Looking forward to participating in the Fan Restore forum ... looks a great community.

Hello! New to the site, pleasure to meet all the folks who've been hard at work here. Over the year I've really been learning more about the importance of the audio mixes to movies, and am amazed by the efforts everyone here has done to sync tracks not released with the newest editions of a lot of movies.

long time lurker, new member!  

Good to be here

It's the original AC3 with no re-encoding.

I used to think the DTS DVD was the definitive version, but after capturing the LD, I discovered quite a few differences.

As I expected, the LD has the best low-end in several scenes—especially the tank sequence.

After comparing it with every available version, including the UHD, I get the impression that the DTS DVD mix has quite a bit of unique processing applied to it, so it doesn't really sound like the original mix anymore.

PM me for link.

Hi all. Just registered after reading here a while.

Running a Synology box with Plex, with a separate library for preservation cuts so they don't collide with the retail rips. Currently 4K77, 4K80, 4K83 and a couple of Harmy's. Mostly here for the non-Star-Wars side though, Jurassic Park and Alien especially.

Been reading the T2 grade threads too since I don't own any Terminator yet and would rather buy the right disc the first time. Looking forward to digging through the rest of the archive.

Hi everyone,
I hope you're all doing well! I'm glad I found this forum, and I'm looking forward to being part of the community.

Hey everybody! I'm glad to finally join this community, as I've been working on a few projects of my own. I'm looking forward to being part of this community

Hey everyone, glad to finally join the community! I’ve been spending a lot of time lately building out my home media library on Jellyfin and diving deep into classic cinema, having just finished Straw Dogs and currently working my way through a Dustin Hoffman run with Lenny and Marathon Man up next. Outside of watching movies, I also do a lot of sketching and illustrative artwork of my favorite actors, particularly Al Pacino, which is actually what led me to sign up here. I’m trying to track down a pristine 1080p theatrical version of Heat (1995) to add to my server because I'm not a fan of the darker, teal color grading and scene edits in the 2017 Director's Definitive Edition. I'm hoping to find the warmer, original theatrical look with the original 5.1 audio, and I'm really looking forward to exploring the site and seeing all the preservation projects you guys are working on thanks for helping me!

Hey guys.

Here's a .rar file containing several tonemapping luts which may be used when regrading a film from UHD to SDR. Thanks to the guy who created them (I found them on the starwars forums years ago). They're really good.

- Lut 1.
Highlights are less saturated than with other luts. Reds can be too bright sometimes, and it glitches when dealing with very bright puple-violet colors.

- Lut 2
Highlights can be a bit constrained in some occasions. Better reds. 

- Alien tonemapping
Similar to lut2 but a little less constrained highlights. Sometimes, if you feel you're is missing detail in highlights because the tonemapped picture is too bright with the other luts, this one will deal with that. Also reds look the best with this lut.

The others are very similar to lut2.


https://storage.to/X8Ha5Wxci

Really excited to check out some cool projects for some classic movies ^_^