Published Tuesday 19 November 2024 by Mark Brindle in DCP & Disc Production

Cannibal! The Musical Blu-ray Finalising QC for Refuse Films Release

We are nearing the end of the Blu-ray authoring for the Troma/Trey Parker comedy-horror-musical film Cannibal! The Musical, originally released in standard def in 1993 for release on Blu-ray disc for Liam Regan of Refuse Films. The Blu-ray is scheduled for release as soon as a few more of the many special features and extras from the Troma Films archive are signed off by Liam Regan. Some of the extras have been upscaled from original NTSC standard def and delivered as HD720p. The main movie has been painstakingly restored by Mark at Maniac Films and delivered in crisp HD1080p on the Blu-ray.

The Blu-ray authoring has involved trying to fit so much content onto a BD50 dual layer Blu-ray disc - the audio on the main film consists of 7 different audio options, with multiple audio commentaries as well as a Music and Effects only version for anyone who wants to just sing along! There are multiple specials menus with looping music backgrounds and a complex pop-up menu on the main film for chapter navigation as well as changing audio options. Each video film on the Blu-ray has a pop-up menu for ease of navigation and bypass the problem with Blu-ray players not having a real 'back button' like you get on DVD players.

As well as the physical Blu-ray disc authoring, there is a lot of different artwork and data to correlate on the Blu-ray box packaging, inlay and booklet as well as connecting this in the disc menus. All thanks to graphic artist Mila who has worked very hard on this demanding project with lots of changes of content lengths and titles as it went on.

We have provided all the asset encoding and disc authoring for the Blu-ray release plus, testing and Quality Control, subtitle checking and manipulation as the original Troma subtitles needed some work. We will also be doing the final BDCMF conversion for replication and have organised the replication through Sony.

Cannibal The MusicalRemaster Artwork for the booklet insode the Blu-ray

If you have a film project and need help getting it onto DVD or Blu-ray then please get in touch with us at Maniac Films or check out our DVD & Blu-ray services for more information. We offer BDCMF conversion services or Blu-ray replication, English Caption creation as well as high quality Digital Cinema (DCP) encoding for Film Festivals and Digital Cinema Release.