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.

There’s a film I’m surprised no one has thought of updating the cgi in 1995 jumanji and using the uhd as a base upgrading the hdr to Dolby vision on top of the 4k resolution. upgrading the cgi because most of it takes you out of the movie now sadly.

As many (all?) of you know, laserdisc format allow more than a single audio track (more info could be found here: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1107.html)

Now, most of capture cards can grab one video source along with a stereo audio track; so, what to do with a laserdisc with more than a single stereo track?

1. capture it twice (or three times), then eventually mux the other audio track(s) to the first audio/video track

• [1] one PC with single capture card
  

• [2] more PCs each one with its own capture card
  

• [3] one PC with two audio cards
  

• [4] one PC with an audio card with multichannel input
  

• capture a laserdisc with two or three audio tracks in one pass, sparing:
  • time - in a case of two hours movie, only two hours capture instead of four or six
    
  • wear - mainly of laserdisc player, secondly PC/HDD etc.
    
  • electricity - not a lot, I must admit, still some
    
  • work - to put in sync two or three tracks
    

• capture a laserdisc with its own tracks AND decoded one by an external decoder
  
• capture two (or more) laserdiscs from two (or more) players at the same time
  

• a laserdisc disc with (at least) two audio tracks
  
• a laserdisc player with both digital and analog outputs
  
• optional: a laserdisc with AC-3 output AND an AC-3 demodulator, if you want to capture AC-3
  
• optional: an external audio decoder if you want to capture decoded audio
  
• analog and digital cables to connect laserdisc player to the capture card
  
• a computer
  
• a capture card (that can grab at least video)
  
• an audio card with multichannel input
  
• a capture software that can grab video AND multichannel audio
  OR
  
• a capture software to grab video AND another that can record multichannel audio at the same time
  

• to capture AC-3 you NEED an audio card with digital input AND bit-perfect AND external AC-3 demodulator
  
• to capture DTS you NEED an audio card with digital input AND bit-perfect
  
• to capture PCM you can use an audio card (from best to worst):
  • with digital input AND bit-perfect
    
  • with digital input BUT NOT bit-perfect
    
  • with only analog input
    
• to capture analog you can use any audio card
  
• to get DVD/BD/UHD-BD compliant audio tracks, audio cards must be at least 48kHz