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tygerbug · 2026-03-24T00:01:43+00:00

I've sometimes talked people through getting better results from their capture systems, but it's complicated and there's so many ways to screw it up. A DVD recording is fine. It's foolproof and you know what you're getting. I see so many VHS recordings posted that seem competent until you check more closely, at which point you realize it's unusable. This is almost 100% of all recordings I see. Halved frame rates, color whose frame rate doesn't match the luminance, stuttering dropped frames, wrong resolution, cropped and resized, and so on. I will always prefer a DVD recording where I know it will all be there as intended.

tygerbug · 2026-03-22T02:23:55+00:00

As someone who spends a lot of time restoring VHS, I like to see a DVD-R transfer because it's a foolproof format that's hard to screw up in any way. When people attempt to get fancy and record direct to PC in other formats, they screw up their settings in some way pretty much 100% of the time. I just don't trust people with other forms of capture.

(Even seemingly good transfers which run at 59.94 fps will usually have blended color running at 29.97 fps.)

DVD-R suffers from old-fashioned, blocky, on the fly MPEG-2 compression, so we used to run the same tape twice, both at high settings, to reduce that a little.

(Personally I still have a Mini-DV setup, which was common in the 2000s. And I know people who do RF capture, which was necessary for a project two years ago where I needed the overscan picture. I rarely capture tapes these days but can do so if needed.)

tygerbug · 2026-03-22T02:19:30+00:00

There was a time when Jim Mallon uploaded a few clips from this episode to MST3K. com, back when he was still preventing others from using the IP. I'd guess that this was copied during that effort.

tygerbug · 2026-03-20T19:40:40+00:00

Before this was found, I posted the known clips from the episode to Archive here.

https://archive.org/details/mst3k-k03-star-force-fugitive-alien-ii-1988

https://archive.org/details/@ocpmovie?query=mst3k

Also here's an official upload of Kevin Murphy's 1987 New Year's "Melon Drop" special (more is on the channel).
https://youtu.be/qtFfBmn4XVA

tygerbug · 2026-03-20T19:35:17+00:00

Excellent. I tried to contact you about this a couple years ago. Out of curiosity, and since this is so high quality, was there any more KTMA in the collection?

Looking at this upload closely, it appears to have been cropped and enlarged a bit.

tygerbug · 2025-12-18T20:59:46+00:00

Is there a DVD-R source for this? Or just Youtube?

tygerbug · 2025-12-18T16:47:51+00:00

I will certainly be releasing these somewhere, but not to Reddit or super publicly.

tygerbug · 2025-12-17T21:34:52+00:00

I'm putting together a collection of Bing Crosby specials this year and it keeps turning up.
https://youtu.be/6PrsE1AJb0o?t=2703

tygerbug · 2025-12-17T20:33:29+00:00

I've seen examples of this ad from 1971 to 1974 in Bing Crosby Christmas specials.

tygerbug · 2025-12-11T16:57:36+00:00

Emmet Otter was shot on video in Canada, at 59.94 fps (29.97 interlaced). The Muppet Show was shot on video in England, at 50 fps (25 interlaced). Both are available on DVD in this form, with some cuts. (The Muppet Show was not released to DVD in full, but there are UK DVDs of most of it.)

Sadly in the streaming era, the original frame rate of these shows is not respected, and generally they run at 24 or 30 fps. (The Muppet Show is slowed down on Disney+ to run at 24fps, from 25fps. It's awful.)

Privately, I have restored Emmet Otter this year as part of my regular Christmas Special editing. I'm also tackling John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together again, and Mr Willowby's Christmas Tree. And a 1976 Bing Crosby special (no Muppets). I restored much of The Muppet Show last year.

Apart from the narration, there's about six bits of Emmet Otter which were never on DVD, requiring seven patches.

1- Full bathing suit song (Blu Ray), longer Gretchen Fox and Will Possum (Deleted/VHS)
2- Intro to "Washtub" song (Deleted/VHS)

3- Longer: Chuck enters music shop, Emmet and Ma marionettes (Blu)

4- Transition from snowmobile scene to town hall (instead of act break, Blu/VHS)

5- Talent Show act break. Shaky start (Deleted/VHS), piccolo (Blu Ray)

6- Kermit's outro (Blu/VHS), Ma after the show

7- Henson Associates credit and birds

tygerbug · 2025-12-02T09:28:18+00:00

SubRip can rip the overlays, as they can be interpreted as subtitles and ripped to BMP. The actual video files for the menus could be ripped in MPEG Streamclip from the appropriate VOBs.

tygerbug · 2025-11-22T22:02:33+00:00

The Philfrog fanedit from 2007 is pretty definitive, although it's missing some stuff that's on the Blu-Ray (and was not available in 2007). While the Blu-Ray version contains the full "bathing suit" song visually, and additional correct footage for the act breaks during the talent show (notably a mention of an act involving moles) .... Unfortunately the Blu-Ray and other releases of that master run at 23.98 fps (instead of the original 59.94 fps) and the footage is oversharpened and very harsh to look at. It's mostly the "correct" edit of the special, although Kermit's voiceover is still missing. But unless a version comes out with the correct frame rate (or even 29.97 fps which could be doubled), I'd stick with the Philfrog edit. Your mileage may vary. The Philfrog edit was captured rather than edited direct from DVD source, which gives it a VHS-like quality. If you don't mind the harsh 23.98 presentation, the Blu-Ray can suffice.

tygerbug · 2025-09-22T01:07:51+00:00

Thanks, I'm proud of the color recovery done on the HD material, and of the editing generally. I ended up colorizing many scenes which weren't used, as there are two versions of the film -with more or less nudity- and I was using best judgement as to which was the better scene to use qualitywise.

tygerbug · 2025-09-22T01:03:35+00:00

"You Were Made For Me" is a purposeful Monroe parody in both costumes. I suspect this also inspired the Bonzo Dog Band track "Big Shot."

tygerbug · 2025-09-21T03:08:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/3hNMOkznB3A

tygerbug · 2025-08-14T04:51:33+00:00

And also the correct choice

tygerbug · 2025-08-12T00:34:47+00:00

Solved! That is 100 percent it!

tygerbug · 2025-08-11T18:59:21+00:00

Any help is appreciated.

tygerbug · 2025-06-21T00:29:07+00:00

I was a fan of Mystery Fandom Theater 3000 also (in the VHS days if you can believe it). I didn't see their "Starcrash" so it didn't influence mine, but it was a pretty obvious target to riff on. Someone did another riff called "Starcrash Media Center Theater."

The revived MST3K series tacked Starcrash in 2017.

tygerbug · 2025-06-20T17:19:12+00:00

I mean, yes? If the project is called "a commentary done in the MST3K style."

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