The 1994 Mini Series of Stephen King’s The Stand was released on Blu Ray with a 1080p remaster, much to the surprise of the Director who did not think it was possible. The video is a huge improvement over the DVD but unfortunately the audio is the same AC3 track from the DVD, likely to keep the disc space low to maximise the video bitrate. I managed to get hold of the laserdisc and sent it to williarob who kindly captured the uncompressed audio (massive thanks to williarob!). In order to fit this onto the discs I have had to compress the video slightly. 

• 2 x BD25 with menus, pop up menus and resume (I went with 2 x BD25 instead of a BD50 as they tend to be much more expensive, especially printable discs)
  
• Uncompressed 2.0 English Audio
  
• Audio Commentary track
  
• English, Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish subtitles
  
• Vintage Making Of
  

This project started life as the one done by IcePrick, which was the Dragon Dynasty Blu Ray, deinterlaced and decimated back to 23.976 fps (thanks IcePrick!). I then ran it through some mild dust and dirt filters and combined it with the opening and closing credits from the Chinese blu ray, which themselves were run through several filters to try and get them to match the rest of the footage. The whole movie was then regraded with Dr Dre, using the criterion as the source, using over 40 different LUTs. The opening logos were also taken from the Chinese as they were cropped in the Drago Dynasty disc. Unfortunately none of the sources were perfect, so it's never going to be amazing short of a new scan and shot by shot restoration, but I'm still happy with the results.

Massive thanks to CSchmidlapp for providing me with some of the materials, giving me guidance on the different versions and for testing the final video.

• BD25 with animated menus that look and behave like the official Criterion discs, with a background video, pop up menus and resume function
• Video taken from the Iceprick project, with scene by scene colour correction
• Original chapter stops used on the DVD
• Cantonese 1.0 Mono LPCM taken from the laserdisc
• Cantonese 2.0 Mono AC3 taken from the Scandanavian DVD
• Audio Commentary by director John Woo and production executive Terence Chang
• English (based on the Criterion translation), French, German and Spanish Subtitles
• Five Deleted Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• DVD Credits

PM me for the links, contributing/long term members only please. Contributing means active members of the forum who post and/or make their own projects.

High Resolution cover and disc art available from @Pineapples101 Here.




























Just to clarify this is a project that I have made for myself which I am choosing to share. If you don't like the project, if you think it should have been done differently then feel free to keep that to yourself and consider doing your own project.

• BD25 with animated menus that look and behave like the official Criterion discs, with a background video, pop up menus and resume function
• Video taken from the HK Rescue project, full credit to them
• Original chapter stops used on the DVD
• Cantonese 1.0 Mono AC3 taken from the DVD
• Cantonese 2.0 LPCM taken from the laserdisc
• English 1.0 Mono AC3 taken from the DVD
• Audio commentary by director John Woo, producer Terence Chang, filmmaker Roger Avary and critic Dave Kehr
• English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
• Student Film Accidentally
• Notes on Hard Boiled
• Guide to Hong Kong crime films
• John Woo’s Hong Kong movie trailers
• Theatrical Trailer
• DVD Credits

PM me for the links, contributing/long term members only please. Contributing means active members of the forum who post and/or make their own projects.

High Resolution cover and disc art available from @Pineapples101 Here.






















Just to clarify this is a project that I have made for myself which I am choosing to share. If you don't like the project, if you think it should have been done differently then feel free to keep that to yourself and consider doing your own project.

Hello fanresers!

I'm looking to demux an MKV file in order to separate the video and the audio tracks and import them separately into Final Cut Pro (FCP). I am currently working on a Mac (running macOS 10.13.6) and do not have access to a Windows machine.
FCP does not support MKV files when importing.

The question is how do I losslessly convert the MKV file to something FCP will import?

• I have got MKVToolNix installed, but when demuxing video, it produces a MKV file.
  
• I have installed AVIDemux, which looks promising, but I wanted to confirm the settings for a lossless extraction.
  
• I have got ffmpeg downloaded, and I understand it's a command-line based programme. I'm ok with using Terminal for programmes (although if you have a guide you could point me to, I'll take it!), I just wanted to see if anyone else recommends it, as it seems to be the most powerful tool out there.
  

Just wondering if anyone has these of LD and would be ble to capture/share the audio please?

The Shout Blu-rays have a number of issues with their mono mixes (missing parts, noise reduction, wrong pitch). I've managed to pick-up the old MGM dvd's which (I think) are free from the problems with the Shout discs but thought I would see if anyone had the LD's before I start syncing the dvd's to the Blu-rays.


Thanks
Alex

Hey,
Just joined today and I wanted to say hi. I am an editor working in Los Angeles. I'm very impressed by the passion of these projects and the quality of the restoration work. As physical media becomes more boutique, I think these kinds of restorations are essential to keep films available in high quality and as they were originally intended, especially as rights issues become more tricky. I'm happy to see that a lot of the color correction trends of recent years that bring the films away from the original look are being corrected here. 

I look forward to participating here in the forums and however else I'm able.
cheers.

I uploaded my fan edit of BvS Ultimate Edition. Only two major fixes/changes: 1) Martha scene and 2) Knightmare sequences moved. Below are my notes. PM me, if you need the link.

Runtime: 3hr 00mins 
Notes:

• Removed dream scene of Bruce Wayne visiting Martha Wayne's grave and replaced it with the the first part of the Knightmare sequence. In the previous scene, Lex Luthor talks about his father's angels and demons painting and that it should be upside down. Shot of the painting, cut to black, then cut to the Batman Knightmare sequence. Batman gets apprehended by Superman's soldiers, then gets punched by the parademon, cut to Bruce Wayne waking up in his bedroom. I credit another fan editor (S_MofS on reddit) that also moved the Knightmare sequence earlier to the 43 minute mark and IMO it really drives the narrative and fixes a pacing issue I've always had.
  
  
• After Bruce recovers his data drive from Diana, he starts decrypting it, cut to black, then cut to part two of the Knightmare sequence: Batman in chains inside a bunker and evil Superman arrives. Bruce wakes up in a dream within a dream and receives a message from the Flash, which infers that Bruce's nightmares were actually a vision of an apocalyptic future shown to him by the Flash from that future.
  
  
• Martha scene: Removed the line "You're letting him kill Martha". Removed Batman's first reaction. Added shot of Martha Wayne's face (from the opening credits in the Ultimate Edition) right before the Wayne death flashback montage. Hopefully, less cringey scene. My problem was always with the execution of the scene, not the concept. That’s why I included the shot of Martha Wayne’s face looking at Chill. The eye-lines of Martha and Bruce almost match as he’s aiming the spear. So the notion that he is about to become the monster that killed his parents is there visually.
  
  
• Removed scene of SWAT team surrounding Lex Luthor with the Steppenwolf hologram. Preserved the theatrical version of the Trinity shot fading to black, cutting to a lock of Lex's hair falling on his shoe in prison.
  
  
• Removed Martha Kent's lines of "I forgot my checkbook", etc. from the funeral scene.
  

As Top Gun’s Sequel is getting closer to release, Paramount Pictures is re-visiting the original on May 19th in the US with A new 4K transfer with HDR (UHD Disc only) and The dreaded Dolby Atmos. (On both remastered and UHD discs) I don’t mind color grading as much or the light DNR Process Paramount pictures like use on certain shots and some opticals. If you know Paramount by now they barely if use the Atmos format on older films but this Quite an exception after all it’s Top Gun, an audio experience like no other it’s an audio experience like no other. The problem is that a new sound design in the Atmos mix might rear its ugly head. (New jet engine sounds, new explosions,ETC) and of course no Standard 5.1 mix to balance it out or Original Dolby Stereo Mix for audio purists. If you want to check it out that’s fine On digital if it comes out early. But I’m waiting May 19th To see pictures and you guys to respond.Could have a winner in video wise but a disaster in the audio Dept. and you know certain people they would rather have the original audio or something close to it rather than a new shiny mix that would anger those people.

Hi all,

This is on UK TV right now, and looks miles better than DVD but I cannot find a version online of it at all and only 1 or 2 DVDs worldwide.
Anyone have access to an HD version?