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

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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.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliviergo...97953-MMLv

Let’s say I have one m2ts file (AR 1.78:1) and all I want to do is change the AR to 1.85:1 (black bars on the top and bottom 22px each). Is there any software that allows me to do this without re-encoding? I suppose not.

Therefore, I want to see all the video properties of the m2ts file. What software can I use to view all the original parameters? I mean, all the parameters I must keep to obtain a new m2ts file identical to the original file.

What software can I use to preserve all of them? I normally use Adobe Premiere.

Fanedit of The Thing (1982) and the prequel The Thing (2011) It runs 158 minutes and I used additional music by Carpenter, Alan Howarth, and music segments of Richard Bodgers. Tracks are used of Prince of Darkness, Christine, and Mouth of Madness. This is no re-cut of the Wraith edit, the story goes chronologic in my version and I trimmed some fake (bull)shit in the 2011 version. DTS 7.1 sound.  Edit is online now on my site.

Last year in Marienbad (1961)-Criterion Mono Bluray synced to Studiocanal remastered Bluray. 

I took the unrestored version. Information see blah-ray.blog:

https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search/lab...%281961%29

This track sounds much much better to me than the Studiocanal, the unrestored version has lots of noise, crackle and detail.  

For syncing I copied the sound of the Studiocanal logo entrance to the Criterion, on the other hand erased the Studiocanal logo in the Criterion track. Here and there aligned a little. Interesting work behind this syncing for sure. I watched it yesterday and havent had any troubles. 

Track is saved in 24bit PCM 48000Hz mono 1152kbps (WAV)

Edit: I changed the Thread name, it is not the 4k Bluray(I dont know of any yet) but the normal Bluray which has a new transfer of the picture.

So, while looking for Soviet war movies on VHS on eBay (as one does) I came across this listing for, as the subject says, five hundred Russian VHS cassettes, given away for free, in Berlin:
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anze...88-79-3498

The posting is pick-up only, and there's just one picture with only eleven visible tapes and only two titles visible, which is these two:
40 Days, 40 Nights (2002), American movie (in Russian)
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers / д'Артаньян и три мушкетёра (1978), Part 2 of 3, Soviet movie

I can't think of anyone else that might be interested except this crowd, so here's you go. If I wasn't stuck in a different country not particularly close to Berlin I might've considered picking them up, if only to look for war movies.

Cortical Systems is back to celebrate the new 2021 Mortal Kombat movie release by going back and painstakingly blending and aligning a fullscreen DVD version of the original 1995 film with the north american blu ray 1080p resolution to create this new open matte edition without sacrificing on the quality where it counts most.

The SD source was treated with a detail preserving upscale as well as colour matched to the blu ray source. Each shot was then re-positioned to the new aspect ratio. In some shots the colour may pop ever so slightly but I'm out of steam for this project and believe this version is good to release for now.

Like a lot of older movies, many of the digital effects and matte painting shots were not completed with the full open matte. In these cases, I've opted to use the widescreen 1080p source since it looks much nicer and in most cases the jump in ratio works fine for this kind of martial arts movie. 
See more of Sub Zero's freezing particles! More beautiful Kitana! SLIGHTLY more rubber trees in Sorpion's forest! A C-stand base left uncovered...and more! This edition doesn't fix any of the cheesey writing, acting or Christopher Lambert's voice but hopefully it will be a treasured edition of the childhood classic movie we all grew up with.

Stay tuned for future Cortical System releases.
corticalsystems@protonmail.com 

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Also, the Top Ten Songs Played With a Talk Box:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOgs_jPjVk