Hey really nice job Kaleyboy,

btw, did you also put the movie in 16:9 or it's still for 4:3 screens?
Doing the subs for that must have been a hell of a ride.


:)

-- Edited by Monkeygift on Monday 18th of October 2010 03:58:48 AM

Thanks guys! I tested it in 16:9 and it looked very squashed, like the actors were midgets. So I just did some corrections, but kept it in it's 4:3 ratio, as it looked far better. However, it's encoded to work perfectly on 16:9, 4:3 & pan and scan screens. It automatically adjusts according to the DVD player setting.


-- Edited by kaleyboy on Monday 18th of October 2010 07:08:19 PM

I tried convertXtoDVD. It caused extra black bars at the top and bottom of the screen on a 16:9 TV. Like it was double-letterboxed. I've used the program to correct AR on other releases, but it just didn't work well with this.

Yes, I tried to do it manually in convertXtoDVD, and it looked fine on the program and in media players on the PC. But when I burned it and played it back on my 16:9 WS TV (40 inch), I got like two sets of bars. The standard ones that are meant to be there, and an extra smaller set. It didn't look good. So I changed it back and it looked fine. It looks absolutely great on a widescreen TV, otherwise I wouldn't put it out. I only have widescreen TV's at home, no fullscreen ones. The version released is AR adjusted, I have changed it using convertXtoDVD, but I've kept the 4:3 flag in the IFO, otherwise it looked weird.


-- Edited by kaleyboy on Tuesday 19th of October 2010 03:03:16 PM

Which remastering programs are you using?
I usually work with VirtualDub.
They have one cool application were you can add black bars on top of those existing
black bars you have there, in order to make them pure deep black instead of gray
so that you don't notice as much that it comes from a VHS.

Here's an example from a movie I remastered called "The Hungry Snake Woman". I took the Japanese VHS and put it in widescreen 16:9 and I masked the already existing black bars with deep black "black bars" so that it looks more clean.



-- Edited by Monkeygift on Friday 22nd of October 2010 03:16:36 AM

Yes you are right, some videos I tried different approaches too. However, Virualdub covers much of my work, but it does need the help of 3 other programs at least to finish the job.
Now I have a whole buch of filters tso I'm pretty good with the program but it took me over a year to know exactly what to do in different situations (washed out film, Black and white, etc). I'm still learning some new things from time to time.

Do you do your own subs by the way? If yes, that means you do speak speak French right? (just like me ;) )

cheers!

What filters do you find work best in virtualdub? I have a couple of FLV files I'd like to clean up, thought maybe I'd give virtualdub a try as an experiment.