[Fan edit] The Matrix AAP-AR [EXPERIMENTAL VERSION] (two sources, old grading)

[spoRv]

The Matrix - AXIS-ALIGNED POLYGON ASPECT RATIO™ - EXPERIMENTAL VERSION

Are you curious to watch an entire movie with more image than both the letterbox and open matte versions?
Are you ready to watch it with a "strange" aspect ratio?

Comparison between HDTV 1.78:1 and AAP-AR version:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/128176

This version is AFAIK the first full lenght movie release with an AAP-AR; thanks to random.next and his plugin, the alignment is perfect in almost all shots (I'd say 99.9%); it used HDTV and DVD as they have very similar (but not identical) color grading.

Problems:

• sometime the alignment is completely wrong (first 52 frames are my fault) for a whole shot, or just for a frame or two at the beginning of a shot
  
• colors in the "slices" are different sometimes, due to not identical color grading of the sources
  
• there is at least a glitch which was present in the HDTV source
  
• no end credits
  

All in all, a nice presentation; after few minutes, the empty angles would be barely noticed - until you'll notice a problem, at least!

The video file has not audio, but it's in sync with the BD (until the beginning of the end credits), so you can mux a track from BD in any language; I've added the workprint track (fixed by jerryshadoe) so you can experience an even more strange version.

Have fun, and do not forget to leave some feedbacks!!!

Video (no audio included) - Audio (from workprint)

[spoRv]

Because this project used two sources (DVD and HDTV) with old grading, while new one uses three different sources (BD, WEB, SDTV), I thought it was wise to move comments about the latter in a new, dedicated thread - you can find it here: https://forum.fanres.com/thread-2009.html

Also, this version, being the first AAP-AR I've made, it's experimental (read: with some errors here and there), and it seems there is no interest in it - indeed, with more than 40 visits to the download link, nobody left a feedback, so I'll stop caring about it (I even deleted the lossless files), and will focus on the new one.

[spoRv]

Sadly, ncrypt site points now to usenet, so every ncript folders are lost forever... I deleted both lossless and lossy files, and can't find the zippyshare links, so if anyone has still them, please PM me, because a member from another forum could be interested. Thanks!

[TomArrow]

Sadly, ncrypt site points now to usenet, so every ncript folders are lost forever... I deleted both lossless and lossy files, and can't find the zippyshare links, so if anyone has still them, please PM me, because a member from another forum could be interested. Thanks!

I have the Matrix AAPAR thingy in my jDownloader2 and I did a "check online status" and it shows online but when I go "show download URLs" it only shows the ncrypt thingy. If you can tell me how to get it to display the proper links, I can give it to ya.

[spoRv]

It *should* open the link when you select "open in browser" - then you can copy the links... thanks in advance, Tom!

[TomArrow]

Sadly, it doesn't.