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?

Hi! I’m not sure but I think 48 kHz is required for Blu-ray. However, I tend to see that you share audio files taken from Laserdisc as 16-bit, 44.1 kHz (FLAC). I imagine I must convert the 44.1KHz (FLAC) to 48 KHz LPCM with eac3to. If I create Blu-ray, burn it and pop it into a Blu-ray player. What would happen to that new 48 kHz LPCM track? Any errors? The audio will play too fast?

If one audio is at 44.1 kHz on a Laserdisc and could be recorded at 48 KHz, why don’t you do that? There must be some important reason. Would some errors take place?

Hello, I was Wondering if anyone here has the Dolby Surround 2.0 Mix from the 2009 Predator 2 Blu-Ray release? I'm curious to see how it compares to the LD version.

Hey,

I watched Out of Africa yesterday and the sound didn't perform well in the dialogues and somehow it's oddly off here and there. It was the remastered universal Blu-ray release with 5.1 dts-hd. Through some research I have seen that the DVD has a Dolby Digital 4.1 Surround Track, correct me if I am wrong, this should be also more in the near of the original sound, but thats a guess anyway.

So now I am looking for someone who can provide me rips of the Audio from the Laserdisc:

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/02005/403...-of-Africa

As this should be the most accurate release since it came out in 1986. If someone also has the DVD-Audio, I would be pleased if I am allowed to compare them. Maybe there is someone already have this or I can also arrange in obtaining the issued Laserdisc or so. Thanks!