thephantomaton

So far no responses but I’ve gone ahead with my investigation. It looks as if the Universal DVD 5.1 and the Arrow 5.1 might be the same track. I compared in both Sony Vegas and Spek and they look and sound virtually identical.

I haven’t fully investigated it yet as I got the lossless Arrow track really late at night and just did a quick comparison before bed. I will conduct a full investigation this weekend.

Dune was released in 70mm during it’s original theatrical release with a 6-Track Dolby Stereo Mix

The 70mm prints of “Dune” featured magnetic Six-Track Dolby Stereo (“A” encoded Baby Boom format [Dolby processor setting “42”]) and 2.20:1 imagery blown up from anamorphic 35mm and provided a superior projection and sound experience in comparison to the film’s 35mm prints.

Source

About the only description I can find about what this 70mm mix sounds like is an old FanRes post about 70mm mixes where someone said the intro had way more bass than on home media with another user speculating that the '97 AC-3 Laserdisc might have the mix. I currently have my hands on the '98 Universal DVD which apparently uses the same master as the AC-3 Laserdisc and might have the same audio since both have Dolby Digital 5.1 track.

The only other info I have found is that even if the Laserdisc isn’t the 70mm mix it’s still might be a different 5.1 mix than the Universal or Arrow BD as an old DVDTalk review of the HD-DVD noted that the Laserdisc had significantly more bass and was much louder than the HD-DVD mix (which was ported into lossless for the Universal BD, but increased by at least 10db for some reason).

If anyone else has recollections about seeing Dune in 70mm or a cap of the AC-3 Laserdisc for comparison I would be much thankful. I plan to sync this 70mm mix to the 4K for a personal project.

I haven’t been on this website much but 1.0 is ready for download, if anyone is interested in a download just PM me

EDIT: PM me for a DL Link

Hi!

Robots is one of my all time favorite animated movies, However the DVD/Blu-Ray/Streaming releases of the film are marred with a dirty ugly brown tint and a really dark image.

BD Screenshots:

I’ve started working on a color restoration project to restore the original, vibrant, clean colors as originally shown in theaters. Right now I have the white balance done and currently going through the entire movie to make sure every shot looks right, a 15 minute sample will be available soon. Special Thanks to UntitledJunk on twitter for providing me proper color references and inspiring me to do this project

CC SCREENSHOTS (NOTE: Not final, subject to change):

Video/Audio Source: Official Blu-Ray
Color References: Promo Stills (Sourced from a Czeh Website)
Software Used: Sony Vegas 18

Progress is currently halted at the moment and i don’t know when ill be able to get back to working on this since i don’t have computer access at the time of writing, But rest assured i will finish this! I’ll still be sending out the sample to people who pm for it.

EDIT: Postponed until further notice, working on a different more important project
EDIT (2025): MEGA deleted the sample, It is no longer available.

I got inspired to do this from a reddit post on r/fanedit that proposed the idea of an edit of Pixar’s Cars where it changes into the 2 different Open-Matte versions (4:3 and 16:9) Sort of like a IMAX type thing. The OP later decided they weren’t going to do it so i decided to do what they didn’t

So the ratio will change depending on the scene

Scope (2:40.1): Most of the movie
Open-Matte (1.78.1): Races and Action scenes
Fullscreen (1:33.1): TV News Scenes

This will mostly like be a weekend project i actually finish instead of just abandoning it

Also if anybody is interested, I need assistance with upscaling the Fullscreen version as it’s only 480p since it’s from the Fullscreen DVD release and my computer is pretty bad. Help would be appreciated.

PM for a 28 minute sample of what i have so far.

Sources:
1080p Blu-Ray
1080p OM WEB-DL (RUS)
480p Fullscreen DVD

with Creed III hitting VOD and it being the first movie in the Rocky Franchise to filmed in IMAX. I’d thought I’d give a similar IMAX VAR treatment to the Creed II

To create this i will be using the Official Blu-Ray for dialogue heavy or calm scenes as it’s not really necessary for those to have all that extra space. For fights and action scenes I’ll be using an 1080p Open-Matte Web-DL (found on Rutor) for those scenes.

Keep in mind (like with almost all Open-Matte versions) some of the sides are cut off however they aren’t major so it’s not a big deal

Sources:
Official Blu-Ray
Creed.II.2018.WEB-DL.1080.Open.Matte.mkv

Edited with Sony Vegas 15

See ya!

JayArgonaut said:

Thanks! @thephantomaton 😃

It’s nice to be able to compare this to the regular version(s).

You might want to remove the D/L link from your post and invite people to PM you for it instead…

got it, just did

UPDATE: Just acquired the HISTORY Channel version via Google Drive.

Edit: PM Me for the GD link

While not quite the Bounce TV Version, someone on the youtube comment section of “Scarface TV Version - funny as hell” says he has a recording of the HISTORY channel version and replied with my email so he could send it my way. Once I receive the copy I’ll be sure to send it here

Tommy Boy is what I would consider to be my favorite movie of all time so i felt like transferring the 4:3 VHS to digital because judging by old yt clips the version on VHS is Open-Matte, I plan to release it on the internet archive.

At the time of me writing this the tape is currently recording on obs and I’m having issues with some purple-green line at the top and I’m currently in the progress of moving and can’t afford a new AV to HDMI converter so I’m thinking a color correction solution would work, I’m not good at color-correcting so anyone willing to help will be greatly appreciated

Sources:
1995 Paramount VHS (Video)
2008 Blu-Ray (Audio)
1998 OG DVD (for a possible UAR project)

Recorded on OBS at 1080p MKV Format

Another Enthusiast said:

An interesting read

https://www.in70mm.com/news/2002/star_wars/index.htm

wow the IMAX version was really a last minute thing? that’s crazy

Slavicuss said:
Are you planning on doing the same for the other two prequels - or any of the other STAR WARS films?

maybe RotS but probably won’t do AotC because there’s an hd fullscreen version of that movie from HBO. I also thought about force awakens and using the Jakku Place IMAX sequence. But this project probably won’t go anywhere beyond shits and giggles

Just a simple project I’m currently working on to practice 4:3 Framing, Also going to attempt to frame scenes better than the official P&S versions

Sources:
2011 Blu Ray (unless someone can get me a copy of that HDTV Rip)

Other than that I’m using Sony Vegas for the editing.

See ya

Luke - Jabba’s Place ROTJ
Leia - ANH
Han - Hoth Blue Jacket

I watched the whole video and it is clearly biased but it’s also kind of an interesting video about just difference in other films not just star wars, I feel like the star wars parts of the video are kinda just eh.

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Fang Zei said:

I seem to remember reading on imdb that it was 1.81:1, which would’ve roughly split the difference between the 2.39:1 aspect ratio AotC was actually finished at and the 1.43:1 of the Imax prints.

Interesting, I guess they were actually trying to accommodate the movie for IMAX screenings even if it meant losing image (ironic really). Unlike many after which were just the regular version on an IMAX screen, i guess that’s why we have Dolby today

I’ve read various conflicting claims of how ATOC was presented in IMAX cinemas. I’ve mostly heard 4:3 P&S (which would very unusual) but I’ve also heard some claims of 1.85:1. Does anyone really know I’m just really curious

Fullmetaled said:

No one has even remotely tried to do a modern cgi take on the prequel trilogy yoda at all. 😦

i mean it wouldn’t work lore wise since yoda was younger in the prequels than the ot

Is there anyway to get a raw scan version of this, i would love to see it

yo this looks sick, I’m planning on watching the original trilogy this weekend (via the 4k projects) so i wondering can i have a link to the subtitles