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Explanation of release types (modern version)

maan 11-08-2009, 10:32 PM

== VIDEO RELEASES ==

CAM
A cam is filmed in a theater usually with a digital video camera. A mini tripod is sometimes used, but a lot of the time this wont be possible, so the camera may shake. Also seating placement isn't always idle, and it might be filmed from an angle. If cropped properly, this is hard to tell unless there's text on the screen, release groups who know their stuff will often fix the angle with some type of perspective filter. Sound is recorded with the onboard microphone of the camera, and especially in comedies, laughter can often be heard during the film. Due to these factors picture and sound quality are usually quite poor, but sometimes we're lucky, and the theater will be fairly empty and a fairly clear signal will be heard. Quality ranges drastically, check the sample before downloading the full release.


TELESYNC (TS)
A telesync is the same spec as a CAM except it uses an external audio source (most likely an audio jack in the chair for hard of hearing people, via FM at a drive-in theatre or or via induction loop). A direct audio source does not ensure a good quality audio source, as a lot of background noise can interfere. All a telesync is, is a direct audio source sinced with CAM video, so video is not always garunteed better. Quality ranges drastically, check the sample before downloading the full release.


WORKPRINT (WP)
A workprint is a copy of the film that has not been finished, it's a working print, something movie creators use to see what they have produced so far, and often used for composing the soundtrack. It can be missing scenes, music, special effects, and quality can range from excellent to very poor. Some workprints are very different from the final print (Men In Black is missing all the aliens, and has actors in their places) and others can contain extra scenes (Jay and Silent Bob). Workprints can be nice additions to the collection once a good quality final has been obtained, in rare cases, workprints can be releases internally years after a movie has been released. (A Blade Runner workprint was released in 2008)


SCREENER (SCR)
A screener is a copy of a movie sent to rental stores, and various other places for promotional use. A screener is usually in a 4:3 (full screen) aspect ratio, although letterboxed screeners are sometimes found. Often screeners have watermarks, tracking marks such as "property of" text and other markings and time code references. This tag is used if the source screener is VHS, actual VHS screeners are rare to none these days.


DVD SCREENER (DVDSCR)
A DVD screener is a copy of a movie sent to critics, rental stores, and various other places for promotional use, they do not have extras that a DVD retail would contain. They are more often than not in widescreen format, however fullscreen and letterboxed aspect ratios are sometimes seen. Often screeners have watermarks, tracking marks such as "property of" text and other markings and time code references.


TELECINE (TC)
A telecine machine copies the film digitally from the reels. Sound and picture should be very good, but due to the equipment involved and cost telecines are fairly uncommon. Generally the film will be in correct widescreen aspect ratio.


R5 & R5.LINE
R5 refers to a specific region of DVD released, region 5, the former Soviet Union. In an effort to compete with movie piracy, the movie industry chose to create a new format for DVD releases that could be produced more quickly and less expensively than traditional DVD releases. Because of this the scene (notable group PUKKA) proposed this new source tag as 'R5'. R5 tagged releases are simply telecine transfer of the film without any of the image processing common on retail DVD releases, and usually without any extras or special features. This allows the film to be released for sale at the same time that DVD Screeners are sent out. Since DVD Screeners are the chief source of high-quality pre-DVD release pirated movies, this allows the movie studios to beat the pirates to market. In most cases, 'R5' DVDs are released without an English audio track, requiring the use of direct line audio from the film's theatrical release. In this case, the release should be tagged with as "R5.LINE" to distinguish it from a release with a English studio audio track.

The image quality of an R5 release is generally comparable to a DVD screener, except without the added scrolling text and black and white scenes that serve to distinguish screeners from retail DVD releases. The quality is better than Telecine transfers produced by movie pirates because the transfer is performed using professional-grade film scanning equipment.


DVDRip
A DVDRip is a copy of a retail DVD, DVDRips are released as XviD but more commonly they are being released as x264 internal releases too, however these are internal and hardly spread at all.


BDRip
A BDRip is a copy of a retail Blu-Ray. Increasingly these days Blu-Ray's are being released before DVD's so a new source has been added to the TDX and that's BDRip. Even though the source is far superior, once encoded to XviD there is no difference between DVDRip and BDRip and thus they dupe each other (BDRip can not be released after DVDRip and vice versa)

Also, BDRips are released as x264, they are not high definition, but are much higher resolution than an XviD BDRip. They are often slightly higher resolution than an actual NTSC DVD, usually about 960x544, the picture quality is a lot sharper than a DVDR or retail DVD due to the much better source and codec used.


720p.BluRay
A 720p.BluRay release is a copy of a retail Blu-Ray encoded to 720p. BDRips 720p.BluRay release released as x264.



1080p.BluRay
A 1080p.BluRay release is a copy of a retail Blu-Ray encoded to 1080p. BDRips 1080p.BluRay release released as x264.



== DISC IMAGE RELEASES ==

DVDR
A DVDR is a DVD disc image release that has been altered to fit onto a standard 4.7GB DVD. A lot of the time these are released with some or all extras removed, any copyright warnings are almost always removed, if needed the movie video is reencoded using CCE at 6 passes.
DVDRs can be retail, screener, workprint or R5. They can be either NTSC or PAL.


COMPLETE.DVDR
A COMPLETE.DVDR is a DVD disc image release that fits onto a standard 4.7GB DVD and the source of the rip is a DVD5, so nothing is reencoded or removed apart from copyright warnings.
COMPLETE.DVDRs can be retail, screener, workprint or R5. They can be either NTSC or PAL.


DVD9
A DV9 is a DVD disc image release that fits onto a dual-layer DVD. Only copyright warnings are removed.
DVD9s can be retail, screener, workprint or R5. They can be either NTSC or PAL.


720p.BD5
A 720p.BD5 release is a Blu-Ray disc image release that fits onto a standard 4.7GB DVD. The video is 720p and uncropped at 16:9 aspect ratio, leaving black borders intact. They come as x264 in an mkv container, they also come with a .bat file that created a disk image file that is ready to be burned to DVD, these can be played on most standalone and Blu-Ray players.


720p.BD9
A 720p.BD9 release is a Blu-Ray disc image release that fits onto a dual-layer DVD. The video is 720p and uncropped at 16:9 aspect ratio, leaving black borders intact. They come as x264 in an mkv container, they also come with a .bat file that created a disk image file that is ready to be burned to DVD, these can be played on most standalone and Blu-Ray players.


1080p.BD5
A 1080p.BD5 release is a Blu-Ray disc image release that fits onto a standard 4.7GB DVD. The video is 1080p and uncropped at 16:9 aspect ratio, leaving black borders intact. They come as x264 in an mkv container, they also come with a .bat file that created a disk image file that is ready to be burned to DVD, these can be played on most standalone and Blu-Ray players. These releases are very rare, and would only be released for short movies.


1080p.BD9
A 1080p.BD9release is a Blu-Ray disc image release that fits onto a dual-layer DVD. The video is 1080p and uncropped at 16:9 aspect ratio, leaving black borders intact. They come as x264 in an mkv container, they also come with a .bat file that created a disk image file that is ready to be burned to DVD, these can be played on most standalone and Blu-Ray players.


BLURAY
A BLURAY release is a Blu-Ray disc image release that fits onto a Blu-Ray disk. Only copyright warnings are removed.


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