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The description says it's an Agfa print from 1980, on polyester.
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Interesting... I wonder if it makes a decent color regrade source given it looks to be in pretty good condition–possibly resultant from it being an IB Tech print.
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A rare (and very long) Italian trailer for Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time in the West" from 16mm https://youtu.be/dYFiuZK51-A
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What if you used a HDMI capture card that you pop on the HDMI OUT of the Shield? Would something like this allow you to do so? https://www.amazon.co.uk/USB-Capture-HDM...B0754C5XLW
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I have it installed on my shield TV but no way of capturing that I know of? I have a free rental or 2 and they have some 4k movies not available anywhere else
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Good question, I hadn't heard of UltraFlix until you mentioned it today, Mike. Surely there must be a way to intercept the stream. https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...x&hl=en_GB Is there any way of installing this on maybe an NVIDEO Shield and ripping it that way?
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I know they uploaded a film once without protection but are we able to rip from ultraflix?
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Don't, I'm getting PTSD from the memories.
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Dont forget all the times you end up selling something on ebay for 10% of the original price because nobody bids on it. It's a rollercoaster of emotions Big Grin
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Dont have a problem with it personally, just the free market really. Can be a tad disappointing for sure tho
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I know what you mean. I used to be quite big in the Blu-ray SteelBook game a few years ago (did you ever go on SteelBookHunterz?) and the prices were gougy at the time already. I ended up selling a few of my rare copies but never to the extortionate prices you see online.
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Some people on Ebay are charging over 100 dollars for the Commando steelbook. I'm getting tired of the price gouging of DVDs and Blu-Rays. Like anybody sane is going to pay that amount
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https://bluray-film.ru/detektiv/below-blu-ray.html (Russian Film Title: Глубина ) And the red "Нет в наличии" is "Not Avaible" according to google translate
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seems to be OOP and not avaible...
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Hello all! New here. Looking forward to discussing the stone cold classics tho! Smile
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Found out that the 2002 horror film Below has been released in Russia on BD with lossless audio. The Echo Bridge BD was lossy 2.0 and this is full fat DTS-MA 5.1.
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when searching the russian full screen Terminator 2 DVD (Its OOP) I stumbled upon some shops, but as the DVD being OOP, and not avaible, I dug not deeper into the shops.
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Sadly, no. Sad You search something specific?
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Can anyone suggest a reputable site to order Russian DVD and Blu-ray releases?
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Can now PM. Have sent one. Any Terminator fans may want to check out a game I am working on called Tech-Com: 2029... I think I'll stick around here, the dedication is great!
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Stamper, I can't get on OT, the activation email won't send. Someone PM'd me here with the Chace mix but I think that's NOT the one I need. I am muxed it and its out of sync, so I think I need the one you described on OT... but I can't log on. It's a comedy...
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kaleidescape is insanely overpriced. the hardware prices they asked is just bonkers
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But they have different audio/video options at times
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I always thought kaleidescape was legit DCPs, turns out they're just very expensive rips
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Do we even know anyone with one?
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Here's a question is it possible to rip from Kaleidescape?
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Dinsdale if you have an account on OT you can try it there.
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Ta
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Mkvmerge always works for me, that's as braindead as you can get
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Audio Muxing was always an issue for me, whats the braindead way for my to mux a track thats already synced
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Well I don't want to make needless threads/posts just to PM... got to find another way of contacting him I suppose. Thanks!
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New members/lurkers can’t PM. Sorry
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I've been trying all day to reach Richard Stamper and now it won't let me PM him... I am not destined to get this Terminator mono mix...
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Voted. Good luck LucasGodzilla!
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Hard choices...
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Voted
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Which of these movies would you donate to see a 35mm preservation scan?: https://strawpoll.com/c35bzdx5 ; ALSO FYI, I apologize for the mild spam influx of posts from me advertising it.
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Who?
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hope you guys are all staying safe, apart from sheila that is
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Actually, it's not THAT hard to encode anything better than Studio Canal Wink
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No way shout encodes anything well
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Fascinating article on high resolution Apollo 13 images generated from combining a ton of 16mm film frames. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/...ce-module/
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In the US, you'd want to add. It was available in Europe for over two years. But the transfer is not that good. Here's hope for better encoding.
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Deer Hunter coming in 4K
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Nobody can't get their hands on this, it's frustating...
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sadly, no...
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Do you know someone or somewhere that has the orignal score composed by Michael Hoenig and J. Peter Robinson ?
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In GErmany it is named "Interceptor"
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I saw it in TV when I was young.
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Who knows about the movie The Wraith released in 1986 ?
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Hey
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Quarantine or not... Happy Easter!
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Saw that in 3D in the cinema as a kid
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Here you go.
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Does anyone have Starchaser: The Legend of Orin in HD?
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RIP Mark Blum
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trying to search of initial airings of That 70s Show, particularly seasons 1 and 2, anyone know where I can get them?
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And his antithesis, Andrew Lloyd Webber!
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Happy birthday, Stephen Sondheim!!!
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Hey, curious, anybody got that Highlander II workprint that has floated around over the years?
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Thanks, I'll try avysinth. Audacity slightly modifies the audio of each channel when I do "make stereo track"
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AviSynth: MergeChannels(A, B)
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Audacity could do it, and you could control the levels of each channel.
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Hello everyone, I'm looking for software to join 2 mono tracks on stereo. Adobe Audition changes the gain when I join 2 mono tracks...
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The newest change to SW? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPGTM7WWUxQ I quite like it!
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ooooo no.
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RIP Max von Sydow, good luck with that chess game
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that's not a press release though. it's just a listing that a member of Blu-ray.com has submitted (i also do them from time to time). they list what the OAR is and what the aspect ratio is on the disc. The previous release has exactly the same ratio detail but does not contain two different transfers of the film https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Full-Meta...ray/16672/
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That's not what it says though. It says the OAR is 1.85:1 but the Bluray is presented in 1.78:1, it's standard, they won't have 2 versions.
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It looks like Full Metal Jacket will be released on 4k both with 1.78:1 and 1.85:1 aspect ratio https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Full-Meta...ay/262647/
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Thanks for letting us dinosaurs know. I might not have noticed for months.
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Excellent!
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very cool!
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AviSynth+ 3.5.0 has been released. It comes with native support for Linux, macOS, and BSD. I'm one happy dinosaur.
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@MrTroldex mention it in the thread, the thread creator might not be reading chat
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Fair enough. Guess we have different philosophies on it.
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Yeah... all this is totally not worth splitting hairs over. I care about big differences, usually the result of upstream mastering choices. I consider even the differences between lossless vs. lossy 192 kbps AC-3 compression menial in comparison.
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And after all, the whole point of dithering is that at 16 bit you get into the range where quantization errors become audible. The rule wouldn't make much sense otherwise
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Or alternatively, rendering out the main audio parts without dithering (muting the patches etc or having them on a muted track) and then exporting the patches etc with dithering, and then just summing both files. though that seems a bit overly cumbersome, heh
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Well, rules should be evaluated based on the context. I think dithering does make sense, as the dithering noise sounds better than quantization errors, however when you have a bit-perfect LD PCM track, then dithering is already applied to that, so you end up getting maybe double the amount of dithering and thus also more dithering noise in total. would make more sense accepting some quantization errors in the small patches
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Hi. I can download untouched this movie https://forum.fanres.com/thread-2994.html
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Probably both - I don't think I've ever A/Bed a truncated vs. dithered output. I suppose I do it because it's audio 101 that you should always dither when going to 16. It's not a rule I feel especially inclined to break when all this amounts to placebo-level differences.
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I would assume - perhaps wrongly, I'm not an expert - that quantization errors shouldn't ever end up being louder than dithering noise, so if dithering noise is inaudible, so should quantization errors from rounding be.
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Hmmm fair enough. Though one could argue about whether small patches justify dithering the entire audio file. To clarify, are you saying that you can't hear dithering noise or that you can't distinguish a dithered audio export from an undithered one at all? If the latter, why even bother dithering?
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I use headphones for everything too. And when syncing, I always end up patching in bits from another source and that inevitably involves volume-matching - so a dither is necessary.
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In any case I think dithering an LD PCM doesn't make any sense. Even if it gets internally processed at 32 bit, a mere syncing will not change the values, so they should just end up getting rounded to the original raw values when outputing at 16 bit again.
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since under normal listening conditions even the background noise of your room will likely be louder than the dithering noise, depending on how high the volume is
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Maybe it's because I tested it at a time where I listened to everything via headphones, that definitely makes a difference
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I can't hear any difference either. Maybe I'm too old. Big Grin
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I used to use MBIT+ religiously for everything until I realised it makes no audible difference to me. Now I just use a simple TPDF dither. Go with what sounds best to you.
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I thought it was very noticable when I did some experiments, though I did set the dithering strength to high (using Izotope MBIT+ dither). Different noise shaping resulted in a different sound as well.
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Unless you have super hearing, you're unlikely to ever notice the difference. I certainly can't and as I've probably shown I'm rather pedantic about these things.
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@Moshrom Curious, why do you suggest dithering to 16bit instead of 24bit? At 16 bit, dithering audibly changes the sound, at least in quiet places, and depending on the dithering settings it ends up sounding different. It would make more sense for preservation work to dither to 24bit, since it will be practically inaudible. Or am I making a mistake?
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Sorry, I recap then: AC3 and DTS, I edit in 24 bits on Audition. LD PCM in 16 bits with audition, on a session in 16 bits
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And a bit I'm confused, Falcon. Earlier on, you were talking about AC-3 and DTS; now, it's LD PCM. Presumably, these are 16-bit tracks to start with.
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If you are using AviSynth, you are fine. If you are using anything else, do what Moshrom suggests.