Firstly I have to admit I've never actually seen the whole film only parts when I was much younger (and probably uninterested) when my parents had it on the TV. Now I'm much older it's one of those titles that I planned to get around to watching at some point, and seems like the perfect time. It sounds like a lot of work has gone into this restoration and I'd love to hear from anyone who has watched the original and/or this version. I'm also happy they've included both 1.37:1 and 1.66:1 aspect ratios.

 

The Ladykillers: Studiocanal 4K Restoration

To celebrate the 65th anniversary of Ealing Studios’ flawless The Ladykillers, STUDIOCANAL will be releasing the first ever 4k restoration of the 1955 black comedy from the original 3-strip Technicolor negative, showcasing director Alexander Mackendrick’s vision in its full glory.

The Ladykillers features an all-star line-up of the finest comedy actors of the era: Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob) plays the gang’s mastermind ‘Professor Marcus’; Cecil Parker (A French Mistress) is Claude otherwise known as ‘Major Courtney’; Peter Sellers (I’m Alright Jack) is Harry aka ‘Mr Robinson’; Herbert Lom (The Pink Panther) is Louis aka ‘Mr Harvey’ and Danny Green (A Kid For Two Farthings) plays One-Round also known as ‘Mr Lawson’.  Jack Warner, Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Connor also appear in supporting roles.

As The Ladykillers was the last Technicolor three-strip film shot in the UK, it was crucially important that the original camera negative was used for a restoration that will serve as the best version of the film since its original release. The restoration began with the 4K pin-registered scanning of the original 1950s Technicolor three-strip camera negative. The three strips had to have their colour separations combined to produce the final colour image. One of the biggest issues to overcome was aligning the colour separations together, initially an automated process, but also requiring a huge amount of manual tweaking.

Manual and automated digital restoration was carried out over the aligned images. The film suffered from a few extreme issues such as blue marks in the middle to right hand side of frame throughout the film that had to be removed, there was significant density fluctuation (flicker) that has been corrected as best as possible on a shot by shot basis. Many shots suffered from instability and some sections also suffered from scratching, the worst being a four-minute section including scratches throughout the sequence with up to eight onscreen at a time. In total the film benefitted from over a 1000 hours’ worth of 4K digital restoration.

A 35mm Technicolor print was used as a reference for the colour grade to ensure the new HDR Dolby Vision master stayed true to the films original 1950s ‘Colour by Technicolor’ look.


Link to the above article - http://wearecult.rocks/the-ladykillers-4k-restoration

Hi, I was curious if anybody could send me links for all the extended editions of the Star Wars series. I do own the originals. Thanks for your help and please let me know if I can help out with anything.

Brent

Guys, so I have 7 mono WAV files. What's the best and easiest way to combine them all in a 6.1 layout? Many thanks in advance!

So I was watching the 2017 release of Justice League to prep myself for the Snyder Cut and paused the movie when the Flash and Cyborg were trying to smuggle Superman's body into the Kryptonian ship.  I paused the movie when the guard scanned Flash's fake ID card and Cyborg hacked the computer to make the card pass.  Note the DOB...

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I wanted to see if anyone could help me find a cap card that fits the bill.

I have a card right now that will do 1080p/23.976 both in hardware and software. I was looking to capture some streaming at possible 4K with or without HDR. This is for a possible future project.

The problem is that most of the affordable cards that are used for game capture don't (or claim to not) support 23.976. At best I can hope for 30 or 29. Does anyone know of an affordable card that will do 2160p at 23.976? Maybe with HDR even though I know that’s pushing it. Thanks.

Hey now!

Has anyone had a chance to tinker with new Arrow release of Tremors?
It's said there's a 4.0 mix but MediaInfo reads that DTS-HD MA track as 3.1 with C L R Cb channel mapping. Shouldn't it be L R Ls Rs?

• Take the best picture master (Criterion Blu-Ray) in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio;
  
• Re-create the German localization for the movie: start and end credits as well as intertitles.
  
• Re-synchronize German mono audio
  
• Provide English mono audio (Criterion)
  
• Provide English and German subtitles.
  

I was browsing blu-ray.com for full screen DVD releases and I found some that I think were not present in the Open Matte Master List here on the site. Have you ever watched any of the following FS DVDs and, if so, are they worth it as open matte versions? Have they been superseded by open matte WEB-DLs?

Da Vinci Code, The
Dark Knight, The
Day After Tomorrow, The
Devil Wears Prada, The
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Final Destination
Freaky Friday
I, Robot
Last Samurai
Mamma Mia
Mask, The
Mean Girls
Mummy, The
Mummy Returns, The
Saw
Scarface
Silence of the Lambs, The
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Troy
Van Helsing
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
X-Men: The Last Stand

Hey. I want to show you my project which is finished.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129774/
I bought DVD's then I ripped video from german DVD, polish DVD and France DVD.
Below screenshots of original image:
POLISH ONE

GERMAN ONE

FRANCE


Here is what I done:
-aspect ratio changed to 1.85:1 from 4:3
-60% dynamic scenes were upscaled by Topaz gigapixel AI, others less important upscaled using lanczos
-fully montage of france, german and polish edition (german one is different in montage so i had to put together) the same with audio
-color correction (the hardest was with france edition because it was completly 'orange')
-i removed the most visible damages of images (for example "black circles" -marks of the end of the acts)
and it looks like that


compare to france:

after my remastering


In release is:
720p ai upscaled and edited video
2 audio: mastered to 5.1 640 kb/s original audio and 2.0 DD with polish reader
subtitles: polish (+ addon for reader)

Something what you can find on YT is not finished, just an project, also too much compressed by YT).

So as I recently checked out the U Matic german regrade, and as PDB, who had a regrade project on the back burner for a while, (but a truckloads of other projects too!) suggested, it might be the right time to gather all the past syncs I made from different sources of the different mono mixes, and put them up along with a chosen regrade of The Terminator that is the closest to how the film looked originaly.

I think I would streamline the video back to two choices, either the german U Matic from Der Rabe which I think suffers from a bit too much of a plain white balance (yellow pages aren't supposed to be white, especially in an aged phonebook stored in a phonebooth), or the SDR2HDR VISIONPLUSHDR-X.6000nit from TEKNO3D which is however a whooping 52 GB and which I have not seen yet and have no idea what it is, except that some people says good things of it.

Third option would be a blend of the U Matic + either the original or the SDR2HDR to balance it a bit.

Blu ray - Remastered - Original Screenshot:


der rabe - Regrade from one of the last "U Matic cinema copies":


For this, I'll add the best versions of those syncs:

1- US Domestic mix
2- International mix
3- HBO laserdisc Chace faux stereo remix (1st home video remix)
4- Image DVD 2.1 mix

+ surviving foreign mono mixes.

And maybe as an extra I'll redo the 5.1 remix fix, only in stereo using a completely different workflow from my initial try. Originaly I put the 5.1 remix as base, and added the mono sounds center (as it's impossible to remove all the redone gunshots as they are on all the channels), now I would just use the mono mix as base, and add a few stereo effects there and there from the remix, thus keeping the purity of the original mix.

The audio tracks would be:

Laserdiscs rips:

*- Chace Faux Stereo remix from original 1985 LD release [HBO2535] BRAND NEW SOURCE IN TRUE FAUX STEREO, AWESOME SOUND. *SYNCED
This was the first home video release of the Terminator on Laserdisc, so history. Also sounds unlike any other mono mix, ever.
*- Domestic mono mix Image Ent. 1995 THX laserdisc rip [ID2940NSB] from Williarob *NOT SYNCED YET


DVD rips:

*- International Mono Mix from MGM SE 2001 DVD different source from TF1 with more dynamic range *SYNCED
*- International Mono mix from TF1 1999 DVD *SYNCED
*- French Mono Mix from TF1 1999 DVD *SYNCED +MID FILM DESYNC FIXED
*- German Mono Mix from early German 1997 DVD (35mm print scan) *SYNCED
*- Domestic Mono 2.1 mix from Image 1997 DVD interesting "fix" with lots of thump I need to redo this as it seems to have a framerate problem. Williarob is helping to sort it out back to 23.976.


Possible additions:

- Domestic mono mix JP [PILF-1297] laserdisc rip from LucasGodzilla (35mm print scan) similar to HBO full screen sound, but is direct from a 35mm print however I need to check if the capture is bit perfect. If not, I won't add it.

- UK Virgin tape from Zoidberg this is a 35mm print scan and I have two rips, great VHS sound, might be a nice alternative.

- Italian mono mix.

- Japanese mono mixes as they are hilarious.

RETIRED:

- Previous Chace Stereo thanks to jerryshadoe & MrBrown was alas badly captured and did not feature the true faux stereo sound, so this one is *DELETED and replaced by the brand new Chace rip I found.

- French Mono Mix 2.0 from Early Gaumont LD 1986 by Tommy Lee I SYNCED it + PITCH FIXED it and MID FILM DESYNC FIXED it, alas it appears the original sync was made randomly by cutting out parts of the soundtrack to keep in sync with the 5.1. As I don't have the video, and I already did a nice sync of the french TF1 DVD, I retired this one, it's too much work for not a lot of difference with the already synced french track. Also this rip was clipped, as are most french LD rips in what seems to be a loudness war to have the most huge sounding LD rip.

- NBC At The Movies W O C 09-26-1987 time compressed but has alternate lines of dialogue. A resync would be too much work, and there are different dialogue shots, so for now I'm putting this on the retired back burner until I come up with an idea that would only include the different dialogue lines (maybe incorporating them into a mono mix labeled "TV"?). As it's hacked, resyncing it is too much work and the sound is buzzing all the way during the film. But taking just the differences and editing them into a mono mix that is full might be a better option.

- Domestic mono mix HBO 1989 laserdisc rip [ID6677HB] full screen disc *SYNCED it but this is an ac3 capture and it's similar to the bit perfect LD from Williarob, so no need to add due to the capture not being bit perfect.

- Domestic mono mix Image Ent. 1995 THX laserdisc rip [ID2940NSB] from Team Blu *SYNCED already, but I'm not certain if this version wasn't hacked to keep in sync, so I prefer to delete it.

Suggestions welcome.