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  hello
Posted by: felix - 2025-09-11, 03:30 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

im just posting this to get rid of the notification

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  Don't reply to private messages via e-mail
Posted by: Feallan - 2025-09-11, 02:21 PM - Forum: Announcements - No Replies

Hi all. Lately there have been multiple cases of people trying to reply to a private message, by sending an e-mail as a reply to the e-mail notification from the forum. Please don't do this. Your replies go to my admin mailbox (the address of which is clearly visible, when you're composing your reply), not to your recipient. If this keeps happening, I'll create some kind of "noreply" system e-mail I guess, but your e-mails still won't go, where you think they will.

Not sure why this is happening this month in particular, I don't think anybody has done this in the past 10 years or so.

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  Capturing VHS Hi-Fi
Posted by: alexp2000 - 2025-09-10, 08:24 PM - Forum: Audio and video editing - Replies (8)

This might be a daft question but if all I want to do is capture the audio from an NTSC VHS, is there any issue with just using my PAL VHS player? I know the picture won't work but will there be any issue with the audio.

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  Greetings
Posted by: Kachorro10 - 2025-09-08, 03:20 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Hola compañeros, soy un usuario particular de España, y espero que me disculpéis mi forma de expresarme, ya que no hablo inglés y uso traductor... pero nos entenderemos.
No soy un muchacho joven; he sido editor de vídeo durante más de 30 años.
Hace siete años sufrí una grave lesión en los discos lumbares, que me ha dejado confinado al PC prácticamente todo el día, centrándome más en mi afición a la edición de vídeo.
Actualmente, además de ser miembro y subir vídeos al mejor foro privado de torrents de España, remasterizo películas, consiguiendo una calidad que deja a la mayoría de quienes las ven por primera vez sin palabras. Es como pasar de ver una película a 1080p a 3840p.
Sinceramente, vine aquí buscando títulos de películas con versiones Open Matte para remasterizar.
También, por supuesto, estoy dispuesto a ayudar y responder cualquier pregunta que puedan tener mis nuevos colegas.
Saludos a todos

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  Hello from Portugal
Posted by: pppp - 2025-09-08, 12:27 AM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Hi, I just found out about this forum and wanted to come in an check and talk about the fan restorations on here.

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  "Le Bon, la Brute et le Truand( ("The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") French version
Posted by: Beber - 2025-09-07, 06:06 PM - Forum: In progress - No Replies

Hey, guys.

I'm currently recreating the French version, international cut, based on the Arrow UHD that I'll tonemap to SDR in Ripbot264 and resize to 1080p.
I already resynchronized the French dts 5.1 from the 4K remastered MGM Blu-ray, except transcoded to PCM stereo. I used the dts HDMA 5.1 from the English version in a few spots for better transitions, also transcoded to PCM stereo. I have a lead on a VHS tape that should include the original mono that I'll try to sync to it as well.
Now for the French parts, I have the opening credits and closing credits from the Arrow bonus section, in fake HD. I also have a French TV recording in fake HD for the credits and characters' nicknames.

[Image: THE-GOOD-THE-BAD-THE-UGLY-DISC-2-t06-mkv...52-051.jpg]

[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-BO...12-008.jpg]
[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-BR...09-750.jpg]
[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-TR...07-463.jpg]

[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-no...10-363.jpg]
[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-no...08-552.jpg]
[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-no...04-862.jpg]

Now there's a problem with the end credits: my French recording has a pop-up at the bottom for the next program, and apparently Arrow must have used that same source 'cause they cropped the bottom part and, doing so, the aspect ratio is now wider. So I'll have to zoom in to recover the same black bar thickness as the rest.

[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-ge...04-960.jpg]
[Image: THE-GOOD-THE-BAD-THE-UGLY-DISC-2-t06-mkv...15-195.jpg]

Now for the help part: can anybody with the best AI upscale capabilities chime in and try their best at upscaling these fake HD parts? I'll deal with the color matching afterwards so it all blends in the best I can. All I managed to do with built-in AI upscale in Shutter Encoder is this and, although it gives better delineation to the texts, it's seems to smooth the image:

[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-BON-3840x2160.jpg]
[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-BR...04-407.jpg]
[Image: France-3-Le-bon-la-brute-et-le-truand-TR...03-768.jpg]

The final product would include the French international version in 1080p with French audio from MGM, possibly VHS and English and audio commentary from Arrow, plus French subtitles from MGM rearranged by myself and English SDH subtitles from Arrow.

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  True Romance (1993) French Blu-ray exclusive bonus features
Posted by: tanch28 - 2025-09-05, 05:40 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (3)

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2010 France Blu-ray of True Romance by Metropolitan Film has exclusive bonus features that are exclusive to this release and haven't been ported over to other markets and were also absent from the 2022 Arrow Video release.

These are:

  • The Origins of True Romance9:43
  • The Production – 19:52
  • Behind the Scenes – 7:25
  • Behind the Scenes Branching Featurettes – 5:34 + 18:00


Can anyone please share a makemkv rip of these featurettes? Thank you.

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  Hi!
Posted by: sharkeylaser - 2025-09-04, 03:43 AM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Hello! Just wanted to post a quick hello. I admire the many talented individuals across the web and would love to chat with the wonderful people here. Someday I want to get into all this stuff, but I don't have the money or talent yet. Still learning, but looking forward to learning from the best!

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  Welcome Hello
Posted by: directflixoff - 2025-09-04, 02:30 AM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (3)

Hello everyone, I'm passionate about cinema and I'm here to look for new versions, you never know!

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  Hello everyone
Posted by: JamesF84 - 2025-09-03, 01:45 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Hi everybody, longtime lurker, first time poster. Will I post ever again or retreat to the shadows once more? We shall see!

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