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

Does Anyone Knows How The IMAX Transfer Looked like? Does it still has The Green tint?

sorry of my bad english

Hi,

For my first project here, and for a Christmas release, I'm going to make an MKV file and custom Blu-ray ISO file of an HD upscaled version of the 1990 animated movie, The Nutcracker Prince, sourced from the 2004 GoodTimes DVD. The original US theatrical trailer will be included as a bonus feature.

The ripped movie will be deinterlaced, pulled down from 29.97fps to 23.976fps, and resized to 640x480 with an AviSynth script and VirtualDubMod, upscaled to 1440x1080 with Real-ESRGAN, and have black bars added in Adobe Premiere Pro.

I would like to upload the finished MKV file and custom Blu-ray ISO file onto MySpleen, but I don't have an account there.