COMPLETE]  alternate audio track with additional narration

Theatrical Trailer HD Remaster
[COMPLETE]  original audio track
[COMPLETE]  alternate audio track with additional narration

30 second “kid” version TV commercial SD original w multiple audio tracks
[COMPLETE]  “opens in three days” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens today” narration

30 second “kid” version TV commercial HD remaster w multiple audio tracks
[COMPLETE]  “opens in three days” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens today” narration

60 second “teen” version TV commercial SD original w multiple audio tracks
[COMPLETE]  “opens august 8th” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens tomorrow” narration
[COMPLETE]  “now playing” narration

60 second “teen” version TV commercial HD remaster w multiple audio tracks
[COMPLETE]  “opens august 8th” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens tomorrow” narration
[COMPLETE]  “now playing” narration

30 second “teen” version TV commercial SD original w multiple audio tracks
[COMPLETE]  “opens in three days” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens august 8th” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens tomorrow” narration
[COMPLETE]  “now playing” narration

30 second “teen” version TV commercial HD remaster w multiple audio tracks
[COMPLETE]  “opens in three days” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens august 8th” narration
[COMPLETE]  “opens tomorrow” narration
[COMPLETE]  “now playing” narration

15 second UK TV commercial- SD original (restored)

15 second UK TV commercial- HD remaster

Special sweepstakes commercial

[Toy Commercials]

US, Japanese, and Pre-Transformers “Diaclone” toy commercials video

[Scramble City OVA semi-prequel]

Scramble City Japanese OVA
[COMPLETE]  Original Japanese Audio
[COMPLETE]  Running Commentary by Chris McFeely
[COMPLETE]  Fan Commentary
[COMPLETE]  English subtitles based on the original international translation
[COMPLETE]  New English subtitles with improved translation

Japanese “Scramble City Toys” promo video

Japanese “Scramble City” toy commercials

Animated Storyboards (from the 20th anniversary DVD and UK bluray)
[COMPLETE]  Gone Fishing
[COMPLETE]  Autobot/Decepticon Battle
[COMPLETE]  Optimus Prime vs Megatron
[COMPLETE]  Unused Devastator Scene
[COMPLETE]  Death of Ultra Magnus
[]Additional Storyboard Art gallery

Extended Cinex Test

Test footage with deleted and alternate scenes
[COMPLETE]  running commentary track by Paul Hitchens
[COMPLETE]  running commentary track by Chris McFeely

[Interviews and featurettes]

Flint Dille interview, Peter Cullen Q&A, and Vince DiCola interview video

“Q&A”, “The Cast And Characters”, and “The Death of Optimus Prime” featurette with Flint Dille, Susan Blu, and Nelson Shin

[Music Videos]

Stan Bush - “The Touch” music video

“Weird Al” Yankovic - “Dare To Be Stupid” music video

[additional secret easter eggs]

[Animated Slide Shows]

Character Bios slideshows with production art, toy photos, and artwork:
[] - Character Bios - Classic Heroes
[] - Character Bios - Classic Villains
[] - Character Bios - New Heros
[] - Character Bios - New Villains

[]Merchandise and Promotional Material

[]Production Art - Various model sheets, production sketches and other production art, character bios, cover artwork, promotional art, and promo posters

[bd rom content]

Transformers The Movie original script pdf file
Theater and Ziploc store promotion kit package pdf
Transformers: The Movie 1986 Marvel Comics comic adaptation pdf
Transformers: The Animated Movie 2007 IDW comic adaptation pdf
Transformers The Movie storybook from Ladybird Books Ltd pdf
Transformers The Movie Sticker Book digital archive pdf

Sources:
Austrialian Blu-Ray (Madman Release)
DTS track from the UK Blu-Ray (Metrodome Release)
English PCM audio from the original Japanese LD (Hillcrane Release)
Original US DVD (Rhino Release)
US 20th Anniversary DVD (Sony Release)
UK Ultimate Edition DVD (Metrodome Release)
UK Reconstructed DVD (Metrodome Release)

Transformers Visual Works artbook

Transformers First Series Complete book

Transformers Generations series of photobooks

Transformers Vault book

I have the bluray and the japanese 17gb HDTV rip of RotLA.  It wouldn't be that difficult to match up the HDTV video to the bluray audio and rebuild a bd25 version of the bluray with the HDTV video.

Yeah, it is worse.  If it were simply sped up, the frames wouldn't be blurred and it would be a lot easier to restore it to the correct framerate.

The TV version on the German ultimate edition isn't sped up, actually.  It's field-blended so that it stays the same speed as the source but has some of the fields blended together to adjust for the frame rate differences.

I need some help converting some frame-blended pal videos to their original 24fps framerate.  Most of the links I found are broken and a lot of information is now outdated.

Are there any reliable avisynth scripts that will remove blended frames and restore the video to it's original framerate properly?  I'm looking more for quality over speed.  I could do this manually, but I don't want to go down that road if there is a better alternative.

It wouldn't take much effort to sync up a replacement video for the blu-ray using the iTunes/HDTV footage and put it into the original bluray structure with multiavchd.

I have the HDTV and iTunes versions of Sword In The Stone. The HDTV version is a higher bitrate but it's also only 720p while the iTunes version is 1080p.  Also, the HDTV version is from a German broadcast so the title of the movie is in German during the opening.

Yes, the UK Second Sight release has 1080p video.  It also uses the same 480i NTSC video files as the US release for the extras.  No Pal speedup or frame blending mess.

The UK bluray is region free.  It has most of the extras but they removed the isolated music and sound effects track and the AC3 5.1 audio track.  It does have the original stereo mix and the running commentary tracks in LPCM, though.  I'm considering making my own custom bluray that has the 1080p video and all of the audio options of both versions.

I think  _,,,^..^,,,_  Is referring to "The Sword In The Stone".

Here's something I've been picking away at for a while.  I just finished a 1080p HD remaster of the trailer for Short Circuit.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/u32zar

I got the UK bluray and ended up using that for the source video since it was a proper 1080p transfer compared to the 1080i transfer on the US bluray.

Another movie that might be nice to see in HD is Screamers.

AntcuFaalb said:

Many people here (excluding myself) are interested in a BD of RotLA with the DVD colors.

There's an ~20GiB 1080i MPEG-2 (Satellite?) recording on Usenet.

I'm not finding that one anywhere.  Any hints you can offer on how it's labeled and/or which group it might be in?  All I see is a 1080i AVCHD of RotLD 3 that's ~8 gigs.

Pumpkinhead made me think of something else.  Is there an HD version of Rawhead Rex available anywhere?

ooo... Pumpkinhead 1&2... nice.

I would have to put my vote in for The Black Hole, as well.

How about Catch-22?

Oh, hey. What about Buckaroo Banzai?  That was a weird but fun movie and the chances of a decent bluray release are probably pretty slim from what I understand.

WB has pretty much missed every opportunity they had to release The Iron Giant to bluray so far.  They promised a release 2 years ago and failed to follow through so I'm not holding out hope on that one.  It's an awesome movie but WB has neglected it on a regular basis.

If the teaser trailer was filmed at 1.85:1, it's still possible the scope trailer might be pillar boxed instead of cropped.

DoomBot said:

Airplane II is on blu-ray

Oh! So it is.  I didn't realize it got an official release this month.

There are a handful of movies I would like to see on bluray that are currently on Vudu:

The Iron Giant - This is probably my favorite animated film of all time.

Airplane II - Not as good as the original but still really funny.

UHF - I have the HDTV rip of this one but it could use something a bit better and there are a lot of extras out there for the movie.

Also, I have the UK bluray for the original Transformers: The Movie (the animated film from 1986) along with tons of extras, including a few things that weren't on the DVD or Bluray releases but I'd love to see sort of an ultimate bluray.

I was considering doing an HD remaster of the teaser trailer.  I have all the elements necessary to do it but I'm not sure which version of the movie I would use as the source footage and things are really busy right now, so I won't be working on it anytime soon.  Especially since I scrapped the plans for the custom bluray.

Aren't the trailers already available in HD on the bluray?  I could have sworn they were.

After doing various comparisons, I don't feel this project is worth turning into a full-fledged bluray disc.  The MGM retail bluray shows signs that it was upscaled from a 720p master but the unreleased Sony bluray has the contrast boosted too much.  The Sony master looks as if they used a 1080p or 2k source but for the details that are retained, more are lost due to the blown out whites and blacks.

I'm rendering the video out to be released as a smaller 1080p video file which I will make available if anyone wants it.