So I've got the Mad Max 5.1 DTS track from the Australian DVD - it is 1510 kbps. In order to sync it up to the 4k version it needs a delay at the start, PAL speedup reversal and a bit cutting off the end. I've done this through eac3to but noticed when going from old.dts to new.dts, eac3to converts it to .wavs first then converts the .wavs to .dts. 

I know .dts is lossy - so the question is am I better going to .wavs first with eac3to, then to DTS HD? Is the process of taking a .dts file and converting it to .wavs then back to .dts encoding a lossy file to a lossy format a second time - and will that make a huge difference to quality?

Obviously from a space point of view .dts is better than .dtshd - but as this track is unique i'd like to preserve it as best as I can. 

Hope that makes sense!

Thanks all

Hello everyone - just introducing myself properly to this fine forum with a project I finished a short while ago, an HD re-creation of the 'Special Longer Version' of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.



Video is from the 2013 Blu-ray (colour corrected shot by shot, with added 35mm film grain to fix the digital scrubbing), with select few shots which were too problematic replaced by the HDTV broadcast. Extended scenes are from the 2001 Director's Edition DVD, upscaled to HD. Audio is from the 1989 Japanese laserdisc.

I believe there has been an SD version of this cut released elsewhere years ago, and that others may have been working on HD versions of it since - so hopefully this doesn't step on any toes. Others however seem to have been trying to "fix" the notorious Kirk spacesuit sequence where we famously see a large part of the studio set around the facade of the Enterprise. This project keeps all such goofs intact.


Tech Details:

FILE NAME:  Star Trek The Motion Picture - Special Longer Version.m2ts
FILE SIZE:  33.3GB
DURATION:  02:24:18
VIDEO:  1920x1080p - 23.976FPS - MPEG-4 AVC - 2.35:1 AR
AUDIO:  2.0 Stereo LPCM - English - 48KHz - 16 Bit


Sources:

Video
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Blu-ray - USA - 2013 - Cat: 7913136A)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director’s Edition (DVD - USA - 2001 - Cat: 08858)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (HDTV broadcast - USA)

Audio
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Special Longer Version (Laserdisc - Japan - 1989 - Cat: SF057-1618)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Laserdisc - USA - 1991 - Cat: LV8858-2WS)



Please do ask for any more info you'd like to know. And for a link, PM

The Past Masters Collection.

A selection of films from my collection that needed a little bit of love and preservation.
The Best Picture - Color Corrected, cleaned up to my personal taste.
The Best Audio - A selection of the best Audio option's I and the wider web have to offer.

The Story so far...
Ive been using avisynth scripts to play files for the past few years now, mainly for DVDs.
I speed change, clean, up-ress and tweak depending on the source and it all plays real-time on my rig.
i7 3770k, 32gb ram, AMDRX480

Ive also found this process helpful for correcting old HD masters on Blu-ray.
Slightly tweaking the YUV channels to remove the 'Red' byass that plagued dated masters and often doing a upscale to 4k and back down to pull out as much detail as possible.
As many of you know here this kind of tweaking can be addictive, and I'd often hit the limits of my real-time playback.

Overtime I started to push things more and would try an mimic what a said film could of looked like when printed on particular film stock.
Dropping the upscale (unless necessary)
often this would contain two levels of color tweaking, one to balance the picture, then one to add the 35mm release print character.
This included a film-like gamma curve.
After much research and discussion in this very forum, it does indeed look like a lot of the more teal releases are in fact more theatrically accurate.
Removing the red byass and getting more pleasurable skintones certainly introduced more green and blues.

I recently found my entire DVD collection had become victim to recent flooding during a very wet period in my country.
So Ive been salvaging what I can and thought it an excellent time to combine all the various versions of films I have collected over the years.
Id always wanted to do it, and have in the past done a few from my 'Hong Kong collection'
They are a lot more varied release to release and can get quite grueling when combining all the best sources.
This is where the Past Masters project was born.
The Best Video, Audio options I have tweaked to my liking.
I understand it's probably not for everyone and not as 'pure' as most would like.
Those options will always be available for more simple remux projects but I wanted to do a little more.

I originally I intended to do these corrections and 'Quick' projects completely in AVIsynth, just rendering the 'real-time' scripts using the methods above.
But as is with anything like this, I found myself trying various different methods and introduced Adobe Premiere CC back into the mix for Color Correction.
And im very glad I did.
Mainly because of my lack of skill with Avisynth, I just could not balance the white points properly when correcting.
Lumetri in Premiere CC changed all that and Ive been very happy with the results.

Hi guys,

Looks like either the motherboard or CPU in my old Win7 machine I built in 2012 has died: got a BSOD last night, seemed fine after rebooting but woke up to find the PC frozen with no video output, rebooted and it froze during POST after checking the hard drives, and now I get an endless boot cycle (2 seconds on with fans spinning and all 4 lights on the motherboard turn on, shutoff, repeat) before reaching POST.  Pretty sure it's not the PSU as that's only a few months old.  Even if its something fixable I think it's time to move on from this PC, as I've been having some other hardware problems lately.

So looks like time to build a new PC.  Guess I'll be going with Win10, was initially against upgrading from 7 due to software/hardware incompatibilty fears (and spyware, but I'm sure MS put the same crap from 10 into updates for 7), but I don't think there's anything I normally use that isn't compatible. Even the Win7 64-bit driver for the M-audio 2496 I got in 2005 for capturing PCM seems to be compatible with Win10 according to https://homerecording.com/bbs/general-di...-a-389994/

I know this isn't a PC forum, but curious as to what people here are using.  Probably not going to be doing any modern gaming my new PC, but quality 4K video playback might be nice.  My 5-year old Radeon video card as well as my laptop (also Radeon) from last year do 4K output, but the video either freezes or chokes on trying to play 4K77 or UHD .mpls files in fullscreen.  Also always got tearing when playing 1080p video on my desktop, but maybe that's because it was an old Intel motherboard paired with a Radeon video card?  Seem to remember hearing something a long time ago about tearing due to c

Probably won't be doing any major video editing, but would like have a motherboard/CPU that can last for at least 10 years if needed, but maybe I just need to dust the inside of the PC more often...

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) [42902]

Bit-perfect PCM (44.1/16)
Synced to the Shout Factory Blu-ray

Easiest sync imaginable. I wish every sync could take 10 minutes like this did.

I don't hear a ton of difference between the DTS-MA Shout track and the PCM track. Still, I paid too much for this disc and I wanted people to have it.

Feel free to PM if you are interested!

I'm aware of the lovely Shout Blu using a 2k scan of an IP, and the German Blu using a 35mm German release print that looks quite decent all things considered. However, I have read of this Blu being released in the UK https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/House-on-...ay/124188/.

Many people have said this UK release is terrible, but they don't really elaborate much as to why. I've heard one report saying it uses the German 35mm transfer with a worse encode (and DD 5.1 audio). Some say it uses a completely different transfer to the German one, a European HD master or some upconverted source that opens up with a J&M Entertainment logo (the Shout has Warner Bros and the German one opens up with Buena Vista International and Helkon all before the Dark Castle logo). It's also said to have dupe frames or field blending from being encoded without any speed adjustments in 1080p 24, which if it were indeed 1080i25 or 50i originally could explain the problem.

Anyone have this Blu? I'd like to hear and possibly see screen grabs on how the transfer and such is.

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Hey folks,

I recently stumbled upon a blogpost regarding Stanley Kubrick's films on home media. It makes a pretty good argument towards the films which have had different aspect ratios applied, especially by Warner Home Video.
This came out when I read a post on reddit stating Full Metal Jacket was being streamed in 4:3 on HBO Max.

Some people say that since Kubrick apparently supervised the DVD releases of The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut, they're supposed to be regarded as the ultimate vision of the director, whilst others claim otherwise, saying he might have been out of touch with home technology.

My question to you simply relates to your thoughts on what constitutes the best AR for each of his films, potentially which cut you prefer for The Shining, and what projects Fanresers have completed to realise Kubrick's vision.

I'm working on a project - not related to movies - and I wanted to create a nice image using only UTF-8 characters.

After quite a lot of pick and discard, I ended up with this:

҃(⁀⌣⌢\

then I showed it to someone that said "oh, yes, it's a ...!"

And then I realized that yes, it could resamble a ... - still, I was trying to obtain something completely different!

The question is: what does that little image represent in your opinion? Fill in the blanks!

I've previously used Davinci Resolve a great deal for camcorder projects so I decided to try it for fan editing of blu-ray rips. To keep things relatively simple, I thought using 5.1 audio would be a good idea. But when I dropped a file with a 5.1 soundtrack into the timeline, the channels were all in the wrong place on playback.

I have tried splitting the audio into separate tracks for each channel and then importing, I tried panning those channels around into the correct positions, I've rendered in all kinds of formats, but I haven't found any way to get the correct 5.1 audio to render out.

Simply outputting the same audio that is dropped in doesn't seem a lot to ask but for some reason it just won't work. Is Resolve not suitable for this kind of project?