Hey, Hows the edit coming along?
kind regards
Danny
It’s done. Just need to make a manageable size rendered file
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Looking forward to this, are these from BD or DVD sources?
Bluray for the regular footage. But most of the deleted footage is SD quality. I’m finding lots of little glitches from the initial edit that I’m fixing now as well.
Would Topaz Gigapixel AI be of use in dealing with the SD deleted scenes?
Never heard of it actually
I’d be happy to help you upscale some stuff, I’ve been messing around with upscaling DS9 and come up with some pretty good techniques to get the most out of Topaz Video Enhance AI. Just chuck me a PM if you’re interested
Do you have your own copy of Topaz? I downloaded it and it was too much for my PC. So I ended up paying Topaz themselves and uploaded a bunch of the cut scenes and I honestly didn’t see that much of a difference in the quality.
Topaz upscaled for you, how much was that??? Do you still have a kidney 😉 Would be interested in seeing the results of their work 👍
They upscalked about 10 min for me. It was about $20
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Looking forward to this, are these from BD or DVD sources?
Bluray for the regular footage. But most of the deleted footage is SD quality. I’m finding lots of little glitches from the initial edit that I’m fixing now as well.
Would Topaz Gigapixel AI be of use in dealing with the SD deleted scenes?
Never heard of it actually
I’d be happy to help you upscale some stuff, I’ve been messing around with upscaling DS9 and come up with some pretty good techniques to get the most out of Topaz Video Enhance AI. Just chuck me a PM if you’re interested
Do you have your own copy of Topaz? I downloaded it and it was too much for my PC. So I ended up paying Topaz themselves and uploaded a bunch of the cut scenes and I honestly didn’t see that much of a difference in the quality.
cant wait for this 😃
It’s nearly done.
Great news! What running time are you aiming for? 🤔
This is mostly a visual upgrade. the audio is probably 99% the same as my previous version. So it’s roughly 2:20.
cant wait for this 😃
It’s nearly done.
Have you thought about using Deep Fake?
Succeed where I have failed!
My PC can’t handle that upscalling program
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Looking forward to this, are these from BD or DVD sources?
Bluray for the regular footage. But most of the deleted footage is SD quality. I’m finding lots of little glitches from the initial edit that I’m fixing now as well.
Would Topaz Gigapixel AI be of use in dealing with the SD deleted scenes?
Never heard of it actually
https://www.google.com/search?q=Topaz+video+Gigapixel+AI+&oq=Topaz+video+Gigapixel+AI+&gs_l=mobile-heirloom-hp.12...0.0.0.2590.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0…0…1c…34.mobile-heirloom-hp…0.0.0.h5mEXch0Svg
Have you ever used it? And are there any limitations using the free beta version?
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Looking forward to this, are these from BD or DVD sources?
Bluray for the regular footage. But most of the deleted footage is SD quality. I’m finding lots of little glitches from the initial edit that I’m fixing now as well.
Would Topaz Gigapixel AI be of use in dealing with the SD deleted scenes?
Never heard of it actually
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Looking forward to this, are these from BD or DVD sources?
Bluray for the regular footage. But most of the deleted footage is SD quality. I’m finding lots of little glitches from the initial edit that I’m fixing now as well.
glad to hear you work on this.
will you do this with alien 2 and alien 3 too?
No just the first one
Hopefully this won’t take ages like it did originally.
The remastering work has begun
For many years I have wanted to try to make a virtual “Lost Cut”. I’m looking forward to this.
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Work on v3 has begun, being built from the ground up! I Re-ripped and re-encoded all my elements in high quality and perfect 23.97fps! I’m already up to the transmission scene (which is now longer than before by a few seconds).
v3 will be much higher quality than before, and will include more alternate/additional video and audio. There will be two versions, 1080p and 480p. It will also have a 5.1 soundtrack to account for any deleted scenes that include surround sound. I’ve never done a 5.1 mix, nor do I have any way of testing such a track, so I may need some help.
The main source is the Blu Ray laserdisc regrade by PDB https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Alien-Aliens-Color-Regrade/id/17002
All the other sources are the same as they’ve always been. I highly doubt I’ll be using any of Giger’s Alien. I don’t like the idea of incorporating the 4x3 handcam footage never shot as part of the film into the movie itself.
can’t wait
cosmicjazz said:
Giger’s Alien, that is, which I can get off the 'spleen.Have you though about using any of the footage from the Alien Makers DVD series?
I’ve skimmed through those but never watched them completely. Never saw any footage in them, is there any?? That’d be bonkers.
Yes there is more Nostromo footage
In all the stuff you mentioned owning, is there anything special that isn’t on the BD set that could be used? Besides Giger’s Alien, that is, which I can get off the 'spleen.
Have you though about using any of the footage from the Alien Makers DVD series?
HEY, so story is, like I said in my previous post from two hecking years ago(!!!) I totally finished the Alien Uncut edit.
I just always hated it because the framerate is a not very consistent 30, the quality isn’t what it should be, and it’s a ridiculous 20 gigabyte file. I made the damn thing when I was just starting to get into video editing and I had no idea about anything.
That being said, from what I remember I was always happy with the way it was cut. I got all the shots just where and how I wanted them.
So I was skimming through some old hard drives randomly and decided “what the hell?” I’ll upload that Alien edit I did so many moons ago. When I rewatched it, all the problems I mentioned above really didn’t bother me as much as they once did. I also re-encoded it to a much nicer file size for you guys.
If anyone is still interested in this ridiculous behemoth, I hit up a 'spleen mod yesterday, so hopefully I’ll be putting it there.
I still maintain that I might go back and redo it from the ground up one day, but I thought everybody should at least see it as it is now.
I’ve always felt bad about not releasing this edit or going back to give it another shot. It makes me so sad - the amount of fan projects I see on this site that just drop off and never get finished with no closure at all, and I didn’t want mine to be one of those.
I’m really interested in seeing this to see how much more you have expanded it over my edit.
Where exactly does this clip come from?
ok if anyone can get me any footage from the laser discs. I am in your debt. I have finished working on the cocoon scene. ill upload it on YouTube soon.
here’s my channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeXemXcN-bq459x5RZHGJ5g?view_as=subscriber
I thought all the LD footage was included on the DVDs
I’m really curious how you managed to get it to 3 hours. The edit I did ended up at 2:30. And I used just about everything I could find. The only thing I held off on was the serious amount of exterior ship footage. But even then it isn’t that much.
Has this been finished?
This is all very cool.
Imagine what I think about the rest of the movie then 😦
So you were drawn to a thread about a movie that you hate…to enlighten us with your infinite wisdom? Because you don’t like it therefore it sucks.