satanika

Yes, please post screenshots! So how did you do the upscaling?

There are a few frames that seem to be somehow blended across all the different versions/telecines (I wonder how that happened), did you manage to do anything with those?

Like this frame:

Oh, and what R2 release did you use?

Interesting difference between the R1 and R2 DVDs:

There seem to be many R2 releases. Dutch, German, Italian & Polish at least. Some have localized intro titles, some not it seems. Assuming the same transfer but different encoding it could be possible to average/median several videos to eliminate macroblocking.

If someone was so inclined & willing to track down several dvd copies of course :)

It doesn't say as far as I can see. I have the xvid, yes full of compression artifacts.
Sometimes you can tell from the artifacts if a dvd has been 'shrunk', if the blocks kinda go on and off - hard to describe maybe but pretty easy to spot once you're looking for it.

Thanks for another video, Mike, they're always interesting & informative.

How many hours would you guess you've put into that single shot?

I don't see blended frames/fields in the rutracker or on the youtube link above. I see aliasing from bad resolution/resizing on the youtube one, not on the rutracker one. Why don't you grab it yourself from rutracker since I can't convince you?

I tried some 'de-ghosting' on that image. It kinda works but you lose horizontal detail. Maybe someone else wants to play more with it. For the image below I used

lghost(4,3,50)
lghost(3,-1,50)

Now I'm not sure what you mean, are you talking about aliasing? That's from bad resolution on youtube, it's not in the pal rip. I don't really see any ghosting or other artifacts except the expected compression artifacts. It looks good.

None that I could see.

A quick comparison between the rutracker rip and an r1 dvd rip - the pal dvd they used is indeed way better than the us one.

I'd say it was worth it trying to track an r2 dvd down if you're really looking for a better version. They don't specify on rutracker what specific r2 dvd was used though, as far as I can see.

There are German (der tapfere kleine toaster) and Polish (dzielny maly toster) dvds that can be had quite cheap(ish), however they may be a different transfer.

Which dvd are you talking about? The 35mm scan dvd that was up for a short time on myspleen (anyone know why it's gone now btw)?

'Song of the South 35mm NTSC DVD.nfo said:

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Song of the South - 35mm IB Technicolor Spirit Telecine, NTSC DVD5 release (version 1)

Welcome to part 2/3 of our Song of the South Christmas Release!

This is the 35mm IB Tech scan in DVD format with a menu, performed on a Spirit Telecine.

Format : NTSC DVD5
       VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480
       AUDIO: 35mm stereo, AC3

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No cleanup or color correction has been done - Technicolor is one of the most color-fast processes
and this print looks the same as the day it was struck. This print was scanned on a Spirit telecine,
so unfortunately not top of the line, but still the best quality out there. This far surpasses the
BBC release, and should be the definitive until a 4k scan occurs. Again, for the holiday season we
wanted to make it available to the general public.

Originally, the small team working on this had considered waiting for cleanup on the Raw files
to be completed before release. However, due in large part to the cleanup coming to a virtual halt
(with other scanning projects taking precedence over a clean-up job and lack of true raw files)
we feel that now is the time.

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THIS RELEASE IS NOT FOR SALE, REPACKAGING OR ANY FOR PROFIT PROJECT.

This project is not affiliated, sponsored, or related to Disney. All properties are (c) and (r) to them.

My mistake, they seem to be some form of the despecialized editions, however hard to say which versions (1.0? 2.0? 2.5?), also I don't recommend xvid reencodes unless you need to play them on old hardware that doesn't support h264.

Also it's a straight bluray rip and not the despecialized edition.....

Something I saw that reminded me of RicRollie.

satanika said:

* If someone wants to help with subtitle editing/syncing that would help immensely

* If someone can capture SECAM VHS that would be an excellent help also

This would speed things up A LOT

The Japanese LD has hardcoded subs though.

doubleofive said:

Harmy said:
Oh, no, they are just in the order in which the donations came. I will probably try to put them into alphabetic order. Anyone know how to do this easily? I have them as a simple .txt file.

Copy them into a spreadsheet program, sort A-Z. Should work. If you don't want to do it, just PM them to me.

 Psh, young people these days...

sort acb.txt > abc.txt

I think it's a worthy project, and I found the sample an interesting watch.

I'd crop and replace the bars with pure black though, it's somewhat distracting watching it change from black to red to blue etc.

Otherwise, good job!

Where's my bribes then?

Might be time for a re-up of this 'gem', anyone out there interested?

Usenet only, unless heavily bribed ;)

I was rushing to finish this little project and was about to release it when I discovered I had made a mistake resulting in some blown out whites in the last part of the film. I didn't have time to redo it at that point.

I don't have as much time for this kind of work anymore though unfortunately, however these and other projects are definitely not abandoned. I will get them finished and out there at some point. I can't say exactly when though, sorry.

* If someone wants to help with subtitle editing/syncing that would help immensely

* If someone can capture SECAM VHS that would be an excellent help also

This would speed things up A LOT

My (not so) quick ANSI logo attempt (simple image edit+convert):

Text version here, if it doesn't look similar to the above you need an nfo-viewer.

Thanks for the interesting explanation Spaced Ranger... Never gave it much thought, but makes perfect sense of course.
The real question is, why even bother making those simulations, like How the West was won, if you're gonna be doing such a half-assed job at it...? Sigh..

Doctor M said:

Is this version posted as "Qui veut la peau de Roger Rabbit"?

Yes, it's an mkv though, don't know if there's a transport stream somewhere.

stretch009 said:

It's being released on bluray for the first time ever, in two weeks:

Ah, I thought it was out already for some reason.

I can confirm she does have her tits out in the hdtv rip..

Is there a list of all the changes somewhere?

What's the general opinion on the bluray - any problems with it?