EDIT: Moderators, feel free to remove this thread since it's served its purpose.

Things might be looking a little brighter up ahead and I want to send a huge thanks to everyone who helped us, be it by money or kind words. We're closing the fundraiser since we might be able to make it on our own soon.

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Hey everyone.
I posted this on originaltrilogy in april and I think a lot of people have moved on to this forum so maybe I'll reach all the old friends here.
In a way I feel ashamed to post this here too but on OT I got much love and positivity in response that I think it might be worth a try.
I'm going to copy-paste what I posted there and hope some of you might recognize me.
Take care of yourself, all awesome movie-lovers!
PS: A huge thanks to all of those who donated over at OT. You helped us pay for about 3 weeks worth of groceries!
/You_Too


Hi everyone.
When I came back and made some comments in the Fellowship Of The Ring color restoration threads some people seemed happy to see me and it just felt great. I got some PM’s too and it all just felt like I was an old friend who returned from a long holiday. With everything that’s been done since I was around I didn’t think many would even remember.

Some may even think I have something against them since I removed all Facebook friends a few years back in an anxiety attack after my half-sister told me she never wants us to have any kind of contact anymore, simply because I’m ill. Society considers me dead weight and so did my own sister which I forgive her for, of course. At the same time I just quit contacting the few people I had a bit closer contact with as well, like Dark Jedi who I worked with a lot here on OT and a few others who I can’t remember the usernames of. Real life was just too much to allow for social things on the internet so I thought: “If anyone really wants to contact me they will.” In fact, the more social contact I had the more tired I got. In the end, what hurt most was that people who used to be my closest friends in real life quit contacting me just because Facebook didn’t remind them of my birthday anymore or whatever. (I don’t care about birthdays but you get it!)

I have no idea how this thread will be received. Probably with mixed reactions. I don’t even know if I’m allowed to post something like this around here but the guidelines didn’t seem to have anything against it.

I tend to type walls of text so unlike what I’m about to link I’ll keep this short: Someone you might or might not remember is in a very, very bad situation right now and it will only get worse. You can read about it here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-survi...s-overleva

I didn’t create that fundraiser to force people to donate because they might know me or anything. In fact, I haven’t sent it to anyone except I posted it at the Ehlers-Danlos Support Group on Facebook but all members there are fighting the same fight more or less and I think they would all need donations.

I remember people used to donate to Poita to be able to buy 35mm scans from Ebay and then he shared the results with everyone, it was great! I’m not sure if anyone ever asked for a personal donation but here I am.

At the same time I’ll make this very clear: Even if you read my and my mother’s story you don’t have to donate. If you believe in anything, pray for us. Just leave a heartwarming comment. Anything. Money isn’t everything though sadly, it’s needed way too much.

Also, if you wish to donate but can’t use that website, the following works too: paypal.me/YThelpus

Either way, kind words, donations, they will all be worth the same and I thank you all in advance. And I thank you all for the past experiences around here. You really made me feel appreciated. Thanks and God bless you all! And may the force be with you.

(Should this thread violate any rules then please, simply remove it)

EDIT: From now on, all donations will be invested in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which I've spent lots and lots of time digging into. While I'm not allowed to share any information about it, I can only tell you that it's me and mom's last chance at getting a life again.

Hi guys,

So I'm puzzled by this weird stuff I'm trying to sort between FCPX and Adobe Premiere pro.

I have a film H264 23.976 file, that I reencoded from VC1.

It's length is 01:42:29:17 when imported in FCPX.

When I create the 23.976 timeline, and drop the file in, the length comes at 01:42:23:08

When I create the 29.97 timeline non drop frame, and drop the file in, the length comes at 01:42:23:11

When I create the 29.97 timeline with drop frame, and drop the file in, the length comes at 01:42:29:15

Now I use Adobe Premiere, with the same file.

It's length is 01:42:29:12 when imported in Adobe Premiere.

When I create the 23.976 timeline, and drop the file in, the length comes at 01:42:29:12 although when I double click the file in the timeline, it says it's 01:42:29:11.

I supposed to use this file to sync LD audio. How do I do it right? Which one to use?

Thanks if anyone can help.

Sometimes I visit other A/V forums (I'm guilty, your honour!) and reading some threads/post, I think how lucky are we, in this forum!

Here, muxing audio tracks from different sources is the simplest thing in the world; capturing bit-perfect audio from LD is a joke; even color regrading is a task that many are able to achieve...

And there, they see at a poster that muxed an Atmos track from UHD with the 3D video track from BD as a hero!


Often I was almost there to post and say "C'mon, be part of our forum, you will be amazed!" but I stop... should I go forward, next time?

(if only they knew it's possible to get Cinema DTS or laserdisc AC-3 bit-perfect tracks, their head could explode!)

I was making a list of future projects I wanted to do and kept seeing the same name come up - Buena Vista Pictures. Looks like they have a habit of only releasing theatrical editions of movies on blu ray that have extended/director's cuts on DVD, especially 90s movies. 

Con Air
Gone In 60 Seconds
Crimson Tide
Enemy Of The State
Pearl Harbor
Tombstone (DC already done by PDB)

Am I missing any more?

Also oddly the blu rays for several of them feature 5.1 LPCM audio which I don't think I've ever seen with other distributors. Must take up a massive amount of space compared to TrueHD or DTS-HD. Anyway I read a couple of reviews, particular for Con Air and Gone in 60, where the reviewer mentioned the audio seemed off in places, particularly directionally during action scenes etc. So I'm beginning to wonder if they've been remixed for blu. Or maybe that's how they were theatrically?

Looking around I can see:

Con Air - Laserdisc as AC3 and DTS - AC3 is very cheap and DTS very expensive
Gone In 60 Seconds - never on Laserdisc - maybe Cinema DTS track?
Crimson Tide - Laserdisc as AC3 and DTS - AC3 is very cheap and DTS very expensive
Enemy Of The State - Laserdisc but very expensive, seems to be quite a rare one
Pearl Harbor - never on Laserdisc - maybe Cinema DTS track?

Anyone got any of these? Or know if Cinema DTS tracks are available? For Con Air and Crimson Tide I'm happy to pick up the laserdiscs and gift them to anyone who can capture them. 

Thanks

Hi all,

Have been battling with getting set up for lossless VHS captures using a JVC deck with a built in TBC. Tried with Virtualdub but couldn't get the audio to sync so moved on to AmarecTV which seems to work fine. I've been capturing without deinterlacing then using QTGMC in Avisynth and the results seem good.

The only problem is the audio is just too loud! It's clipping and causing distortion. I've turned the volume on laptop my line-in right down but it doesn't seem to help. Looking at the display on the VHS player, there's a volume level meter and it look's like it's maxing out all the time. The only problem is there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it down.

Just wondering if anyone else has encountered something like this before? I'm wondering whrther running to audio through some sort of mixer with the option to lower the signal gain before it got to the capture card would work?

This is going to be my next project, taking the HD Theatrical Version and inserting upscaled extended parts from the DVD. I've got the German and Japanese blu rays and I've decided to use the Japanese video due to the slightly higher bitrate and the fact that it was encoded by Sony. 

Reasonably straight forward, just not sure what to do about the audio. The Extended Version seems to have only been released as 2.0 AC3. The German disc has all sorts of Atmos and Aura tracks for the theatrical but I'm assuming they are in house remix jobs. The Japanese disc has 5.1 TrueHD. 

Is there a reliable way to remix the 2.0 from just the extended parts to 5.1? So they can be combined with the 5.1 theatrical from the Japanese Blu Ray? Or is that just going to sound off and I'm better just keeping the whole thing as 2.0 AC3?

Also looks like there was a Japanese LD of the Extended Cut, can't find it for sale but I imagine it's very expensive. Don't suppose anyone has that? 

Thanks

Source is freely available here: https://youtu.be/8J_b8lUajy4 (discovered on oririnaltrilogy thanks to a post by Avatar_Emil_Borg)



I had few hours free, so I took it, cut the borders, increase the contrast - that had the welcome side effect to increase the saturation too - then I just corrected the colors a tiny bit and slight denoised; downscaled to 1080p, and muxed to mkv with ac3 sound (just to make it BD compliant, if someone would like to mux to .m2ts).



Have fun!


File deleted; new version revised by Bronan here:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-4062-post-...l#pid73622

If anyone has the Laserdisc and can capture the audio there is no problem with the sync, I can do it myself. Why?
Take a look at this interesting information:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php...29&page=18

#356

Critters also has the 5.1 remix carried over from the New Line DVD release, but unfortunately the 2.0 seems to be a stereo folddown of the 5.1 and not the original mono (watching these through a SonyUBPX800 hooked through a HK receiver with DTS Neo 6 mode for original mono and 4 track stereo mix titles)

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php...29&page=29

#573

I was watching the first Critters tonight and at 19 minutes and 50 seconds the audio briefly cuts out before returning. This was with the 2.0 audio option on. The audio didn't drop out on the 5.1 track when I checked. I tried the disc on different hardware and got the same result. 

I don't have the Shout Factory release yet, perhaps someone can confirm this.

Hello, everyone! I have been a lurker here for a while, but I am very active at some of the other forums (as I'd imagine many of you are). I like to keep myself abreast of ongoing preservation projects since clearly the studios unfortunately have no interest in doing it themselves. I'll jump into the discussion where I can, but my technical abilities are limited in terms of editing. Glad to be here!

With these releases...

2013 - Shout Factory

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Prince-of...ray/73170/

2018 - Studio Canal

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Prince-of...ay/214721/

...I am wondering if the 2.0 track is original stereo (Ultra Stereo) and not a downmix. Does anybody know?

If it's not, anyone have the "Prince of Darkness" laserdisc and can capture the audio to obtain the original track?