Hello all, I'm new to this forum (and also on originaltrilogy), had a 20+ year television production career and have owned my own boutique video production company for the past 12 years. Long story short: the pandemic nearly wiped out my entire production business, so I pivoted to restoring and, where feasible, upscaling legacy content for clients worldwide (including Universal Records). 

I use a combination of broadcast and consumer equipment/software and squeeze everything I possibly can out of each project. Having been a long-time fan of FOX TV's "Millennium", I know it will never get a proper HD release from Disney, so I decided to tackle it myself.

Seasons 1 and 2 are complete, and I'm working my way through season 3. This series was shot with a LOT of purposeful noise/grain in places, and I did no DNR to stay as faithful as possible to the original intent. It's not perfect but it's probably as close as we'll ever get to an HD release. If anyone's interested, I'll update when the project is finished. Shooting for a pre-Thanksgiving release. Here are a few screenshots. Cheers to all!

Guys, I need for my project screens from Home Alone 1990 NTSC DVD first edition from 1999:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/512Q...SY445_.jpg

Hello friends.
I hope everyone is well.
It's nice to see that many people share the same passion.
Regards

Does anyone have a best audio track of Highlander (1986)? Which is the best english audio track? I heard the DVD of Artisan should be the best, right?

Can someone maybe provide me here?

hello!

Does someone know which cut is on the Japanese Laserdisc of Nightmare 6?
Runtime on LDdb shows 90 minutes and there's no note to say it's been cut or edited.

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/33869/TKL...-Nightmare

Hopefully someone here who owns the Japanese pressing can confirm this... 👍😎

Originally from this thread:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-226-post-8...l#pid82865

I still love the colors from my Criterion regrade but the project is now 7 years old is showing its age. It has a few minor problems including and most annoying, an inconsistent black level. So I tried to quickly update this project with the techniques I've learned in the intervening years. I overlaid the original project over the original IC BD and glued on roughly 30% of the original luma to even out the up-and-down levels of the original project. I then did some work with curves, contrast, etc to fix the black level and try to eliminate the flat look of the original. I then added a tiny bit of my CRT LUT, grain and upscaled the whole thing so I could test some 4K encoding and rendering. Not perfect and not as good as a start-over but better then the original. Kind of a testbed for me to figure out some things.

Video:
The original Criterion regrade project with numerous fixes and upscaled to 2160p

Audio:
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (edited from the P&S laserdisc)
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the CC LD) Default
FLAC 5.1 (upmix of the CC LD's PCM 2.0)
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (edited from the Warner Bros DC without narration)
FLAC 5.1 (upmix of the DC LD's PCM 2.0)
Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the US BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the US BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (edited from the US WP BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (edited from the US FC BD)

Sync:
US BD

Pics:

Final MKV


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Being a film that was shot mainly on SD camcorder and 16MM film, there's something really authentic and charming about watching THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on VHS. After revisiting it multiple times over the years on streaming services, DVD and Blu-ray it hasn't been the same experience. Many streaming services have the incorrect aspect ratio, often cropping the video and severely degrading the experience. DVD and Blu-ray also look bad, taking away the rounded corners and fuzzy feeling of the VHS. On top of that, the Blu often looks awful with the color grading looking WAY off and often feels nauseating with all of the artifacting due to it being an upscale of the DVD. If someone is able to get a good scan of the VHS with the rounded corners and sync & add one of the audio tracks from the DVD or Blu (DTS-HD 2.0 track), this could be a really cool project and can create the most authentic and faithful presentation of this horror gem.

Has anyone tried this method? Seeing the sites description, it's understandable that (even on the latest greatest hardware) all the 4/6k upscale processing can take several days if not months depending on the length of the footage. However, just using the motion interpolation parameters and outputting at original resolution with no upscaling would be very useful for correcting field blended sources, not to mention drastically reducing the rendering times.

Streets of Fire (Project CRT #8 v1.0)

Part of the Project CRT, for more background read here:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-3228