... that i wish someone (Cameron preferably) to really invent (or just find, since we live in this ultra-modern times with advanced technology) the time machine and go back and film more scenes with, for example, Bess Motta. Yes, her ! I like Linda Hamilton so much, but her roommate has something about her that is hard to explain. I want to be transported to the '80s as well - Bess represents that decade in such a remarkable manner, obviously. So yeah... more scenes with her and Sarah, i approve even ''soap-opera'' style. Sure, Latin America (Mexico, Venezuela...) is specialized for that, but why not Los Angeles ?

Hey guys,
So I've found the workprint of The Cable Guy and it runs approximately 6 minutes longer than the theatrical cut. Unfortunately, it's overlapped with a Russian voiceover with English audio in the background.

Is there any way to fix this?

Hi guys,

So I was browsing through my Fury Road different editions collection, and I'm kinda confused now about the variation of mixes that can be found on these.

It looks like there are different encoding of the mixes depending on the releases, not all of them sounding the same.

From what I can make up those are the main ones:

- English Dolby TrueHD Audio 5692 kbps  7.1 / 48 kHz / 5692 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 384 kbps / DN -4dB)
- English Dolby Atmos/TrueHD Audio 6077 kbps 7.1-Atmos / 48 kHz / 6077 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 384 kbps)
- English Dolby Digital Audio 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
- English iTunes stereo mix 192kbps AAC

However browsing the web, I find instances of those listed there and there:

- English Dolby Digital + 7.1 E-AC3 1536kbps
- English DTS-HD Master Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 4687 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) labeled as "original" so no re-encode
- English Dolby Digital + 5.1 640 kbps
- English Dolby Digital 384 kbps

What are they? I assume the last one is an extraction from either the Atmos or the True-HD tracks, but are the others encodes (or embeds) that appears in foreign territories? I muxed both the DD 448 and 384 in one file, and they sound completely different, the 448 one being superior sounding.

Both films being around 4 hours long - do you think that making them into one with duration of 3 hours at most would be a remotely good idea ? I think it would be interesting and i would have fun with it. It will be tricky though... because it is a huge production value difference, but at least it's only 7 years between them. It would not work, imo, if it's more than 20 years age gap.

My idea goes like this: after browsing this site for some time, i stumbled to 4:3 version of T2 but apparently T1 is only avalialble (good quality at least) at 1:78:1 & 1:85:1 aspect ratio (correct me if i am wrong). But anyway, perhaps the best edition would be in 1:78:1, so only T2 4:3 version should be set to 1:78:1 to match T1.

Now, the most difficult part would be to set the whole film to no more than 3 hours... so which scenes should be deleted ? Actually both films have some charming additional scenes which somewhat makes this mission even more impossible. 4+ hours is perhaps a bit too long, even for the quality film. 

So pretty much this version:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-2535.html
to be merged with this one:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-3010.html?...rminator+2
- i really like those blue colors in T2 (which would nicely match with ''U Matic'' grade of T1, by the way) - they are way more appealing than those teal (or whatever-it's-called) that is a trend nowadays.

Definitely a team-work is required here. 

Check out this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4joW4C4SRpM
- pay attention to 1:56 (Czech) - is that a similar low budget sound that T1 has ? Does anyone have that rare version of T2 in English?
Sound of ''T1&2 Merge'' can be in T1 mono style, but with corrections like this: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gya8-d9U4ws&t=360s

I would like to see your thoughts on this.

Edit: RETIRED. See my last post in this thread.

Hello all,

This one was originally intended to be a simple colour correction (to mostly fix the saturation that appears intermittently throughout the film e.g. throughout the hospital scene); also adding and syncing a good mono track and subs based on those from the Joy Sales DVD. 

Somewhere along the line, it got a bit bigger in scope. The video went through a few different revisions. I used elements from the Joy Sales DVD and HK laserdisc for the colour correction - but I also consulted a few different releases of the HK version and the Miramax blu-ray. One choice I did make was to dial back the blue tint in some scenes. Only because a lot of the HK releases were so heavily tinted that it made particular scenes so hard to discern. It might have been the case that the tint was intended to be that prominent, but it obscured a lot of details:

Compare this shot of Maggie Cheung from the Joy Sales DVD:


with this one from the render:


Like I said, I don't know that it's 100% accurate but it shows a bit more detail, IMO.

Here are some other shots:




The video was rendered in Resolve and Hybrid, encoded at the original bitrate.

Now, the audio. Here's where the scope got bigger.

Originally when we started we had the Cantonese mono from the Japanese blu-ray, a pitch-corrected 5.1, and the original English dub. What we ended up with is as follows:

• Cantonese mono with HK music cues
  
• Cantonese mono with HK music cues (Jackie Chan's 'My Feeling' playing over the end credits - at least one early DVD release featured this so we wanted to include it as an option)
  
• Cantonese mono with Japanese music cues
  
• Cantonese surround stereo remix (from the HK laserdisc - thanks to pipefan413)
  
• Cantonese 5.1 (pitch corrected)
  
• Mandarin surround stereo remix (from the HK laserdisc - thanks to pipefan413)
  
• Original English dub
  
• Original English dub with Barbara and Boss Wing's duet replaced by the song used in the Cantonese track (a The Film Whisperer custom)
  
• Hybrid Original/Miramax English dub (a The Film Whisperer custom)
  

The DVD was processed in the Topaz program and the result came out good, if you don't know what was done with the DVD, then you can freely say that this is a Blu Ray picture.

For a link to the film, write to me in PM

I recently got hold of an open matte version (RUS WEB-Rip Open Matte 1080p) and it's pretty much perfect as it opens up the BD frame without losing detail on the sides.

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/KGW77NNX

But the only problem with it, as you can see in the comparison, is the opening title sequence is also in Russian.

No problem I thought, I'll just edit the first 5 minutes of the BD and OM and overlay one on top of the other. Unfortunately Vegas keeps crashing on my poor laptop even with the short clips of the opening sequence.

So I humbly ask if one of the experts here would mind taking a look at it for me (and the community here of course).

Thanks.

Most companies that release silents on BD insist on encoding them at 1080p, which supports only 24fps. This introduces judder on all movies that run at slower frame rates, as they are stretched to fit into 24fps. Sometimes, such as with 18fps, it's almost tolerable, while with 22fps, it's whiplash-inducing (every 11th frame repeats). In every case, the motion is no longer smooth and really gets on my nerves! Silents never have jerky motion when presented from a proper film print.

Before BD, silents were transferred to home video interlaced (60 fields per second), and the motion was pretty good, with 60fps working for all frame rates, and every frame held for roughly the same amount of time.

However, since these BDs are pretty much the only way to see these movies, it's become a hobby of mine to fix the frame rates. I demux the video from the BD and delete all the duplicated frames. I then take the decimated file and re-sync it to the audio. While doing this, I take the opportunity to fix mastering errors and delete frames whose repairs are egregiously bad. When there are subtitles, I retime and occasionally retranslate them, with the goal to minimize the amount of subs that flash onscreen (one intertitle equals one subtitle). I also remove all modern logos and credits, making them separate files, since you usually won't see any if you go to a screening of an archival print.

All movies are available as a 1080i BD. Many are also available as a 60fps MKV. You must provide blanks, postage, and proof of purchase. I send these via snail mail; no links. PM me for details.

I will add to this list as I complete more.

TITLES:

Alice Guy Blaché, Vol. 1 (1897-1907)
Anna Boleyn
Back Pay (1922)
Battleship Potemkin (Kino)
Birth of a Nation, The (Kino)
Birth of a Nation, The (Twilight Time)
- Supplemental shorts only for now
Black Pirate, The
Blood and Sand (1922)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (Eureka)
Casanova (1927)
Chaplin's Essanay Comedies 1915
Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Comedies (1916-17)
Devil's Needle, The (1916) and Other Tales of Vice and Redemption
Doll, The
Downhill (Criterion)
End of St. Petersburg, The (1927)
Extraordinary World of Charlie Bowers, The
Fall of Babylon, The
Fantomas
- Improved PAL-NTSC conversion using the French release
Faust (Eureka)
Filibus (1915)
Fragment of an Empire (1929)
Frankenstein (1910, Library of Congress)
- Public domain. Proof of purchase not necessary.
Funeral of Valentino, The (1926)
Games of the V Olympiad, The (1912)
Golem, The (1920)
Grand Duke's Finances, The
Hands of Orlac (1924)
Holy Mountain, The (1926)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1923)
Ich mochte kein Mann sein
Inhumaine, L'
Intolerance
J'accuse (1919, Flicker Alley)
Last Laugh, The
Late Mathias Pascal, The
- DVD replaces brief portions damaged in the master
- Defective BD audio replaced by DVD audio (Bonus: now seven minutes shorter!)
Lodger, The (Criterion)
Lost World, The (1925)
Loves of Pharaoh, The
- English intertitles
Madame Dubarry (1919)
Meyer from Berlin (1919)
Michael (1924)
Money (1928)
Mother (1926)
Mother and the Law, The
Mountain-Cat, The
Mude Tod, Der (Eureka)
Napoleon
- Finale also available as 4K UHD MKV
Nibelungen, Die (Kino)
Nosferatu (1922)
- FWMS version with original German intertitles
- FWMS version with Kino's English intertitles
- Photoplay version
Old Ironsides
Oyster Princess, The
Page of Madness, A
Phantom
Portrait of a Young Man
Schloss Vogelod
Sheik, The (Eureka)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Spanish Dancer, The (1923)
Stage Struck
Storm Over Asia (1928)
Strike (1925)
Sumurun
Tartuffe
Ten Commandments, The (1923)
- Color segments reinserted
- Available as a 24fps BD and a 60fps MKV
Three Ages (1923)
Trip to the Moon, A (2018 edition)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910, Vitagraph)
Valley of Silent Men, The (1922)
Vampires, Les (Kino)

Greetings!

As my username might suggest, I'm interested in the preservation and archival of movies and television shows:

- Open Matte or OAR rarities, whether from DVDs or modern HD sources

- Any releases (HD or not) for content that sadly isn't released on Blu-ray (or sometimes even DVD) anywhere

- Any releases where the official disc releases are butchered, such as DNR, EE, aspect ratio changes, grading changes, bitrate, other changes (*cough* Disney *cough*)

- International imports for Blu-rays such as many 3D discs that sadly aren't released in North America

Let's say I have a DCP with Dolby Atmos, for example Mad Max: Fury Road, and the Blu-ray release of the same movie. What happens if I run both on a movie theater? Will I hear the same channels? (Dolby Atmos allows up to 128 audio tracks) I don't know if the Blu-ray (and UHD) releases come with a downmix.