When Johnny Mnemonic was released in Japan it was as an extended version called JM. This was released on VCD, Laserdisc and DVD but to date there has been no HD release. There are blu ray releases from Japan and Germany that include the extended version but only in SD. 

This project is an attempt to recreate the extended version frame for frame, using the Japanese Blu Ray where possible and upscaled inserts from the DVD extended version. The extended version contains a lot of differences, ranging from some longer scenes (some of which are in Japanese and feature Takashi Kitano) to shots that are only a few frames longer. The color timing is different and it is missing some visual effects and on screen graphics. 

I knew this project was going to be a nightmare due to the number of differences so I approached it in a different way, I took both versions into Premiere and split them into individual shots using scene detect. I would then click on three shots from Version A, making a note of the number of frames in each shot, then click on the same three shots from Version B and compare the number of frames. If the frame numbers matched I used the blu ray, if they didn’t match then that indicated a difference, I would check it and if it was a difference I used the DVD. 

The upscaling of the DVD was done partly with AVIsynth and partly with Topaz. As I mentioned the color timing is completely different so all of the blu ray footage was regraded to match the DVD. This was an absolute nightmare and is probably the worst one I have ever done. I was lucky if one LUT matched two or three shots, sometimes I was doing a LUT per shot. This really tested me! 330 LUTs all in.

I tried to get the LD audio but the only LD that contains it is the Japanese release and that seems to be quite rare, so I could only include the AC3 from the DVD.

It's not perfect, the DVD is not great quality and neither is the blu ray to be honest, the audio is lossy, but overall I think I've done the best I could.

Massive thanks to PDB and Hippie Dalek for testing.

• BD25 with animated menus, background video, pop up menus and resume function
  
• 1080P AVC Video with scene by scene colour correction
  
• English AC3 2.0 384 KBPS from the DVD
  
• Japanese AC3 2.0 192 KBPS from the DVD
  
• English (during Japanese dialogue parts only) Subtitles
  
• English Full SDH Subtitles
  
• Behind The Scenes
  
• Making Of
  
• Interviews
  
• Music Video
  
• Theatrical Trailer
  

I went through a bunch of my old DVDs and Blurays for original audio mi[/font]xes (or at least I am hoping are) to remux into my current bluray and UHD rips.  I’m assuming the DTS-MA 5.1 on the bluray mixes are based on the original 70mm 6 tracks and Cinema DTS discs so I used them to replace the Atmos tracks on the UHD. I synced these all with MKV delays by eyes and ears so they might be off a little bit. If anyone is interested, PM me. If you do find the sync is off, please let me know the delay difference so I can make the adjustments. Here’s what I have so far.

Adventures of Ford Farelane DVD to BD 2.0 DD
American Psycho BD to UHD 5.1 TrueHD
Animal House DVD to UHD 2.0 DD
Another 48 Hours DVD to BD 2.0 DD
Backdraft BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Back to the Future BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Back to the Future 2 BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Back to the Future 3 BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Big Top Pee-Wee DVD to WEB-DL 2.0 DD
Caddyshack DVD to BD 1.0 DD
Carlito's Way BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Fast Times at Ridgemont High DVD to BD 2.0 DD
First Blood BD to UHD 2.0 DTS
Forrest Gump BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Fun and Fancy Free DVD to BD 2.0 DD
Gladiator (theatrical) BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2 - Mask of Sanity WEB-DL to BD 2.0 DD+
Independence Day (extended cut) BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Leatherface - Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (unrated) DVD to BD 2.0 DD
Licence to Kill (uncut) DVD to WEB-DL 2.0 DD
Life of Brian DVD to BD DD 2.0
Major League 2 WEB-DL to BD 2.0 DD+
Pet Sematary DVD to UHD 2.0 DD
Pretty in Pink DVD to BD 2.0 DD
Rambo 3 BD to UHD 2.0 DTS
Saving Private Ryan BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Space Jam BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
Schindler's List BD to UHD 5.1 DTS-MA
The Three Caballeros DVD to WEB-DL 2.0 DD
 
Here are some DVD mono audio rips I couldn’t get to sync. I assume it’s because of frame difference so it will take more than just a delay to get them going.
 
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Charlie Brown's All-Stars
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Play It Again, Charlie Brown
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
This Is America, Charlie Brown - The Mayflower Voyagers
Disney Robin Hood 1973 (audio from 35MM reels)

I'm Cory - only recently discovered this and other fan edit communities, but I made my first fan edit / restoration a decade ago. It's an uncut version of Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood that inserts all of the cut workprint footage, complete with new sound effects and expanded score, while bringing down the quality of the DVD sourced Part VII theatrical to make the whole experience feel like a beat up VHS tape. I also made a b&w version of Jason Lives that keeps the red for any blood, gore and wherever the red dot goes.

I'm looking at starting a couple new projects, firstly a director's cut of Scream using the new 4K transfer with inserts from DC sources (LD or one of the R2 imports from Germany/Japan). Anyway, long intro, but wanted to say hello!

I recently stumbled across some HK films on laserdisc in the wild and found myself again wondering if there is a place or area to find definitive listings of which editions are worthwhile or best to watch. I’ve been tempted to buy rare John Woo releases in the hope of finding better audio or other elements but you never quite know if the transfer will be worth it or if the film is uncut.

I find myself wondering if I should have gotten all the discs the store had but some were just one part of a film and some were edited versions according to their lddb info. Some were analog audio only which I try to avoid unless necessary.

If anyone knows certain lds to be on the lookout for let me know so I can add them to my list.

Hey, everyone! I'm kidjupiter92 (you can call me Jupiter). I'm a 28 (soon to be 29) year old aspiring filmmaker and storyteller, who lives in the good ol' state of New York of the USA. I've been a faneditor for a few years now, and started making the rounds in the fanedit community on originaltrilogy.com and fanedit.org. I brought to this site recently after my last string of projects starting going toward the fan preservation and restoration side of things over making instead of fanfixing and extended editions. 

My current projects are a HD remaster of the Troy Theatrical Cut, an HD reconstruction of the Director's Cut of Oliver Stone's Alexander, and an HD reconstruction of the Japanese cuts of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2. 

Just wanted to introduce myself and see how everyone's doing? I hope to see ya'll around here and get to know as many of you as I can. Hopefully pick a few brains on projects and help out in anyway I can too. Thanks for dropping by!

I have no idea what I am saying, or if this would even work well, but I had an idea of combining two audio sources to maybe increase quality. I was inspired by spoRv's PaNup to maybe combine the signals of both a decoded lossy AC3 and DTS track from the same DVD(or LD) and combine them to make something a bit less lossy, for editing purposes. (Mainly standards conversion through speeding up or slowing down. ) 

I wonder what people's thoughts are on this, or if I am completely crazy ?

I simply took the stereo mix and isolated score from the old DVD and synced it to the remastered Blu-ray. So it should sync with the 4K release as well, as they were released simultaneously (and bundled) and have the same length. Only difference is the Blu-ray has a 5.1 track and the 4K a 7.1.

I don't know if this was originally released in stereo only, but the 5.1 and 7.1 tracks sound really good actually. The stereo mix has a 'advantage' in that it isn't as loud. Last time i watched it (in 5.1) trough my speakers i needed to adjust the volume constantly when the movie got loud. I guess it could be ideal if you live alone with no neighbors to be found... : )

I converted the stereo track to .wav and the isolated score (which is in 5.1) to .flac with a optional AC3 640kbps file for convenience if you don't want it in flac.

Let me know if you would be interested!
Peanut32