I know the Theatrical Cut was released on BD in some European countries (Poland, Greece, Portugal...), but it seems it doesn't have the same level of detail compared to the usual Director's Cut BD (though it looks very good, still needs to be remastered for modern video quality standards). So it could be fantastic if someone is able to overlay or regrade (don't know which is the right term) the theatrical cut with the highest possible quality, since this is a really underrated film.

Any of you guys have an LD capture of The Abyss theatrical version? There's an HBO version floating around which looks quite good, so I'd like to sync the original stereo to it as well. Many thanks in advance!

So I like the idea of making extended composite versions of certain movies, using additional footage from TV versions, workprints, etc. The problem is this footage is nearly always 4:3 and I find a shift in aspect ratio and jump from low quality to HD to be too distracting. I've almost finished an edit of Mad Max 2 reincorporating the TV Version footage and it worked really well with a 4:3 DVD. 

So does anyone happen to have 4:3 SD releases of the following? 

Child's Play 2 - doesn't appear to have been released on DVD but maybe there was a foreign release or a VHS rip?
Death Wish 2 - was released on a MGM DVD
Die Hard 2 - doesn't appear to have been released on DVD but maybe there was a foreign release or a VHS rip?
Evil Dead 2 - was released on a UK DVD
Friday the 13th 4/5 - doesn't appear to have been released on DVD but maybe there was a foreign release or a VHS rip?
Jason Goes to Hell - Japanese, UK and Australian DVDs were 4:3
Freddy's Dead - was released in Thailand
Warriors - doesn't appear to have been released on DVD but maybe there was a foreign release or a VHS rip?

Thanks

Beetlejuice is getting a 4k release this September, unfortunately only with an Atmos remix. It's unknown how different it'll be if at all, but if the Batman and Shining discs are any indicator it might not be pretty! With that in mind, I'd like to sync the original LD audio to the new 4k once it releases. I cannot capture LD audio myself, and I'd be very grateful if anybody can help me out. My sync will be available to all interested once the disc is released and I can get to work.

Hi All,

I am trying to fix an old PAL TV recording and I have managed to obtain. I am a basic Avisynth user, I've used it several times to IVTC but if there is an expert out there maybe they could point me in the right direction? 

Mediainfo reports the file as 25 fps progressive and during movement horizontal lines appear. It looks to me as if the field order is reversed? When I have come across this before I've fixed it using TFM() but that as for NTSC footage and it doesn't seem to make any difference with this footage. 

Unfortunately this is the only way I am able to get this recording, I've was searching for it for years and was lucky to find this. 

Much appreciated

Format                                  : MPEG Video
Format version                          : Version 2
File size                                : 3.11 GiB
Duration                                : 3 h 4 min
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                        : 2 407 kb/s

Video
Format                                  : MPEG Video
Format version                          : Version 2
Format profile                          : Main@Main
Format settings                          : BVOP
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                    : M=3, N=13
Duration                                : 3 h 4 min
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                : 2 407 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                        : 9 352 kb/s
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                  : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                    : 16:9
Frame rate                              : 25.000 FPS
Standard                                : PAL
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                      : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                        : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                      : 0.232
Time code of first frame                : 00:00:00:00
GOP, Open/Closed                        : Closed
Stream size                              : 3.11 GiB (100%)

Some of you might be interested in this:

https://github.com/domyd/mlp

Quote:A Dolby TrueHD demuxer and utility tool, with a focus on accurate and correct TrueHD demuxing.

A while ago, before I was active on fanres, I paid for a company to digitise a couple of VHS tapes. I only got around to looking at one of them recently and the audio is pretty much unusable. Whenever it gets loud, especially during speech, it distorts. This is how it looks in audacity: 



I just wanted to check, before I go back to them and complain, could there be an issue with the actual VHS that caused this? To me it's as if they didn't plug one of the audio cables in fully when capturing? The audio sounds fine when watching the VHS. 

Thanks

Hello.

Just an idea I've had that may be way above my skill level, but nevertheless.

For anyone familiar with Lau Kar-Leung/Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II, the Region 3 DVD release contained something of a 'new' Cantonese soundtrack where the music was replaced with the versions of the respective tracks that appeared on the soundtrack CD. So they'd effectively mixed the CD quality music (albeit downmixed to mono) with the film's original dubbing and effects.

However, Warner's attempt to do this had at least two faults:

• Whoever created the track inadvertently looped the music at times.
  
• The soundtrack stops for that brief moment in the final fight (admittedly audio tracks from other releases also have this fault/possible stylistic decision)
  

How can I convert chapter times from a 25fps movie to properly use them in 23,976fps?
Are there any tools that can do such a conversion? Google doesn't really help, as I only get Fortnite result for whatever reasons

Thanks in advance

Ok so... I took it upon myself to make perfect restorations (in HD) of the 3 infamous Regular Show Season 1 episodes that curse. These 3 episodes are The Power (episode 1), Free Cake (episode 5), and Meat Your Maker (episode 6). They originally aired only for a brief time uncensored and were never aired uncut again. The official Blu-ray was censored as well. What made this project even tougher to accomplish was the fact that the particular scenes that involved cursing were dubbed to "ticked" in stead of "pissed", but what was worse was the actual animation was changed as well to sync to "ticked". Their mouths were changed to match the censored words is basically what I'm saying. So, Here I present to you the original, Uncensored 3 episodes in full, glorious HD. Was a work of love and took a bit of playing around to per-fect all 3. These are now perfect and ready for the fans.

I used the official blu-rays as the base and the old original DVDs (I had to track these down and purchase them just for the audio Haha) for the uncensored AC3 audio (blu-rays only featured AC3 as an option anyway) and used rare WEB-DLs as the video source to replace the brief cursing scenes in HD. I also used smart rendering to make these as lossless as possible.

List of fixes:

Episode 1 - The Power: Rigby says "How in the H are we gonna fix this S?!" (1:48) and then Rigby says "But he's gonna be pissed!" (7:38)

Episode 5 - Free Cake: Mordecai says "Benson's gonna get pissed so we shouldn't" (5:30)

Episode 6 - Meat Your Maker: Mordecai says "You pissed me off..." (2:21)


Here is a video guide I made to show the Blu-ray censorship and then my fixes:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQUWWQIay8

***Anyone interested in these fixes can PM me.***