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Hello! i'm posting because I'm hoping if i do it will let me dm someone about a regrade! not likely to post otherwise but excited to find fan restorations in the future

god look at these emotes though. i feel like i'm 14 again   

Long time lurker who finally decided to make an account. 

Such a great community with many talented people. Looking forward to participating!

I am glad to join this forum, i enjoy fanedits and i look forward to read about all the restorations in here.

With some UHDs of the original uncut version coming out, has anyone compared the audio across the many releases?
There's a JP laserdisc and a few DVDs with the mono track. I was going to pick up one of the DVDs and sync the mono as it'd be the cheapest and easiest source.

Just curious if anyone else has looked into this before I deep dive into buying a bunch of copies for my own personal autism

Hello, everyone! I'm fascinated by original audio mixes and the history of home video releases. I also love staying up to date with film restoration and new releases. I look forward to discussing these interests with you all and am excited to be part of this community!

Repost as I posted in the wrong section.

So I finally over three nights was able to complete this project I talked about here over the years.

As you all know, the original 3 first films were released on DVD in 1997 THX approved. They are worthy of note as they include original mono track in english, french and spanish, and the films are in 1.77:1 instead of 1.66:1.



My goal was to upgrade those discs to 4K, as the sound is preferable to the Blu-ray remixes, but the 480p masters are hard to rewatch today.

I decided to take AJP69 versions, and sync them to the Blu-ray discs.

With the syncs in place, I ditched the MGM lion logo at beginning and end of each film, and replaced it with the old UA logo with the swoosh, taken from a Blu-ray source. I also took off the Lowry credits because they weren't on the original films in the sixties.

I dislike the 1.66:1 format on all three films, which shows too much info on top, and feels too loosely framed, so I reframed all the films to 1.77:1. I also did some color corrections to punch up the colors, and align the look with the one for Dr No, which is the most accomplished of all three, color timing wise.

Then I synced the audio from the DVDs, it was easy, as the sync, apart from initial delay, correspond to the Blu-ray discs. (The 4K versions have some differences, I just cut out from them the extra frames to get in sync).

I compressed the films to H265 in 1440p (as some reframing was involved), I didn't want to go down to 1080p as we would lose some of the definition, and didn't want to keep 4K as I zoomed the picture to reframe the films.

Of course, these remains the old Lowry remasters, so they aren't perfect, but it's a nicer way to rewatch those films, while we await for some brand new restoration, someday.

I added, wherever it was possible, Laserdiscs tracks to the projects. As the videos are Blu-ray synced, you can basically add any subtitles or audio you want to those in the future, including LD audio tracks synced to the Blu-ray discs.

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Hey guys,

I ran into a weird issue lately: The short version is I tried to remux a retail-UHD and burn it back on a BD-R DL 50 GB which all worked fine, but when I'm trying to play it on my Panasonic UBP-824 or the PS 5, it starts to stutter as soon as the bitrate exceeds 60 MBit/s.

Now the more detailed version of what I did:
First I authored a normal 1080p-Blu-ray with menu etc. using Encore CS 6. For the video I just used a proxy-encode in 1080p, just to get it integrated into the menu-structure. Then I replaced it as described here. Then I updated the BD-profile to level 3.00 with BDedit and burned it using ImgBurn (UDF 2.5 and whatever settings it used automatically after it recognized the BD-structure). The player recognizes it as UHD and the menu etc. are all ok. The film starts, but soon as the bitrate exceeds 60 MBit/s it starts to stutter.

I also added a Dolby Vision-layer from a Web-DL (the original disc only has HDR10), but that's not the issue - I also tried to burn it without the Dolby Vision-layer and the results were the same. What might also be important to know is that I also completely swapped the audio-tracks. The original disc had 10 audio-tracks with (according to BD info) a total bitrate of 6879 kBit/s, mine has 8 DTS-HD MA-tracks with a total of 12079 kBit/s.

Are there any limitations with self-burned BD-R discs or is there something in the burn-settings or the BD-structure that needs to be changed, so it also plays fine on the UHD-player? When trying to play the burned disc with VLC it also works fine, so it's not an issue with the disc itself. The Blu-ray white-paper mentions something about 72 MBit/s or 92 MBit/s for 50 GB-discs and 92, 123 or 144 MBit/s for 66 and 100 GB-discs. But somehow I can't quite figure it out whether this is my bottleneck or what else I am doing wrong.

What worries me is that I can't find any other reports about issues like this. When someone asks about burning UHD-discs, it's just recommended to use common 50 or 25 GB-discs since the BD-R XL-discs won't play on most standalone-players. But nothing about bitrate-limitations etc.

Anyone here knowing what might help to get this solved or is it just impossible what I'm trying to do here?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey guys. Thanks for the acceptance.  I look forward to reading everyone's thoughts and learning about all the edits that are out there.

I'm trying to extract the trivia subtitle track (in VOBSub form) from the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man DVD and sync it to the UHD, but I cannot find a way to extract the subtitle stream and convert it to PGS, any solution out there?