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  Titanic (1997) UAR
Posted by: spoRv - 2019-12-16, 05:11 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (17)

Today I had an intuition, à la House M.D.! Happy



Why not producing a "better" version of Titanic? As an image worth more than thousand words... top BD 3D, bottom UAR:



[Image: Titanic-025265-3-D.jpg]

[Image: Titanic-025265-UAR.jpg]



Further comparisons:

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/D6LDLNNX

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



UAR pros:


  • 2006 master - pre-2012 with no digital corrections
  • "original" image - no 3D postproduction at all
  • better colors - closer to theatrical one, and no teal&orange palette
  • bigger frame size in open matte shots - usually on three sides
  • bigger frame size in widescreen or UAR shots - where BD 3D open matte is cropped



UAR cons:


  • lower resolution (even if image seems crispier somehow)
  • slight magenta blanket (easily solvable)
  • few shots must be replaced with regraded BD 3D ones, due to fades in/out placed for TV spots
  • blown highlights
  • faint TV logo (1 HD) remains on top right (if another open matte version would be spotted, it could be fixed)

of course, it will get also quite some audio tracks included!



I think pros outweigh the cons... and you?



Test clip [short] (available until Sunday 20th 2019, so hurry up!):

https://fex.net/s/lvoenkp

Test clip [long, first 23m] (available until Xmas 2019):

https://fex.net/s/zbp8cde

both download and streaming available.



For the long test clip, I applied mild noise reduction, sharpening and halo removal, plus the Aliens grainplate.

Alignment is 99% perfect, with two or three instances in open matte and others in the widescreen, all easily solvable.

Feedbacks are needed!



EDIT: color grading comparison - top BD, bottom HDTV (UAR will be mostly open matte, with few shots in widescreen)

[Image: Titanic-BD.jpg]

[Image: Titanic-HDTV.jpg]

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/D6LGLNNX

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  "A Charlie Brown Christmas" laserdisc audio, anyone have it?
Posted by: Dek Rollins - 2019-12-14, 03:31 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (10)

Hey everyone, just asking if anyone has A Charlie Brown Christmas on LD or has it captured. LDDB seems to have only one version listed, so that must be all there is.

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/27057/LV83716

I did a little project with this for myself (a hybrid of the BD release and the 16mm copy that went around), and I was thinking about doing an improved version to maybe share online, and I'd like to use LD audio for this rather than downmixing the BD mix to mono.

EDIT: Even if anyone has a decent quality VHS capture, that would be fine (I only have this on DVD and Blu-ray). Analog audio might even match 16mm audio inserts better anyway.

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  The Lion King: CAV Edition (1994) Laserdisc PCM
Posted by: HippieDalek - 2019-12-12, 01:46 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (1)

   
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/06337/461...ox-Edition

16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect) 900 MB, PM for the link.

This is just the four sides of the film, none of the extras. 

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  [No Longer Available] Die Hard 2 UHD Downconvert and Regrade (Quick Project)
Posted by: PDB - 2019-12-11, 10:03 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (12)

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Die Hard 2 UHD Downconvert and Regrade (Quick Project v1.0)


Project Info

Are you ready to watch the best action film set at Christmas with the words Die Hard in the title? That would be the original Die Hard. Watch that (maybe Zoid's project?). But after that, if you have the time, watch Die Hard 2.

Previously I had toyed with a DH2 project in this thread:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-1711.html

but I was never satisfied with the results that I came up with. Especially after figuring out the 35mm trailer didn't look like the 35mm prints. After giving up on that 35mm project I still wanted to revisit this movie. Fast forward to the UHD Web-DL (thanks X5) release which as near as I can tell is closer to what theatrical prints (using the info I gathered from the 35mm project) looked like then the BD. So considered this the replacement for that 35mm project.

This project is a simple effort to converted the UHD to 1080p/SDR and color grade the results to the 35mm examples I have (little more orange in the mids, more green/blue in the highs). It also comes with a few minor tweaks: I matted out one instance of a hard subs and put the English hard subs for the Spanish language section back in the video.

After that I merged the audio track from my 35mm project: the Japanese LD's PCM (thanks Zoidberg), US THX LD's PCM 2.0, the DVD's Dolby Digital 5.1 and the BD soundtracks to the resulting video.

Video:
The web-DL/UHD/HDR video release converted to 1080p/SDR and color graded

Audio: (Tentative)
1. PCM 2.0 (from the THX LD)
2. PCM 2.0 (from the Japanese P&S LD)
3. Dolby Digital 2.0 (from the US BD)
4. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the US BD)
5. Dolby Digital 2.0 Commentary

Pics:

CC'd UHD
[Image: 8ObRknL.jpg]


Versus the BD
https://i.imgur.com/9wtD97S.png
https://i.imgur.com/KCjaEzN.png


Subs:
1. English (from the US BD)

Sync:
This project is synced to the US (and international) BD. Since the BD uses an incorrect, longer, more modern 20th Century Fox logo there is a moment of black in the beginning of the video.

Collaborators (in order of help):
Bigrob: for project idea
Zoidberg: for capping the JPN P&S LD and PCM 2.0
X5gb: for material help
Doombot: for help

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  Boyz N The Hood Criterion Laserdisc Preservation
Posted by: alleycat - 2019-12-11, 11:55 AM - Forum: Released - Replies (1)

[Image: ZSmsC6o.jpg]

Another project complete:

  • BD25 with menus that look and behave like the official Criterion discs, with pop up menus and resume function
  • Video taken from the official blu ray
  • English 2.0 Stereo AC3 taken from the DVD
  • Audio commentary taken from the LD
  • English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Screen Tests

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.

PS I had to use the DVD audio for this as I have no LD PCM - if anyone has it I'd be happy to release a Version 2, there should be enough room on the disc to accommodate it.

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  Dragon Ball / Z / GT / Movies - Specials R2J DBox ENG SRT Subs
Posted by: marin888 - 2019-12-09, 06:06 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (7)

Dragon Ball / Z / GT / Movies - Specials R2J DBox ENG SRT Subs

[Image: dJZH2bQ.gif]


This is my own Project to convert ASS to SRT.


Subtitles Source:
* [Utsukushii-Raws] Dragon Ball - ASS &
* Ep's: 31-71 with subbed NEP's -TandiBandi - SRT
* [Romao] Dragon Ball Z - ASS
* [Pendekar] Dragon Ball / Z - Movies & Specials - SRT
* [GTeam] Dragon Ball GT & Special - ASS

Huge thanks to EVERYONE who participated in creating these Subs!!!


[Image: YejREQz.gif] Edits: [Image: YejREQz.gif]


* Removed all Japanese Romaji Subs (opening, ending)
* Pause/duration between lines - set minimum to 40ms
* Breaked long text, Joined lines with same time, Fixed overlapped lines
* Fixed same repeated text in lines (mainly during songs mixed with dialog)
* GT - all tags is removed, sorted by start time, splitted long lines
* etc


Subs @ Nyaa


Enjoy!
[Image: 3NOsuus.gif]

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  Bad Lieutenant 1992 Uncut Audio
Posted by: alleycat - 2019-12-09, 03:10 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (12)

Hi All,

When Bad Lieutenant was originally released the soundtrack contained the track "Signifying Rapper" by Scholly D, later after Led Zeppelin took legal action the track was removed and replaced. Hippie Dalek is kindly ripping the uncut soundtrack from the NTSC LD which I will then sync up to the HD blu ray. 

I understand the only visual difference is during the end credits, as different songs are credited. Just wondered what people's thoughts are here - would you prefer a much lower quality version of the credits with the correct songs listed? Or retain the HD credits? Or keep the HD credits and add the LD credits as an extra feature? 

Also I don't suppose anyone has the French DVD or the UK Fabulous Films DVD? They have a few unique interviews I could include. 

Thanks

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  The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Laserdisc PCM
Posted by: HippieDalek - 2019-12-08, 11:21 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (10)

   

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/08013/433...assic-Park

16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect) 1.35 GB, PM for the link.

The file for Side 3 also includes the audio for a behind the scenes featurette.

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  Jacob's Ladder (1990) PAL Laserdisc PCM
Posted by: HippieDalek - 2019-12-08, 10:51 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (3)

   

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/36758/PLF...b's-Ladder

16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect) 1.07 GB, PM for the link.

Please note that because this is from a PAL release so audio has been sped up by 4% and most likely pitch corrected. Both of these issues can easily be fixed using Eac3To. 

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  The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Laserdisc PCM
Posted by: HippieDalek - 2019-12-08, 10:45 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (5)

A user requested this audio for their project so thought I'd post about it here in case anyone else needed it too. 

   
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/05208/172...-Carol-The

16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect) 903 MB, PM for the link.

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