Just wondering if anyone uses one of these for watching VHS through an HDTV?

I've tried watching videos via Scart on a 2017 Sony TV compared to 2007 Samsung of a similar size and the quality seems much poorer. Same VHS player being used. I read that modern HDTV's don't do as good a job of upscaling the Scart socket as in the past.

Was looking at getting something like this to see if it improves things:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00A...3DX4&psc=1


Don't have space for a CRT!

This is a regrade I made after the colors on the 4K remaster left me disappointed. At first I spent about two weeks trying to regrade the new remaster as it is in fact a higher quality transfer than the old blu-ray, but I found it difficult to fix certain issues I have with it. Despite its blocky nature, the old blu-ray image looks more like a 35mm print to me than the new one (when given a proper contrast adjustment of course), and I also left the remaster behind entirely when I realized the credits/titles have been stabilized, which isn't the case for the old master. So, I got to work on it again and came out with something I see as being at least decently more accurate to the print run than the remaster is.

Some people have said that the remaster is much more accurate to the 35mm release than the old blu-ray, though I disagree. The 35mm frames posted as "proof" don't look anything like the remaster does. The comparison only proves that the contrast level of the remaster is more accurate, not the colors being presented. Anyway, enough rambling, here's my grade.



Presented with the film is the JP laserdisc track as synced by Bronan (synced to this BD by adding an extra four frames to the beginning of the track) in PCM, and the Tim Burton commentary from the BD. Chapters from the BD are also included.

Discussion on the new 4K release such as this thread:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-2692.html
...got me to consider releasing this, so here it is.

Hi All,

So I've done a few blu ray projects and have a lot more planned. One I am currently doing the planning work on is a Dead Presidents Criterion Laserdisc restoration. I have a 1080P HDTV file together with the DVD and a capture of the Criterion Laserdisc plus all the extra features. 

I'm fine with syncing up the audio and building the blu ray menu, but something I have never played about with is color. I've attached screenshots for all three versions, if your expert opinions would you change the color of the HDTV recording at all? The DVD seems a little off to my eyes, the HDTV is more in line with the laserdisc just a little brighter. 

If the consensus is the color should be changed what is the best way to do it? I've read about using Dr Dre's Color Matching Tool to create a 3D LUT and then loading this into after affects - is that the best way?

Any input would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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Someone interested?

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/JBM1FNNU

Hey, guys.

For those who don't know this non-movie, most likely most people here except for some French members, La Classe américaine is a comedy montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed by real French dubbing actors to fit a new story... which basically rips off the premise of Citizen Kane.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321715/

"The project started when Warner agreed to leave the French TV channel Canal+ to use its 4000-movies catalog free of charge and rights for a month (except some of them, like Clint Eastwood's ones). The directors Michel Hazanavicius (director of Academy Award winner The Artist) and Dominique Mézerette, who already did two short movies using the same way, enjoyed very much that decision and they picked their choice amongst the whole bunch of flicks. The whole job was done in six months."

This now cult-classic French comedy has only been broadcasted twice on Canal+ back in 1993 and once in the 2000s on another channel in France. Most people have discovered it on the Internet with poor quality VHSrip copies and original Betacam copies, until Sam Hocevar reconstructed it using DVDs of the original movies. (See the list here on Sam's website: http://cyclim.se/flims.html)

Now, it's been years since this DVD-sourced version has been made, and now, more and more of the original movies exist in HD. So, since Sam Hocevar's site has not been updated for years, I guess he's too busy to undertake an HD reconstruction, so I was considering giving it a shot. I'm currently harvesting all the HD movies I can find, and the DVDs of those I can't find in HD. The idea would be to use DaVinci Resolve for editing and color grading. This would be my first attempt at editing. Now there is a catch: some shots use special effects, such as split screens (see here at 13:27 and 14:00, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44WKAtZLjI&t=193s) fade-ins for flashbacks, loops so that a shot replays itself backwards, and even a mask to hide a character. So there's some challenges here.

Sam went with a constant 1.78:1 aspect ratio, since all movies have various aspect ratios. I would rather go with a 2.00:1 aspect ratio to less butcher the framing of scope movies. Also, Sam didn't seem to have done color correction, so I would like to do some to better sell the illusion with consistency in shots taken from different movies. I guess I would do it in 720p because of DVD upscales to better blend in and the cropping of the scope ARs to 2.00:1.

You can watch the original on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44WKAtZLjI&t=193s
And the DVD-sourced reconstruction here, with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdW0oqGX1c&t=54s

Hi.

I'm using Avisynth in my projects at the moment, but I'm looking to get started with DaVinci Resolve.

In my projects, I usually have a source file of low quality of the entire TV episode I want to fix, and multiple sources in high quality that includes parts of the original source. In AviSynth, I will usually use StackHorizontal to compare the original to one other source at a time, to find out where to trim the replacement.

Is there a simple way to do the same in Resolve?

(for simplicity, let's assume there are no frame rate issues between the sources)

There is a WEB-DL from Amazon Japan around of the movie in the original Asian Cut. The only problem with it is that it has hardcoded Japanese subtitles throughout the movie. I have a copy of the Japanese DVD as well, with the same cut of the movie, but without hardcoded subtitles, except for locations information.
I would propose to mix these two together to make a proper version of it. I've see you guys can do wonder in subtitle removal.

Both releases are in 2.35:1

There is also the Australian Blu-ray. Unfortunately it's cropped, so it may not work on all scenes.

What do you guys say?

Prologue:

thinking about this movie since a long time, still was undecided what to do with it... sure, color grading was bad and surely wrong... also, there is a 1.33:1 full screen version... so, my first thought was an UAR version - open matte WEB + full screen DVD regraded using a telesync.

Done quite some tests, with nice results, then, few days ago... BOOM!

Hey, guys.

Has anybody ever made an extended cut of the movie Sin City? I mean, editing back the extra footage of each story into the full movie runtime, 'cause the recut and extended versions are presented in seperate segments on DVD and Blu-ray. I'd like to see the whole thing as a movie instead of seperate 40ish-minute episodes.

Videowise, I noticed for the movie that the Japanese BD is 1.78 AR, while the US and French are 1.85.
The recut & extended stories are 1.85 AR on the US BD and 1.78 on the French one.

Audiowise, depending on the BD, there are 5.1 and 7.1 mixes for the movie, but only 5.1 for the recut and extended stories, apparently.

Hello friends

can someone who has the CAV Box LD please capture the video (lossless video ProRes 422, DNxHD or Animation Codec) and uncompressed (bit-perfect) audio?

I'd like to upgrade my trailer re-edit to the best possible version

Thanks