These Fan preservation projects are my favorite things ever. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THOSE WHO MAKE THEM POSSIBLE

Hello Fanrestore,

I am releasing an open source VST3 plugin for decoding several flavours of Matrixed Stereo audio, it is based on the Foobar DSP Freesurround but with improvements, bass management was a big bottleneck in the original implementation in regards to latency so that was rewritten to make this plugin something you can use to decode your dolby surround, old school prologic and prologic II movies and games in real time.
It's still a work in progress but it should help people without avrs.

It was tested on the VST3 fork of Equalizer APO and Reaper.

A dedicated and more user friendly standalone version is in the works.

Again, the code is wide open and commented through hell and back so I urge you to bring your talents to it because the dream is to have a tool that everyone here can use in future preservation projects, think Fantasia 1940 Laserdisc mix but with discrete channels this time around

Hope you enjoy it.

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Hello lovely peeps!

Hello all! Brand new to all of this, really. Didn't even know this forum existed until yesterday. But over the past 9 months I've gotten more into fan restorations than I ever was before, and I figure it's about time I joined a community of likeminded people. Glad to be here!

Hey everyone,

MagnumSky here! I’ve been lurking around the fan preservation scene for a while and finally decided to create an account and jump into the community.

My interest in preservation comes down to a deep appreciation for theatrical authenticity original color timing, raw 35mm/70mm film grain, and unaltered audio mixes. Modern studio DNR and revisionist color passes just don't cut it on a big screen!
I run a dedicated Jellyfin library (my "Celluloid Vault") feeding a 4K projector, so I’m always on the lookout for pristine theatrical scans that preserve the cinematic experience the way it was meant to be seen in theaters.

Excited to learn more from the community, keep up with ongoing projects, and support the incredible work you all do here!

Hi everyone!!!

Hello i am a new film enthusiast

1992 LD [LV 1643-2WS] PCM 2.0 decoded into 5.0 using a Shure HTS5300.  Synced to the UHD and saved as FLAC.  Classic mix.

FWIW, the DVD AC3 5.1 syncs up to the UHD using a delay of +1124ms.

A note on the recording process:
Panasonic LX600 digital out goes to an ESI U24XL.  The U24XL's stereo analogue outputs go into the HTS5300.  The HTS5300's L-C-R-SL-SR outputs go into an ESI Maya44, which is recorded in Reaper at 44.1khz.  Each disc must be recorded twice since the Maya44 only has 4 inputs.  The first pass records L-C-R.  The second pass records C-SL-SR.  Both passes are then synced together in Audacity by matching the two Center recordings.  The resulting 5 channels are then synced to UHD audio.  Finally, an empty LFE channel is added for playback compatibility (I prefer to let the AVR handle the bass management rather than record the HTS5300's LFE output).  The mix is peak-normalized as a whole to -1db thus preserving the channel balances while increasing the overall gain (the volume output on the Shure is kept at a conservative level to avoid the possibility of clipping), then exported as 48khz 5.0 FLAC.  The two ESI units are operating on separate computers to avoid ground loop hum and interference.  There might be an easier way to do all this but this what I had on hand to work with.  

Normally, I would prefer to record a mono surround in a simple 4.0 but so far as I know, besides lowering the volume pot on one Surround channel, there's no way to stop the Shure from doing it's surround magic, so I was afraid that recording only one surround channel would be detrimental to the overall cohesiveness of the sound.  Maybe downmixing the surrounds into mono after the fact would be more "accurate" but I don't think it makes much difference; its not like the Shure is suddenly making the surrounds completely discrete.  

Hello! I am a huge fan of that Tim Burton Batman film. I am really glad to be here!

Hi! I’m glad to part of this forum. The reason I came here is to find and listen to the original audio mixes of movies, whether it be from Laserdiscs, DVDs to an extent, etc. I look forward to seeing what’s on here and hopefully I will get something out of joining this community.