Gone with the wind - Optical Mono



The wizard of Oz - Optical Mono (dual)



Star Wars - Dolby Stereo (along with Dolby Digital between the holes)



“Gone with the wind” and “The wizard of Oz” are from the year 1939, but has different optical tracks. Dolby Laboratories introduced Dolby A in 1965, that “The wizard of Oz” print uses Dolby?

Some may know this movie is one of my favorites of all time.

After years of searching and waiting, I managed to get hold of a 35mm trailer scan of a Felidae trailer.

I then took the same trailer from the DVD (frame-perfect match), cropped the 35mm scan to fit the DVD trailer and set up these two sources for AI training. This is a trick I learned from someone else some time ago, thanks to that person!

In the end, I want to use the resulting AI model to upscale the entire movie. Now, the trailer is actually letterboxed where the DVD itself is anamorphic, but I figured I could give it a try anyway, and so far the results seem promising.

This is what I got after something around ~24 hours of training (good results can take weeks though!):


DVD on the left, AI upscale on the right. The low contrast of the output has to do with how I set up the training, pay no attention to that.

Here's a direct comparison between Bicubic upscaling and the AI upscaling with slightly adjusted contrast:
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/7GGWWNNX

Already I think it's very promising. You can see it seems to have the most issues with emulating the 35mm grain, the imitated grain comes out way too uniform and synthetic looking. However this was actually much worse at around 5 hours of training and it's been improving ever since, so I'm hopeful that it will eventually improve to the point of being fully acceptable.

If that doesn't happen, maybe because the DVD just doesn't have enough information to properly reconstruct any reasonable semblance of grain, I will try adjusting the training set by temporally degraining the 35mm scan for the upscaling. That should almost perfectly preserve the image content (as opposed to spatial degraining) while getting rid of the grain, meaning the AI will no longer have to emulate the grain and could just deliver a clean picture. I could then try and add the grain with some other method later.

Anyway, I'll keep this training going for at least a few more days and see how it improves.

There is no blu ray for this movie so the video comes from a 1080p webrip. This contained quite a lot of dirt and dust so the majority of this has been removed and I've also added some grain as the webrip appeared to be lacking. Added to that is the PCM audio from the Laserdisc and a bunch of special features I found on youtube.

• BD25 with a menu, background video, pop up menu and resume function
  
• 1080P taken from the webrip with additional cleanup
  
• English 2.0 PCM taken from the laserdisc (ripped by Alinskey and synced by Alexpeden2000)
  
• English 5.1 DD+ and French 2.0 AC3
  
• English, French, German, Italian and Spanish subtitles
  
• Bobbie Wygant interview with Nicholas Rowe
  
• Late Late Show 1985 Segment
  
• Film 86 Location Report
  
• Stop Motion Featurette
  
• Bruce Broughton Orchestra
  
• Trailer
  
• TV Spot
  

Okaaay. First release here, so go easy on us! The mission here is to hopefully provide the best possible viewing and listening experience of T2 that we can get, using the latest 2017 StudioCanal "remastered" transfer as the main source.

First, a big thank you and credit to @sanjuro_61 for his release of this film that we used as a basis to work from, found here: https://fanrestore.com/thread-2885.html

Further alterations from his release as follows:


v1.1 (THEATRICAL)

VIDEO

- Reinstated a single frame that was accidentally left out of the theatrical cut, rendering the audio out of sync by 42ms 18 minutes into the film in v1.0

AUDIO

- Encoded the Japanese CDS Mix 2003 into DTS-HD MA



VIDEO

- Painstaking regrading of the film, not just scene to scene but in some cases shot to shot or even single frames where necessary in order to restore the film to something closer to previous releases (This took a lonnng time!)

- Restored bendy knife in bar scene

- Restored stuntman's head in the slo-mo bike jump scene

- Replaced shots throughout film where lost detail could not be recovered from the 2017 transfer by using the 2015 Lionsgate transfer instead, with additional regrading to match the rest of the film

  -- We decided to use the 2015 transfer for the first shot of the T800 crushing the skull with the pink lasers overhead, as removing the ridiculous amount of blue was not possible with the 2017 transfer

  -- The lava at the end of the film has been turned to yellow with too much detail lost in the process, so the 2015 transfer was favoured in some shots

- Cropped a shot in the car after the Sarah Connor asylum breakout due to presence of border of projected backdrop being visible in 2017 transfer

- Inserting and regrading of Special Edition scenes to match the rest of the film


AUDIO (THEATRICAL)

- DTS-HD MA 5.1 (StudioCanal 2017)
- DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Lionsgate 2015)
- DTS-HD MA "6.1" (Skynet 2009)
- Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (Japanese Premium Edition 2008)
- DTS-HD MA 5.1 (French CDS Mix "Remaster" 2008)
- DTS 5.1 (Japanese CDS Mix 2003) [Thanks to @Chewtobacca  for his resync of this]

So, I'm not completely happy with the sync up of the 2008 CDS "Remaster" audio, but it's as good as I can get it really and is still very watchable. If anyone else wants to have a crack, go nuts.


AUDIO (SPECIAL EDITION)

- DTS-HD MA 7.1 (Ultimate Lionsgate Hybrid 2020)
- DTS-HD MA 7.1 (Ultimate Premium CDS Lionsgate Hybrid 2020)
- DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Premium CDS Lionsgate Hybrid 2020)
- DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Lionsgate 2015)
- DTS-HD MA "6.1" (Skynet 2009)
- Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (Japanese Premium Edition 2008)

They botched the timing of the Special Edition scenes with the StudioCanal 2017 audio, so I didn't include it.

The top three tracks for SE, I put together myself.

For whatever reason, the 2017 StudioCanal release features a 5.1 English track, and a 7.1 German track. No 7.1 in English. Luckily, an English DTS-HD HR 7.1 track exists on the 2008 German Ultimate Edition release of the film on HD-DVD, which @Kurtos graciously provided me with. What a rarity!

I found that the volume of the German Ultimate Edition 7.1 was set too high, "brickwalling" it more so than other remixes, so I took the additional surrounds from the German Ultimate Edition 7.1 and synced and lowered the volume accordingly to match the Lionsgate L, R, C, LFE and rear surround channels, which are identical more or less to the German Ultimate Edition anyway, but with a higher bitrate and less brickwalled. So if you want a remixed 7.1 experience, the first track is probably the way to go.

The third track is the theatrical CDS Mix taken from the 2003 Japanese DVD, with Lionsgate 2015 L, R, C and LFE spliced in for SE scenes. I took the surrounds from the Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Japanese Premium Edition for SE scenes, as their volume levels matched more closely to the CDS Mix without any need for editing. Other than the volume being lower on the Dolby TrueHD rear channels, they're identical to the Lionsgate. This is as close as it gets to watching the film with original audio, if you're interested in SE.

The second track is the CDS Mix L, R, C and LFE channels. with Lionsgate 2015 SE scenes spliced in for L, R, C and LFE, combined with Lionsgate 2015 for rear surround channels, and the additional surrounds from the German Ultimate Edition, with volume adjusted accordingly to match the CDS. Most people would consider this blasphemous, but if you want that original mix with 7.1, use this

I have the Lionsgate 2015 5.1 audio as the default selected track.

Sorry if any of that was confusing. Just message if you want any further clarification.


SCREENSHOTS

https://imgur.com/gallery/X23ZpTY

If you're interested in either the theatrical or special edition, feel free to PM me Keep in mind, they're both over 60gb each. If file size is an issue, you can always shave off a fair bit by removing whatever audio tracks you don't want. I also made some lighter encodes of each version too.

Amazon open matte WEB-DL 1080p rip used as the main source.

VIDEO

- Transfer was regraded, dropping reds and blues a little to get a more natural tone; something in between the open matte transfer and the blu-ray

- There are a couple of scenes later in the movie with English subtitles for spoken Wachootoo that are missing in the WEB-DL, as well as being cropped when compared to the blu-ray (just those shots). So, the blu-ray has been used as the video source for those particular shots, with regrading to colour match the regraded open matte transfer

- Blu-ray opening credits were used instead of WEB-DL, as the film was more stable and cleaner

- Slight cleanup of artefacts of transfer was applied


AUDIO

- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0 (Blu-ray)

- Dolby Digital 5.1 (DVD)


SCREENSHOTS

https://imgbox.com/g/JxynOtZy01


PM if interested

A full cut of the film, splicing the original 2002 MTV broadcast and the DVD together to restore the original runtime of 74min.

- All original music from the MTV airing left in tact.

- MTV scenes have been regraded to match the DVD, as well as aspect ratio corrections.

- Superimposed parts of frames from the MTV airing over the DVD to restore small details.


UPDATE (V2)

- All MTV scenes have been de-noised and upscaled.

- Some MTV scenes have been recreated using DVD footage, or superimposing MTV footage when necessary.

- Many animation mistakes have been fixed, ones that were present in the original MTV airing and ones which were introduced in the DVD.


UPDATE (V3)

- All MTV scenes have been sharpened and further regrading has been applied to match the DVD.

- A few mistakes I made have been fixed.


UPDATE (V4...Hopefully Final )

- Sharpening toned down a bit, as I thought it was a bit much.

- More scenes recreated using DVD footage.

- Artifact removal.

- More animation mistakes fixed.

- Minor regrade tweaks.


I have also created an alternate version, where I have framed every scene to match the original MTV broadcast to make the transitions more seamless.

Examples of the new updates are shown in the Screenshots.


SCREENSHOTS & MORE INFO

Copy paste the following link and remove spaces. I couldn't post it correctly otherwise: imgur . com / a / 5KHXQRz


Available on MySpleen and Blutopia, or alternatively, PM me.

Mon Oncle (1958) old DVD R2 audio synced to Criterion Bluray.

More noise. Much more details.
The difference between the audios is very large.
Synchronization took several days. It was very difficult. But the final result is valid (rewarding).

Inspired by Steven Soderbergh's Raiders project, this is a black and white (and silent!) version of the darkest GoT episode ever. When the episode first aired, viewers had complained about the picture being too dark. However, thanks to the higher dynamic range of the UHD Blu-ray, I was able to bring out a huge amount of detail by working with the 8-bit "bed". I regraded every single shot by hand, in glorious black and white. With this project, I aimed to not only showcase Miguel Sapochnik's excellent directing, but also the impeccable amount of talent and effort by, well, everyone in the cast and crew. Also, the grain was accentuated, which I feel works wonders with black and white (plus, I think it looks a bit scarier now). I had to reduce the grain in a few extreme close-ups, though.

This is still a work in progress, and I have made a lot of mistakes, especially in the beginning (I would learn new things as I went along, as the process took me at least two months). The flames in particular were extremely hard to pull off. I apologize for the ugly artifacts that pop up here and there. There are a lot of reasons for this: the source material, the conversion to Cineform (as my weak little laptop could not handle H.265, not to mention that I'm using the free version of DaVinci Resolve), and, of course, my constant tinkering with shadow and highlight levels. I do plan to make a full-color version with a similar level of brightness, but only after I switch to an HDR-capable rig with the Studio version of Resolve. I could also make an HDR black and white version in the future.



I would like some feedback on my grading, especially on continuity between shots (like the sky, where I'm sure I also made some mistakes). Also, please tell me if more shots need less (or more!) grain. Also, some help with the audio would be appreciated; as I am unable to work with Dolby Atmos, I settled on making a very crude downmix of the 7.1 bed with the center and LFE channels muted. Of course, there is the occasional vocal bleed, so it's not completely silent (plus, I need to use a better limiter, as there are a few instances of the audio clipping). If anyone here owns Dolby Media Production Suite or other software that can decode Atmos metadata, I will gladly send you the .thd file so you can take a crack at it!

If you'd like to see this WIP project, please, send me a PM. Thank you!

Oh, and since this is a test render, there are no opening or end credits for the time being. The CGI opening looks terrible in B&W, so I'm considering making a simple opening title sequence that resembles that at the end of the episode (just white letters on black background), maybe with a snippet of Ramin Djawadi's soundtrack for this episode. All suggestions are welcome!

Hi all,
There was an unofficial non-disney sequel to Disney’s Treasure Island starring Robert Newton. It is no where near as good as the original, but it has Robert Newton as in my mind the greatest screen pirate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Silver_(film)

Anyway i have the VCI dvd ‘remastered’ dvd which has the cinemascope print. The remaster is crap. They did letterbox instead of anamorphic. Supposedly the aspect ratio is 2.55:1 what i noticed is the center of the film is spread very wide  so people look fat, and the edges are squished, so when there is movement there, it is quicker than when they move in the center if the film. 
I attempted to use the globe in one scene as a reference to get proper pixel height and width trying to make it look like a perfect circle when it was in the center if the picture. But i still have issues when it is at the edges looking much like an egg. 

When i fixed the pixels in the center the total film aspect ratio went from 2.55:1 to about 2.40:1. I think if i could some how restretch just the compressed edges i could get closer to the original theatrical 2.55:1. 
Anybody know of an avi script that could help with that?

The next big thing with the dvd is there are areas that are dark and areas that are completely blown out. I know there isn’t much i can do without the raw video, but i am wondering if anybody out there wants to help with do some minor color regrading, as that is beyond my skills.  

Once i finally have the aspect ratio done and the colors fixed, was hoping to use topaz video enhancer to maybe bring it up to 1080p. It wouldn’t be perfect, but k think it would be a far better version that is available. Given that it is in public domain now, there is very little chance of a true remaster. 

Feel free to message me here if anyone has some free time and  is interested in helping?
Thanks