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Posts: 2051 (07/01/08 13:59:50) |
Hombre, the Gimp is a most awesome free image editing program. It has a ton of features, very similar to Adobe Photoshop, making it the perfect solution for
non-commercial/home use for no cost. For GIFs, I believe that when you save the file, it gives you the option to enter how fast it moves. It says something
about number of seconds between frames.
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Posts: 2052 (07/01/08 14:02:45) |
luisj40 wrote:
I did the same thing, though unfortunately I wasn't aware of this super sale, so I paid full price (still only $9 and some change for each). Knowing Deep Discount, they'll probably arrive sometime in August. Brant |
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Posts: 1879 (07/01/08 14:35:17) |
"I just spent all morning watching a VH1 special on Gwen Stefani. I don't know what a Hollaback girl is. All I know is that I want her dead." -- Brian the Dog from FAMILY GUY.
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Posts: 2025 (07/01/08 18:51:43) |
So, let me see if I'm getting this right about WVTVW. The version on the BCi disc is made of WS, but with edits reflecting that of WVTVW. And...the credits
are a complete botch.
Because, if I'm reading correctly, it sounds as if i could take the credits from one of the DVD's of WVTVW, add these to the BCI, lay down the audio track, and that MAY do it. Maybe. Or am I reading things wrong? |
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Posts: 11733 (07/01/08 19:47:17) |
The BCI version is indeed made from WS (but a bad print of it), with the unique elements of the American edit (the credit sequences) used also.
You could simply lay down an audio track from a genuine presentation of the American edit over the BCI WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN, but 1) it could still be off because of a rough edit or missing seconds, and 2) your version would still not look good because the BCI visual element of WVTVW doesn't look good. Mirek |
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Posts: 2026 (07/01/08 22:06:50) |
True. I think I may get the DVD and use that as a rough guide, though. It may still be off, due to minor edits, but with some work, I might be able to pull it
off.
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Posts: 1880 (07/01/08 23:05:43) |
The end credits are from WEREWOLF SHADOW, not WEREWOLF VS THE VAMPIRE WOMAN.
"I just spent all morning watching a VH1 special on Gwen Stefani. I don't know what a Hollaback girl is. All I know is that I want her dead." -- Brian the Dog from FAMILY GUY.
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Posts: 11734 (07/02/08 04:11:48) |
They are from both, actually. Take another look, ECC. And like the use of the beginning credits from the American edit, the end American credits come in
silent, too.
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Posts: 15 (07/02/08 16:36:53) |
I watched the new BCI of "Werewolf Shadow" last night and it's just terrific. My DVD player plays discs on my 2006 Sony HD TV at 1080, so the
picture is extremely sharp and the colors vivid. Watching the film in the original Spanish is almost a completely different experience. There is a great deal
more atmosphere, and, although it is impossible to take this film entirely seriously, the dialogue is not nearly as silly in Spanish as it is when delivered in
a wooden and hollow-sounding English dub (or maybe that's just because I don't understand Spanish). The music is particularly atmospheric. Are
portions of the music taken from "Tombs of the Blind Dead" or is it an entirely original score by the same composer? Also, I noticed that the BCI
repeats that duplicate take of the sacrificial dream sequence near the beginning, with one clothed shot followed by the nude variant. Is this repitition an
oversight on the part of the company that inserted the nude shots intended for export into the Spanish-language print? What I mean is, the other clothed
variants are excluded from the Spanish-language print, so why retain that one brief shot of the clothed woman on the alter?
Thanks again, Mirek, for doing so much to increase Nascy's profile in the English-speaking world. It's wonderful to be able to finally watch a restored print in the original Spanish and with English subs.
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Posts: 11739 (07/02/08 18:47:38) |
Thanks, Peeknocker. Cliff and BCI deserve the credit for taking a chance on these releases. I was just glad I could help in any way I could.
Regarding the score, no, it's original for WEREWOLF SHADOW and preceded the score from TOMBS, besides. Regarding that double shot, it's in all the WEREWOLF SHADOW versions. According to Naschy, it was taken from elements that were to be shown to film students, about the difference between clothed and unclothed versions and mistakenly left in, but I suspect it was put together for whoever would be releasing it to decide which scene they wanted to use--the clothed one or the unclothed one. Somehow, it remained in the release version of SHADOW. BTW, there's another such double scene which only appears in the Divisa Spanish DVD release of this film. It comes when Genevieve is attacked in the shed by Waldemar's crazy sister. Mirek |
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Posts: 1886 (07/02/08 19:49:38) |
According to Naschy, it was taken from elements that were to be shown to film students, about the difference between clothed and unclothed versions and mistakenly left in, but I suspect it was put together for whoever would be releasing it to decide which scene they wanted to use--the clothed one or the unclothed one. Somehow, it remained in the release version of SHADOW.I think its the same with TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD which is not actually a director's cut. It's an integral assemblage sent to Atlas to be edited into whatever shape they wanted (which is why the Spanish versions released on DVD in Spain likely have bloodshed and nudity not seen in the original releases). In the case of the Ossorio film, I think NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS was the only film he shot alternate takes for.
"I just spent all morning watching a VH1 special on Gwen Stefani. I don't know what a Hollaback girl is. All I know is that I want her dead." -- Brian the Dog from FAMILY GUY.
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Posts: 180 (07/03/08 06:24:45) |
ECC wrote: Excellent job, as always, ECC! Thanks for the comparisons.. |
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Posts: 16 (07/03/08 17:32:52) |
Yes...that is a great review, ECC. I recieved my AB copy of WEREWOLF SHADOW and will be a watching it tonight to see if I notice the same choppy effect as
exhibited in the BCI version. If I had known that the discs were to be PAL conversions up front I would have passed on them and never traded of my AB discs. I
seem to be ultra sensitive to the jerky video inherent in most (but not all) of the PAL converted discs I have seen.
I didn't notice this in the other BCI discs I've watched, but I confess to not having watched them all by any means.
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Posts: 75 (07/04/08 13:35:03) |
If anyone ever finds out if these latest 2 Naschy titles(Shadow and Curse) are available at Best Buy, as a double feature, or a 2 pack, please post it here,
and I will go there are get it.
Thanks, Carl PS. Today, I was as a local used shop, and I picked up the Madacy double feature with The Screaming Skull, and The Werewolf Vs. Vampire Woman. It was only 4.98, and I was curious, as I have never seen the US edit, and from I have read, I get the vibe, that it's liked a little more than the international version(WS). I haven't watched it yet, I hope the picture quality isn't too bad. |
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Posts: 406 (07/04/08 17:43:01) |
Latarnia wrote:Converting from PAL to NTSC, or the other way around, can be done in different ways. The conversion can be done so that the running time is changed. This means, for example, that a PAL film running too fast would run at the proper speed after conversion to NTSC. This would actually be the proper way of doing a conversion since you can also avoid the issues of ghosting or jerkiness, but it requires that the soundtrack is also stretched to match the pictures. However, most conversions for DVD releases are done in a way that retains the speed of the original. This means that an NTSC release that was converted from PAL still runs too fast, and the film will have a running length equal to the PAL version. This is in fact one of the usual tell-tale signs of a conversion. This procedure also means there will be either ghosting or jerkiness in the picture. The Anchor Bay UK version of Werewolf Shadow, which is PAL, runs 91 minutes. If the NTSC disc from BCI also runs 91 minutes it was almost certainly converted from PAL. |
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Posts: 1892 (07/04/08 22:54:37) |
Melkes wrote: To convert PAL-NTSC with the correct NTSC running time (that is, for film), you resize the image to 720x480, slow the framerate to 23.976 and stretch the audio by 4% and then insert a 3:2 pulldown flag into the video to get the 29.97 framerate for interlaced TVs while preserving the progressive image at 23.976 for progressive monitors. The BCI disc runs 1:31:09 (the Spanish disc runs 1:30:48 but the BCI disc also has a new Atlas International logo at the start). The AB disc runs 1:34:42.
"I just spent all morning watching a VH1 special on Gwen Stefani. I don't know what a Hollaback girl is. All I know is that I want her dead." -- Brian the Dog from FAMILY GUY.
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Posts: 1960 (07/09/08 12:06:34) |
Well I finally got CURSE and WEREWOLF yesterday (I ordered them from DD when they came out)
And I gotta say that the Spanish language ups this films quality substantially...too bad it's riddled with motion problems. It's really unwatchable...I sure hope they send out replacement discs like what BU did with their problem DVDs. |
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Posts: 2088 (07/09/08 16:20:17) |
I got the discs, and watched them too, but I didn't think it was quite as bad as I had heard. It's definitely unacceptable, and a step back from the
Anchor Bay disc, but I watched CURSE all the way through and didn't come away feeling it was completely unwatchable or anything. They definitely need to
fix this, though.
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Posts: 194 (07/12/08 07:17:27) |
Peeknocker wrote: I gotta take side with Peeknocker on this. I finally got around to watching the new WS last night and was blown away with the new vibrant colors! Man the pic quality on this blows AB's blah pic quality out of the water.. I also have a Sony HD TV and the BCI disc was beautiful (pretty much on par with the other earlier releases, if you ask me, whether it was mastered in HD or not!). Seeing this thing in Castilian with the new print makes for a totally unique and very different experience--WS now ranks at the top of my personal fave Daninsky flicks. Dare I say I like it even better than NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF, because I prefer Klimovsky's directing over Naschy's anyway.. The glitches on the WS print were just not that big of a deal to me which is why they weren't even mentioned in some of the reviews, including dvddrivein. Now CURSE is another story but I'll pay $10 any day of the week for one of my beloved Spanish horrors to look like BCI's WS (I wouldn't care if it had a single extra on it). Like others, I'm a bit saddened with the WVTVW print but I'm not going to let it screw up the wonderful experience I had last night with the new WS print.
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Posts: 11857 (07/12/08 07:53:27) |
Thanks for confirming what I thought about the BCI WEREWOLF SHADOW version when I first saw it. It really does look spectacular, as if it were on par with
BCI's HD releases.
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