MST3K Cinematic Editions

[havaham]

What I'd love to know is how "they" actually DL these. Ive tried several methods that all crapped out on me.

LMK, I'll DL them and UL here for the group.

I find that using external Youtube downloaders on restricted videos always brings me no joy.  So I just log into Youtube with Firefox and use this addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...src=search

It will download the video and audio as separate files so I just use MKVtoolnix GUI to mux them back together.

https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVToolNix

There's a way to have the addon do it automatically, but I never explored that option.

Good luck!

[JusSonic]

So can anyone bring in the Mega Upload for Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988)?

[morphmaster]

^^^ I second this.

[peephalk]

Easy enough:

https://mega.nz/#!Jtk1FYwR!x7Skbdn8mL_R3...9kJpTu3_94

Deathstalker Cinematic Edition

[Riffling]

Thank you but can you reveal your sorcery to us? I tried to use the extension havaham recommended but it gives an error message for age-restricted videos.

[havaham]

Thank you but can you reveal your sorcery to us? I tried to use the extension havaham recommended but it gives an error message for age-restricted videos.

I think you have to give the extension permission to access your youtube account to prove your age.  Look for the options page.

[peephalk]

And if you use the extension havaham mentioned, you also must install the "AppData\Roaming\ffmpeg.exe" which comes with the app but doesn't automatically install. And, to save time without going another useless step to mix the files together, make sure to check the combine video/audio option in options>download options. Then you can download all the restricted material you want, like...

Cinematic Titanic Brides of Blood (danger on tiki island). This is the GaryInMotion version, not the one herod0327 posted, but the 2.45gb version:

https://mega.nz/#!JotT3QSQ!g84GJWW2R-P9P...FYRiaRD-vk

[Riffling]

-thank you havaham & peephalk.

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 think this is actually at the point of being doable in an automated fashion (although not without the right know-how that certainly I don't have): Using machine learning or other visual processing AI to do edge detection and then upscale (and add more chairs for the transition from 4:3->16:9 on a lot of movies). As always, I love lossless solutions but I'm not sure if you could also have it as a second video layer as a Picture-in-Picture or perhaps a (very big) PGS file. I don't believe the MKV container supports simultaneous dual-layer video though, although MP4 does. Again, right now this is wishful thinking but it's also getting closer to reality as AI tooling becomes more accessible.

[morphmaster]

Easy enough:

https://mega.nz/#!Jtk1FYwR!x7Skbdn8mL_R3...9kJpTu3_94

Deathstalker Cinematic Edition

Thanks so much.

[kkt]

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.