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Ah, Jurassic Park and its weird combo of open-matte and hard-matted scenes.

I thought myspleen wouldn't allow Disney films.

Ok, so I have a high quality MKV put together with the uncensored video along with the English DTS audio track, a French DTS track that I found (the bluray has the french audio as ac3), and the German ac3 audio that's been synced to the video.

Any suggestions on how to make this thing available?  It's a 25gb file.

Any chance we could get a cover for a double-disc case that would include both BDs?

I'm working on one of the extras for this Blu-ray right now.  I can't wait to see the finished project.

While I finish encoding the uncensored version of the movie, here is the 1080p HD remaster I did of the trailer.  I had to do a split archive due to filesize restrictions.

part 1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fxe0b5

part 2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4q358g

The pig head segment in the trailer was not in the movie or even in the version of the deleted scene that was on the DVD so I had to do the best I could to make the the limited quality original trailer footage I had work in the remaster.  There are also two scenes that are slightly different in the original trailer because they were missing parts of the final added cartoon animation.

Got it and muxed it in with the Blu-Ray video.  The mono mix works with both the original and 16x9 AR versions on the Anchor Bay release.

Thanks!

Yeah, Sanrio fans and people who remember the movie from when it was released are probably going to be the most likely to be interested.  I'm using the audio off the VHS transfer that was used for that bootleg with light filtering to remove some of the hiss and noise.  The reel breaks on the VHS tape also cut out bits of footage that are in the Japanese version.  Fortunately, the parts that were missing were mostly silent.

If this one works well, I also have the Japanese DVD for Nutcracker Fantasia along with the VHS rip that's floating around.  I might try to redo that one as well.

I bought the Japanese DVD of the obscure Sanrio/Murakami-Wolf animated film "The Mouse And His Child" a while back with the intention of doing sort of a remaster using the English dialog track from the VHS rip that has been floating around.

I've finally started on the project and I figure I will attempt to find a way to remove the Japanese title overlay at the beginning and restore the English credits at the end.  I'm about two-thirds of the way through re-syncing the VHS audio to work with the DVD video.

Thanks bendermac!

Was the trailer for Who Framed Roger Rabbit ever released anywhere?  It's not on the Blu-Ray or DVD releases.

I wanted to remaster the Who Framed Roger Rabbit trailer but they didn't release the trailer on the Blu-Ray or DVD releases and none of the version I've found so far are a good enough quality level to use.

The trailers can be kind of fun to remaster but I don't have any of the movies mentioned by BDgeek.

UPDATE:  I've updated theatrical trailer and UK/Promo trailer to include a better version of the Dino De Laurentiis logo (thanks bendermac) and increased the bitrate on these two files.  I had to split the UK/Promo trailer into two parts due to filesize limitations.

UK/Promo Trailer v1.5:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cj5riy
http://www.sendspace.com/file/p6wtj7

Theatrical Trailer v2.5:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ake9n

TV Spots:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tf1wn0

Okay, so was anyone ever able to get some decent source frames of the unblurred Rigid Tools poster?  I would like to see if I can uncensor the short film to go with the uncensored movie.

If it's the one that's basically the "Ash took a weekend trip... through time" TV spot with a picture of the VHS tape replacing the last few cuts, I skipped that one because I don't have a clean enough scan of the VHS cover to use and that frame doesn't upscale well.

Also, it didn't seem to serve much purpose since it was just an edit of one of the TV spots.

Yeah, I focused on getting them frame-accurate.  I had to recreate the title and credits screens for the UK trailer from other sources because the version available just wasn't usable.  As far as the VHS promo, is that on the German set?  I thought I got all the trailers and commercials but if I missed one, let me know.

Sorry for triple-posting but the forum wouldn't let me delete and consolidate my last two posts.

I've finished creating a remaster of the 2 minute promo trailer included on the German ultimate edition set as well as adding the German audio track to the remastered original trailer.  Here are the links.

Promo Trailer:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/t92a9b

Theatrical Trailer v2:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6703v0

I used to have the Japanese program booklet for Evil Dead II and it had stills from a scene where the possessed Ed had half his head cut off and you could see that the skull was mostly empty with a tiny shriveled brain in it.  It was more comical that scary, though.  It looked like something from some unused footage and not a behind the scenes shot so maybe it was something that was removed because that part of the prop head wasn't really supposed to be seen.

Update: I did some side-by-side comparisons with the German and HD-DVD version and, while not as badly filtered as the transfer that was used on the US and French sets, the US version on the German set does show signs of noise reduction filtering.

Yeah, the French release is great if you want solid, watchable copies of the different versions on blu-ray.  I did the research on what was included in each version so I could compile the best tracks from each into my own ultimate versions.

Honestly, the German version could have fit on a two-disc blu-ray set with no problems and they could have even offered the TV version at a slightly higher bitrate without the bad NTSC-PAL conversion issues.  The need to include all the films on DVD seems kind of pointless.  I guess they wanted to have one set that they could sell to everyone instead of a 2-disc set for blu-ray and a separate 4-disc set for DVD.

I did some more technical comparisons of the German and French Blu-Rays.  There are a number of odd differences between the versions.

The director's cut uses the exact same video track and the same DTS English track between the two but the AC3 tracks are different.  The DD2.0 English track uses a higher bitrate on the German release (320kbps vs 192kbps) and the German version also has the running commentary and German dub in 320kbps AC3.  There is no French dub for the director's cut and the French release omits the running commentary.

The international cut uses a much higher bitrate for the video on the German release than the French release.  It's a higher bitrate than even the director's cut on either release, oddly enough, even though the director's cut gets it's own disc while the international cut is paired with the US version. The German release lacks the DTS English audio track and the French dub AC3 track that are on the French version but has the German dub.  The English AC3 track is a higher bitrate on the German release, the same as the directors' cut.

The US version is the strangest one of all.  Besides the fact that the video is from the same transfer used for the HD-DVD rather than the US Blu-Ray transfer used on the French release, it also uses different encoding.  The director's cut and international versions both used AVC, but while the French version also uses AVC for the US version, the German release uses WVC1.  The bitrate is higher than what was on the HD-DVD, though.  The DTS track on the German release is DTS HD-MA while the French version uses standard DTS.  The English AC3 track again uses a higher bitrate and there is a German dub.

The "little ashes" sequence in the windmill was different on a number of releases.  I used to have the Japanese laserdisc and, from what I recall, it had a slightly different cut of the windmill scene from what was on the any of the other versions.  It was similar to the European cut but not quite as edited down in some places.

There's another trailer on the German release that wasn't on the French blu-ray.  It's not all that great but I may have to do an HD remaster just for completion's sake.

The German set is the only time the TV version has been released on video at all, so I'll count my blessings.  The transfer isn't great but it was mastered in SD to begin with and all that exists of the extra footage is that and the videotapes that anchor bay used for the deleted scenes on their DVD release I can't complain too much.  It would be nice to see a better DVD release in NTSC but the likelihood of that ever happening is extremely slim given the way Universal has been handling the release.

I suspect that Koch Media was using a UK broadcast tape for their source.

I just got my German Ultimate edition today and I can confirm that the Directors Cut and European cuts are identical to the French bluray.  The US version is from the same source as the HD-DVD and Optidisc releases with none of the DNR and EE of the US and French BD releases.  I looks like both versions sourced the MGM transfers from the same place but the US version was sourced from the US bluray version for the French release while the Optidisc or original HD-DVD transfer was sourced for the German release.

The TV cut is nice to have and I'm glad they used soft subs instead of burned in subs on that and the other extra features.  The French blu-ray had the trailers, commercials, interviews, etc all hard-subbed in French, which is part of what prompted me to try and do HD remasters of the TV spots in the first place.