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

After finding some on-line releases that use BD extracted subtitles (in .sup format) and tone map it to the exact same color of the UHD-BD release, I was really intrigued and eager to perform this kind of conversion.

The best solution I could find so far is this tool:
https://github.com/quietvoid/subtitle_tonemap

It's indeed an easy to use and works. The problem is that apparently it doesn't allow the user to change the tone mapping parameter. It defaults to a dark gray, while most of the original UHD-BD subtitles have a lighter shade of gray.

Since it's based on BDsup2sub, there's probably a way to do it in this program. But I couldn't really find out how. The best I could is described bellow, but when you load the .idx file it's clear that it looses quality in a way I can only describe as presentiing jaggies or stairstepping effect. 

- load a blu-ray sup file
- export it as SUP/IDX
- load the exported sup/idx file
- change the palette mode to 'Create new'
- check the colors in use under 'Edit DVD Frame Palette'
- edit the palette under 'Edit imported DVD palette'
- export it back as SUP(BD).


The subtitles from the on-line releases don't have this downside.

Has anyone performed this conversion or know how to do it? 
Any help will be much appreciated.

Guys, You are experts in Laserdisc so:

Two things:

1. Am I right that raw video on Laserdisc is somethimes better than DVD, example Aliens SE on my DVD PAL looks like someone use a little dnr to smooth video in comparsion to Laserdisc raw mpeg2:

here is a little sample in mp4 h264 from Aliens UK PAL LDRip

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gcY3Lju...sp=sharing

I add polish voice acting for my friends.

Also I made quick comparsion LD vs DVD:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP-...NOWExvbDRB

I love these colors and contrast

2. Where I can find in net Aliens Special Edition NTSC LDRip in Mpeg2, or Theatrical? I think colors are these same in both version. Widescreen will be nice.

https://imgur.com/gallery/18Sm2

I live in Poland problem is availability of Laserdisc, not to mention ripping So I ask You for help.

I'm converting some 00000.m2ts files from BluRay rips into MKV's using MKVToolNix but it doesn't work with the chapters.txt files so I can preserve them. Is there a way to convert them for use in MKVToolNix or alternatively is there another way to convert the rips to MKV's and keep the chapters?

Thanks.