Filmmaker/Editor from the other end of the world, fan-restoring Indian (and other) films in very limited scale
Film preservation is notorious here in my country, so DVDs, bootleg-audio commentaries and different formats is how I taught myself everything. When companies and technicians themselves seem to constantly work against their original releases...

I'm so grateful and moved by a place like this where everyone's sense of passion for formats, presentation and sense of detail is visible in every project. So inspired!

Hi! Trying to get better quality audio for movies for my daughter! Glad this place exists!

I'm wondering what kind of hardware spec is required for video editing, up-conversion, restoration, etc.

I haven't gone too deep in to much of this yet, but just over 2 years ago I did briefly try using Topaz to up-scale DVD to 1080p with minimal 'clean-up', however, a 25 minute TV episode took many hours and the results were pretty awful. This was only on an Intel i5 8400 CPU with the on-board UHD 630 GPU, which is almost 9 years old now, so I didn't expect it to be fast with great results anyway.

So, as I need to replace my PC, it would be nice to know a minimum spec for the kind of processing others on here are doing, so at least I can move forward with learning more.

It would be nice to know a minimum spec, but also what would be a worthwhile step up, without going OTT.

Hello, I'm nick and I love movies!
A few years ago I purchased a projector (BenQ 2700 highly recommended!) it was made with high colour accuracy, this has led me to slowly move away from streaming and back towards physical media, I particularly love the releases from Arrow Video (their recent anniversary 4k tmnt trillogy is fantastic quality!). 

But as many of you here already know, sometimes official releases are not the best quality with lazy 2k upscales like Terminator 2, so this is why I'm a member here as well as OriginalTrillogy.com where Harmy and other brilliant people are doing a better job that the studios!

Yo whats up

This all looks so amazing! Bought myself a 35tb hd and ready to collect lol

In the released thread. There is a supposedly finished project for the Back to the Future trilogy UHD synced to the original theatrical laserdisc audio. Did this project actually release, and is it available for me to possibly acquire anywhere?

Quote:I went and saw The Last Act (Episode 8 & 9) in theaters and was blown away by how cleaner of a source Episode 8 was on the DCP and how nice Episode 9 looked compared to what I saw on YouTube once it was released. I wasn't surprised of course due to how the rest of the show looked online, so that planted a seed in the back of my mind that grew into the end result of this project. This project originally started as a simple reconstruction of The Last Act using an AI upscale of the fish intro and 2 shots of the series recap I couldn't source from the rest of the episodes at the beginning of the movie and the cleaner Netflix source to reconstruct the recap of the series, and I was reminded of the compression issues after the first render and I wanted to see what I could do to improve it. After being mostly impressed with what I was able to accomplish with AviSynth over AI tools to fix compression issues (Banding, blocking, aliasing), I switched to a AviSynth workflow and decided to expand the project to cover all of the episodes.

Quote:I did a few visual comparisons and found that the Netflix WEB-DL's of the episodes were the better source detail and bitrate so I went with those and used a script that Debands, deblocks, performs some anti-aliasing and does a light warp-sharpen to further hide any aliasing issues and make the image slightly less soft. A light layer of grain was added over the image to help make the filter come together cohesively. I felt an authentic 35mm grain overlay wouldn't suit the 3D animation so I opted to use an AviSynth script to add a light layer onto the image. I also tweaked the saturation slightly to reduce some of the harsh colors the show had and brightness/contrast to address the Netflix version having lower contrast than the YouTube version.

I also discovered that the Netflix source had more detail in the mix than the YouTube so I also opted to use that mix.

Around this time I decided I wanted to do a Blu-Ray release eventually for myself so I tested out converting to Dolby Digital AC3 and it compressed the detail similar to how the YouTube mixed looked. I ended up encoding in DTS-HD MA for compatibility with the higher quality preserved. YouTube subtitles were synced up and cleaned up and converted to SUP files for Blu-Ray compatibility as well. This project should be 100% Blu-Ray compatible but I haven't tested it myself yet.

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im looking forward to watching movies as they were intended

Hello there, film nerd here