Back in 2016 or later, I had done full restorations of a couple TV spots from The Empire Strikes Back. The TV spots that are out there officially are of low quality and deserved full HD restorations. The only sources I had available to me then were the Despecialized Edition of The Empire Strikes Back and a 35mm scope trailer for the film with Vivaldi's music added. I'd like to redo these someday. Still, this is what I have.

"Empire": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adMpMAoPo8g
"Now In Our Galaxy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqmfPZPwu4
"The Saga Continues": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJe8qMIiCP0

I am Danielle, a 22 year old autistic Brit whose special interest is, indeed, film restoration and preservation. It's been that way since I was a teenager, and I hope to contribute to restoration projects here.

As well as film preservation, I am into Ghibli, Metal Gear and Gran Turismo.

This is a very interesting forum, and I hope to contribute to it and get a lot out of it. I enjoy creating my own Blu-ray menus and covers; I haven't gotten into restoration yet.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) 1992/1999 Special Home Video Version HD Reconstruction v1.0 

I recently finished this. The goal of the project was to recreate the experience of watching the home video release of the film from the 1992 VHS/Laserdisc and 1999 DVD releases. It was not made available in HD or 4K since those later releases, as the future DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K releases only have either the theatrical or director's cuts. 

My sources were the 2022 Blu-Ray release of the theatrical cut, the 2022 4K release of the director's cut (downconverted to 1080p with a Rec 709 colorspace), and the 1999 DVD release for reference, the original tracks, subtitles, chapter stops.

I have done many fan preservations and hope to show what I did but this will most likely be the definitive fan preservation I have done thus far.

SOURCES:
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (2022 Blu-Ray Release, main source)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (2022 4K Release, for most of the extra footage, downscaled to 1080p with a Rec. 709 Colorspace)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1999 DVD Release, for reference, chapter stops, audio mixes, and subtitles)

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New to this forum! Fan restorations are one of my own hobbies apart from fan art and video editing. ;-)

Hi
I decided to listen to some D-theater audios and were pleasantly surprised. These are actually great :-)
(So, to my ears better than current Bluray or UHD. - your mileage may vary)

X-Men.2.(2003).UHD.sync

Audio
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Duration : 2 h 14 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.42 GiB

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Welp, Shout Factory just released Outbreak on 4K Blu-ray and I'm not super happy. No extras for this movie at all. But for the audio I was hoping to get a proper restoration of the audio. The LaserDisc was just awesome and many used it for demos back in the day. The R1 DVD should have the same mix, but I don't have it to verify. I was able to get the audio from the R2 DVD though.. The Warner Blu-ray came with a Dolby TrueHD mix, while the new Shout Factory 4K has a DTS-HD MA mix. Judging purely from the spectrogram, I'd give the Warner Bros the lead. The Shout Factory looks a little bit filtered. The 2.0 PCM from the LD is still awesome.

Only asking because the standalone 4k (non steelbook) doesn’t have it, and sony is notorious for their steelbook releases.

Hey, guys.

I'm currently reframing Zack Snyder's Justice League from 1.33:1 AR to 1.78:1 AR, 'cause had it been released in theaters, there's no way Warner would have agreed for a 1.33:1 wide release. It was obviously intended to end up being a 1.85:1 AR as the trailers from before the 2017 release showed, plus all the negative space on most of the full 1.33:1 AR. Only real IMAX theaters would have had it barely cropped to 1.43:1, while LIEMAX would have had it cropped to 1.90:1, so more than regular theaters and that's exactly what happened in 2017. I found it frustrating not to have the option for a full 16:9 screen, though, so I ended up doing it for more immersion into it as we no longer have 1.33:1 screens at home. Of course, I'm recomposing every single shot one by one to show what's important and to still make it look good regarding head room and stuff, showing more on the top or on the bottom part of the frame. I'm not creating in-shot bogus digital post processing camera movements as I'm not the director nor the camera operator, plus I wouldn't even know how to do such a thing even if I wanted to. I'm doing it using the UHD as source since I have to zoom in, and I'm aiming at a full HD 1080p rec.709 SDR rendering. I have glued the two parts together and removed a few seconds of black in between and cut out the information that "Justice continues on disc 2" of course. For now, I'm at 69% of the whole runtime, at this scene:



Now there is a catch, and that's where I'll need other people's input. As shown in the Youtube video below, in this scene, when Flash comes into play, several slow motion shots were vertically stretched, probably because the VFX were finished for the theatrical 1.78:1 AR or 1.85:1 AR, and thus the stretching, and a bit of cropping as well, permitted to fill the 1.33:1 AR. So my question is: should I keep it that way for the 1.78:1 AR or should I squeesh it back to more proper proportions? The Youtube video claims it works stretched as it's during a super speed moment that could translate into distortions. I can go along with that, except I didn't notice that on other instances of the super speed, so it's not really consistent in the whole film...

Just realised I hadn't done this yet!