(Sep 29, 2019, 16:17 pm)Riffling Wrote: on as totally different topic, one of my dreams has been to create something similar to these Cinematic Editions with the Blu-Ray source but then also have the 'silhouettes' still showing, only remastered.
i've been thinking about this for a while too lol. it seems like you could determine the specific black level used in the silhouette and readily separate it from the background of a color film. like, making everything transparent/no color except for that specific color value seems like it would do 95% of the work on a normally-lit color film. i don't really know though, just seems plausible.
i've had another idea for 'ultimate cinematic editions' after I started collected rips with commentary tracks from MST3K'd movies. i've tracked down about 20 so far, some of them are really funny and informative (especially 'Zombie Nightmare' and 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who…').
subtitles from the original movie would be included too. they say the riffs over lines at times (even important ones, pretty sure they do that when the sampo gets explained lol) and sometimes the audio quality is just poor and hard to hear.
and some might say this is sacrilege, but some of the original mst3k audio could be spruced up a bit too. there are episodes with loud coughs (not comedic-type coughs), nose-whistling breaths, script pages turning, plosives and sibilance, parts where someone starts to say a line early but gets cut off, chair squeaks, etc. let me make clear I'm talking about just the instances of unpleasant sound, and not the sighs, stutters, mis-spoken moments and all the other stuff that gives it its casualness and humanity.
i'm no good with video, or putting stuff together remuxes/fandubs, but I'm pretty good at cleaning up audio if someone can get it to me in high quality wav format. I also have a lot of high-quality rips for about 70 original unriffed MST3K movies, about 40 full DVDs and about 30 VHS rips.