This is the OAR release of Spider-Man: Far From Home - tonemapped to SDR, downscaled to 1080p, and debanded. 
I used this unofficial build of StaxRip: https://www.avsforum.com/threads/guide-e...e.3008882/

Decided to shed some light on various editions of "The Thing" (1982), following the thread about its mix: https://fanrestore.com/thread-4162.html

This is one of the (many) titles that have A LOT of different editions; but AFAIK not many have different color grading - think also that two editions, released one after the other in about one year timespan, are both supervised and approved by director of photography Dean Cundey - even if they have VERY DIFFERENT color gradings!


Theater releases:

- video

1. shot on 35mm anamorphic 2.39:1
   
2. 70mm blowup 2.20:1
   

1. Dolby Surround (4:2:4) on 35mm
   
2. magnetic 6-track on 70mm (probably format 42 Dolby 70mm Baby Boom - confirmation needed)
   
3. mono on some 35mm prints
   

1. SD or HD - DVD NTSC Collector's Edition
   
2. SD or HD - DVD PAL, LD PAL
   
3. HD - DVD NTSC Collector's Edition V2, HD-DVD, BD Universal
   
4. 4K negative - BD Arrow, BD Turbine, BD Shout Scream Factory Collector's Edition
   
5. 2K interpositive - BD Shout, BD Shout Scream Factory Collector's Edition
   
6. 4K - UHD-BD Universal, iTunes
   

1. 2ch Dolby Surround from 35mm - PCM LD NTSC, LD PAL; DTS-HD MA BD Shout, BD Turbine
   
2. 2ch Dolby Surround with "Superstition" replaced - PCM WS LD
   
3. 2ch Dolby Surround folddown from 5.1 - PCM Signature LD NTSC
   
4. 4.1ch CREATED from 70mm - DTS-HD MA BD Shout, BD Turbine
   
5. 5.1ch CREATED from 70mm - DTS-HD MA BD Arrow, BD Shout, BD Turbine; DD+ HD-DVD; DD BD Universal, DVD
   
6. 5.1ch from 4.0 printmaster - Signature LD
   
7. DTS-X remixed from 70mm - DTS-HD MA UHD-BD
   

1. John Carpenter & Kurt Russell (unedited) - analog LD; DD DVD
   
2. John Carpenter & Kurt Russell (edited) - DD UHD-BD, BD Arrow, BD Shout, BD Turbine, DVD (after 2008)
   
3. Dean Cundey (DoP) - DD BD Shout, BD Turbine
   
4. Stuart Cohen (Production) - DD BD Shout, BD Turbine
   
5. Mike White, Patrick Bromley and El Goro - DD BD Arrow
   
6. Todd Cameron (Outpost31.com) - DD BD Turbine
   

• The Film (Network TV Broadcast Version) (1.33:1) [480i] - DD 2.0
  
• "Still Galleries" slideshows [1080p]
  
• - Behind the Scenes (4:47)
  
• - Lobby Cards and Press Still (4:18)
  
• - Programs (1:44)
  
• - Posters (1:59)
  
• - Storyboards (2:34)
  
• - Production Artwork (1:24)
  
• 2 Theatrical Trailers (3:27) [1080p]
  
• German Theatrical Trailer (1:47) [1080p]
  
• Teaser Trailer (1:22) [1080p]
  
• TV Spots (1:35) [1080p]
  
• Radio Spots (2:27)
  
• "Requiem for a Shape Shifter" interview with director John Carpenter (28:39) [1080p]
  
• "The Men of Outpost 31" documentary (51:14) [1080p]
  
• "Assembling And Assimilation" interview with editor Todd Ramsay (11:09) [1080p]
  
• "Behind the Chameleon" featurette (25:26) [1080p]
  
• "Sounds From the Cold" interviews with supervising sound editor David Lewis Yewdall and special sound effects designer Alan Howarth (14:53) [1080p]
  
• "Between the Lines" interview with novelization author Alan Dean Foster (15:58) [1080p]
  
• "The Art of Mike Ploog" photo slideshow (12:21) [1080p]
  
• "Back Into the Cold: A Return to the Shooting Locations of The Thing" photo slideshow narrated by Todd Cameron Of Outpost31.com (11:16) [1080p]
  
• Outtakes (5:19) [1080i 60hz]
  
• "John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary (84:03) [1080i 60hz]
  
• Vintage Featurettes from the Electronic Press Kit (13:20) [480i]
  
• Vintage Product Reel (19:38) [480i]
  
• Vintage Behind-The-Scenes Footage (2:02) [480i]
  
• Annotated Production Archive (54:12) [1080i 60hz]
  
• "The Making of a Chilling Tale" vintage featurette (5:14) [480i]
  
• "The Making of The Thing" vintage featurette (9:20) [480i]
  

• "Who Goes There? In Search of The Thing" documentary (77:47)
  
• "1982: One Amazing Summer!" documentary (27:20)
  
• "John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary (84:00) [480i]
  
• “NoThing Left Unsaid: 35th Anniversary Celebration Texas Frightmare” featurette (55:08)
  
• "The Thing 27,000 Hours" short (with optional commentary by fans of The Thing) (6:01)
  
• Fans of The Thing:
  
• - "Outpost #31: History and Impact of the Fans" featurette (15:42)
  
• - "We've Found Something in the Ice: A Fan’s Journey" featurette (5:38)
  
• - "The Thing Tribute Artwork" slideshow (0:24)
  
• Production Archive:
  
• - Production Background Archive (30 text pages & images)
  
• - Cast Production Photographs (15 text pages & images)
  
• - Production Art and Storyboards (53 text pages & images)
  
• - Location Design (69 text pages & images)
  
• - Production Archives (62 text pages & images)
  
• - The Saucer (2:22) (full motion & frame by frame options offered)
  
• - The Blairmonster (1:00) (full motion & frame by frame options offered)
  
• - Outtakes (4:08) (full motion & frame by frame options offered)
  
• - Post Production (29 text pages & images)
  
• Theatrical Trailer (1:58)
  

• 38-page liner notes booklet with writing by Violet Lucca and Kevin Alexander Boon
  
• 8 reproduction lobby cards
  
• Poster
  

• "U-Control" feature: Picture-in-Picture commentary (featuring the "John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary)
  
• "John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary (84:00)
  
• Production Background Archive (29 pages)
  
• Cast Production Photographs (15 pages)
  
• Production Art and Storyboards (52 pages)
  
• Location Design (68 pages)
  
• Production Archives (61 pages)
  
• The Saucer
  
• - Frame by Frame (47 pages)
  
• - Full Motion (2:20)
  
• The Blairmonster
  
• - Frame by Frame (44 pages)
  
• - Full Motion (0:58)
  
• Outtakes
  
• - Frame by Frame (7 pages)
  
• - Full Motion (4:06)
  
• Post Production (28 pages)
  
• Theatrical Trailer (1:52)
  

• - The Film - US TV Version (93:45)
  
• - Trailers
  
• - US Teaser (1:04) [1080p]
  
• - US Trailer 1 (1:30) [1080p]
  
• - US Trailer 2 (1:56) [1080p]
  
• - US Trailer 3 (1:58)
  
• - German Trailer (1:47) [1080p]
  
• - TV Spots (1:35) [1080p]
  
• - Radio Spots (2:06) [1080p]
  
• Features
  
• - "John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary (84:00) [1080i 60hz]
  
• - "The Men of Outpost 31" documentary (51:14) [1080p]
  
• - "Behind the Chameleon" featurette (25:26) [1080p]
  
• Interviews
  
• - "Requiem for a Shape Shifter with John Carpenter in conversation with Mick Garris" (28:39) [1080p]
  
• - "Between the Lines" interview with novelization author Alan Dean Foster (15:58) [1080p]
  
• - "Assembling And Assimilation" interview with editor Todd Ramsay (11:09) [1080p]
  
• - "Sounds From the Cold" interviews with supervising sound editor David Lewis Yewdall and special sound effects designer Alan Howarth (14:53) [1080p]
  
• "Fear on Film" A roundtable discussion from 1982 between filmmakers David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, John Landis, and Mick Garris (25:39)
  
• Archives
  
• - Storyboard to Film Comparison (8:25) [1080i 60hz]
  
• - "Trailers from Hell": "The Thing" (1982) with commentary by Jesus Treviño (2:20) [1080p]
  
• - "Trailers from Hell": "The Thing" (2011) with commentary by Jesus Treviño (2:46) [1080p]
  
• - "The Saucer" featurette (2:20)
  
• - Outtakes (6:16) [1080p]
  
• - Promo Clip Tape (13:46) [1080i 60hz]
  
• - "The Making of The Thing" featurette (9:20) [1080i 60hz]
  
• - "The Making of a Chilling Tale" featurette (5:14) [1080i 60hz]
  
• - Behind the Scenes (2:02) [1080i 60hz]
  
• - Promo Scenes Tape (19:38) [1080i 60hz]
  
• - Text and Image Archive [1080p]
  
• -- Cast, Production, Photo Gallery (2:30)
  
• -- Storyboards (8:41)
  
• -- Location Designs (11:21)
  
• -- Production Archives (10:11)
  
• -- The Saucer (7:50)
  
• -- The Blair Monster (7:20)
  
• -- Unused Scenes (1:10)
  
• -- Post Production (4:40)
  

• - Humanity (Part 1) (6:58)
  
• - Shape (3:20)
  
• - Contamination (1:06)
  
• - Bestiality (2:59)
  
• - Solitude (5:58)
  
• - Eternity (5:35)
  
• - Wait (6:30)
  
• - Humanity (Part 2) (7:15)
  
• - Sterilization (5:00)
  
• - Despair (4:50)
  

• "John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary (83:56 with Optional Isolated Score in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  
• Production Background Archive (Text Notes, with some Photos) (5:11)
  
• Cast Production Photographs (with Notes) (2:31)
  
• Production Art And Storyboards (with Notes) (8:31)
  
• Location Design (with Notes)
  
• Production Archives (Text Notes, with Photos) (9:41)
  
• The Saucer:
  
• - "Frame By Frame" (3:31)
  
• - "Full Motion" (2:21)
  
• The Blairmonster:
  
• - "Frame By Frame" (7:31)
  
• - "Full Motion" (0:58)
  
• Outtakes:
  
• - "Frame By Frame" (Text & Photos) (1:11)
  
• - "Full Motion" (4:06)
  
• Post Production (Text Notes, with Photos) (4:51)
  
• Production Notes
  
• Cast And Filmmakers:
  
• - Kurt Russell ('MacReady') (7pages)
  
• - John Carpenter (Director) (6pages)
  
• Theatrical Trailer (2mins)
  
• DVD-ROM Features:
  
• - Universal Weblinks
  
• 8-Page Collector's Booklet
  

... without re-encoding/converting the video/audio ? 
MKVtoolnix is a fine program, but there is no option for subtitle positioning and size. 
I know about tsmuxer, multiavchd... but they seem complicated.
Is there a simplest way of doing above-mentioned ?

Hello fellow FANRES members,

I am new here and I am glad I found you!
I greatly appreciate the work that people here are doing!
Cheers!

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Laserdisc PCM 2.0 synced to UHD
Synced to: 2018 Warner UHD (second pressing)

Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 
Format/Catalog#: Laserdisc [ML106348] PCM 2.0
Synced to: UHD Synced to: 2018 Warner UHD (second pressing)
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo [2.0] (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo [2.0]
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli

The sync was strange...
Must be rated.

I looked around to see if anyone has made this already and couldn’t find anything. I don’t have the software to see if this would work so I’m just typing my idea here on how I would do it if I could.

      South Park episode 201 original had its audio censored. An uncensored stereo mix was leaked to the internet afterwards you can read about it here.

https://lostmediawiki.com/South_Park_%22...com;_2010)

     When the episode was released on bluray, the audio was in 5.1 surround but still censored. I figured we can take the dialog from the uncensored leaked stereo audio and use it to replace the center channel in the 5.1 TrueHD track on the bluray. The uncensored audio is 16bit, 48hz FLAC and the bluray’s audio is TrueHD 16bit, 48hz so I assume the quality shouldn’t be that much off from each other.
     Now, I don’t know how for sure you would isolate the dialog from the uncensored but if I had to take a guess, I would run it through some kind of matrix Dolby surround software, if that is even a thing. That would put all the dialog into the center channel. If you could somehow make that center channel its own wav file, it could then be slapped over the center channel of the bluray and then be used to encode a whole new 5.1 TrueHD track, no?

La Dolce Vita (1960) Laserdisc [ID6262RE] synced to Criterion Blu-ray

Title: La Dolce Vita (1960) 
Format/Catalog#: Laserdisc [ID6262RE]
Synced to: Criterion BD
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo [2.0 Mono] (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo [2.0 Mono]
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli

The Wizard of Oz (1939) Laserdisc [CC1159L] synced to UHD

The Wizard of Oz (1939) Laserdisc [CC1159L] Special 50th Anniversary Edition #59

Title: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Format/Catalog#: Laserdisc [CC1159L] Special 50th Anniversary Edition #59
Synced to: UHD
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Mono (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Mono 
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli

Fanny and Alexander (1983) Laserdisc [21755] synced to Criterion bluray

Title: Fanny and Alexander (1983)
Format/Catalog#: [21755]
Synced to: US BD
Input Soundtrack: 32-bit, 96khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli

Considered by many to be the weaker interpretation of Frank Herbert's novel, the miniseries is, to date, the most faithful. (I don't want to start a discussion of the upcoming movie, but I do not have high hopes for it based on publicity and early reviews (and the lack of greenlighting for parts 2 and 3(?)).)

TV budget aside, I think most issues that fans of the books have with this version were resolved in the extended cut that wasn't widely seen.

The U.S. DVDs are out of print, and the international Blu-ray releases are of the broadcast(ish) version and full of technical issues.

Additionally, there is the problem that this was filmed on 35mm, but the effects were finished in standard definition. (I can't remember where I read that originally.)

On HDBits there is a hybrid edit of the BD sources by DON:

Quote:German Blu-ray has worse picture quality but it has English intro and credits and also 24 fps audio.
So I used intro, credits and audio from German Blu-ray and the rest of video from French Blu-ray.
There's few lines of hardcoded subtitles in both video tracks, French subtitles are lot smaller
so I used those and added forced subtitles.
Source has a lot of aliasing, but that's gone when resized to 720p. Fixed dirty lines on the left and right.
Few scenes are cut in both Blu-rays when compared to DC NTSC DVD.
They are: 4 scenes were shortened (4 min 40 sec) in Part 1 (cut dialog) and 1 scene (37 sec) in Part 2 (cut dialog). Part 3 wasn't cut.

Quote:If memory serves, the length discrepancy may be the result of a framerate conversion issue. That is, the German Blu-ray may be slightly slower and pitched slightly lower than it ought to be ... a sort of reverse "PAL speed-up" effect.