UPDATE: I am not currently taking requests.

I've finally managed to confirm that my laserdisc PCM ripping set up is bit-perfect! 

I'm currently ripping a few discs for my own projects and other users, my player will be hooked up to my computer for the next few weeks at least, so I thought I'd post a list of the laserdiscs I own that contain PCM soundtracks, in case they could be of use to other users in their projects. 

I haven't yet tried ripping AC3 tracks, but I have a demodulator so in theory I should be able to do it, so I've also marked which discs contain an AC3 track.

Click each title for exact details on each laserdisc.

NTSC discs: 
12 Monkeys: MCA/Universal Signature Collection (1995) AC3
Bad Lieutenant (1992) - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2950.html)
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953)
Beauty and the Beast: Work in Progress (1991)
Brazil: Criterion Special Edition (1985)
Citizen Kane: Criterion 50th Anniversary Special Edition (1941) - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2951.html)
Cliffhanger: Japanese Squeeze Release (1993) AC3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Criterion Special Edition (1980)
Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) Criterion (1955)
Crow, The (1994)) AC3
Dragonslayer (1981)
Event Horizon (1997) AC3
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn: Special Edition (1987)
Evil Dead, The: Special Collector's Edition (1981) AC3
Fifth Element, The (1997) AC3 Already done by Zoidberg (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2263.html)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (1936)
Freddie Mercury: Tribute vol.1: Japanese Release (1992)
Freddie Mercury: Tribute vol.2: Japanese Release (1992)
Game, The: Criterion Special Edition (1997) AC3
Godzilla vs. Destroyer: Deluxe Edition: Japanese Release (1995)
Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The : Pioneer Special Edition (1974)
Hard Boiled : Criterion (1992)
Highlander: USA Theatrical Cut (1986)
Highlander 2: The Quickening - European Cut (1991)  - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2840.html)
Highlander 2: The Renegade Version (1991) AC3
Highlander 3: The Final Dimension - Director's Cut(1994)
Highlander: 10th Anniversary (1986) AC3
Hot Shots! (1991)
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)
Hunted, The (1995)
I Am Cuba : Criterion (1964) - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2952.html)
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1996) AC3
Jurassic Park (1993)
Keep, The (1983) - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2924.html)
Knight Moves (1992) - International Version
Krull (1983)
Lion King, The: Deluxe CAV Letterbox Edition (1994) AC3 - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2947-post-57736.html)
Lost World, The: Jurassic Park (1997) AC3 - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2940.html)
Making of Jurassic Park, The (1995)
Matrix, The (1999) AC3 - Already done by Zoidberg (https://fanrestore.com/thread-1583.html)
Men in Black (1997) AC3
Muppet Christmas Carol, The (1992) - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2938.html)
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) AC3
Orson Welles' Othello: Criterion Special Edition (1952)
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The: Special Edition (1970)
Prophecy, The (1995)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars : Criterion (1964)
Robocop: Criterion Special Edition (1987)
Rocketeer, The (1991)
Se7en: Criterion Special Edition (1995) AC3
Silence of the Lambs, The: Criterion Special Edition (1991)
Star Trek Next Generation: Borg Collective (1996)
Star Trek VIII: First Contact (1996) AC3
Star Wars Trilogy: Definitive Collection
Star Wars: A New Hope : Faces Edition(1977)
Star Wars: Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi : Faces Edition (1983)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back : Faces Edition (1980)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) AC3
Stargate (1994) AC3
Streets of Fire (1984) - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-3235-post-...l#pid63055)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Special Edition (1991)
Terminator, The (1984)
Thing from Another World, The (1951)
THX 1138 (1971) 
Toy Story: Deluxe CAV Laserdisc Edition (1995) AC3
Trainspotting: Criterion Special Edition (1996) AC3 - Already done by Zoidberg (https://fanrestore.com/thread-1694.html)
Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack
Until the End of the World : International Cut (1991)
Vertigo: MCA/Universal Signature Collection (1958) AC3 
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, The (1962)

PAL discs: (most of these will feature a 4% speedup)
Abyss, The: Special Edition (1989)
Confidential Report (1955)
Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Independence Day: ID4 (1996)
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Jacob's Ladder (1990)  - Done! (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2939.html)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)  -Higher quality already available (https://fanrestore.com/thread-2302.html)
Queen: Greatest Flix I & II
Queen: Live in Budapest (1986)
Star Trek: The Pilots
Star Trek: The Screen Voyages I to VI
The Timelords: Doctorin' The Tardis (1988)

I also own the following NTSC DTS discs. DTS discs use the digital tracks to store a DTS signal, so no PCM, but again in theory I should be able to rip the DTS track. 

Strange Days (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

If any of these would be useful to anyone please let me know and I'll do my best to rip them while I've got my player hooked up to my PC.

Skyfall Open Matte (aka IMAX Version v1.4)

Project Info

Pretty simple setup on this one. This is a combination of a couple HDTV broadcast/Web-DL of Skyfall (SF) in order to create the best possible version. That completed version then had the BD overlaid on it for 80%+ of the movie to bump up the resolution. Lots of work done to minimize the compression issues. Some logo removal and frame replacement. Many bright explosion highlights fixed. No color work needed for this one.

Married the resulting video with the DTS-HD MA from the BD

Video:
This is a combination of a couple HDTV broadcasts and Web-DL of Skyfall (SF) and the BD in order to create the best possible version.

Audio:
1. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Cinema DTS discs)
2. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the US BD)

Sync:
Synced to the US (and most likely international) BD

Subs:
1. English (from the US BD)

Pics:

MKV


BD/OM


Collaborators and Thanks (In order of help):
X5gb: for help with materials

This is finished here:

https://fanrestore.com/editpost.php?pid=85895



Zodiac Theatrical Cut (Quick Project v1.0)

Project Info

So you are asking yourself why recreate the TC of Zodiac? Well the project's genesis started a few years ago when I bought a box of Cinema DTS discs. Most of the movies were junk but included in the pack were the discs for Zodiac and Zodiac just happens to be my favorite Fincher movie.

With the discs in hand, I wanted to sync the tracks to the BD so I could hear the far field mix. That was until I remembered the BD is the Director's Cut (DC) and contains several minutes of additional scenes, scene extensions and a few alternative shots.

I debated if I should just patch the Cinema DTS with the BD until I came to the realization that it would be nice to have the TC back in HD form. Re-create what is not available.

So this project recreates the TC by cutting the BD down to the DVD which contains the TC cut. Most of the cuts are covered here:

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4878

But not covered in that link is the fact the DC has more frames for certain shots, one subtitle that I had to matte into the HD footage from the DVD and two brief shots I needed to upscaled, one that had different timing than the DC and one wholly unique shot from the TC. The credits of the DC are also formatted differently when compared to the TC DVD. So I used the DVD credits.

The final master was color corrected to match the DVD's look which is greener when compared to the BD's redder cast.

On the audio side besides the Cinema DTS, I included the DD 5.1 from the DVD

Video:
This project attempts to create the theatrical cut (TC) of Zodiac by cutting down the DC BD to match the TC DVD. The end project is color corrected to resemble more of the look of the DVD.

Audio:
1. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Cinema DTS Discs)
2. Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the US CE DVD)

Subs:
1. English (from the US DVD)

Sync::
This project is synced to the US DVD

Pics


Collaborators and Thanks (In order of help):
SpaceBlackKnight: for the HD TC parts

So I picked up a beautiful ST60 Panasonic plasma a few months ago and have been breaking it in gently and finally getting to see the beauty of a higher end plasma panel.
But what I have noticed is a lip sync audio issue where when watching a movie the sync seems to go off after about the half way point and it becomes really obvious for a scene or two then suddenly seems to go back in sync at some later point. Other time sit is off sync for the whole feature.

I've been using my PS3 for BD playback through my Onkyo TX-nr626 receiver via HDMI. I was using HDMI input 1. I've never had to use any offset values as I'm usually running into an HDCRT for my display and using external speakers which has no audio sync issues whatsoever. I'm still using the same receiver and external speakers and if I switch back to the HDCRT there are no sync issues at all.

So far this is killing my enthusiasm for an otherwise fantastic unit. I have every additional feature disabled including all motion smoothing and this isn't connected to any online functionality. I used the DNice recommended settings and am only using this for Blu-ray playback via HDMI.

Using the ARC input makes no difference. I still see the sync go off and sometimes only for a single scene at a time. This is really infuriating.
This is apparently an issue that many owners of this particular tv had and Panasonic did a fix in one of their older firmwares. However this TV seems to be fully updated. No matter what I do the sync goes off in certain instances and I don't think putting a setting in my receiver would help because it is only intermittent in certain scenes nor can I figure out exactly how much it goes off sync for.

I'm wondering if an hdmi splitter might help so that I could go straight to the tv and then send the audio to the receiver.

I've tried every variant of CEC and ARC and other players to try and get the sync right but nothing seems to work. The only thing that gets perfect sync is disabling 1080/24p or playing Standard def materials. I've even tried the av sync and lip sync in my onkyo receiver and tried to adjust audio delay. I even used the same film on two different players simultaneously to get the tv audio and receiver audio to sync but even that didn't work.

Has anyone ever been able to get the sync right on 2013 Panasonic plasma models? This is driving me nuts!

I’ve tried fiddling with it again and going back and forth in my receiver settings 10ms at a time. It starts to get better around 60ms delay, very good at around 150 and seems perfect at 200ms delay. Thankfully it seems I can leave this and it won’t affect extras and the like.

I just wish there was a way to get this nailed down and be exactly on point. I had heard of sync problems being frustrating before by until now it hasn’t hit me fully that it’s still all over the place in quality control.

Perhaps I was spoiled with my hdcrt...

Hi All,

I'm syncing up a commentary track to a blu ray and the volume is very low on it so I was just going to normalise it in sound forge. 

However when looking at it, the audio goes further below the middle line than it goes above the middle line, see below:

https://www.mediafire.com/view/jzuqo1s3j...s.PNG/file

Not sure what causes this and if anything should be done to correct it? After normalising it looks like this:

https://www.mediafire.com/view/2dn2rrlck...p.PNG/file

It sounds a lot better than it was so I could just go with it. Any other suggestions? I didn't capture the LD myself.

Thanks

I'm looking for the Paris, Texas LD audio. I'd like to sync it to the upcoming 4k restored release, which I will gladly in turn make available for anyone who wants it.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT : Now bit-perfect certified! 

I was talking to another user here about Chewtobacca's preservation of The Keep. During the discussion he sent me the following quote from Chewtobacca: 

"...What we really need is the PCM from the LaserDisc..."

At the time I had my laserdisc player plugged in to my PC to capture PCM audio for my Highlander 2 preservation, so I offered to have a go with my Keep laserdisc too. 

I can't guarantee that it's bit perfect as I'm still struggling to pass bronan's DTS CD test, but since I'm already hosting it for another user here I thought I'd at least post about it and make it available to anyone else who is interested. 




It's from the US Widescreen release (https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/23041/LV-...S/Keep-The) and side two also features the audio for the following trailers:

• Barbarella
  
• War of the Worlds
  
• When Worlds Collide
  
• I Married a Monster from Outer Space
  

According to this, the analogue audio on the Image LaserDisc version of Citizen Kane sounds better. Is there anyone who can hook us up with that track and sync it to the Blu-ray?

The idea is to render the english DVD using BD footage since the BD is redubbed with even more cuts. I started compiling a script of footage from the BDs of both the US cut and the Chinese cut (for the missing scenes). Since the DVD cut has less missing scenes than the US BD, I need to use the english audio track from one of the DVDs. This DVD seems to be the only one with English DTS audio:

R2 Holland - World Wide Cinema

DISC TWO
* The Film - Director's Cut
"Making Of" featurette
"Special Effects" featurette
Outtakes
Subtitles: Dutch
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Picture Format:Anamorphic
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):Cantonese DTS 5.1
Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1
English DTS 5.1
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0
French Dolby Digital 2.0
Case type:Keep Case


Now I'm not sure if the DTS track is better. I just thought I'd ask here if anyone knew which one is superior or if they had something superior. Yes the Director's Cut is far superior, this project is for those who enjoyed the english dub back in the day 

I've been getting a number of failed e-mail deliveries from Fanres to Hotmail (and also a couple Protonmail) inboxes in the past two days. There doesn't seem to be an issue with other mail providers, so if you haven't been receiving e-mail notifications, you could try using another address, while I wait for my host to respond about this issue.