marioxb

Originally posted by: Jaiman Tuckuh


There are automatic logo removers - but they'll give you (a) distracting blurry area(s).

Or it can be done with a compositor (preferably with motion-tracking to compensate for camera movement). Mask off the credits, and then take the clean frames before and/or after each credit to replace them. But whenever an actor (and the leaves, in this case) move, you end up with something that resembles glitches in the mpeg. So you have to do corrective surgery in an image editor. Morph/tween/slo-mo proggies can interpolate between the clean frames to give you something to patch with - if you're lucky, you can repair one or more frames, then tween again. Tween gets confused if there's a lot of movement between frames, but you can clip to matching portions of each frame.

I can do the compositing, but I don't have time to do the frame-by-frame image repair. (I'm in the middle of cleaning up credits from a couple of TNG episodes, which is tough, in places, because the credits are huge in comparison to this one's).

Compositing doesn't work for all credits. For example, it wouldn't help where the camera is flying over the everglades, because the perspective keeps changing. But I doubt if an editor would want to use those shots anyway - too lengthy for anything other than credits. And the rotating shot of the building would need a lot of hand work to fix the foliage. You can fix a single frame to look good - but when you fix a bunch & put it into motion, you see fluctuations... you can fix half the frames and do a slo-mo, though, and that'll smooth it out some...

Looking at the DVD, most of the shots look fairly reasonable. But there are always problems that you don't really notice until you've done the compositing.

Image editing is a ***** at DVD resolution, by the way. It would be infinitely easier to repair HD-rez frames & shrink them. There was a Bond flood in a.b.hdtv, but those have all expired. I haven't seen them in the repost group, yet. But they might turn up again. Maybe somebody downloaded them?

HD would also give you the choice of cropping out parts of the credits...

There would probably be some color grading issues between the DVD and HD versions, maybe not distracting if you stick to whole shots. I'm not knowlegeble enough to deal with that problem, yet.

It would probably be feasable, right now, for a company to make tweening software that could automatically remove credits/logos in most scenes. But nobody's gone that far yet. It could read previous frames, interpolate & tween, and you'd just tell it what sections to replace. The makers of another type of software are talking about doing one of those functions, for another purpose. One of these days... maybe...

Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
The only thing I was wondering is there any work being done on a superb cover for this release.

Yes, here is a preview.

Will the bonus disc have images of japan released artwork, and u.s. artwork etc?

As many pics as I can find will be on there.

the only complaint I have is not directed at you but the director's/producers of the film, is that Cammy should've been in the film more and the film should have been longer.
the actress who played her on the live action film was hot,

Yes and Yes!

Too bad a fan edit of the (live-action) movie cannot be made that does treat the material less rediculously.

Well, this will also be included on the bonus disc:

Originally posted by: bigrob
i've been messing round with Street Fighter the movie with van damme and managed to cut together a brilliant cut which lasts around 3 minutes long. weird thing was though that the plot was left intact!

Originally posted by: dark_jedi
marioxb i added your cover art to the dvd-rom folder,is this OK?
hopefully guys this will be up tomorrow(Childs Play HD2DVD).
DJ

Originally posted by: dark_jedi
Childs Play is done,just waiting on artwork,

Originally posted by: TheCassidy
The Child's Play cover will be done tomorrow,

Originally posted by: r_a_s
okay the torrent files are up now. this is my first time making a torrent but i'm confident i've got it right cos the correct file size is showing up. At the moment i'm not sure how much i'm going to be online because i'm waiting to change my ISP but for the meantime i will try and seed as much as possible.



mininova.org
just search for street fighter special edition...there are two versions, one standard DVD format and one ratDVD format.

Originally posted by: ocpmovie
MarioXB - The released versions bear absolutely no resemblance to the true version of the film, so comparing them on a really detailed level as if they are worth analyzing is pointless. No one has done it and no one should do it.