Come and See (1985) Lumière BD synced to Criterion

PCM 2.0 16 bits

Excellent sound. More bass... More details...

Ok, posting a few of my projects here, starting with this one, which was my very first. 

I did this a few years ago (2015, 2017, can't remember exactly), and I've shared it with quite a few people, so it's been online for some time. 
As a major Twin Peaks fan, I was over the moon when the deleted scenes of FWWM finally came to light. It's been a dream of mine to watch a full extended cut of the film since I read the shooting script for the first time.
I remember reading Lynch had no desire to change the film and include the scenes, so it was time to learn a few things about video editing and create my own extended cut. 

In the meantime, a Twin Peaks fan that uses the name 'Q2' and has many Lynch related fan projects released his extended cut and was very much praised by the TP community. I remember thinking "Great, someone else did this, someone who knows how to do these things" so I went after it, watched it, and...I didn't like it. I mean, it was basically the same stuff I was planning to do, but I don't think all the deleted material should be incorporated back into the film. Some scenes (at least to me) only work as a bonus, they deviate too much from the main story, some scenes needed to be shortened, anyway, it needed some polishing and it could be better. 
So I said what the hell, I'm gonna do this and if it turns out bad, I'll just delete it and learn to enjoy Q2's edit. 
Well, it was a lot of work but I finished it and was very satisfied with it. 

List of scenes that made the cut: 

• Chet and Sam talking to Jack about Teresa Banks (extended scene)
  
• Sunrise with power lines (deleted)
  
• Fight between Chet and Cable (deleted)
  
• Cooper chatting with Diane (deleted)
  
• Phillip Jeffries arriving at the Palm Deluxe in Buenos Aires (deleted)
  
• Full Jeffries appearance at the FBI (extended)
  
• Full ‘above convenience store’ reunion (extended)
  
• Full Jeffries disappearance from the FBI (extended)
  
• Jeffries reappearing at the Palm Deluxe (deleted)
  
• Cooper questioning Sam about Chet (deleted)
  
• Bobby and Mike chatting in car, messing with Donna and Laura (extended)
  
• Laura running into her mom at the door, asking for keys (deleted)
  
• Laura gets home, Sarah questions where she was (deleted)
  
• Palmer dinner scene, Leland teaches Sarah and Laura to speak norwegian (deleted)
  
• Laura meets trucker by the road (deleted)
  
• Ed and Nadine enter the RR, Nadine storms off, Ed runs after her (deleted)
  
• Donna calms Laura down, Doc Hayward plays magic tricks, they eat muffins, Leland calls Laura (deleted)
  
• LMFAP shows Cooper the ring, asks if it’s future or past (extended)
  
• Leo shows Shelly how to clean the floor (extended)
  
• Ed and Norma talk in Ed’s truck (deleted)
  
• Tommy and Buck drive Laura and Donna across the border to “The Power and the Glory” (deleted)
  
• Phillip Gerard/Mike chants by a circle of candles (deleted)
  
• Leland calls Teresa (extended)
  
• Teresa tells Laura and Ronette “the guy split”, Laura notices her ring, Teresa calls Jacques then Leland (deleted)
  
• Laura opens her diary and snorts some coke (extended)
  
• Bobby gives Laura the money, discovers the coke is actually laxative (deleted)
  
• Jacoby phones Laura (deleted)
  
• Laura and Sarah have dinner, Laura says she’s going to Bobby’s (deleted)
  
• Garland reads from the bible, Betty opens the door to Laura (deleted)
  
• Laura meets Bobby in the basement (extended)
  
• Bobby walks Laura to the door, Garland keeps reading (deleted)
  
• Leland arrives home and sees Laura hiding behind bush (deleted)
  
• The nurses rush Annie in a stretcher (deleted)
  
• Cooper questions LMFAP about the ring, realizes he’s trapped (deleted)
  
• Annie repeats her words to Laura. The nurse takes her ring (deleted)
  
• Doc Hayward and Truman break in and find Cooper on the floor (deleted)
  

Hey everyone, I've recently started going through my DVDs to look for original audio mixes I can use to make hybrid remuxes with UHD rips. I normally just have figure out the delay or from time to time, change the frame rates in EAC3to so they match.

No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get the video for the Peanuts Holiday Collection UHDs to sync up with audio in the Peanuts 1960's Collection. Has anyone attempted to do this or ran into a similar problem on another project? Any tips will be appreciated and I’m happy to make all my results public.

I’m trying to login into my fanedit.org account but when I reset the password It doesn’t log me in is the website broken?

Hello ya all,

I posted a similar question here a few months ago. Now things got a little more complicated.
I'm trying to sync an audio extracted from a NTSC video file (23,976 fps) to a PAL video (25 fps). To complicate things more, they're the same film, same cut, but different rips. The files don't start or end in the same spot. 

So what I did this far: I extracted both audios, imported them to Adobe Premiere, synced them, exported the NTSC audio. Then I muxed the audio to the video file using MKVToolNix. It was perfectly in sync in the beginning but started to desync as the film went on. I converted the muxed mkv file to 25 fps using Handbrake, desync got a little better but it's still there. 

Is there an easy way out of this?

Hello everyone, just wanted to post that I am not dead but have been merely very busy lately. My free time, simply put, is dwindling so I don't get as many opportunities to work on my projects, however I do want to give a status report of sorts with the creation of this thread.

I've been hard at work for the past few months trying to regrade the European master of Big Trouble In Little China (with many issues arising, forcing me to restart from scratch essentially three times) and I thought it'd be a nice tease for what's to come as well as a means of getting feedback as I am currently pressed with a little issue of sorts.

I'm currently trying to determine what'd be a better approach for this project, attempting to recover more details in the shadows and highlights at the cost of lowering the image contrast and mood to a certain extent or present a regrade more true to the 35mm source I'm working off of (which still holds more details in both ranges I may add but less explicitly).

Higher Contrast | Lower Contrast
 

 

One of the most ingenious shots in film history wasn't ingenious enough for the remastering team behind the UHD of The Wizard of Oz.

For those unaware, the magical moment when the sepia goes into colour was achieved in camera all in one shot by using a monochrome-painted set and a Dorothy body double wearing a monochrome dress, lit with a brown tinted filter over the set lights. As the camera moves through the door, Judy's double moves out of shot and the actress herself enters in her blue dress.

For the UHD, a power window was drawn around the doorway and everything inside the house, doppleganger included, has been digitally converted to pure black and white, then graded sepia.

Here's a comparison, with brightness raised for a clearer view, between the UHD and the 1997 MGM DVD which shows the unaltered colours.

UHD:


1997 MGM DVD:


It really is astonishing just how many of these digital "fixes" are poisoning cinematographic history.

This is the master thread for a series of projects that aim to more accurately recreate how old 6/4 channel mixes were intended to be heard. I'm not a huge fan on how modern theater equipment handles 4.0 tracks (on the rare case where one is available) and the way it handles matrixed audio is far from accurate. I correct this by combining various releases for the highest quality and accuracy, de-matrixing when necessary, and putting them in a 7.1 container with 4 discrete mono surrounds.

#1 Predator (1987)

I have been looking for a way to watch this series which was produced in six parts in '73. I cannot find it anywhere online to stream. It is available on DVD for import but under PAL unfortunately. Can anyone suggest any possibilities for watching?

After spending a lot of time lurking around finally decided to say hello.

As a fan of video edits and fan projects in general this seems to be the perfect place to meet people and exchange ideas. I used to be active in Fanedit.org but I didn't like how the mods dealt with a lot of stuff there so I left.

Anyway, happy to be here and really really impressed with some of the work I'm seeing here. It's great to see there's so many people passionate about this as I am.