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Restoring media: gauging interest & work in progress.
I am interested in restoring some obscure movies released on VHS or DVD in the 80s and 90s that are now out of print. Pirated copies are available online, but due to the limitations of technology at the time, these copies are often of dubious quality. I'm trying to gauge interest, collect feedback, and possibly locate other sources.
Tarzan-X: Shame of Jane (1994): I have managed to track down five different versions of this title. 1) The DVD9 source material (02:16:14) suffers from incredibly bad editing with repeated and missing scenes to stretch the movie's length. The audio track is messed up with random ambient music unrelated to the action, and the picture is severely cropped with a 1:1 aspect ratio. An AI upscale of this version is available online, but the source material is so poor it's not worth keeping. This is by far the worst version. 2) The Video-CD source material (01:05:01) was released online around 2009. The file is encoded with XviD @ 1,920 kb/s, but unfortunately, the colors are washed out and this version is missing about 30 minutes of content. 3) The VHS version (01:37:32) is a transfer with a modern video codec (AVC) @ 6,227 kb/s. Despite the generous bitrate and relatively high resolution (698x456), this version is plagued with artifacts and defects from the VHS tape. This version was ripped and released in 2023. 4) The German DVD version (01:37:37) was ripped and released online around 2015. With an AVC codec of 1,889 kb/s and a resolution of 720x578, it was a likely candidate for restoration, but the quality is even worse than the VHS or Video-CD versions. 5) The last copy I found is from 2006, probably from a DVD source (01:34:32), which seems the most promising. Unfortunately, this DVD rip used a DivX codec @ 938 kb/s at 512x408 resolution. There are compression artifacts and macro blocks everywhere due to the low bitrate and the H.263 codec (mind you, the other versions are often worse). This is the DVD source I've been desperately looking for nearly 20 years. Do you think it is worth restoring this title from such poor pirated sources? Added some screenshots of the source and restoration (mostly tone mapping, upscale). Source #5 blowup at 4k: DivX codec @ 938 kb/s at 512x408. Restored: 1440x1080, tone mapping, color correction, fixed aspect ration from 5:4 to 4:3, fixed compression, some denoise, detail recovery and grain simulation. Side by side comparison. |
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