mgaribaldi83

User Group: Members
Join date: 17-Apr-2006
Last activity: 18-Jul-2013
Posts: 4

Post History

Post: #348329
Topic: RELEASED: "Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Special Longer Version)"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/348329/action/topic#348329
Time: 11-Mar-2009 8:37 PM

I'm also excited to see your cut of the film. I've watched the director's edition many times and the Jerry Goldsmith score is one of my favorites.

Post: #203134
Topic: The Shadow (NTSC Widescreen Preservation) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203134/action/topic#203134
Time: 21-Apr-2006 12:05 AM

Originally posted by: OgOggilby

Originally posted by: Mentor
The Shadow is Open Matte, not P&S. Simply zooming the DVD will result in better quality than transfering a matted laserdisc.

No it's not. The regular shots are cropped a bit and the effect shots are heavily cropped:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare/shadow.htm

Ah... So not only is the pan and scan R1 not worth matting, the R2 has a coloring problem with it... Maybe it is worth it to continue with this project. Thanks for the info!

Post: #202195
Topic: The Shadow (NTSC Widescreen Preservation) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202195/action/topic#202195
Time: 17-Apr-2006 6:49 PM

Originally posted by: bigrob
why not get the R2 UK DVD? That's widescreen and anamorphic

Thank you for the suggestion, but I'm interested in an NTSC widescreen verison of the film, not a PAL version.

Cheers!

mgaribaldi83

Post: #202139
Topic: The Shadow (NTSC Widescreen Preservation) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202139/action/topic#202139
Time: 17-Apr-2006 4:53 PM — Edited 15-Jul-2020 10:52 AM

Hi all,

After waiting for years on end, I’ve given up hope on getting a Region 1 ntsc widescreen version of The Shadow. The existing DVDs (DTS and Dolby Digital) are both pan and scan, so I’m experiementing with my copy of the widescreen laserdisc to create an archived version of the movie.

I am experimenting with Adobe Premiere to capture DV output from a Canopus ADVC-110 and a Pioneer DVL-700 laserdisc player. My first trial also uses TMPGEnc to encode the video stream and the results aren’t too bad. One problem I’ve found is that Premiere loses the firewire connection after about 10 minutes of capping, so I’m still debugging that problem (might have to do with my dual processor setup).

I’ve created a tiny DVD of the bridge sequence from the movie with a basic still image menu and it looks promising.

Any suggestions for possible bonus material, encoders, or capturing programs would be most welcome. I haven’t tried deinterlacing or anything like that and I’ve kept it as non-anamorphic.

Cheers!

mgaribaldi83