Hard Boiled  (regraded to the French DVD v1.0)

This Project started out originally as an upscale of the French DVD of HB but is now a regrade of the Japanese BD to said French DVD. See this post:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-4673-post-...l#pid80021

Video:
The Japanese BD transfer of HB auto regraded to the French DVD with ~400 additional LUTS of color correction and compression clean up.

Audio:
1. PCM 2.0 Cantonese Mono (from the Criterion LD)
2. DTS-HD MA 2.0 Cantonese Mono (from the Criterion DVD's DD Mono)
3. DTS-HD MA 2.0 English Mono (from the Criterion DVD's DD Mono)
4. DTS-HD MA 2.0 Cantonese Mono (from the Winstar DVD's DD Mono)
5. DTS-HD MA 2.0 Cantonese Mono (from the Mei Ah DVD's DD Mono)
6. DTS-HD MA 2.0 Cantonese Mono (from the Dragon Dynasty DVD's DD Mono)
7. Commentary (from the Criterion DVD)
8. Commentary (from the Winstar DVD)

Sync:
Synced to the JPN BD

Pics:

Final MKV

Coming Soon

Regraded to the FRE DVD/Original


Original Opener

Part of the Project Upscale, for more background read here:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-1071-post-...l#pid79835

Per a previous conversation, its seems that the French DVD of HB has some unique, possibly theatrically accurate colors. So I converted the PAL disc to 23.976 ran it through some filters and then upscaled that DVD for a possible future project.

For audio, I just grabbed audio and subs from the Criterion DVD.

Video:
A upscale of the French DVD of Hard Boiled

Audio:
1. Dolby Digital 1.0 Chinese Mono (from the Criterion DVD)
2. Dolby Digital 1.0 English Mono (from the Criterion DVD)
3. Commentary (from the Criterion DVD)

Sync:
Synced to the Criterion DVD

Pics:


Thanks:
CSchmidlapp: for info

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Project CRT #8 v1.0)

Part of the Project CRT, for more background read here:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-3228

To quickly recap, many late 90's/early 2000s HD, DVD and even LD masters have a significant red/magenta push on modern flat panels. It is assumed that this is caused by them being mastered on older CRT monitors which had a green and blue push. This project attempts to fix many of those old masters by making them look how the color technician would see them on a CRT master monitor. Not necessarily more theatrically accurate but hopefully closer to what the colorist wanted and hopefully more pleasing to the eye.

So this is the Arrow copy of Banzai corrected to look how it does on my Sony BVM monitor. From the original BD I only had the PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround.

Video:
The BD of Banzai color corrected on a CRT mastering monitor.

Audio:
1. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Arrow BD)

Sync:
Synced to the Arrow BD

Pics:
Final MKV


Original BD/CRT Corrected


Thanks:
applesandrice: for the US DVD

I need to change a 192 kbps Dolby Digital 2.0 track to 448 kbps DD 5.1. I looked around for a way to do that a while back, but couldn't find a good program.

It's for my Aeon Flux DVDs. When ripped, the opening and endings (credits) are separate files. I know how to link them so that the separate files play together during playback. In MKVMerge, you go to Output > Precious/Next Segment UID. The problem is the 5.1 tracks. The OP and ED are only in stereo. When I link them, my receiver automatically switches from stereo to 5.1 during playback, meaning when the OP ends and the episode begins. But it doesn't work if I'm upmixing the DD with Dolby Surround. The sound just becomes silent after the switch. The 5.1 also incorrectly shows as 192 kbps stereo unless I go into Properties, because my media player is going off what the first of the linked files shows, which doesn't matter but bugs me anyway.

This is an old project. I finished this 11 years ago, but never posted the HD version of. The reason is the title animation at the end of the trailer. I never found a good version that can be used for this project. But maybe we come across another 35mm print that's in better shape and the sequence can used from it.
I usually create a new trailer credits card. But I didn't do it here. Having very clean credits on a crappy title wouldn't match well or I was just lazy do sit down and create a new one at this time. Pick the excuse you like most  

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy it regardless

There is a HD version of the trailer available and it's actually Okay for what it is. However Sony decided to change the trailer credits with updated logos and copyright info. This can't be considered "Original Trailer" anymore
So I made a re-edit using the Blu-ray. Credits & Title are done from scratch and matched. To get the proper trailer credits look, I've used the trailer found on DVD.

Enjoy

Hello.
I've encountered a problem, as the thread title says, and I don't know what to do...
First of all, I have this BD-Rom
https://www.ebay.com/itm/264849119450.

I was able to burn mkv films in 25GB BD-R discs, just fine. (about 10 of them).
Now, I'm trying to burn bigger mkv files in 50GB discs and it fails. (I have purchased Verbatim BD-Rs)
I've used both Nero and ImgBurn.
The results:

Nero - 6x speed - burn unsuccessful
Nero - 4x speed - burn successful, data verification failed (of course the movie wouldn't play)
ImgBurn - 2x speed - burn successful, data verification failed

Does anyone have any suggestions?
I really would need the hard disc space, by burning these large mkv files.
(I want to burn other data too, but I haven't tried)

I ripped the 2.0 Dolby Digital track from the region 1 special edition DVD if anyone is interested in syncing it up to the UHD.

Hello,

Two issues

• the banner for guests still points to fanres
  
• I still see the banner from sporv about the repository. And I do click X everytime.
  

This started as an audio project but I'm not 100% about the color. Some screenshots below, LD top, then R1 DVD then French Blu Ray. 

When I first watched the blu ray I felt it came across too teal in places, if you look at the second set of images the background is very blue in the DVD and LD but teal in the Blu. Same with the pillow in the first shot. However the LD looks too red to me. DVD is brighter than the Blu Ray but apart from those blue shots they don't differ too much in terms of color. 

So personally I'm thinking it might be best to stick with the colors from the blu ray, maybe using the DVD color in some of those blue scenes. Possibly brightening up the blu ray a little. 

Just wondered what others thought? 

Cheers

Since it's 1st release on DVD the movie's trailer always looked like shit. The movie had a few releases on Blu-ray and none of them had the trailer in better quality then what was found on the DVD. So I did my "restoration".

A 100% recreation of the original theatrical trailer in true high def.

Enjoy