Star Trek, The Motion Picture (1979, Theatrical, UHDRip, HEVC, 1080p, Commentary, REDWAVE, v1.0)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Theatrical)
Redwave Release version 1.0
HEVC, AAC, Theatrical, BluRay UHDRip, HDR 10-bit, 1080p, +Commentary, +Subtitles



When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/







Resolution: 1920x816
Container: MKV
Length: 2h12m00s (132m00s)
Video Track: HEVC 1076kb/s (500-3000 VBR)
Audio Tracks:
- Eng theatrical (7.1->stereo custom downmix AAC 160kb/s)
- Eng commentary (stereo 96kb/s)
Subtitles:
- English ("alien" translations only), English (full script),
- English (commentary)
- Danish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finish, Swedish (full script)
- German, Spanish, French, Japanese (commentary)

Intro:

This is the 2021 UHD Blu-ray release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the Theatrical release.

https://thedigitalbits.com/item/star-trek-original-4-movie-4k-uhd-2021
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/comparing-the-three-versions-of-star-trek-the-motion-picture/

It has been optimized for the best 1080p viewing quality while still offering a reasonable file size for long-term storage. Downsampling from UHD and then reencoding produces a cleaner output than starting with HD.

Cropping:

The UHD release is, as expected, poorly letterboxed by people who clearly do not understand HEVC and Coding Tree Units. They slavishly followed the theatrical aspect ratio and added letterboxes that are not a multiple of an HEVC CTU. Meaning, in this case, 263 pixels of letterbox at the top and bottom, a particularly awful number as it places 7 pixels of letterbox and one pixel of movie together in one CTU, wasting large amounts of codec bandwidth to encode, and poisoning that pixel anyway. If you're interested, look at the included UHD frame grab of a bright scene from the movie and zoom in until you can see the top pixel row below the letterbox. You can see it is hopelessly compromised. And it causes a huge amount of wasted bandwidth as the codec struggles to encode such a sharp delination within one coding tree unit.

This 1080p release crops the poisoned pixel off with the rest of the letterbox to round out at 3840 x 1632 and then is resampled down to 1920 x 816. Th

Audio:

7.1 and 5.1 tracks were removed for space. The 5.1 was downmixed to stereo using my own downmix formula that I believe produces richer audio than most stereo releases. This was encoded at 160kbps AAC.

Also included is the English commentary track at 96kbps AAC.

Subtitles:

The PGS raster subtitles in this Blu-ray are obnoxious and hugely wasteful of space. All subtitles are therefore converted with "MKV Subtitle Convertor" from the original PGS .sup to simple Subrip text.

The Tesseract OCR used by this is superior to most commercial offerings and virtually all online ones.

Still, it isn't perfect. Only the English theatrical subtitles were spell checked and preened. All other subtitles are as OCRed.

If you have the language skills and inclination to clean up subtitles, leave a messsage on the 1337x release page for this torrent.

SRT files for all subtitles are included. In order that they appear in the video stream, they are:

16.srt English (translations only)
1b.srt English (theatrical)
11.srt English (commentary)
2.srt Danish
3.srt German
4.srt Spanish
5.srt French
6.srt Japanese
7.srt Dutch
8.srt Norwegian
9.srt Finnish
10.srt Swedish
12.srt German (commentary)
13.srt Spanish (commentary)
14.srt French (commentary)
15.srt Japanese (commentary)

Enjoy!

~~~Redwave~~~

Redwave releases are contemporary reencodes of classic movies with the best possible current codecs. They are done at bitrates that allow for quality viewing at file sizes that don't break the bank for long-term retention.

When downmixed to 1080p, the conversion is done starting from the highest resolution available, normally 4k UHD, using end-to-end 10-bit HDR clean workflows. They are cropped from any offending letterbox along with any pixel rows compromised by the letterbox encode, giving only crisp picture.

The audio is downmixed from the best, generally 7.1 lossless, channels using a custom downmix formula that gives far richer audio than the studio's own (consolation prize) included stereo channel, then encoded with AAC at 160kbit. All commentary tracks are included.

Subtitles are ripped and OCR-converted from bitmap formats to SRT for widest possible compatibility and are simultaneously encoded in the container, and included as separate files. The main English OCR is spell-checked and manually preened.

Quality encodes, end-to-end.

Version History:
v1.0 - Initial release