And from someone whose messed around with the simitar dvd release of film to watch it on a HDTV. And while the release is non anamorphic to begin with and that already causes a drop in quality not to mention the film being highly compressed even back when it was released. But make sure when upscaling it either use a program that allows you to crop and upscale it at the same time from the original dvd rip in the highest bitrate for maximizing the quality of it as it's not the greatest source but I've been surprised at being able to get it to look better than the dvd. As it will of course never be perfect as it's from a compressed source. But if you do it like that it should turn out better than some of the simitar shots used in astro monsters than were distracting for how pixelated they were.
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Will this bit appear as shown in the video in the reconstruction itself? As while yes it would nice to see it restored as best as possible. I'd look for another source or just not worry about the few seconds lost in my opinion it's best left out instead of using a few different sources of the course of a few seconds with many frames being heavily cropped and will look really off while watching it as the picture will be so small distracting to have quite a few aspect ratios changes over the course of a few seconds and again is very distracting, odd choice, and a bit of an eyesore.omgitsgodzilla wrote:It's just the beginning of the Japanese score, played over a black screen. The music that plays over the Toho Scope Logo and Japanese title card.
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Here's my reconstruction of the bit from the Frontier Missile sequence that's missing from the Simitar DVD, reinstated using the Siren and Classic Media DVDs:
The missing part is actually available in full scope via the German DVD; however the only version I can find online is such low quality I decided against using it - whether the problem is the DVD or the upload itself, I don't know, but it's even worse than the Simitar DVD by quite a bit.
Id even look into possible comparing the vhs of the film from simitar as I've heard it might look a bit better than the dvd even though it's non anamorphic too. But again it's your decision but I'd advise against using that reconstruction and just stick to it as it appears in the simitar releases as something like that is less distracting like when you did something similar in your astro monsters reconstruction. But it also didn't switch from so many times. And it's your reconstruction. But strongly implore you to stick to the scope aspect ratio of the frontier missile sequence as while it won't be complete it will honestly be a better reconstruction for it as it makes little sense to use so many different sources which don't fill the rest of the frame and is the main sequence that really differentiate the AIP version from the Japanese version and would be a shame to see such an odd instance pop up in what looks to be a great reconstruction as the scope stuff in that brief video looked awesome and I know I've stated numerous times I would prefer you just stick to the scope footage and not worry about the missing few seconds from the various other versions used in that sequence. Not worth the messing up the scene.
Sorry for the long post and if I repeated anything I just want this to be as awesome as your previous reconstructions
