That report is dated Nov 12, so this particular report hasn't been discussed (although perhaps the Remus offering has).
Read the comments...some info in there that makes this disc at least worth investigating.
You guys see this? Might make a preservation unnecessary:
http://www.songofthesouth.net/news/2012/11/12/song-of-the-south-turns-66-dvd-being-sold/
VLC did the trick. Funny, I've more often had problems in the other direction (something not playing in VLC but QT handling it just fine).
Something I could've tried before I complained about it. ;)
I put an ep on a stick and tried to play it with my Sony Blu-Ray player, but it probably didn't know what to do with a 720 file.
Looking forward to more!
_,,,^..^,,,_ said:
About Roger Rabbit PAL: if I rembember well (because I watched it several years ago) this version is uncensored... but maybe I'm wrong; I have to check them, when I'll have time.
The NTSC Roger Rabbit LD I have is theatrical version through and through.
GonbeFAN said:
I think you might just be doing something wrong.
Entirely possible! However, all I did was download the torrent from nyaa.eu and downloaded the files with uTorrent...then viewed them with Quicktime.
GonbeFAN said:
At any rate, it should just look like this:
Well, that frame on mine matches:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j54/Treadwell_Jay/misc/Screenshot2012-12-20at123824AM.png
...but then I get stuff like this:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j54/Treadwell_Jay/misc/Screenshot2012-12-20at123143AM.png
and THIS!
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j54/Treadwell_Jay/misc/Screenshot2012-12-20at123045AM.png
The video plays like a bad digital cable or satellite feed during a rainstorm. Clear, then movement or shot changes make it go haywire. Would the lack of a codec do that? I haven't previously experienced a lack of codec enabling clean playback part of the time. And if I close QT and play the file again, the errors appear again in exactly the same places in exactly the same way, suggesting they're baked in.
Anyway, if it's just on my end, then it isn't anyone's problem but mine. Again, good job on the remaster!
Wow, these look fabulous. Thanks for doing this.
However, and I don't want to look a gifthorse in the mouth, but these updoads are macroblock city. Might want to recheck the compression settings or something.
Yeah, I didn't get nearly that far into Remastered; I watched 2 or 3 eps and couldn't take it anymore and returned my discs!
Looks like a terrific project! I didn't mind the extra footage of Remastered so much as the new sound mix: the added effects were loud, obtrusive and unnecessary. It was too bad they didn't simply re-edit the shows with the new Macross transfers and be done with it; I'm glad you're finally bringing us that option!
...oh: there are Macross blu-rays? Wow!
Just a bump to show there's additional interest!
I have a raw capture of the CAV laserdisc as a QT, should it be of value to anyone. I didn't like the encoding quality of the DVD I have (the first release, apparently), so I was going to make a preservation, possibly using the first DVD's audio, but the project never even made it to a burner, much less a back one!
It's interlaced of course, with bad split fields for the pulldown, but I'm sure pulldown removal could handle that. I never checked to see how consistent the cadence is.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's an obsolete source, given the other DVD releases, but just throwing it out there.
IIRC, I spent $200 for that thing back in 1993, at a shop on Noriega St. in San Fransico. Oh, the expensive laserdisc days!
SilverWook said:
If it's just scenes from the movies, they could probably be spliced in from another full frame source?
That's what Editdroid did. Japanese subs still present on the behind-the-scenes footage, though.
There is no point in using colorbars from another source, even if it is of similar vintage. Colorbars are only meaningful if they were recorded on the same equipment on the same tape using the same dial settings as were used to dub the main program. In theory, all color bars should be the same, but there is a huge equipment and human error factor from dub to dub.
Wow, great job pulling clarity out of that "other" original Jabba's band music played when they take Chewy away. Is that from the Editdroid iso score or did you get it from Making of a Saga directly?
Wow, that's a lot of dirt you had to deal with! I don't envy you that.
If I may, the floor and hallway look dead, suffering from held grain, as if you created a single clean master frame of those areas to replace as much of each dirty frame as possible. The trick is to make several of those, using different source frames to make them, and use a different one each time you paint out a piece of dirt. That way the grain is different for every cleaned frame. I hope this came across constructively! :)
Also, this is the first time I noticed that Hamill looks like he's about to laugh in the last few frames of the shot. LOL
The writer of Sally Forth has a blog, and he collected all of his SWHS references in this post:
http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/
(the last one is a blog-only joke, not a real Sally Forth. The real 2012 SWHS ref is not in the post.)
none said:
A tape made it's way through the yahoo SW Cutscenes mailing list. Think Treadwell got it first and duped it to T-Bone who I think MeBeJedi told me that's where his copy came from. Can't recall if I sources Starkiller to that same group.
I got my copy from cutscenes pioneer Ryan Silva.
interesting!
msycamore said:
none said:
Still a little confused what was shown opening day in the theaters which couldn't play the 35mm or 70mm Dolby Stereo version...
The mono engagements on opening day would just have been 35mm Dolby Stereo prints played back in mono, Dolby Stereo was and is mono compatible. Apparently 12 of the original 32 engagements on the 25th of May were presented that way.
From what I've read, that was not the case in those days--that existing mono projectors could not read the stereo prints' dual optical track. That was the reason they did a mono mix in the first place.
Speaking of opening day, I thought that only 75mm houses were running the film on May 25.
msycamore said:
I think you mistook it for the later transitional shot to Tatooine
Yes, indeed I did.
msycamore said:
Just so people get what damage me and TServo were talking about:
Looks to me like splicing glue.
No, he gets credit for pointing out that it was both a camera AND an optical shake.
msycamore said:
I think I mentioned it earlier in this thread, similar damage appear elsewhere in the film but not as fatal as those in the corridor, here's a few of them as they're seen on the SWE LD (Technidisc):
It might be coincidence, but the damage on this shot corresponds with a warble in the soundtrack in either the 85 LD or the 93 THX LD. Maybe both, I don't remember. Although the sound source for a transfer is usually not the print the picture is captured from, so who knows.
I believe this shot is near a reel change, too, so end-of- or beginning-of-reel damage could account for the sound and picture glitches on this occasion.
(...so the Tantive shot WAS an optical! Glad to know I wasn't misremembering. ;) )
msycamore said:
In the other thread dedicated to the tears that appeared on the release prints and on some home video releases, Tservo pointed out that the camera shake in the original film was a combination of a real camera shake and optical effect, and he is absolutely correct about that
Whew, I had mentioned an optical shake there in some thread or other and was subsequently convinced I was misremembering. Still a couple brain cells left after all! :)
The pauses between the lines of the "move along" trooper are different in the mono mix. In the mono, his responses to Ben are immediate; in the stereo, there's a pause as, I suppose, the Force suggestion sinks in.
Let's not forget the "shelter built"/"shelter up" and "out of there"/"taste very good" differences. Surely a 70mm vs 35mm difference?
And the change from specifically scored to tracked music for Needa's shuttle.
(and back again for the SE in all cases)
