So one of my upcoming projects is the extended version of Ransom. A friend is capturing the LD and he has the AC3 LD on the way to him as we speak. There is also a DTS LD, but it's quite expensive. I'm toying with the idea of buying this as well to capture the DTS track, but the disc is at least $130. I guess I could sell it afterwards to get back some of the money, but what I'm trying to figure out is in general how better a DTS track is over an AC3 track? I know on paper the bit rate is much higher, but I read a review of the Jurassic Park LD's and the reviewer said with their setup there was hardly any noticeable difference between the AC3 and DTS tracks. It's a lot of money to drop and I can't find any reviews of the Ransom tracks, let alone someone comparing the two. 

Any thoughts?

Hi all, I've recently registered after reading about all the great work being done on audio preservations of older sound mixes. It's a major interest of mine, so I hope to learn alot more...

Hi folks!

I hope I’m not out of line to be creating this post, I was given the go ahead by Feallen. My only involvement is in helping to organize much of the funding.

But I realize some people here contributed to the project based merely on the proposal as it was posted here. And if some of you are not in the Star Wars Trilogy message board, you may not be privy to the drama from last week.

Let me just assuage any fears. All money has been collected by Williarob— Hulot never handled a dime of it.

The project is in progress under those new more capable hands.

Any updates of interest to those who contributed through this board will thus be posted here.

Thanks all who contributed!

Hey! 

Just wanted to say a quick hello and thank admin for accepting me ... I guess with my username it's easiest to just call me GA  

I am entirely new to the world of fan restorations and edits so have never tried anything like this myself. I am really interested in how the process works but, as a cinephile, fascinated by what is "out there".

I'm a huge horror fan, I used to collect VHS copies of the DPP "Banned List" from the UK, how I wish I had kept those tapes nowadays to digitize! I also used to collect laserdiscs and have a couple of nice ones remaining (Blade Runner Criterion, Twelve Monkeys Criterion, Exorcist Japanese Release - signed by Linda Blair!).

I was researching and desperately trying to seek out a decent transfer of The Keep which I know people have edited from HDTV/laserdisc with limited results but still fascinated to see it again!

Anyway ... that's me ... hoping I can find a way to contribute even if it's just with obscure movie knowledge!

• 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 US Blu Ray
  
• Original chapter stops used on the Laserdisc
  
• English 1.0 PCM from the laserdisc
  
• Rudy Behlmer Audio Commentary 1.0 PCM from the laserdisc
  
• English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  
• Behind The Scenes Home Movies - with Rudy Behlmer commentary or piano score
  
• 1948 Reissue Trailer
  
• Excerpt From Robin Hood 1922 - with Rudy Behlmer commentary or silent score
  
• Excerpt From Ivanhoe 1952
  
• Robin Hood Through The Ages
  
• Laserdisc Credits
  

Retired due to current/upcoming home media releases that largely fulfill the same.

Thank you.

So, this is one is done. 

Audio:
Cantonese mono (analogue laserdisc track)
Cantonese mono (digital laserdisc track)
Cantonese 7.1 (from the blu-ray)
Mandarin 5.1 (from the Joy Sales DVD)

Subtitles:
Kuyahukduk's translation.

Video:
Blu-ray release regraded to come closer to the Golden Cinema LD release (hopefully with no encoding issues). What I did here was aim to come close to Colek's release while reducing the magenta tones of the Golden Cinema LD colours; as well as adding back the blue that often isn't kept in the most recent releases. 







Full disclosure that, as we know, the original release wasn't the greatest and does have its problems; my regrade might thus have the same inherent flaws but I hope it does present an acceptable viewing option all the same.

PM me for the Mega link.

Hello! I have a record of the movie in Open Matte from a Bulgarian tv.
The source is IPTV, so quality is not so good, but still can be used for a hybrid release, I believe.
If someone is interested, feel free to PM.

SNOWPIERCER
(Le Transperceneige)
a preservation by pipefan413

1. Custom Korean to English translation by me (new for this release) in 2 formats: forced PGS (for maximum quality on hardware that doesn't display text-only SRT tracks very well, best for muxing to AVCHD/BD structures) and SRT (muxed into the MKV already as default + forced)
   
2. English to Korean translation from the South Korean BD
   
3. English (US BD, plus the ones from the KR BD as an amusing alternative)
   
4. 한국어 (KR BD)
   
5. Français (FR BD)
   
6. Italiano (IT BD, custom 24000/1001 fps version with added translation of text at start)
   
7. Español (US BD)
   
8. Deutsch (DE BD)
   
9. Dansk (NO BD)
   
10. Suomi (NO BD)
    
11. Svenska (NO BD)
    
12. Official Korean to English translation (US BD; incomplete and questionable)
    
13. English from the KR BD, as an amusing alternative
    
14. Official Italian (IT BD, adjusted from 24 fps to 24000/1001 fps but without adding the translation of the intro text, which was absent due to the Italian video encode instead replacing the English text with Italian; the German video does the same thing except it still includes the German text in the subtitles, despite it also being encoded into the video)
    

Hello All, I am Shermy! Not my real name   )

I just wanted to say hi, although I am new to all this, only registering a couple days ago on here and OT, I am excited to work on 35mm projects. I have done photo restoration in the past and some short films so I do have experience.

I can't believe that I never knew of these places, I have always wanted to restore 35mm but never thought of trying to find these places. Now I have I can't believe what I was missing. 

All in all, I wanted to make a good impression and say hi. I look forward to the future, I hope i make a welcome addition to FanRes.

Shermy

      

This project started out as a relatively simple one, taking the Warner Archive Blu Ray and adding to it all the exclusive special features, and the isolated score, from the Lumivision Laserdisc. 

However upon inspection the blu ray has some severe differences in colour. I’ve been a fan of this film for a long time and I’ve owned it on VHS, Laserdisc and DVD, but it’s never looked like the blu ray. I read that Warner are standing by the transfer and are saying that is how it was originally intended, now I never saw it theatrically but to my eyes the blu looks awful. So it changed into a full regrade using the DVD and a total of 60 LUTs.

• BD25 with animated menus, background video, pop up menus and resume function
  
• 1080P AVC Video with scene by scene colour correction
  
• English DTS HD 2.0 from the Blu Ray
  
• Audio commentary with Jack Sholder and Tim Hunter from the Blu Ray
  
• Isolated Music & Effects Track from the Lumivison Laserdisc
  
• English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  
• Trailers & TV Spots
  
• Original Screenplay Excerpts
  
• Director's Original Shooting Script Excerpts
  
• Original Storyboards
  
• Photos and Sketches of Special Effects
  
• Special Effects Production Footage
  
• Production Photos and Publicity Material
  
• Filmographies
  
• Laserdisc Credits