[REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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I think I have about 8 versions of this film, including an original VHS tape I found in the dollar bin. Of course, I don't have a VHS player any more, so... :lol: I guess I have to download this version too. ;)
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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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ghost wrote:My next release is a restored version of the uncropped recording from german TV broadcasted in 2008 (ratio is 4:3).
Strangely no one has commented about this yet, but: is it just my impression or is the bathing tub scene in this version not totally uncensored but slightly pixelized at the most interesting parts? It looks a little blurry and if you look more closely there seem to be some little squares. In the version of lower resolution they seem also to be there but some how the lower quality seems to counteract the effect. It could of course also be due to re-encoding but it would be a big coincidence if it were visible exactly at this place ... :? :(
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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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It's hard to say. I think it is just because of the pretty bad source of this file. This was broadcasted on german TV many years ago.
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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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In the page of the mysterious clips I found an improved one where keith hits Brooke (he was treating her like his daughter) that clip is of better quality and sure of a full video with better resolution but the bad thing is that it seemed like edited the movie that I saw years ago in old format the camera angle used to be more remote
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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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12 pages and counting :lol:

On uloz, there are a 16 and a 8 Gb version in mkv, anyone checked these ? Seems too good to be true. Artificially inflated or wrongly recoded ?
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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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I checked the 8GB version for you. I'm not sure what you are looking for but the quality doesn't seem that good in the first 15 minutes, as far as I went. If you are looking for an uncropped version, this isn't it.

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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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relic wrote:I checked the 8GB version for you. I'm not sure what you are looking for but the quality doesn't seem that good in the first 15 minutes, as far as I went. If you are looking for an uncropped version, this isn't it.

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Thank you for checking the file. The best version we have so far is a 1920x1080p, around 4 Gb. So the question was is there anything better, = in higher definition (cropped or not), I doubt it exists, as you seem to confirm. And higher resolution does not imply better quality, for instance a 720p can be converted into a 1080p, it will appear bigger on your screen but the quality will remain the same as the original, that's to say 720p. To get something in higher resolution with great quality the original material must be excellent (like the original 35mm film scanned in 4K for instance).
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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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I would gladly take a good 720p version if it only were uncropped and really uncensored (cf. my last post above :?) ... ;)
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Tiny Blondie wrote:To get something in higher resolution with great quality the original material must be excellent (like the original 35mm film scanned in 4K for instance).
If an uncropped, totally uncensored HD version (or 4K!) were out there, someone would've found it by now. The only way we'll ever see such a thing is for the studio to release it. Unfortunately in today's environment that seems unlikely, if not for the well-known controversy surrounding the film there'd already be a blu-ray out. I haven't even seen it shown on premium cable channels for many years.
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Re: [REL] Pretty Baby (1978)

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Well, it looks like Paramount won't give us a 1.33:1 open matte version in 4K of this film :(

Somehow I still managed to get the 7 GB laserdisc rip posted in 2011 on page 4. This version was the best source to start working on it again...

I had to do a lot of color corrections, sharpening, denoising, deinterlacing and some other things to get a viewable picture. The sound of this rip was terrible and in mono and didn't sync with the DVD...

After many many hours of encoding I am pretty pleased with the result. This could be the best version of this movie in 4:3 and uncropped we can get atm:

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I muxed it with the english and german audio from the DVD.
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Complete name : Pretty Baby (1978).LD.uncropped.ger-eng.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 1.75 GiB
Duration : 1 h 45 min
Overall bit rate : 2 383 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-01-21 08:04:04
Writing application : mkvmerge v42.0.0 ('Overtime') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.1
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1 h 45 min
Bit rate : 1 995 kb/s
Width : 768 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.180
Stream size : 1.46 GiB (84%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.601 PAL
Transfer characteristics : BT.470 System B/G
Matrix coefficients : BT.470 System B/G

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : A_AAC-2
Duration : 1 h 44 min
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 144 MiB (8%)
Language : German
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : A_AAC-2
Duration : 1 h 44 min
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 144 MiB (8%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
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