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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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  Jason And The Argonauts Criterion Preservation
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-03-29, 08:53 PM - Forum: Released - No Replies

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Finally managed to get the extras from the Criterion Laserdisc captured so this project is now complete. 

  • 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
  • Original chapter stops used on the Laserdisc
  • English 1.0 Mono LPCM from the Laserdisc (Thanks Bronan!)
  • Criterion audio commentary taken from Laserdisc
  • English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  • Early Animation The Elementals
  • Pre Production Drawings
  • Lobby Cards and the original one sheet
  • Casting Notes
  • Production Photos
  • Production Memos
  • Production Records
  • Creating The Hydra Sequence
  • Creating The Skeleton Sequence
  • Harryhausen Models and Artwork
  • Trailers for Jason and the Argonauts, It Came From Beneath The Sea, Earth Vs The Flying Saucers, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad & Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger
  • 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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  Harry Potter 1-3 Isolated Scores
Posted by: Lio - 2020-03-29, 04:23 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (6)

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John Williams once again immortalized himself to a generation of young movie-goers with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, producing an effusive neo-romantic score at a time when that style was considered long-outdated and sappy. But as studios today try to make their music edgier, noisier, and more abstract, I think Williams's traditional score helps ensure that the original Harry Potter will be a timelessly accessible film. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets follows the original movie stylistically (sometimes note-for-note; most of this music was adapted/arranged by William Ross as Williams didn't have the time to fully commit) while Prisoner of Azkaban takes a drastic left turn towards the weird, altering between sparse and outrageous underscoring as the scene demands.

Williams is one of the few film composers today who chooses (or is allowed!) to follow the action and movement of the film while still writing long-form self-contained music, and Harry Potter shows his mastery of this with great sequences like the Quidditch match in the first film, the flying car in the second, and the werewolf transformation in the third. I've edited isolated scores of all three so that you can see just how carefully he follows the action or dialogue of a scene with orchestrational details that might not come across in the normal audio mix.

For most of the project I used La-La Land Record's recent release of the three scores, but bootlegs were used to fill any gaps. I tried to reinstate any music that was "dialed out"/unused, so long as it seemed to make sense with the picture. Almost all the edits made to the music on the dubbing stage were recreated, so these audio tracks won't float out of sync with the on-screen action. For the first two films I synced to the Amazon Web-DLs and for Azkaban I used a copy of the Blu-ray, but I hope these files are in sync with any copy of the movie. Sometimes the music editor decides to cut up a piece of music or use a cue from a different section of the movie instead of keeping what the composer originally wrote. In these cases (such as the Shrieking Shack scene) I used the originally-written music instead and matched it to the movie as best I could. I think you might be surprised at how differently some of these scenes play out with the original music (Azkaban has a lot of these).

The only music I couldn't truly use was the shawm source cue in Azkaban where Mr. Weasley warns Harry about Sirius Black. I tried looping and changing the pitch of the small portion I had to recreate the cue but it didn't turn out very well -- you can be the judge. Otherwise the entire scores are presented here in fantastic quality.

All files are FLAC 16-bit; anyone interested can PM me.

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