Hi, just registered to try and find anyone who may have a lead on Halloween (1978) The Fundamental Collection 006. Reach out if you have any idea

Hello, long time lurker but 1st time as registered, hope all are well

What's happening forum. DD-EX and DTS-ES decoding has been kind of a blindspot for this forum in terms of decoding. There's been various theories on how but none of them have produced good results or results at all. However I was toying around with some new tools and I found a method that works even better than the official decoders do!

Software/plugins needed:
Any NLE/DAW
REAPER
LtRtMatrix (https://github.com/MPdecode/LtRtMatrixDecoder)

1. Install LtRtMatrix as described on the GitHub
2. Open up your 5.1 track in a different editing program. Isolate the surround tracks and make them into a stereo file
3. Open REAPER and import your isolated surrounds
4. In REAPER, click the "ROUTE" button in the masterbus and set track channels to 6 and output to 1-6
5. Click the FX button on the masterbus and locate LtRtMatrix
6. Once applied, change the mode from Full Logic to LRC
7. Export your tracks by changing the channel count to 3

And boom! You now have highly accurate decoded surrounds. Through this method I was able to find that the 5.1 track on the 2013 Blu-Ray for The Terminator does indeed retain the matrixed center channel that the DVD advertised despite it not being flagged on the Blu-Ray. This also worked for me on the Theatrical DTS track for The Phantom Menace. If you need any further assistance just let me know. Happy sailings!

quote from plaidcookies91 on TheStarWarsTrilogy forums:
"Fun fact: Dolby’s official implementation of EX, the SA10 adapter, was a stripped-down CP45 processor which used their standard four-channel matrix decoding circuitry. The decoder’s LCR outputs fed the Left Surround, Back Surround, and Right Surround speaker channels, respectively. Although the decoder’s fourth channel was not routed anywhere, it was still considered by the logic steering circuitry, meaning that out-of-phase information was removed from the decoded surround channels. Using the LtRtMatrix plugin set to LCR mode reverses EX encoding precisely and is therefore more technically correct than the real thing!

Dolby SA10 manual:
https://www.film-tech.com/warehouse/manu...BYSA10.pdf"

Thank You for having me.

I'm a 51 yr-old Gen Xer who's a big fan of The Terminator and many other movies of the 70s and 80s.

Looking to have many great discussions on here.

Cheers and Hasta La Vista Baby!

Hi everybody,

I just randomly found this awesome forum! Incredible work, really mid blowing!

Hey guys.

Raiders is encoding, and now I'm regrading this one, as it seems the upcoming 4K will only include the final cut (even more desaturated...). 
Using that italian 35mm scan floating around as reference. As always, I'm not using luts to match the scan colors, I rather fix the flaws of the scan on the fly (a bit too magenta here, a bit too green there, too much contrast resulting in bloated colors... But I must say it looks pretty nice overall).
Theatrical cut. 

We'll see what's  included exactly in that final cut. I like the slightly longer Lecktor scene, and the naked conversation in the hotel room from the DC.

So recently, the 35mm Archive Telegram group finally got access to a big folder worth of raw Cinema DTS files and disc images, and this gave me the opportunity to finally preserve the original theatrical mix of A Bug's Life, since the original 2008 BD and later the 2020 UHD contain a new 6.1 matrixed remix of the film, likely to match Pixar's tradition of all their films being in Dolby Surround EX/DTS-ES, similar to what they did with Toy Story. I was actually planning to sync the UK Collector's Edition DTS mix with the UHD, but other things caused me to not work on it. I'd say me being hyper over this big folder is what led me to immediately do this.

Here are some notes I made while I was making this. Firstly, the Geri's Game (or jerrygm in the R14T5.txt file, making me confused it was Jerry Maguire lol) short is missing on Reel 1, due to it being included as part of the trailers reel, which means that I was able to start the first frame of the film perfectly as the first shade of blue appears when the Disney logo fades in, probably being that this is the ACTUAL first frame after 2 seconds after the 2-pop to comply with SMPTE standards. Next is that every reel transition is interesting to work on, because there seems to be 60ms of silence at the beginning of each reel, so I patched it with the first seconds of the next reel from the previous reel before it goes to 2-pop to signal the end of the reel, just so I don't make it sound odd. The only instances I didn't do it is at the end of reels 1 and 5, since reel 1 seems to have a quick millisecond fade out to silence before the next reel, and on reel 5 since even on the first seconds of that reel at the end of reel 4 has an awkward audio cut, so I fixed it to prevent any chorus effect. I do know there does exist a duplicate of reel 5 to include the second set of outtakes, but since the UHD only includes the first set like on the previous releases, except for the VHS (which includes both), I used the original reel 5 instead. Also, it seems that this is a post-1999 revision, so the LFE has been increased to 6 dB, based on what I compared to the 2008 BD mix, especially why it also has the alternate reel 5 as well. Also, the rear+LFE channels recieved a 60ms delay, so I fixed it.

So guys, a crazy thing happened, I found hidden in a crate my old The Warriors Pal VHS from the 80's with the alternate (I think) soundtrack version. I need to check it, but it's certainly that one.

Is there a sync already out there, or should I make this a project, and rip it? I will need someone though to sync it as real life have me a bit off the scene regarding syncs these days.

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Found this forum for looking for con air 1080p extended version

run a plex with all kinds of films for my family with 5700 movies

An American Werewolf in London - Arrow original mono (lpcm 1.0) synced to Rob's Nostalgia Project

Rob synced a downmix of the 5.1 on his scan.

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