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

I heard that the Nvidia Quadro line of graphics cards are suited to the task of fan restorations - they can turn a two-hour rendering job into a two-minute job. However, the latest RTX costs far more than I can spare. Does anyone here have a Quadro or something similar, and can they tell me if it's any good?

This year being the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, I thought I'd go back to this series. However, the Blu-ray has not only been cropped into widescreen (like the Signature Edition DVDs, no less!), but they also redid the CGI. I can mostly understand why, except they already upscaled some of that CGI for Pixels, apparently, and it looked good there! So I thought, perhaps I should look into upscaling the whole series as it used to be. It's quite a ways off yet - I'm lacking the resources to actually do anything substantial. Unless of course, someone else would like to try it?

Tired to pay a lot of €€€ for Blu-rays in shops or online, decided long ago to get them only when they are really cheap... so, on these last two Sundays I went on two different fairs, and found some nice titles at good prices IMHO...


Bourne – 5 films collection 5BD new 9€
Chronicle – Extended Cut BD used 4€
District 9 + Elysium + Chappie 3BD new 5€
Edge Of Tomorrow BD used 3€
Geostorm BD used 3€
Men In Black 3 3D BD used 3€
Purge, The – Collection 3BD new 7€
Real Steel BD ex rental 2€
Rogue One – A Star Wars Story 3D BD + 2BD new 9€
Solomon Kane BD ex rental 2€
Star Trek Beyond BD used 3€
Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D BD + 2BD new 9€
Taken – Trilogy 3BD new 7€
Terminator Genisys BD used 3€
X-Men: Days of Future Past (theatrical + The Rogue cut) 2BD new 5€


next Sunday, probably I'll go to a third fair... maybe it's time to list all my movies in BD, so I could avoid to buy some double ones!

Does anyone have a capture of the Ghostbusters Criterion bonus features? The video ones?

This is a project I've wanted to tackle for some time now, and recently I figured I better start getting ready to make or I'll let it sit on back burner forever. What I aim to do, if the thread title isn't obvious, is to recreate the 1991 restored LaserDisc cut of this classic film using the Criterion restoration of the roadshow cut as a primary video source. I grew up watching the 1991 cut on the double VHS release, and I really think that restoration, though technically less complete overall, creates a more complete film with overall better pacing.

Probably the biggest reason I wanted to do this is because the "Ray... hit him!" bit was cut from the Criterion restoration, and it's one of my favorite moments of the scene (I believe it wasn't included because they found it wasn't actually in the roadshow cut).

Anyway, I'm here to ask for help on getting the LaserDisc source in the best quality. I was planning on using a LaserDisc capture that's on MySpleen as the source, but I had trouble using a decomb filter on it (I'm not very familiar with deinterlacing methods, especially with LDs). The capture itself also seems rather poor quality compared to some I've seen of other films (heavily compressed video with a lot of composite color artifacts).

So, does anybody have a good capture of this LD, or have a good method of getting a progressive scan conversion?

Conan The Barbarian Theatrical Cut (Quick Project v1.0)

Project Info:

Before I start, I know Team Blu did a great release of the theatrical cut. This isn't meant to compete with that project but to be an alternative built using a few HDTV broadcasts. The cut is the same but the look of this is different.

Regardless, this project was inspired by Bronan's thread here:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-2732.html

The HDTV broadcast is from a different master and scan (CE DVD master?) and has a color timing that is different to the original BD or the TB regrade. I'd say the HDTV appears more warmer overall with golden skin tones. Although not as sharp as the BD, the HDTV has a slightly more "film look" to it.

For soundtracks I added the mono (PCM) from the LD and  the mono (EAC-3 converted to PCM) from HBO HDTV.

Video:
The main OAR HDTV was de-blocked, cleaned-up, de-logoed (via another HDTV and the BD), etc. With parts borrowed from another HDTV broadcast as fill. No color correction was preformed.


Audio:
1. PCM 2.0 Mono 48 (from the Dolby Digital+ 2.0 Mono HBO HDTV Broadcast - converted to PCM for editing)
2. PCM 2.0 Mono 48 (from the widescreen LD)

Sync
Not synced to anything

Pics:


Collaborators and Thanks (In order of help):
Anonymous: For the OAR HDTV broadcast
Bronan: For the HBO broadcast