Space Kaijuu

Very nice work.  Worth the time it took to rip my bluray copy and mux in the new audio. Thanks!

I have the HD-DVD but I've heard conflicting reports on the German edition.  Those screenshots only show the French, US, and UK version.  Last I heard, the Director's Cut and International Cut on the German version are the same as the French release but the US cut on the German release is the same transfer as the US HD-DVD or UK Optidisc release with a higher bitrate.

What Aluminum Falcon said.  I just ordered the German ultimate edition but it hasn't arrived yet.  Supposedly, it uses the same transfer for the US version as the HD-DVD release, which didn't suffer from the DNR and EE.  I'm curious to see if the US TV cut has burned-in subtitles or soft subtitles.

This is just a small project I decided to do.  I remastered the original theatrical trailer and 5 TV spots for Army Of Darkness in 1080p HD using the R3 DVD and the Director's Cut on the French Blu-Ray.

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

I have the uncensored version, including the towel dispenser blot, rendered out to a lossless 1080p video file.  So, what should I do now?  Create a replacement video-only track that could be remuxed into the original blu-ray?  Create a smaller mkv file with the movie plus various extra language and subtitle tracks?

It looks like the auction has already ended.

Were the Army of Darkness TV commercials released anywhere other than the French blu-ray?

I wouldn't be surprised if Universal eventually ended up releasing their own Director's Cut edition by pulling the missing bits from the MGM master and then using DNR, edge enhancement, and re-framing to match them with their transfer at some point.

Does anyone have the audio and subtitle tracks from the three versions on the German Ultimate edition?  I'm trying to put together "complete" versions of the three different movies and I would like to add the German dialog and subtitles if I can.

If you can find the frame with the phone number, I can restore it.  Given all the information that has been presented, the phone number has become an "I'll believe it when I see it" sort of thing, though.

Do any of the Blu-ray releases have the extra line of dialog in the HD-DVD release?  (As Ash rides off into the sunset, before the fade to the S-Mart ending, there is a voice over of Ash saying "and so I left her there" on the HD-DVD release.)

I think I have officially bought too damn many versions of this movie.  I currently have the R3 DVD, the HD-DVD, and the French Blu-Ray releases and I've previously owned the US LD, Japanese LD, and Anchor Bay 2-DVD set.

Sometime soon, I want to reconstruct the trailer and TV spots in HD using the blu-ray footage, just for fun.

It's BD50.  I need to find time to render a lossless version of the uncensored version and then I'll try to figure out how to create a video only track as well as an MKV with some of the other languages and subtitles I have that aren't on the BD release.

I did some minor updates to a few of the decensored frames.  I'm thinking maybe I'll create a video-only track that matches the blu-ray version for people who want to re-do their own bluray version and then do a compressed mkv file with extra audio tracks and stuff.  I could use some help with recommended settings for the BD video track, though.

I was going to release the uncensored version as a high-quality mkv file with the French and German dialog tracks added as a bonus but then people started through around different ideas regarding a blu-ray version.  I recently did some adjustments to some of the decensored frames, as well, and I never got a consensus on whether the "towel stain" image was worth restoring.

LOL

I just wanted to restore the frames as closely to the original theatrical presentation as I could but if you want to do an "extra dirty" version yourself, the files are there for you :)

Yeah, part of his arm that was supposed to be removed obviously wasn't removed.  I left this flaw in the restored BD frame.  I can restore the wierd towel dispenser blotch if any of you feel it's necessary.

You can see it here on the lady's leg.  I actually restored this one on the frames I did because I couldn't decide if it was part of the original film or just part of the original film-to-video transfer.

It's an animation flaw. From the looks of it, it was something that got on the frame after it was composited or on the negative itself.  There's another flaw on the Baby Herman finger scene where part of the cel overlaps the woman's leg which was removed on the later versions.  I can restore the frame if you think it's necessary but it doesn't appear to be an intentional part of the original film.

I think I may have entered the wrong frame numbers for the first two sequences.  I was trying to build an avisynth script to replace the frames but it wasn't working with the original frame numbers so  I think I may have moved the frames up or back to try and get the script to work.  I checked on the video itself and here are the correct frame numbers:

Baby Herman finger scene:

6888-6892
6903-6911

Betty Boop flash:

26226

If you're using the BD video without any color adjustment, the frames shouldn't require any color matching.

Here are the frame numbers I have for the frames that need to be replaced:

Baby Herman Scene:
6896, 6897, 6898, 6898, 6899, 6900, 6911, 6912, 6913, 6914, 6915 ,6916, 6917, 6918

Betty Boop Scene
26235

Jessica Rabbit scene
109674, 109675, 109679, 109680, 109681, 109682, 109704, 109705, 109706, 109707, 109708, 109715, 109716, 109717, 109718, 109719, 109720, 109721

Thanks for all the input.  This gives me a lot to think about.  I want to retain the best quality that I can from the source audio, so I may have to do some major work to get this audio synced up properly.  I haven't found anything that would let me adjust the audio to re-sync in any of the video editing software, which is a shame.

Any updates on getting a few decent-quality screen caps of the Rigid Tools poster from the Trail Mix Up short?  I tried reconstructing it from the two different versions I found but it didn't work all that well.  There's too much of a difference in quality.  If I have a few different frames from the same source, I could reconstruct that part of the background image and then edit it into the censored version.

It appears to be a third version.  The video is ripped from the R2 Japanese DVD and the audio and subtitles are from the US DVD, R2 Japanese DVD, and the UK VHS release.

There's a version of the series on bakabt that has all three versions of the dialog (Japanese, US English, and UK English) along with the commentary.  It uses the Japanese R2 DVD video which is from the same source as the US reissue so you could probably rip the audio from that version and pair it with the US dvd release.

Disney is more likely to remove Jabba The Hutt from the entire series because his lego playset upset a group of Muslims.