The Japanese UHD of King Kong vs. Godzilla from 1963 has the original 4.0 mix packed as DTS-MA 5.1. The LFE channel is empty and the two back channels are identical. What is the correct way to convert this to FLAC 4.0 or DTS-MA 4.0? Is this even something worth doing?

So here's one for you knowledgeable people! This is the LD track of First Blood, and a middle part of it sounds much louder than the rest of the track. I am trying to figure out what is happenning here, and how should I deal with it? Just lower the volume down where it is too loud, or there's some other trick? Any advice would be very much appreciated!

I'm working on a fanres of a movie.
IMO, they were giving locations (ie. New York, USA), etc. whenever the characters traveled.
It seems like they were very specific for some scenes, then forgot to do it for later, and then just quit.
I am seeking to create more cohesiveness, and establish a "rule" to follow, so then I can know which locations to name when they go there.
Do you have any tips, suggestions for how I could create a general rule to follow for just how many locations I add as text on the screen?
There was a movie, Vantage Point (2008), that had a ticking timer counting down, and it just became too much, and monotonous, the audience started laughing every time the timer came on screen.
...So, I don't want to go that far.
Utilizing it too much will become annoying, acting as if the audience is very dumb, and cannot follow.. so I don't want to do that.
This movie is very international, so I was thinking "only when they change continents"... like a Bond movie would. But that might not be enough,.. there's a ton of location changes. So, I'm not sure.
Any help, guidance is appreciated!

Hey hey, I got the DTS-HD 2.0 track from the bluray synced up to the new UHD disc. For whatever reason, Studio Canal only included a 5.1 track on the new UHD disc.

The audio from the bluray need to be retimed from 23.976 to 24.000. Then, after cutting off the studio logos from both discs, the audio appears to line up on it's own. I didn't include them since both discs had two different opening studio logo.  I found a black I-frame inbetween the logo and the feature in my remux and used that to cut the logo off.

Hi folks, another new project available for you all - David Lynch's Eraserhead taken back to 1977:

1. Synced to the original mono soundtrack, with dozens of pops and crackles manually removed, captured from the 1986 UK VHS from Channel 5.

I believe this is the last time the original soundtrack was ever made available. It was previously released six times - thrice on VHS (from Columbia Pictures in '82/'84 and Palace Video in '82), twice on Betamax (from Columbia and Palace in '82) and once on laserdisc (Columbia in '84). The laserdisc had the best source quality and has already been shared/synced here, but unfortunately it had constant disc rot distortion (as does my own copy). Curiously, a Japanese laserdisc release by Nikkatsu in 1986 also featured a mono soundtrack, but had music replacement - the only time I've seen this done for any Lynch film.

The original mono is less reverby than Lynch's 1994 stereo remix. Grittier, harsher, it makes for a less dreamy and more nightmarish experience.


2. Shot-by-shot colour correction of the 2K remaster released in 2012, using the 1986 Nikkatsu laserdisc as a reference.

I opted not to use the 4K restoration from 2014 as I felt it a hair inferior to the 2K (missing frames, crushed blacks/lower-mids, and slightly smeary grain due to motion-sensitive digital clean-up). The 2K, while softer and less rock-steady than the 4K, has a beautifully organic texture and much wider colour gamut. The 4K is also framed differently in places to the 2K (more opened up), but this wider framing doesn't match the tighter framing on every previous release I've seen, so again the 2K seemed preferable. For two shots in the final scene where the highlights in the 2K were blown out, the 4K was used.

I've never seen a pre-90s print of the film projected, so can't be sure if the Nikkatsu disc's colour timing is accurate, but it certainly seemed faithful to a photochemically processed B&W picture from 1977 to me. Crunchier and more eye-popping than Lynch's revised low-contrast version, it again makes for an edgier mood.


3. Restored the Libra Films opening credits (digital re-creation) to the beginning of the film.





Tech Details:

FILE NAME:  Eraserhead - Original Theatrical Mono.m2ts
FILE SIZE:  20.6GB
DURATION:  01:29:00
VIDEO:  1920x1080p - 23.976FPS - MPEG-4 AVC - 1.85:1 AR
AUDIO:  2.0 Mono LPCM - English - 48KHz - 16 Bit


Sources:

Video
Eraserhead (Blu-ray - UK - 2012 - Cat: 8288802)
Eraserhead (Blu-ray - USA - 2014 - Cat: CC2391BD)

Audio
Eraserhead (VHS - UK - 1986 - Cat: CFV03782)


Hope you all enjoy - as always, PM for a link

The Director's Cut of Scream has around 6 seconds of uncut footage. It was released on laserdisc and in Germany/Japan on DVD, however it has never been released on Blu Ray.

For this project I used the most recent Blu Ray, which was released at the same time as the UHD. For the uncut sequences I used the German DVD, they were upscaled to 2160p in Topaz, cleaned and taken back down to 1080p. The footage suffered from baked in interlacing artefacts and Topaz actually did a good job of fixing these. The footage was then regrained using the grain from the blu ray, which was extracted and overlayed in AE. Finally it was regraded to match the blu ray color.

The blu ray footage was altered slightly as it looked a bit too bright to my eyes, I used a partial CRT LUT to reduce the red a little and played around with the highlights, whites and exposure.

The video was then synced to the PCM and AC3 tracks from the laserdisc (thanks @williarob and @little-endian). Just to confirm there were two scenes that were slightly shorter in the Laserdisc DC when compared to the blu ray footage so these have been edited so they match the laserdisc. From memory it was two instances of around 20-30 frames.

Finally I put together a separate disc of extra features, I tracked down several different DVDs for this and have included pretty much everything that is out there.

• 2 x BD25 with animated menus, background video, pop up menus and resume function
  
• 1080P AVC Video
  
• English 2.0 PCM and English 5.1 AC3 Laserdisc Audio
  
• German 5.1 DVD AC3
  
• Audio Commentary with Director Wes Craven and Writer Kevin Williamson
  
• English SDH and German Subtitles
  

• Scream: The Inside Story
  
• Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
  
• Behind The Scream featurette
  
• A Bloody Legacy: Scream 25 Years Later featurette
  
• Production featurette
  
• On The Scream Set
  
• Behind the Scenes with Drew Barrymore
  
• Why Are People So Fascinated By Horror Films?
  
• What's Your Favourite Scary Movie?
  
• E! True Hollywood Story: Scream
  
• The Films Of Wes Craven
  
• Interviews - Wes Craven, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Skeet Ulrich
  
• Outtakes
  
• Screen Tests - Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich and Jamie Kennedy
  
• Trailers and TV Spots
  

This is a really well done disaster movie, the South Korean Towering Inferno. As far as I am aware it's only been releasd on Blu Ray in Germany and it's not English friendly. I've taken that release and combined it with the US DVD to create a special edition blu ray with the following:

• Reworked Menu, background video, pop up menu and resume function
  
• Untouched 1080P AVC Video
  
• Korean And German 5.1 DTS-HD Audio
  
• English 5.1 DVD AC3
  
• English, German and Dutch subtitle options
  
• Deleted Scenes
  
• Making Of
  
• Behind The Scenes
  
• Trailer
  

Hello everyone! I was recommended to join this forum by BDgeek, and I'm looking forward to contributing! Look for my first contribution very soon!

So I noticed this week that T2 was available. To my surprise, it started with the old Tristar logo!  There is definite grain in the image and to my eyes, looks pretty nice but feels like it’s some old master. 

Anyone with more familiarity with the film care to chime in?  I’ve got no way to capture it but if you HBO Max, take a peek!

Hi all,

I swear I had seen a post but cannot find anything via search.
Does anyone have the 2.0 and LD 5.1 audio please?
Ideally synced to the 4k or the 3D blu.
Thanks