Apocalypse Now Workprint (1979) (War) (Low. VHS) (5hr30min)

Fitz · Last edited by Fitz on Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

you all know apocalypse now I wont bother giving you details.

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See Dennis Hopper get killed via shotgun blast! See Martin Sheen stab a baby!! See the long lost fully uncut plantation scene and all of the footage shot with the Playboy bunnies!! Spend more time with Kurtz and enjoy his insane Manson-esque ramblings!!

This is the incredibly rare 5 1⁄2 hour Apocalypse Now!! Forget about the Redux, this is the real deal, the true, full-fledged vision of one of the greatest films ever made.

Taken from a rare workprint of the film, this one of a kind experience gives you a chance to see Coppola?s vision when it was still forming. This is not the polished, ready-made movie we are used to seeing. This is the rough around the edges, uncut first draft of a film that would go on to change the course of film making as we know it.

In many ways, this is almost a completely different movie, complete with some new characters, new events and new, gloomy fates for a few of the cast. Gone is the familiar Carmine Coppola score that sets the doom-like tone of the film, instead there are miscellaneous Doors songs used to fill in the blank sound spots. For fans of this film, this 2-disc set is a Godsend, a revelation of newfound importance and interest that only adds to the pleasure of watching Apocalypse Now in any form.

As you can see quality is not pristine, but this will never have an official release, this is the type of material that should not ever seen the light of day.

Size: 1.36 GB (Just split with virtualdub or something similar)
Video: XviD at 1028
Audio: Mp3 at 193 kb/s
Resolution: 512 x 384
Lenght: 02:39:42

I'll share the second part when this is spread. DON'T WHINNE THIS IS THE BEST I WILL OFFER.

ed2k: Apocalypse.Now.Workprint.-.part.1.avi [1.37 Gb] [Stats]

SECOND PART:

Size: 1.29 GB
Video: XviD at 1080 kb/s
Audio: Mp3 at 192 kb/s
Lenght: 02h 20m 54s
Resolution: 512x384

ed2k: Apocalypse%20Now%20Workprint%20-%20%20part2.avi [1.26 Gb] [Stats]

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karstmobile · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:04 pm **Post subject:**

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This is the incredibly rare 5 1⁄2 hour Apocalypse Now!!

Looks rough as hell, but who would pass this up.
:beerchug:

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:16 am **Post subject:**

I thank you very much for this rare item!!!

:beerchug:

d0c · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:46 am **Post subject:**

thannnks!

Bonnie_Parker · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:56 am **Post subject:**

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This is the incredibly rare 5 1⁄2 hour Apocalypse Now!!

I'm sure u inserted shots of ur last holidays in Vietnam and are fooling us ... u're not? Ok, then I'll probably click this :mrgreen:

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:01 pm **Post subject:**

looks interesting, will be on this soon :beerchug:

John_Doe · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:21 am **Post subject:**

the cropping?

Fitz · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:40 pm **Post subject:**

i'll release the second part today, as soon has the rip finishes I decided to put the audio in mono this time, has for cropping dont have patience sorry (translation do it yourself :twisted:

) at least I'm honest.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:33 pm **Post subject:**

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translation do it yourselfl

That's pointless unfortunately, the purpose is cropping is that Xvid spends bitrate encoding black boarders, in this case, about 50% of your bitrate has gone into encoding the black every frame. The idea is to crop at stage one, ie. the initial encode.

Now the mono conversion, that wouldn't matter if someone did it later, because its not as lossy a conversion, however, cropping the borders is 100% pointless if its already been encoded with them on after the first big re-encode (ie DVDr->Avi). If you want to read up on it, I wrote about why its essential to crop off every single black bit of border here:
http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=7124
and
http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=526

Its the easiest thing in the world, in gknot, you just have to hit the up arrows until it removes all the black, and then its cropped. Takes maybe 10seconds

If you crop off the boarders, the players draw them back on, but the idea is to make sure when its encoding, you are only encoding data thats important, ie. the frame data and not the matting. But someone re-encoding just to crop is a totally pointless, the 'damage' has already been done if you get what it means to not crop, as in they'd make no difference since the encoding has already been affected at stage one of the process, and you can't get better quality through re-encoding, only worse each stage.

smurfpower · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:31 pm **Post subject:**

Thanks a lot man, I?m on it

Have you got more of these unreleased stuff? I really love to see what a movie "could have been like" without the "final cutting"...

d0c · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:50 pm **Post subject:**

that guy that have the orginal must redo it.... to bad this is gonna be released as it is when it can be done better...

Fitz · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:28 pm **Post subject:**

I'm stupid enough to only use autogk, and as far as I know autogk doesnt crop. Yes I'm a windows bitch, yes I like it all easy, yes to all that, I just dont have the patience to do manual rip without punching my computer and throw my head against the wall, so for my own sanity I kept away from all that, I do not force anyone to download my rips, If you dont want it, dont click it, and if you can do better buy a dvdr copy and make it, I dont want to sound agressive, only setting up my point of view, quality is exactly the same, I can assure that, but well, you would never believe it. Quality is not an issue for me if it was I would buy or download entire dvd's rather that download divx. I tried to crop after the rip in virtual dub, but there was no result, my HD didnt have enough diskspace. I'm very thankfull for all your advises regarding the matter, but like I said dont want it, dont download it.

d0c · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:46 pm **Post subject:**

this is a bit more special than a ordinary movie, i must say.... if you got it on dvd just rip it and release as an dvdr. more easy than that it cant be and the quality will be 99% of the orginal.... riping vhs is another story ofcos... i am not agressive either but rare stuff should be given more attention than ordinary stuff.... just my 0.02 euro.... :argue:

Fitz · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:21 pm **Post subject:**

How many people are willing to grab this has a dvdr? asides d0c of course, If there is enough interest I can post an image of the full thing it's about 4 GB, 5 GB tops. It will take quite awhile though my upload is weak, very weak. Just so you can see it's the same thing hehehe, I dont really care. I have it already.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:14 pm **Post subject:**

I'd possibly download a DVDr, but if you don't have the bandwidth, I wouldn't bother on ed2k if your considering it. There just isn't the infrastructure to support a release unless you pre-seed it to some people who will help share. That said there's a few DVDr release groups so you'll probably be able to muster some support if you dig around.

Torrent would be a better way to get it out fast given that its a more optimised network.

I'm interested in workprints all of a sudden now lol, but I just checked ebay, and there's only two... Return of the Living Dead and Friday the 13th part umpteen, both by a canadian seller :lol:

platinumbreak · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:27 pm **Post subject:**

I do agree with Spud, since the release is so rare and almost everyone will be interested, can't we set a plan for a dvd-r release?

Fitz · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:14 pm **Post subject:**

I'm willing to send an exact sopy of the W.P. to someone with a very fast connection via regular mail, free of charge, preferably someone trustfull that can share the dvdr with a good speed, anyone interested PM me, I will not make this a regular thing just this once. I can senf to anywhere in the world no problem.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:32 pm **Post subject:**

Only have 256kb/s here

smurfpower · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:36 pm **Post subject:**

DivX, XviD, DVDR... I don?t care, I?ll download them all

But could you please get that second part up so I can watch this thing in the next few days? As soon as I see any file of this version I?ll put it on powershare to help spread it.

Fitz · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:38 pm **Post subject:**

added 2 part, the dvdr will be later, when I find someone.

Apocalypse Now Workprint (1979) (War) (Low. VHS) (5hr30min)

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