Hi folks, a new project released for you all - a version of the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot with lots of little fixes to CBS Digital's HD restoration from 2012 (lord, how time flies). To summarise:

1. Resynced video to the 2.0 Dolby surround track from the original DVD release. The 2.0 track on the remaster was compressed and with a duller EQ (far less high end than the DVD). Even more disastrously, on the Season 1 Blu-ray re-issue, it's a mono downmix!
Corrected the sync of the original 2.0 Stereo track, which was 1-2 frames off in various places on the Next Level Blu-ray teaser disc.
2. Shot-by-shot colour correction. Mostly minor, to improve consistency in the mid-tones (some shots were too green/yellow), restore the exposure levels of the original broadcast in some scenes and bring back a tiny amount of detail in the blacks and highlights (loads of clipping/crushing in CBS's grade). Some significant changes include:

• Restored the vignette around Q's close-ups in the court scene (the remaster was simply underexposed here, which neutralised the effect)
  
• Removed the bizarre pink and green gradients that were added to the Farpoint matte paintings in the remaster.
  
• Improved the consistency of the grading on Q's flashback scenes that Riker watches on the monitor (some shots looked almost raw in the remaster).
  
• Probably the biggest fix: the holodeck grading has been drastically improved. CBS inexplicably gave this scene a dark, icy blue grade, when it's clearly meant to be a bright, warm sunny day, as it appeared in the original broadcast.
  
• Zorn's office and many of the Bandi model shots have been darkened as they appeared in the original broadcast.
  
• Toned down the blown-out highlights on the jellyfish aliens.
  

Moved over from this thread.

I own the 1991 Orion Home Video VHS of the so-bad-it's-good 1986 NBC Christmas made-for-TV movie Babes in Toyland.

I found out last year that a DVD+R DL ISO file of the original 1986 US TV version exists, according to sporv's Workprints Master List:

Quote:Babes In Toyland [TV Version]
This version runs around 47 minutes longer than the DVD version. It contains many extra scenes, shots and lines of dialogue throughout.
NTSC DVD+R DL, Fullscreen, Quality A, 2:22:51 — Menu, TV Version Notes and a selectable TV Version Guide

Curious as it would be awesome to recreate the IMAX version.

Hi All

So my 10tb Hard Drive went down!
Lost some stuff as I hadn't done a recent back up!

It was a Seagate Iron Wolf NAS drive.

Any recommendations for large capacity Internal Hard Drives?

Ravenous (Video Fix and Color Correction v1.0)

Been thinking about a project of Ravenous (1999). Curious to see if any interest.

I really enjoy this oddball film. I didn't see it in theaters assuming, despite the great cast, its was just gory, dumb mess of a film. The trailer didn't do it any justice. After getting the DVD in 1999, I found that it was those things but it was also a fun black comedy and pseudo-western.

The original US DVD was a terrible non-anamorphic master. After buying the PAL DVD from the UK and the Itunes HD; I still found both based on the same terrible master and thus lacking. So color me surprised to hear that Shout was releasing it on BD. Well once again the same 20 year old master was popped out on disc.

The transfer is soft and fuzzy, lacking any sort of HD details. In fact doing the old up/downscale resolution test and comparing it to the Itunes HD, I doubt this BD resolves anywhere north of 720p. Adding to that BD is full of oversharpened and sometimes frozen grain and has some CRT red.

So I've been playing around with this for awhile, trying to dig details out of this. I removed the old bad grain, upscaled details to 1080p and 4K. Sharpened lines, regrain and color correcting.  I wouldn't call this amazing HD for sure but I think it is better then what we got.

Original BD/Fixed and Color Corrected


Original BD/Fixed and Color Corrected x400


Video:
See Above

Audio:
1. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Shout BD)
2. Commentary 1 (from the Shout BD)
3. Commentary 2 (from the Shout BD)
4. Commentary 3 (from the Shout BD)

Sync:
From the Shout BD

Pics:
Final MKV


Original BD/Fixed and Color Corrected

So I purchased the R1 DVD to sync the audio to the HD web-dl. However when it arrived, I noticed that despite the listing and even the back of the box, it had a DD 5.1 track and no mono/stereo. I thought maybe I had some newer issue but I came across this review that also mentioned their copy having 5.1 despite the case saying it was mono.
Does anyone know if there's a release with the original mono? It never had a LD release, and I'm not holding my breath for a BD. There was a VHS release, but I'd rather not go that route as I don't know about the audio quality on it, and I'm not equipt to capture it if anyways.
If anyone has any more info on foreign DVDs (or the ability to do a good VHS transfer if it comes down to that) let me know. I'd really like to restore the audio to this very underrated Disney film.

Hi, I'm here from the old fanres forum.

Welp, the US trailer is finished. Would've loved to get my hands on the HD trailer from US Blu-ray to increase quality in some aspects. But maybe in the future I can get my hands on it. I'm not that happy with Island World logo and it's nowhere to be found online in good quality. I had to re-create it from scratch. Hence me wanting the HD trailer for the proper logo.

Anyway... This is a 100% re-creation of the original domestic trailer. All text was closely matched. To find the proper font was much harder then I thought. It's close enough

Enjoy



PS: Soon I'll finish the german trailer for this movie, which is different to the US trailer. Stay tuned.

Today I present to you the (almost) fully restored trailer for Nightmare on Elm Street 6

Here are some edit notes from this project...

• MPAA Red Band Card created from scratch to match the trailer
• New Line Cinema Logo taken from Jason Goes to Hell HD Trailer to match the trailer
• At 0:20.22 cut earlier to black since 6 frames are missing in the final cut of the movie
• At 0:25.22 alternate take used in the final cut of the movie
• At 1:08.01 zoomed in to match shot in the trailer
• At 1:10.22 scene taken from the trailer, upscaled with AI, added 35mm fine grain, since the scene is missing in the final cut of the movie
• At 1:20.15 zoomed in to match shot in the trailer
• At 1:21.15 scene extended for 6 frames since next shot (alt angle from the following shot) is missing in the final cut
• At 1:41.02 alternate take used in the final cut of the movie
• All text in the trailer are created from scratch to match the trailer
• Added 1.85:1 black bars to match original aspect ratio

Times in the notes are minutes : seconds . frames

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