WARNING!!!
I have found ONE single corrupted frame - that has passed unnoticed, maybe due to a blink of my eyes... I'm re-encoding the project, and it should be ready in less than two days - thanks to my old PC...
I apologize for the mistake, but it's better to discover it before than after... (^^,) sorry for another delay...
Another great restoration of another underestimated movie; well done, Doc!
To whom it may concern: Beauty and the Beast [spoRv] has been just released will be released really soon; hope to make someone happy!
Disney's Beauty and the Beast [spoRv]
BD-25 RELEASED!
you could find it in the usual myinternalorganwhichIcanlivewithout.org
Enjoy!
false alarm, encoding error... you have to wait some day more...
@little-endian: as Jetrell has written before, we have all a life, even if I must admit I'd be more than happy to work in the video production field... but I digress...
Well, Waterworld is in the usual place (I call it the "project drawer", because I put there all my unfinished works, waiting to have time to work on them, and I have to take a "peek" inside, to remember what is actually in there...); it means it will be made, sooner or later; I must add that probably will be sooner than what I thought at the beginning - weeks, not months or years - so I ask to be patient.
To answer your question from here and Waterworld [spoRv] thread, and also following Jetrell's answer, you could always get the Cinema DTS but it has some flaws: no .1 channel, slightly out of sync (at least for the HD-DVD, but BD should be the same), inverted phase... I solved these issues, so again, you have to "only" to wait... (^^,)
While I'm finishing it, I recalled that I miss only the german commentary subtitles... if anyone has it (the theatrical version, and NOT the extended edition) this is the last chance to add it!
Jonno said:
In either case, the colour adjustments done for the DC largely remain in the theatrical cut (something that will hopefully be addressed in a spoRv - or similar - project at some point).
...it's always in my "project drawer"... (-^,)
semiOT: what's about Alien3 color grading of BD, DVD and LD?
@nirbateman: THANKS AGAIN! You solved all my subtitles problems!!!
@titanic: there will be both the BD and Laserdisc audio tracks, so you can listen to both and choose which you like most!
I've finished to make the video intro right now; going to make the video menu, then I'll make the BD-25, burn it, watch it carefully and finally release it; hope to finish all this night - or, probably, tomorrow morning... stay tuned, the end of the tunnel is near! (^^,)
I'm fixing the subtitles right now... hope to finish soon, it's harder than what I thought!
I should add that, in the TV trailer for this broadcast, there are also some 2.35:1 shots from Aliens...
Take a look at this: http://starwars.sporv.com
I still prefer to have the proper color grading, contrast level and much more image on all the four sides of the HDTV Vs. better overall details of the BD... then, a grain plate applied to the former should give back some of the lost details - or, better, fools the brain (through the eye) to *think* it has better resolution than before...
drngr said:
If the problem is memory consumption, you should be able to just encode a lossless intermediate file.
I did it... it's the same! Well, I will encode the small chuncks separately as lossless files (like the main one); then, I'll join'em all to produce the final x264 encoding.
LAST UPDATE:
After A LOT of technical problems (that I spare you to know, it's so boring...), I finally finished to encode the movie using my ColourMatch2new script; it worked pretty well, as wrote previously; in the few frames with artifacts (still to check the whole movie, though) I managed to make some further corrections, but...
The problem is, x264 crashes after few hundred frames, maybe due to the high memory and CPU requests asked by the complicated AviSynth script, and the low power of my system... nevertheless, shots with artifacts should be few and shorts, so I thought to use this last tweak sparingly, and here you are the result on the most offending frame:
Not perfectly regraded as the DVD, but still better than the original BD, color wise, and so all the movie will be sourced from the BD, avoiding the use of HDTV or upscaled DVD shots; I also decided to use the old ColourMatch script for very few shots, like the "green bearded Neo", where the new script clearly can't beat the old one.
So, I'm near to the V2.0 - until I will receive the laserdisc rip of the movie; then, I should redo everything from scratch! (^^,)
First, sorry for the late reply; the video is ready, what I have to do is to put in sync all the audio and sub tracks (IIRC I have them all, but I must check better) and make the final BD-25; I also need to finish the covers, and the BD menu; I must work this week-end, so I think next week this project will finally see the light of the day... happy to know more than one person is still interested in this!
The lossless capture of the video will be around 15/20TB, not so pratical to have a copy of that! (^^,)
I think a good encoded BD-50 will suffice because, as poita said before, the overall resolution will be lower than the 4K UK or the Mondo BD, as they are mastered from the negative, then good enough to retain all the print details.
Very interesting link, Jetrell! I'm going to read the Bleach Bypass technique now - used on Minority Report... thanks!
And I'm waiting to watch some screenshot comparison of laserdisc and BD (or DVD), as the latter two have almost the same color grading (differences should be due rec.601/709):
http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/index.php?vergleich=alien_resurrection
Frankly I don't think there will be much audible difference between bit-perfect 44.1KHz capture, converted to 48KHz to be BD/DVD compliant, Vs. analog capture (with a very good ADC) directly at 48KHz...
I think also that the analog tracks have very good quality - if japanese chose to put the japanese audio in the analog tracks instead of the PCM ones, *maybe* there were good reasons to do that!
I read somewhere, years ago, that the analog tracks could sound more "natural" than PCM ones, but this is "fuel" for a completely different thread...
SilverWook said:
I only have a laptop these days, and haven't seen an external sound card in stores recently.
So it falls into the first "exception" category! That's a very good option, indeed, and TEAC is a solid Hi-Fi brand; I remember their gorgeous audio cassette recorders... but I digress!
About recording of analog tracks; I agree, the DVD-Recorder (IF it has the PCM option, of course) capture at 48KHz, so you have not to re-encode the track for DVD/BD compatibility reasons, as you will be forced to do with the CD-Recorder, that could record only at 44.1KHz.
Even if I have a CD-Recorder, I have never used to capture LD audio tracks, as I don't see the point to use it for this... indeed, you have to record the CD and then rip it into your PC; even if it will take few minutes more than direct capture, it's still longer... multiply those few minutes for a large collection, and the total waste of time will be hours, if not days!
There are, of course, few exceptions:
If you have some minutes, take a look at this post.
IIRC, there are some frame of difference between DVD and BD, so if you would like to use the DTS track from the spoRv version - that is, by the way, messed up - it will not be in sync; again, IIRC.
You could always use TSmuxer to mux the tracks to .m2ts file, that should be readable by the PS3, too.
The problem is, there is no perfect upscaling technique, as it implies to create something that is not there!
Said so, there are some methods better than others, but to obtain good results you have to study them... if you have a lot of patience and time to dedicate to video editing, my advice is AviSynth; if you have less time and patience, try VirtualDub (and VirtualDubMod too)
They are both free, and have many filters; between them there are many upscaling ones; my preferred software is still Avisynth, though; in particular, there are many more upscaling filters to choose!
You should visit http://amps.boards.net - there you will find many OT users, really expert in this field; I think poita is the Jedi Master of the 35mm prints, so just read everything he posted there to learn the basis of the argument.
Thanks for the time you dedicated to the comparisons!
jimjimmyjones85 said:
What are the chances of taking a look at Fx and Fx2 ?
According to Blu-ray.com, they are not available on blu-ray format, but maybe there are foreign versions... I was thinking to do Candyman, then I discovered that an italian bd exists... further investigations are needed.