I was sure the LD had a different color grading; lately, another member did a capture and discover that it is identical to DVD, so at the moment there are two official gradings, LD/DVD/HDTV (open matte, don’t know if exists an OAR version) and BD/HD-DVD.
There is an HDTV version (ABC logo, 720p IIRC) with 1.66:1 AR floating around…
Don’t know if there is an entire post focused on this, but I think it would be great to gather info about HDTV versions - while many are identical to the BD, some could be different (better, perhaps).
Nope, it is just in a light coma… 😄
Can’t remember the original (a direct comparison would help), but this is very nice!
Try to increase saturation and/or red channel, or also add an orange blanket.
While original is too hot, with that teal sky and orange sand, your version is still too cold - we are in the desert, after all!
Try something in between - can’t say exactly 50/50, but certainly it need to be warmer. IMHO of course!
Too hot here to have the brain working right… seems to be on Tatooine… 😄
Let’s wait for a lower, human-compatible temperature!
Ronster said:
The whole wormhole sequence has me scratching my head. On the secrets of Stargate CD-rom there is an Extended wormhole sequence (original animation) but it is running at 20fps with frame drops.
It’s always possible to create missing frames using interpolation - sometimes it works really well… you can give it a try!
IIRC the best versions are NTSC for EP 4 and 5, and PAL for EP 6.
At least, EP 4 on NTSC has a bigger frame: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/215194
A lot of updates… but I post regularly on fanres - go there to read about these.
Exporting it with Audacity as WAV (Microsoft) PCM 16bit should work…
…nope… 😦
tarman, just record it, it may be useful for some kind of project here.
The problem is not ghosting; as I wrote, the image is pretty neat; still, it can be improved somehow with a second source; alignement is not a problem.
Take a look at what can be achieved - think I did it in ten minutes, with more time to test maybe better result could be obtained:
Andrea, why do you need to merge captures? This in itself is the best possible quality source of a WEB-DL. Plus this is 1080p. Do you have another 1080p source?
Yes, of course! This capture is great, but the one I have is very good, too; merging them would lead to delete eventual noise, while reveal some details; of course, it should be tested, as it not happen all the time. But, until now, I’ve seen that, even with seemlingly perfect sources, when merged with another (or other two, that’s even better), the quality usually improves - from a bit to a lot.
That’s great!
I’m sure that merging your capture, and the one I have, we could get the best of both world, and surely better than the single source!
You have a PM - watch in the top right corner, and click the bubble.
Hello erminhohp2011, welcome aboard!
It seems it’s a great source! I’ve just send you a PM.
Out of curiosity, do you have captured also Part 1, or you can capture it?
What’s about other chapters?
Thanks for your work.
Thanks for your kind words, and for the advice!
Subtitles promptly corrected; if anyone want the correct SRT file, drop me a PM; of course the revised version would be used in the remastered version.
Dre, awesome job!
Idea: it’s possible to regrade a whole film using just a trailer for reference, right?
Latest test: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/213025
Forgot to mention, it would benefit also of the Soft+Open Matte™ technique!
When (if?) it would be ready, you could always make an open matte trailer!
Anyone interested in this project?
Aliens open matte test clip #1: https://we.tl/WqiNF5IuW6 (906MB, link expiration date 2017-06-23)
Known problems:
first part of the shots inside the rescue ship has top slice darker
horizontal pan over the Earth is stuttering - my fault 😉
Please download and review; apart the previous noted one, the other slices seems consistent with the rest of the picture, in colors, brightness, grain - I’ve used the new Alien custom made grain plate from the very same film.
Waiting for your opinions!
The footage found here is very nice, too!
That’s great DrDre!!!