Michael Jackson's - Ghosts [VHS Remastered]

Torrent contains:

Michael Jackson's - Ghosts [VHS Remaster].avi

Ghosts [VHS original sample].avi

Ghosts [VHS restored sample].avi

Torrent downloaded from Demonoid.com.txt







Copy and pasted from Wikipedia...

Ghosts is a short film starring Michael Jackson which could also be classified as a long-form music video. It was filmed and first screened in 1996 and released along with select prints of the film Stephen King's THINNER. It was released a year later internationally on VHS. The film tells the story of a scary Maestro with supernatural powers, who is being forced out of a small town by its mayor. The movie includes a series of dance routines performed by Michael Jackson and his "family" of ghouls. Every song from the film was taken from Michael Jackson's HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor albums. The film is also notable for an early film appearance of rapper Mos Def.







Details:

Original VHS version was a download I got from this link. It's details were as follows:

MPEG-1

25 fps

PAL

352 x 288

4:3

393MB







One thing to understand, 393MB for a 40 minute .MPEG video is quite low, it should have been at-least 500-600MB to create less distortion/pixellation. So when I restored this version from that one that is available, there are some artifacts due to the low compression of the original .MPEG video. :) I did remove a fair bit but some will remain, sadly. The original might look better to some people - but the pixellation is there still if you look closer, look through the brightness of the video and the fuzziness. That is what methods people used to do to clean up videos. That makes a video look 'dated' as a bad side effect. The method I used is recent and it does not date the video as badly.







This version is:

Video format: .AVI (DivX5 codec), PAL 25FPS,

Ratio: 4:3 (fullscreen)

Resolution 352x272 (nearly identical to the original resolution)

Audio: Dolby Stereo, .MP3 128KBPS CBR.

700MB.





The changes I made are as follows:

I removed the 5 second advertisement of the original 'rippers' from the intro and the outro of the video, I removed most of the graininess from the VHS video, I brought down the brightness (made it darker as it should be, for it is set in a dark setting a lot of the film and the original was way-too-bright), dropped the saturation a bit, I increased the volume in the left speaker for it was slightly quieter than the right speaker, I removed the buzzing VHS audio noise, converted it into a .avi using a reliable codec and encoded it at a higher bitrate so that it will not lose so much of the clarity. :) If someone could find a higher quality version of this VHS tape (at about 1GB at least, not just some simple transcode that someone did to make it into a DVD for them to play at home, I mean, one that you KNOW is not a transcode but a 1GB file made directly from the VHS tape itself, then I could make a FAR better version than this one. I am not that thrilled by the outcome of this one to be honest. It is okay but I know it could be much better if the original were better quality (bigger file.)