Today's tidbit re: H.266 codec, which will revolutionize the home media market:

https://newsletter.fraunhofer.de/-viewon...4RELLZBp/1

Quote:After devoting several years to its research and standardization, Fraunhofer HHI (together with partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Sony) is celebrating the release and official adoption of the new global video coding standard H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC).

This new standard offers improved compression, which reduces data requirements by around 50% of the bit rate relative to the previous standard H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) without compromising visual quality. In other words, H.266/VVC offers faster video transmission for equal perceptual quality. Overall, H.266/VVC provides efficient transmission and storage of all video resolutions from SD to HD up to 4K and 8K, while supporting high dynamic range video and omnidirectional 360° video.

Quote:Today H.265 enjoys widespread use on Apple devices like the iPhone, as it’s the default codec used by video capture within the stock Camera app. What exactly can users look forward to once H.266/VVC gains wide adoption in the future? Namely a huge reduction in data requirements.

Fraunhofer HHI notes that while H.265/HEVC requires approximately 10 gigabytes of data to transmit a 90-minute 4K UHD video, H.266/VVC requires only 5 gigabytes, half of the data required for the same video quality.

The codec, which features a 500+ page standard specification, was specifically designed with high-resolution 4K and 8K streaming in mind. With such a reduction in data requirements, users will be able to capture higher quality images without having to significantly increase storage space. It also means that streaming high-quality videos will be considerably less demanding on mobile data.

I am looking to try and do a fan edit/restoration of a film I fell in love with to inject deleted scenes I have looked around and have not seen anyone do it yet. I have deleted scenes that was were not released via physical media by cowering  the world wide web of social media accounts of this film for every region. My questions is what video editing software and or sound editing software is recommended for the following.

1. Modifying frame by frame video to remove watermarks.
2. Audio mixing 5.1 or 7.1 DTS audio track to extend them so the added scenes seam stream-less sly.
3. Color Grading possibly

Can this all be done with one video editing software or do you have to use multiple usually on these fan edit projects? Any insight/help would be appreciated for a noob. I am thinking of just buying Final Cut Pro at the moment but would appreciate any tips from those who have put the sweat and tears already.

Thanks

This project is on the horizon. Does anyone happen to have an NTSC copy of the 3 disc special edition DVD? I’ve got it as PAL, but NTSC would be preferable as it will give greater comparability for US members.

Ever since I started my own little "Back To The Future" project back in May, I began researching on the film's technical aspects, more specifically, the color grading. 

I always found the Blu-Ray, DVD and DCP versions very "pink-magenta"  looking, similar to how the Star Wars Special Editions looked, creating errors in the film itself, (Marty's skateboard wheels colors fluctuating from yellow to pink in the Blu-Ray release)  I wondered if that was always the case or was it the fault of the people who decided to DNR and "Edge Enhance" during the digital processing of the movie for home releases.

I recently came here after finding out about the "Open Matte upscale" done by PDB back in 2015 and seeing his color regrade of the film, noting about how "technicolor" it looked with pretty vivid colors and natural skin tones, so I'm not sure if thats a pretty close regrade or something more revisionist.

Since there are little to no color references to the film aside from the BBC TV broadcast, which is noted to have a green tint, I was wondering if a "theatrical regrade" of the film can be done, aside from images of 35mm film strips on eBay, but I am also not sure if that is a reliable color source.

Hello!

I came from the OriginalTrilogy forums (Dat_SW_Guy, aswell as on TSWT of the same name as the one I use here!) and I came here to Fanres because I was interested and researched about information about certain color timing differences of a lot of classics, more specifically "Back To The Future" as I am interested in making a "35mm Technicolor Recreation" of my own, however I am quite a novice at restoration and color grading so I would like to learn and meet people who are well versed in this field.

I am definitely looking forward to meeting you all here at FanRes!

This is purely a request, as I have no idea what I'm doing or whether it would be feasible. Despite the colour grading, DNR and edits, I presume that the latest UHD release of T2 has the most detail? Would be great to see a 4K regrade of the director's cut, with some of the edits taken out (purple laser fire and the T1000's balls most importantly ). I'm guessing reinstating director's cut scenes might be a little jarring, considering they're only available in 1080p. Maybe upscaling those scenes would help. Hopefully they'd look okay with the rest of the 4K transfer being regraded. Also, I'm guessing it's arguable what might be the best mix of the audio track? I would be happy to contribute where I can, if that means financially or something.

Hi everyone,


I will create a hybrid cut of the greatest movie "All the Way, Boys" (1972). The German Blu-ray from 3L and the Italian Blu-ray from Mustang Entertainment will be used for my project. The German long version on the Blu-ray is completely uncut, but it missed some scenes from the Italian version, it contains several scenes that include extended and alternative scenes, as well as beatings or billiard scenes. I insert these scenes for the German long version. The German long version was scanned from a negative, it offers a solid HD feeling, but it also has different colors and the quality is also different. The Italian Blu-ray is also on real HD and has a different color design compared to the German long version, but the quality is quite good for an old film by the two warlords. I tried to adapt the coloring of the Italian version for the German using Color Matching by Dr. Dre, unfortunately it is very difficult to do it because the German quality is different. Then I adjust the color of the German version for the Italian version. The inserted scenes from the Italian version fall off slightly, but you can live with them. The main thing in high definition!
I've already got 2 Blu-rays and I'm standing in the middle of the video editing and it occurred to me whether I could dub the English soundtrack too. Then I found an English soundtrack on the Internet and it's the Australian DVD. So...

In addition to the German audio track, I would also like to have an English audio track for my project. I know that there is no full English track, just the shorter US cut that is on VHS. So, the Australian DVD, which should have a length of 105 in PAL, it should be corresponded to the old German DVD (first edition) by E.M.S.

I'm asking, is the run length of the Australian DVD correct? If so, I could import it, but I need exact facts. If no, where can I find it?

Meanwhile there is also a shorter Italian version on the German DVD/BD from 3L (on the Blu-ray is included as a bonus) and the missing German dubbing is filled with the English soundtrack. This is an advantage to get a full English audio track.



1. Italian Blu-ray 2. German Blu-ray 3. Hybrid Cut

   


Videosource & Audiosource:

German DTS-HD 2.0 Blu-ray 3L
Italian DTS-HD 2.0 Blu-ray Mustang Entertainment
English ??? (I'm looking a DVD where is included an english audio track for a 105 mins version.)

So one of my upcoming projects is the extended version of Ransom. A friend is capturing the LD and he has the AC3 LD on the way to him as we speak. There is also a DTS LD, but it's quite expensive. I'm toying with the idea of buying this as well to capture the DTS track, but the disc is at least $130. I guess I could sell it afterwards to get back some of the money, but what I'm trying to figure out is in general how better a DTS track is over an AC3 track? I know on paper the bit rate is much higher, but I read a review of the Jurassic Park LD's and the reviewer said with their setup there was hardly any noticeable difference between the AC3 and DTS tracks. It's a lot of money to drop and I can't find any reviews of the Ransom tracks, let alone someone comparing the two. 

Any thoughts?

Hi all, I've recently registered after reading about all the great work being done on audio preservations of older sound mixes. It's a major interest of mine, so I hope to learn alot more...

Hi folks!

I hope I’m not out of line to be creating this post, I was given the go ahead by Feallen. My only involvement is in helping to organize much of the funding.

But I realize some people here contributed to the project based merely on the proposal as it was posted here. And if some of you are not in the Star Wars Trilogy message board, you may not be privy to the drama from last week.

Let me just assuage any fears. All money has been collected by Williarob— Hulot never handled a dime of it.

The project is in progress under those new more capable hands.

Any updates of interest to those who contributed through this board will thus be posted here.

Thanks all who contributed!