Time At The Top (1999) Elisha Cuthbert (v1.1 576p H264 6421Kbps QTGMC TVEAI VHS)

Time At The Top (1999) Elisha Cuthbert (v1.1 576p H264 6421Kbps QTGMC TVEAI VHS)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160986/

Starring:
Timothy Busfield, Elisha Cuthbert, Gabrielle Boni

"14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building's elevator. As altered by a retired physicist living in her building, it transports her from Philadelphia of 1998 back to the same place in 1881. There she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Gradually discovering the power of her time machine, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother Robert travel back and forth in time and succeed in changing both the past and the future."

This is one of Elisha Cuthbert's first films and IMO she did a great job. It has not been released on Bluray, DVD, or a WEB-DL. This is the version 1.1 release with subtitle updates from a knowledgeable watcher.

Screencaps:






I made a new 2020 rip of the VHS tape using a recently serviced prosumer S-VHS editing deck with TBC (Time Base Corrector)- the Panasonic AG-1980, and a newer capture card- a Hauppauge HVR-1150. I used QTGMC to deinterlace as it's the only deinterlacer that adds detail while reducing noise, essentially doubling the vertical resolution. I also ran the video through Topaz Video Enhance AI to add horizontal resolution. The difference from the old release is like night and day- now it's watchable, not quite DVD quality, but decent.

I created English subtitles from scratch as none existed. I had some trouble with them, especially the 1880s English slang. If you can help out, please do so.

After watching the movie, turn it up and see if you can figure out these lines, or any others that may be questionable. Please post to this video's comments section on 1337x. At some point, I'll add in the changes and release a new version. The first release had 3 times as many unknown lines, so we're making progress.

"----" indicates I had no clue what was said:

00:17:03.284 Miss Autumn. This house must be too taxing for you ---- - ----?
"Miss Autumn?" is that 1880s slang? "too taxing for you do I assume?" what?
00:38:35.632 ---- ---- ---- ---- to make your name.
01:30:38.392 Oh that's ---- saves me 5 minutes. Look I've seen shock before. How it takes people sometimes.

Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980, Hauppauge HVR-1150, a Core2Duo XP PC, a Core2Quad XP PC, a Windows 7 64bit Xeon quad-core PC, a Windows 10 Xeon quad-core PC with a GTX 1080 Ti GPU + a small window air conditioner to cool the GPU (seriously).
Software used: Virtualdub 1.8.7 and 2, Huffyuv, Lagarith, FLAC, Avisynth, QTGMC, Audition, Photoshop, Videoredo5, Video Enhance AI 1.6.1, Irfanview, x264, SubtitleEdit, MkvMerge, MkvExtract. All software was 32bit except for VEAI. Several posts on doom9 and Videohelp about QTGMC issues, about 2TB in temporary files, lots of notes and a month in time.


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