Originally from this thread:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-226-post-8...l#pid82865

I still love the colors from my Criterion regrade but the project is now 7 years old is showing its age. It has a few minor problems including and most annoying, an inconsistent black level. So I tried to quickly update this project with the techniques I've learned in the intervening years. I overlaid the original project over the original IC BD and glued on roughly 30% of the original luma to even out the up-and-down levels of the original project. I then did some work with curves, contrast, etc to fix the black level and try to eliminate the flat look of the original. I then added a tiny bit of my CRT LUT, grain and upscaled the whole thing so I could test some 4K encoding and rendering. Not perfect and not as good as a start-over but better then the original. Kind of a testbed for me to figure out some things.

Video:
The original Criterion regrade project with numerous fixes and upscaled to 2160p

Audio:
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (edited from the P&S laserdisc)
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the CC LD) Default
FLAC 5.1 (upmix of the CC LD's PCM 2.0)
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (edited from the Warner Bros DC without narration)
FLAC 5.1 (upmix of the DC LD's PCM 2.0)
Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the US BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the US BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (edited from the US WP BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (edited from the US FC BD)

Sync:
US BD

Pics:

Final MKV


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Being a film that was shot mainly on SD camcorder and 16MM film, there's something really authentic and charming about watching THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on VHS. After revisiting it multiple times over the years on streaming services, DVD and Blu-ray it hasn't been the same experience. Many streaming services have the incorrect aspect ratio, often cropping the video and severely degrading the experience. DVD and Blu-ray also look bad, taking away the rounded corners and fuzzy feeling of the VHS. On top of that, the Blu often looks awful with the color grading looking WAY off and often feels nauseating with all of the artifacting due to it being an upscale of the DVD. If someone is able to get a good scan of the VHS with the rounded corners and sync & add one of the audio tracks from the DVD or Blu (DTS-HD 2.0 track), this could be a really cool project and can create the most authentic and faithful presentation of this horror gem.

Has anyone tried this method? Seeing the sites description, it's understandable that (even on the latest greatest hardware) all the 4/6k upscale processing can take several days if not months depending on the length of the footage. However, just using the motion interpolation parameters and outputting at original resolution with no upscaling would be very useful for correcting field blended sources, not to mention drastically reducing the rendering times.

Streets of Fire (Project CRT #8 v1.0)

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

Hello,

I've happened upon something that could be a base for a very interesting project. It is in HD but it's not the greatest of quality. I'd like to ideally use something like an AI upscaler to bring out whatever quality might be hiding inside (even though such an effort may take a while with my computer)  

I'm aware that upscaling software usually has a few different restoration profiles to choose from. I've never done this before, so could anyone with more experience perhaps lend some advice as to how I should look at these settings so I could choose the most appropriate one for the video I have?

Thanks!

These little knockleheads really took my restoration for the Raw Deal trailer of my YT-Channel and put it on the new Blu-ray/4K Blu-ray release. Well, since it's watermarked they cropped it to 4:3. But I instantly recognized my work. Exact same edits and text. They even patched in a few shots where they couldn't crop out a banner. But the real funny thing is that could've just asked for the watermark-free file.

Not even studios ask these days and grab things of youtube

What's people's thoughts on the blu rays of Gangs of New York?

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&...9&i=11&l=0

Clearly the newer blu ray is better from a picture quality point of view but it does lose some image on all four sides. It also looks like it's been given a teal workover, screenshot 12 for example the copper's uniform is now green instead of blue. Then again I'm not that taken with the color from the older blu ray either, looks a bit washed out to me. The DVD is the same as the earlier blu ray, I suspect they are from the same source. 

What do others think?

I'm wondering if there is a project here somewhere, maybe the two blu rays AutoOverlay'd with color correction and possibly the Cinema DTS.

Howdy everyone!

Huge cinema fan here! Glad to have found my way to this corner of the web!

General warning again: Windows update to version 22H2 has jacked up my Adobe Premiere, general codecs interaction, especially Lagarith (older codec) encoding and decoding..its not even displaying the full 8.3 filename w. extension in Premiere; its calling it ".av" instead of ".avi!" I don't think I can roll it back either.
There's also reports of very sluggish performance handling large files in Windows, waveform drawing visibility vanishing for AAC audio after upgrading (in both video and audio editors), and Nvidia had a bug (also w/ Win11) of super slow frame-rates in games until they patched the driver. Beware!

Hi,

I own the VHS videotape releases of some episodes of Adventures in Wonderland. The complete series is currently on Disney+, which I'm not subscribed to. Has anyone preserved the series from Disney+ with DVDFab's StreamFab or some program like that? Please let me know ASAP.

I would like the series preserved and sent to me so I can make a custom 50GB BD-R ISO set.

Thanks!