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  Proof Of Life Special Edition
Posted by: alleycat - 2022-07-01, 07:43 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (9)

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Proof of Life has not been released on Blu Ray. There are a few digital HD options, a couple of WebDL’s which are open matte and a HDTV recording which is in the original 2:35:1. The base of my project is the HDTV recording. I did look at overlaying the open matte onto the HDTV and cropping to 2:35:1 but it didn’t make a massive difference to my eyes and the open matte has burned in subtitles during non English dialogue which look out of place in a 2:35:1 frame as they are too far down the picture.

The HDTV was cropped, upscaled slightly, de-haloed and cleaned in Avisynth. That was then taken into Topaz for some further cleaning/deblocking. Then it was dust cleaned on an automatic pass as the print suffers with quite a few white specks. It was then adjusted slightly so it matched the DVD frame count and finally the red levels were toned down in Premiere using a CRT LUT.

There was an instance of pixelization/video breakup at one point on the HDTV recording. I tried AutoOverlay, overlaying the open matte onto the HDTV and then overlaying the open matte onto the DVD but neither got ideal results. In the end I upscaled the shot from the DVD, cleaned it a little and color corrected it.

The next problem was the lack of burned in subtitles on the HDTV recording, as all the subtitles I could find online did not contains these. In the end they were transcribed line at a time. Just a note for anyone ripping this to mkv, you must include the first English subtitle track if you want to see the non English dialogue translation.

Another problem, the burned in DVD subtitles also include the names of locations and at various points the number of days in captivity. Originally I included these in the subtitle files but the problem was that in several places normal dialogue was being spoken at the same time, which interfered with them. Therefore using Premiere I have burned in just the locations names and number of days, matching the font, color, size and shadow of the DVD. All non English dialogue is still via selectable subs. Not ideal but no choice really and on every version apart from the HDTV recording they are already burned in.

Then in terms of sound the Cinema DTS was synced. This was decoded in foobar2000. Speed change, surround/LFE changes (-3 on surround, +6 on the LFE) and dithering in Izotope using auto blanking. It was then encoded as a DTS-HD file with the -21ms offset baked in. That opening scene in Chechnya was loud!

Also included are the DVD English 5.1 track and the Audio Commentary. In terms of the extras everything is ported from the DVD, plus some interviews I found on YouTube and a 75 minute behind the scenes/location scouting segment!

  • BD25 with a menu, background video, pop up menu and resume function
  • 1080P taken from the HDTV with cleanup/color grading
  • English 5.1 Cinema DTS
  • English 5.1 AC3 and Audio Commentary taken from the DVD
  • English Foreign Dialogue only, English SDH, French, German, Italian and Spanish subtitles
  • Making Of
  • Behind The Scenes
  • Cast Interviews
  • Ebert At The Movies (does suffer from baked in interlacing artifacts)
  • Trailer

PM me for the links, contributing/long term members only please. Contributing means active members of the forum who post and/or make their own projects.

High Resolution cover and disc art available from @Pineapples101 Here.

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Just to clarify this is a project that I have made for myself which I am choosing to share. If you don't like the project, if you think it should have been done differently then feel free to keep that to yourself and consider doing your own project.

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  Hello!
Posted by: Bugtivugti - 2022-06-23, 03:03 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Hey, everyone. Long time lurker here. Hope to be fairly active going forward!

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  Cinderella (1957)
Posted by: Doctor M - 2022-06-20, 10:28 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (4)

Here's an interesting thought...

The 1957 TV production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella was broadcast live and thought lost in time. They discovered a kinescope recording of the March 17, 1957 of the first dress rehearsal. It was published on DVD.

Watching clips of it today, I noticed a lot of dot crawl artifacts... which is awesome!! You see, kinescope recordings are film captures from TV monitors. Although black and white, it usually didn't have the chroma information filtered out. When it isn't, it showed up as dot crawl.

In 2018 the British came up with a digital recovery method that analyzed the dot crawl patterns in order to restore the original chroma data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_recovery

So that means Cinderella could be restored to color, not just colorized.
I'm assuming this is beyond a home computing process, but I was wondering if anyone here knows the process and if it's fan restore-able.

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  Hello Everybody!
Posted by: JScarp0512 - 2022-06-19, 11:34 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (2)

Hi. My name is Jason and I have been enjoying fan edits for over 10 years now. I respect everybody's view and perspective. I am glad I have joined. Smile

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  Pierre; ou, Les ambiguïtés (2001, dir. Leos Carax) - First ever English subs
Posted by: Rrobynne - 2022-06-17, 04:30 PM - Forum: Released - No Replies

Leos Carax's unreleased masterwork "Pierre", the uncut version of his 1999 theatrical release "Pola X", has gone without any kind of release since its first airing on Arte in September 2001. Allegedly this is due to rights issues but that's just hearsay. A recording of a VHS archival copy finally leaked onto a Québécois forum last autumn, and with the help of a French speaker who wished to remain anonymous I have produced the first, as far as I know, English translation of the additional scenes & merged that with the official subtitles for "Pola X", which are probably not quite to the standard of precision I'd like from a translation for such a great filmmaker but I couldn't find anyone willing to transcribe the French of the whole film for me to produce a new translation from scratch, only the additional scenes (I can translate written French but I'm no good at spoken French, and none of Carax's films appear to have any French subtitles on their official domestic releases.). Don't know if it's perfect, the picture quality certainly isn't, but it's a damn sight better than not being able to watch this great miniseries at all.

Hugely recommend for fans of Mauvais Sang and Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf, it's horrendous that this has gone without even a DVD release. Featuring both Guillaume Depardieu and Scott Walker at their most sublime. I don't know anything about private trackers and all that but the files are now up on Soulseek semi-permanently under my username. Looks like somebody's already reposted my version on YouTube, too. Enjoy!

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  The Wizard of Oz (1939) 1989/1991 LD [ML101656] mono track synced to UHD/BD?
Posted by: James76 - 2022-06-15, 08:14 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (8)

I own the 70th Anniversary Emerald Edition Blu-ray+DVD combo pack of The Wizard of Oz (1939).

According to Blah-ray, the 1989 MGM/UA LaserDisc and the 1991 MGM/UA LaserDisc, both marked ML101656, share the same mono soundtrack, which is the blogger's favorite audio of the movie.

I was wondering if someone could rip the digital/analog left channel mono audio from the 1989 or 1991 LaserDisc of the movie and sync it to the Blu-ray and UHD. I would like to use the BD-synced audio to replace the Dolby Digital 1.0 mono track on my MKV file rip of the BD. I don't want the 1988 Criterion LD audio, because that has heavy noise reduction applied to it, according to Blah-ray.

Thanks.

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  Enter The Matrix Cutscenes - 4K
Posted by: eldiablosuizo - 2022-06-15, 05:06 AM - Forum: In progress - Replies (4)

I had some time, I had some computer bandwidth, and I have a copy of Topaz Video Enhance. So I put the Enter the Matrix cutscenes through an upscale, using the Proteus Fine Tune with a "decompress" setting of about 11.

I'd love feedback, knowledge, tips, notes...really anything! I'm sharing just to give back to y'all fine folks.


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  Screamers (1995) Cinema DTS
Posted by: Evit - 2022-06-14, 01:29 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - No Replies

From Blu-Ray.com reviewing Scream Factory Blu-Ray of Screamers


Quote:Scream has only supplied a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo mix. According to my research, Screamers did receive a DTS presentation in select theaters as well as Sony Dynamic Digital Sound. This is one sound presentation that deserves a lossless 5.1 mix (at minimum). Scream has encoded the stereo at just 1614 kbps (24-bit). I kept wanting the surrounds to come alive because the f/x produced distinct separation along the fronts and were quite active. When Jack Matthews reviewed the film for the Los Angeles Times he apparently heard it with at least Dolby Digital 5.1, noting that the Screamers' buzz-saws eject "a brain-piercing shriek that will tear the covers off your theater's surround-sound speakers." He also wrote that the sound track has a decibel rating of about 120. The Philadelphia Inquirer's Bonnie Britton advised her readers to see Screamers "in a theater equipped with a good sound system." Unfortunately, this sounds like a missed opportunity for Scream. I also felt that the dialogue sounded too murmured and muffled (perhaps by design) as I had to frequently adjust the volume. Composer Normand Corbeil's score sounds like warmed-up Bill Conti, which is a plus but it isn't that original.


The same stereo mix is also found on my UK Blu-Ray (PCM instead of DTS-HD but still 2.0) while every DVD published before always featured a 5.1 mix for every language. Synching the 5.1 audio track from DVD to Blu-Rays shouldn't be hard but I wonder if any of the cinema DTS discs ever showed up?

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  Superman 2 Theatrical Cut pre bluray master.
Posted by: Booshman - 2022-06-12, 04:56 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (39)

I have it on good authority that the original cut of Superman 2 is streaming on Apple TV and Vudu. The pre bluray master without the revisionist colour timing and blown out whites. Is anyone in a position to capture this version. The last time it was available was a HDTV rip that's been missing online for about a decade.

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  Help! I need some help removing motion blur that's out of control in SD vid
Posted by: Bilbofett - 2022-06-11, 11:47 AM - Forum: General technical discussions - Replies (5)

I'm restoring old SD footage.. whoever encoded it did a "half" de-interlace where fast motion is all blurred, but you can still see the jaggy interlacing lines on edges of arms and faces.. ugh.
I've tried:
-de-interlace 29.97 > 29.97 (no dice)
-frame doubler > 59.94 (line jaggies mostly removed, but bizarre blur's still there..)
-de-interlace 29.97 + motion interpolation to 59.94 (all jaggies gone, blur's still there)
I've thought of doing an inverse telecine > 23.976, then do motion interpolation to 48fps... but I think the jitter from the dropped frames will make it look visibly worse, stuttery Sad
I don't really know how to use QTGMC; I have Topaz VEAI, Rife/DAIN FF, Virtualdub, lots of editing programs..
I've already tried Dione deinterlace in VEAI and Resolve's AI Deinterlacer.
I think I need to invoke some clever AI where I know what I'm doing...
Any tricks, tips, ideas?

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