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  Menace II Society Criterion Preservation
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-04-10, 08:21 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (4)

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Another project complete. The blu ray has drastically different colours when compared to the laserdisc so I have colour corrected it scene by scene, using over 50 Dr Dre LUTs and slightly adjusting the contrast levels in Premiere.

  • BD25 with animated menus that look and behave like the official Criterion discs, with a background video, pop up menus and resume function
  • Video taken from the official Blu Ray, with scene by scene colour correction
  • Original chapter stops used on the Laserdisc
  • English 2.0 from the Laserdisc (Thanks Alexpeden and Zoidberg!)
  • Two Criterion audio commentary tracks taken from Laserdisc
  • English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Making Of A Menace: Introduction
  • Interview With The Hughes Brothers
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Storyboards
  • Film To Story Comparison
  • Shooting the Korean Grocery Store Scenes
  • Film School
  • 2Pac Brenda's Got A Baby Music Video
  • Raw Fusion Throw Your Hands In The Air Music Video
  • Laserdisc Production Credits

PM me for the links, contributing/long term members only please. Contributing means active members of the forum who post and/or make their own projects.

High Resolution cover and disc art available from @Pineapples101 Here.

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Just to clarify this is a project that I have made for myself which I am choosing to share. If you don't like the project, if you think it should have been done differently then feel free to keep that to yourself and consider doing your own project.

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  Adding "Hidden tracks" to a Blu-ray
Posted by: Dr. Cooper - 2020-04-10, 04:48 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring - Replies (8)

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on a Blu-ray-authoring with Encore and got a little problem with it:
Unfortunately Encore isn't able to handle HD-tracks properly and it also can't mix AC3/DTS with PCM on one disc. So I just used a heavily compressed dummy in Encore and replaced it by using Booshman's tutorial.

Everything went fine, but now there's another issue that I couldn't solve yet:
Encore only allows 8 audio-tracks, but I'd actually like to put 14 tracks on the disc. Due to the issue that track 9-14 won't be available on the menu eitherway, because they can't be linked in Encore, I just wanted to add them as "hidden tracks" which will only play by using the "Audio"-button on the remote when playing the disc. However, it didn't work. After burning the disc only the first 8 tracks can be selected and the others are just ignored. All four players I've tested don't even seem to recognize them, as they say there are only 8 audio-streams available.

Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks in advance for your help! Ok

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  Three Days of the Condor (1975) LD Mono
Posted by: NeonBible - 2020-04-10, 11:26 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (19)

I don't think the original mono mix has been released anywhere on DVD or Blu-ray. So does anyone have the LD captured?

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  Face / Off and Broken Arrow
Posted by: CSchmidlapp - 2020-04-09, 06:46 PM - Forum: In progress - Replies (38)

Original Thread / Post

Quote:Hi Fan Ressers.

I'm wondering if somebody could help me Smile

I'm looking for the best version of the original 2.0 surround mix of Face / Off.
I have a version on the R1 DVD but its DD compressed and I'm guessing the best version available will be on a laserdisc somewhere. 
Ive never had a Laserdisc player and thus my knowledge on what are the best versions of discs ect is zero!

EDIT: Ive updated the thread title to cover Broken Arrow and all the audio mixes in general Wink

What began as a request for the original 2.0 mix of Face/Off has become a project for both this and Broken Arrow.

Over the past year Ive been playing around with and using AVIsynth scripts to watch my films in my collection that just need small corrections.
This began with 25fps slowdown to 23.976, clean up with upscale on my DVD's to 'red' removal on old HD masters that has been discussed all over this forum.

Over the past few months I pushed the Color Correction to try an emulate what I had learnt about 35mm print characteristic's.
Once again debated over this forum it does seem to suggest that alot of the more 'Teal' transfers are indeed more accurate to there Theatrical presentation.

So....
 
Broken Arrow

The MPEG 2 Encoded BD transfer has a very pinkish push to it.
Ive removed that but pushed alittle further as I play.
I have no idea if what I have done is even close to how it looked in the cinema! But I do much prefer this look.

VIDEO:

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AUDIO:

DTS-HD.MA 5.1 "from the Bluray"
DTS 5.1 "from the DTS Laserdisc" Thanks Zoidberg
PCM 2.0 surround mix "from the Laserdisc" Thanks Zoidberg

More details TBA

Face / Off

Ive used the VC1 encoded 'Russian' BLU and top and tailed it with the 'Paramount' logo taken from the Braveheart UHD
Once again the transfer leaned toward red but not nearly as much at Broken Arrow.
My opinion on the results are the same as on Broken Arrow.

VIDEO:

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AUDIO:

PCM 5.1 "from the BD"
DTS-ES 6.1 "from the US BD. Im assuming this is the same at the DD-EX mix included on this disc)
PCM 2.0 Surround "from the Laserdisc" Recieved and synced, Thanks Zoidberg
x2 commentary tracks "from the US BD"

More details TBA

I will update this post as the project progresses.
I do have some Work In Progress renders (mentioned through the tread) should any long time members be interested in viewing.
They have been rendered using my AMD RX480's Hardware encoder to low bitrate H264 videos with DD+ 5.1 audio.
They come in around 8 to 10gb a piece.

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  DTS-HD Master 2.0: L/R or Lt/Rt?
Posted by: Dr. Cooper - 2020-04-07, 08:49 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring - Replies (11)

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on a Blu-ray for which I have several PCM-tracks and a few DTS-HD Master 5.1/7.1-tracks. Since my BD-player seems to prefer Dolby Digital or DTS over PCM I now wanted to try, if I can get around this by converting the PCM-tracks to DTS-HD Master first.

The PCM-tracks are Mono and Stereo. For the Mono it's easy - I have to select 1.0 in the DTS-HD Master Suite. However, for the 2.0-tracks it confuses me as there are two options: L/R (Left / Right) and Lt/Rt (Left total / Right total). I already looked at the Manual, but couldn't figure out what's the difference.

Can anyone explain me what's the difference and which option I have to pick?

Thanks in advance!

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  About Hard-Coded Subs on Star Wars Saga 4K
Posted by: bendermac - 2020-04-06, 08:35 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (7)

The Star Wars Saga is now available in 4K on UHD Blu-ray. The US 4K BD feature the movies with hard-coded subtitles. But they do look like they are re-created from scratch - Sorry I can't post screencaps, somebody might be able to do so.

If they are indeed re-created, can we make them look better? They way too sharp.

Any thoughts?

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  Hey !
Posted by: koolkunz - 2020-04-06, 10:16 AM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (2)

I have joined the forum after knowing about it for quite some time...having more free time than ever in quarantine I decided to join and maybe learn to do some projects on here.
I want to do MCU IMAX 3D to 2D hybrid (non imax scenes from normal bluray and imax from the 3d bluray) projects.
Just want to make sure these havent already been done before?
And would appreciate any help,tips or guides on how to do it..

I may also look into spending time to do shot for shot left sidebar cropping like kk650 has done for civil war and guardians of the galaxy if someone can tell me how that can be done.

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  Colour Correction Issues
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-04-05, 04:08 PM - Forum: General technical discussions - Replies (3)

Hi All,

I thought I had finished my next project, just proofing it and noticed several artifacts. See below, anyone got any suggestions as to what I can do? You can see them in the lights behind his head and the edges of his shirt, doesn't happen often, mainly where there is bright white. I'm using the default settings in Dr Dre i.e. 10 colour spaces and 0.01 smoothing parameter. 

Tearing my hair out at the moment I've done the whole movie with over 50 different LUTs!

Laserdisc:

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Untouched Blu:

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Dre Dre Corrected Blu:

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  Star Wars 4k project
Posted by: CaveDoctor - 2020-04-05, 12:26 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (20)

Would anyone object to using the 4k bluray of Star Wars ANH and 4k77 to create a 4k despecialized edition?
I know Harmy said he would get around to it, but... if I wanted to do it, would anyone object?

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  A Better Tomorrow 2 DVD/Blu-Ray
Posted by: MeanjohnRambo - 2020-03-30, 04:15 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (28)

Looking for a decent print of A Better Tomorrow 2 with english subtitles for a reasonable price. I know of the Anchor Bay release as well as A Better Tomorrow Trilogy Blu-Ray Box Set. Do you guys know of a dvd or blu-ray of A Better Tomorrow 2 with good picture quality, english subtitles, and the original sound effects? I really don't know how much better the blu-ray quality is compared to the dvd or which dvd is the best in terms of picture quality

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