Found this site while looking for anime and movie recuts, lots of great work here, keep it up!

In few minutes I'm going to reorganize the forum layout - not a revolutionary change, and no forums/subforums will be deleted, only sorted in a different way.

The new layout is in beta test until the end of the year; if there will be enough positive response, I'll keep it - if not, I'll revert back to the old one.

Personally I think the new layout is cleaner, but it's up to you to decide that... so, vote vote VOTE!

Not sure the correct topic to post this under, so move it if necessary..

This is just my experiments to make something recorded on VHS more watchable in the 21st century.
Since the footage was 24p, I am going for a film look here, and grain helps mask a lack of detail so I used that here.

Original VHS (encoded in MPEG-2)


My Cleanup:


I did some color correction, IVTC,  cropping out the parts the VHS rendered unusable, and used everyone's favourite boogeyman tool, AI Up-scaling to remove the compression artifacts from MPEG-2 and try to make the haloing/ringing a bit better. Let me know what you think

For those curious, the series I used for the comparison is The Chris Isaak Show. Not really my type of thing, but I was thinking of restoring it for my father and he only has it/it only seems to be available on a bootleg set sourced from VHS/Composite into DVD recorder recordings.

Anyone 'played' this yet?

It's incredible what UE5 can do and it's all in real-time.

https://www.enjoythefilm.org/available-35mm

Just spotted this on 2 sites and honestly wasn't expecting to see it so soon.

Quote:Dub removed.
As it had hardcoded Russian subtitles for foreign parts, non-IMAX scenes are heavily cropped at times, and has crap bitrate,
didn't bother to slow down the video, sync proper audio and add chapters.
Just created synced forced subtitles from AMZN in ASS format to go over the Russian ones.
Maybe a better release or a hybrid will appear later on.

Which blu ray of Escape From New York has the best transfer? Studio Canal, Scream Factory, or MGM?

Hello all, 

My friend, a budding archivist, showed me this website and I was instantly enamored with the johnny mnemonic project. So I'm here to say hello and such. Feel free to ask me for a random bird fact, something else entirely, or nothing at all. You could tell me something about you; that would be neat. 

I'm going to go back to lurking now. Thanks for reading this far.

-chlorophonia