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goofydylan8

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#1394261
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Scrubs - My Charlie Brown Christmas HD Remake (Released)
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In 2003 the cast and crew of Scubs made an edit to A Charlie Brown Christmas which featured the cast of the show voicing the Peanuts characters as if it was a mini episode of Scrubs as something fun for their Christmas party. A few years later the video was uploaded online.

I’ve always enjoyed watching the special but was always disappointed in the 240p vhs quality that the versions online were. As a result I decided to give a shot at doing a framesync of the special using the 1080p blu-ray source and finished that goal today.

As the original is a fan edit to begin with I am not sure what the rules about sharing but if anyone is interested in seeing my attempt let me know and I can PM you.

https://scrubs.fandom.com/wiki/My_Charlie_Brown_Christmas

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#1304593
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Info & Request: Muppet Christmas Carol - Widescreen w/ deleted song and Dir. commentary!
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Here is a screenshot comparison between the Disney+ bonus feature, the iTunes bonus feature, and the fullscreen DVD release.

https://imgur.com/a/3nRH3K0

The Disney+ screenshot is simply hitting screenshot with the video playing in fullscreen in Firefox as I don’t have access to a DL source yet.

From what I see it looks like it might be slightly better than the iTunes rip but still worse than the DVD which is disappointing tho I am more than happy to be proven wrong in case I am just looking at it wrong or a rip would look better. I guess this means there is still a use case for my dvd/hybrid. Sadly I don’t have good news on that front. I have got no where near finished and at current am planning on just watching a cut with the iTunes footage edited into the blu-ray movie with the dvd commentary slapped on.

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#1276524
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Info & Request: Muppet Christmas Carol - Widescreen w/ deleted song and Dir. commentary!
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To be filed under the category of “absolutely not feasible for me to accomplish this year but would be cool.”

When messing around with dym2005’s rip I noticed that while finally widescreen the video was much muddier and less detailed than even the DVD quality. I figured I’d give a shot to see what kind of results could be achieved if we combined elements from the DVD, namely the characters, matted onto the widescreen backgrounds of the iTunes rip. Below are the results of 2 frames of that attempt.

https://imgur.com/a/IuiQyIp

I believe the results are substantially better than either individual element with the major flaw being that at 4446 frames I would have to do about 1.5 hours minimum per day to accomplish this by Christmas which is not feasible for me. I understand that is why projects like De-Specialized editions are such an epic undertaking, but below is my process if anyone has a more optimized approach.

  1. Converted all frames to png using ffmpeg for iTunes rip and DVD rip (deleting out every 5th frame from DVD rip)
  2. Load iTunes frame and DVD frame into Photoshop as layers and Auto-Align Layers
  3. Polygonal Lasso the characters from the DVD frame https://i.imgur.com/p2QrONV.png
  4. Select and Mask the selection using these settings https://i.imgur.com/e2dm9lQ.png and duplicate layer via copy to create a smooth transition between the DVD characters and the iTunes background
  5. Delete out DVD portion that exceeded iTunes frame dimensions https://i.imgur.com/CF12BYZ.png and then crop to 1920x1080
  6. Save as png
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#1273537
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Info & Request: Muppet Christmas Carol - Widescreen w/ deleted song and Dir. commentary!
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So I’ve edited the clip dym2005 shared into the blu-ray at full quality. I can’t find a copy of the 2002 DVD release so I had to make my own stereo audio to mux with it based on the itunes When Love Is Gone rip and the blu-rays 5.1 downmixed to stereo. If anyone can help dm with a source of the 2002 DVD I can swap it out with true 5.1 audio and include the Brian Henson commentary as well as the 2012 release Muppet commentary with a 3 minute gap for the When Love Is Gone portion that wasn’t included and share the final result

EDIT
Actually just ordered the 2002 DVD. Will have updated versions in 1-2 weeks. Now if someone just has advice on where I can share at that point we should be set.