The recent-ish Japanese "WOWOW" high-definition broadcast of RAIDERS retained the original "cliff shot". The transfer quality was excellent - much better than the previous HDTV version with the CGI-enhanced shot. I'm almost certain this'll share the same source as the eventual blu ray.
This is unlikely but its worth a shot...
Does anyone know of a torrent for the 14GB version of ESB? I had some bad sectors on my harddrive and lost a split second from the file, right during the "I know" scene, and now the movie loses audio sync after that glitch.
If there were a torrent, I could simply redownload the missing 1% or whatever it is I lost, as opposed to the entire 14GB from usenet (if, indeed that is still possible) - which I've downloaded twice now already.
Failing that, would anyone here be willing to create a private torrent just to help me out?
Thanks a bunch.
I invite anyone to create a custom soundtrack for the EMPIRE AVCHD (or 15 gig mkv) that eliminates Luke's (ie. The Emperor's) scream during his fall at Cloud City.
If the digital intermediate was 2k, then the movie would have been edited at 2k, the digital colour grade would have been applied at 2k and the effects would have been rendered at 2k. There'll never be a version with any more picture information than 2k.
Dunedain said:Thank God at least The Lord of the Rings trilogy was shot on real film. That would have been a catastrophe with an HD camera. :)
Aye, they were shot on film but the digital intermediates were only 2k (~1080p). So you'll never see a 4k or higher res version.
Probably the same with THE PHANTOM MENACE.
ChainsawAsh said:I think the LD (if there was one, I don't know) was the theatrical cut as well.
I believe there was a Japanese laserdisc release.
Moth3r said:The Griff said:WG could've taken an uncompressed 5.1 PCM soundtrack from LD...
No he couldn't, because such a thing does not exist.
Whoops. Beats me then!
WG could've taken an uncompressed 5.1 PCM soundtrack from LD and encoded that as DTS.
We'll never know because he won't tell us and prefers to insult us for merely inquiring... ;)
Wookie Groomer said:I did stuff and I left things alone. If you care then you'll find out. I refuse to outline every damn little tiny thing that I did when I friggen just uploaded a super high quality bluray version of this! You people suck
Don't you hate it when people you admire turn out to be, well, less than admirable?
There's an artist's saying: "Do not seek praise, seek criticism". Its an attitude that's supposed to continually improve one's quality of work while maintaining healthy levels of humility and modesty.
When you think about it, its hard to argue against such reasoning.
Does anyone know if JEDI is being torrented anywhere? My copy must've somehow developed an error as it doesn't playback properly anymore (ie. it crashes 2 mins into the movie and I can't skip past it on the timeline). I figure that that'd be my best bet at repairing the 12.5GB file.
dark_jedi said:The Griff said:How's the quality? Does it look like an SD upconversion? Could you possibly post a screenshot (or two)?
It looks OK,but it is a 720p version,damn I was hoping for 1080p LOL.
I would like to do some more comparison to the retail DVD though to see if it is even worth doing anything with.
Well, if its only 720P, you could put it out as a single layer project perhaps? Assuming, of course, that it is a noticeable improvement over the DVD (please, I'm begging you for just one screenshot!).
If you do decide to put it out, there's a custom DVD floating around with multiple soundtrack options that undo the audio tweaks that were made to the MGM versions. You might wanna pinch a track or two from that one.
How's the quality? Does it look like an SD upconversion? Could you possibly post a screenshot (or two)?
dark_jedi said:The Griff,
You wouldn't happen to have or have a line on Return Of The Living Dead in HD would you?
I'm afraid I don't. Its since disappeared from where I found it but after doing some close comparisons, I'm 100% certain it was an SD upconversion of the MGM transfer (only open-matte).
Believe me, I couldn't have been more disappointed.
The high def broadcast of the original E.T. is in open-matte 1.78:1.
Its the original version in 1080i. The 20th anniversary version is for chumps!
I've already synced the DTS track from the DVD to it but I suspect it goes out of sync by a few frames later in the movie (around when the government agents are occupying the house). Not sure of the cause of this as my skills are somewhat limited. Hopefully you can correct it.
I've seen a HDTV version of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD doing the rounds. Not sure of the source (it'd already been converted to 720p mkv) but it looked like the original broadcast had been a standard definition upconversion to me. I gave it a miss.
Is THE GATE available anywhere online?
dark_jedi said:The Griff said:I'm surprised DJ that you didn't take me up on my offer to mail it to you! It surely would've been there by now.
I don't remember your offer,because if I did I would have certainly taken you up on it,but rapidshare just sux major monkey nuts!
Ahhh... remember how my PMs kept getting cut short? That's probably what happened to my offer.
I'll split it up over a few discs and have it out your way shortly, DJ.
In the meantime, got an ETA on your first AVCHD project?
I'm surprised DJ that you didn't take me up on my offer to mail it to you! It surely would've been there by now.
Ziz said:It was the mid- 80's. That was the style.
I know, man. I was there.
CompMovieGuy said:Also, I noticed in the screens the appearance of grain, which you can see with a number of BD discs, my question is did you add in the grain or was it already there or did it just make it more apparent with the encoding?
Hi. If I may... grain is a natural by product of film. Its usually digitally removed, at the expense of fine detail, from DVDs because its intricate textures present compression problems.
Its often left as is in high definition video because there is both the increased resolution and compression effeciency to deal with it.
You can read more on the subject, and hopefully discover why some 'grain is good' here.
seniorgrande said:There is a version of the Ghostbusters video where the celebrity voices can be heard in the mix saying "GHOSTBUSTERS!".
I just captured this 'voices' version off digital television in PAL with minimal logos. If anyone is interested in using it for any GHOSTBUSTERS-related project, send me a PM.
Man, what a cheesy song/video.
This is great news!
I hope you plan on doing ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK since the Optimum Blu Ray was a nasty rescale job and the HDTV rip doing the rounds is so much nicer.
And, if you're interested, I can point you towards a nice 1080i .ts source for E.T. - THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, the ORIGINAL unmolested version. The audio is only 2.0 but the DTS track from the DVD syncs up perfectly for the first 85% percent of the movie and then is maybe a frame or two out so some slight resyncing might be necessary there.
At any rate, I look forward to your results!
P.S. Hell yeah, I'm up for THE GATE in high def.
dark_jedi said:Thanks again Griff,looking forward to any more Evil Dead discs you may receive.
My pleasure.
I'm not, however, on any exclusive recipient list. I contributed to the ED2 set so djsmokingham was nice enough to repay the favour by sending me out a copy (throwing in the ED1 set while he was at it).
I'm afraid that if and when anymore ED-related stuff comes out, I'll have to resort to begging for them along with the rest of you folk.
All I ask is that I'm not forgotten when that time comes!
Moth3r said:The Griff said:I did a comparison between the 720p HDTV rip and the Book of the Dead version, here.
Interesting. There's almost no quality difference between the two versions (the HDTV is marginally more detailed); that said, the JPG file sizes do seem a bit low, maybe some detail is lost due to JPG compression?
Wow. I didn't notice how small those files were. I compressed them at about '8' quality in photoshop, which usually comes out alot bigger for pictures of that resolution. Perhaps this was due to the overall lack of detail?
Also, the HDTV rip was originally broadcast in MPEG2 and then downscaled to 720p and recompressed to x264 even before I got my hands on it.
The other thing to consider is that the HDTV version has obviously been DNR'd to hell and back. There's almost no grain to be seen and alot of the fine detail would've been lost in that process.
But, yeah, I'll stick with the DVD version.