Danfun128 said:
Or a 30/60 minutes worth of silent color 8mm tape? *shot*
Has that anything to do with Yellowbeard, or is it an unrelated question?
poita said:
I can organise 16mm scanning for much better rates than what is generally out there.
What would you say the transfer for a 90 minute 16mm film could cost?
SilverWook said:
Are you saying you know where to get a 16mm print of these? The movie just came out on Blu Ray, but no bonus features to speak of.
I briefly had the old Laserdisc, and it was a pretty bad transfer. You could see that some of the stock footage they used of sailing ships was hard matted though.
Oh, I hadn't noticed the bluray yet. So that's basically the same deal as the official DVD? No trailer / making of / other?
I have a 16mm open matte print myself. Only getting it scanned is a different matter. :( It's the TV version with one extra scene.
Hm... While I am very grateful, I wonder if there's anyone in the US who wants to have a go if supplied with the disc? For the simple reason that that's the easiest way to arrange it.
RU.08 said:
Ah. All good, I'll pursue this disc. Carry on!
And I agree completely about his film-making with it, it was a worthy sequel to the originals!
Well, I made some enquiries on ebay and there's one for $18 and one that would be $16 if it had the same economy shipping (but the seller won't specify a price for that). I can miss a few dollars as long as it's not a one man show.
No reply yet from althor.
OK, perhaps I should have started a new thread instead of reviving this one but it IS on topic so...
I just wanted to note that there is that documentary, but also a TV version in open matte with an extra scene. On 16mm. Trouble is, getting that transferred isn't exactly cheap.
(There's also a trailer and a featurette that was done for TV.)
It's great that he actually waited 15 years and then made the "20 years later" sequel.
Pity he didn't do the last installment but it would have been more difficult then to get the same cast together. (Actually I don't hate the Man in the Iron Mask film that came out in the late '90s. Clearly a different kind of film, but it can sort of be considered as the end of the saga. I don't like the new BBC series though - it's laughably simplistic.)
This is one LD that I don't own. But, to buy and ship an LD inside the US would cost around $18 total, or $16 with a bit of luck. (That's hard to beat. Where I live, postage has been steadily getting more expensive)
If we find a volunteer in the US who can do a good job, perhaps Althor, we could split the cost. (Did anyone ever actually capture the matrixed 4 channel sound? If not, I can live without it.)
RU.08 said:
Ah, well there are certainly members who can cap LD's (not me I'm afraid) - Althor for instance, his caps look really good! I believe (although I could be wrong) that he's based in the USA. Andrea's based in Italy, and probably either of them could name other members here who could be willing to capture some of your LDs and might be located nearer to you. I'd absolutely love to see that LD capped and released!
As one small complication for my "CC" quest, this seems to be only really possible when working with fully NTSC equipment. In Europe NTSC is supported, but that's not quite the same. Apparently.
Ideally I would get some help from someone in the US who perhaps even already has this LD, because the postage is substantial. (It might even be cheaper to buy one on ebay inside the US and have that sent on.) I wouldn't for example pay $20 just to get subtitles for Being human (1994).
But 'ROTM' is a much better film. Out of curiosity, why are you interested to see an LD cap of it?
RU.08 said:
Norman, you would make my day if you capped a "Return of the Musketeers" LD!!
Well, there is a DVD. But I think that that is PAL, and the purist may want it in NTSC frame rate.
But I haven't got the equipment to capture it - that's where I need help myself.
There are more than a few films which have now had a barebones DVD release for which the LD had closed captions - the subtitle system that was limited to NTSC.
Now are those subtitles that important, you ask? Well, for the heard of hearing, and for non-native English speakers.
And, they can be pretty handy for films where the audio mix is a bit odd, such as Richard Lester’s “Return of the musketeers”. I found it a decent movie but hard to follow the dialogue. (The .srt on the 'net is no good.)
In truth, a few other movies are no masterpieces: “Jupiter’s Darling”, “Being human (1994)”. Somewhat better is “Parrot sketch not included” which also has some exclusive footage. These are the four I know of, but there may be more.
But the upside: Closed captions are relatively easy to capture and convert to srt… as long as the equipment is NTSC. Many capturing devices pass on the signal after which “cc extractor” (freeware) can take them out. (Will require some editing to bring it to 2x40.) Sadly I’m not in NTSC country… 😦
So my question: Does anyone happen to have these laserdiscs and a full NTSC setup?
With an extracted file, I could then do all the correcting, fitting to current copy etcetera.
Question/suggestion 2: If you are capturing a laserdisc or other source, and it has a subtitle stream AKA closed captioning that isn’t already available, then please include it.
(These LDs often (more often even) also had ‘matrixed’ 4 channel surround (stereo + center + rear mono) but it’s debatable if the quality of that is good enough to warrant capturing - it’s not as good as ‘discrete’ 5.1.)
March 2015... Has there been any progress since then? :) I must say that the open matte of this sounds rather attractive. :)