After being very disappointed with the audio on the 4K blu-ray, I have taken it upon myself to sync the audio from the LD to 4k video.
The LD audio is much fuller, and doesn't have the added foley that's in the new mix. AFAIK the LD is a direct port of the theatrical stereo mix.

This project will sync to the US 4k blu-ray. Possibly other BD releases but I've only tested the 4k. This is my first time doing a project like this so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Special thanks to HippieDalek for providing me with the audio.

PM me for a dl link.

I mean without OCR, I just want to modify some lines (changing the text) and resynchronize some parts, then I want to save again as PGS SUP. Any software for this?

Found this interesting paper:

The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.2979...8.1.06.pdf

Hi all!
I've been pretty active on the OT forums and somehow only recently stumbled across this site. Looking forward to checking out all the restorations on here (especially a lot of the LD stuff  )

There is immersive audio: Auro 3D, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X.

But what technology could be defined "immersive video" (related to movies)?

I thing (guess?) the best option nowaday is ScreenX (as well as Barco Escape, but it's dead, sadly); a three-screen presentation - central, left and right walls (there is also an option of a cealing screen).

Unfortunately I had not the chance to see a movie in ScreenX, but watching their trailer, it seems an interesting way to put the viewer in the center (literally) of action!

Technically, it could be improved - the seams are still too visible, sometimes badly seamed, the side screens often does not have matching color/brightness of the main one, or they just use a mirror or distorted copy of the main screen.

But, apart these problems, the idea works IMHO.

What do you think?

Have decided to go through my Criterion Blu-rays and see which ones suffer from noise-reduction (Badlands, which I'm syncing the LD for, is definitely one).

Just wondering if anyone has the R1 DVD of 1984 they could share please? The Criterion Blu-ray has both versions but while the Eurthymics version is excellent, the Muldowney audio is very muffled).

The Crow (LD-1st gen DVD Regrade)

This is a regrade to the older laserdisc video master as seen in the first generation DVD. The colors vary a great deal between the DVD and the US BD but the overall darkness of the DVD is why I found this regrade interesting.

The video regrading was done via automatic scripting matching the US BD video to the older DVD master. Once that was complete I modified the black level and shadows to more conform with the DVD's levels. Right now I am going through the entire project shot by shot and fixing any shot/scene the strayed too far from the DVD. The video will be synced to the US BD.

After that I tried to add every soundtrack I had access to. I was looking for the Cinema DTS for this but was unable to find it via the regular sources. In fact its a bit of a mystery to me. IMDB and the end credits list the movie as DTS/DS which makes sense for Dimension productions at the time but all print 35mm examples I have seen show the film as DD. So I'm not sure there are DTS disc around. Regardless, I will add the LD's PCM via BusterD. I would like the LD's DTS or DD but that seems unlikely. Hopefully, the 1st gen DVD's DD 5.1 is close to the LD's DD 5.1. I also will add the CE's DVD tracks and the BD track.

Video:
The US scan of the film regraded to the laserdisc/1st gen DVD.

Audio:
1. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the Widescreen laserdisc)
2. Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the non-anamorphic DVD)
3. Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the CE DVD)
4. DTS 5.1 (from the CE DVD)
5. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the US BD)

Sync:
US BD with subs

Pics:

Coming Soon

Comparisons Pics

US BD/Regrade to LD-1st gen DVD


Collaborators and Thanks:
BusterD for the LD track

Just thought I would pop these here

Screen from the Fathom trailer vs HDTV


https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/15739


Fathom vs 35mm


https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/15742

and as its me, only including 7.1 audio on the set pisses me off no end

Sega cd the adventures of Batman and Robin cutscenes I found one of the producers of the game on LinkedIn he’s sadly not on social media. so that’s the only place Anyone can ask him if a high quality version of the footage still exists somewhere. can someone who has a LinkedIn ask him so if the cutscenes still exist can look just as good as the hd version of the series.