Hello from Scotland.

I stumbled across this brillant forum with all of these amazing (and important) film preservation projects. I am blown away with the effort and craft that goes into 'fixing' those original theatrical versions.

I am just a learner but I'm looking forward to being a part of this community and contributing in any way I can to help with restorations.

I have a fast film collection (also film scores) that hopefully will come in handy to all members while fixing/restoration/re-editing of movies.

Thank you.

Hi Fan Ress

Ive left the Thread title pretty vague to open up the discussion as wide as possible.

The idea is to recommend setups for UHD playback on various Budgets and Equipment.

Ill start with my situation as it would be the start of an upgrade path.....

Ive currently not got a HDR compatable TV.
I'm also still in the 1080p relm with a fairly standard budget LG screen and 720p projector.

I'm currently on the look out for more budget orientated native 10bit panel in the 65 inch range, but Im being patient

Ive been watching rips using MPC and MADVR (latest Version) and I'm happy with the results, the added information (Resolution and Colour) even downscaled look better than my Bluray counterpart in many cases so Id like to get a more legit setup so I can start playing UHD discs.

Ive looked at getting a UHD drive for my PC but don't have the appropriate Intel processor that PowerDVD requires, and I'm also unsure about the HDR to SDR tonemapping in this environment.

That had me looking at The Sony UBPX700 or an Xbox One S which again I'm unable to dig up much information on is conversion quality (although the Sony Player is supposed to do a good job).

What do people here recommend and what are your setups?

Hey, guys.
Having an LCD for monitor and an OLED for TV, videos look quite different, so I'm considering buying a calibration probe so that both would look okay. How did you guys calibrate your PC monitors and TVs? Did you use a calibration probe and, if so, which one? I've been scrolling on this site (in French: https://www.guide-gestion-des-couleurs.c...metre.html), and I'm confused. Is there a difference between a PC monitor and a TV calibrationwise or do these probes work for both? I understand that these come with a calibration software, so a PC would have to be connected to the TV, which is okay for me.

So I have a Prores clip in Resolve I've done some work on, now its time to export. My goal is to get it encoded to 264, but the built in one doesnt leave much room for customizing. What's my best option for export for encoding with Simple x264 with the preferred settings? I was looking at the Uncompressed Quicktime formats but there's quite a few options and I wasn't sure what to pick.

I've got the occasion to capture the Italian laserdisc; sadly, it has the last few minutes of side A corrupted... apart that, it is open matte 1.33:1 (more or less); I've noted it has quite a lot more image on top, while missing on bottom (in comparison to DVD); and, no pink tennis ball; so, why don't make an UAR regraded version?

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/134066

status: prealpha (I can't get rid of the blueish blanket on the left side of the laserdisc - yet, at least)

Opinions?

(note: I know that I have at least another project to make right now, indeed this would eventually start later)

Regrade
https://imgur.com/gallery/OZ9ZqQg
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And another one
Blu ray 2014 / U Matic Kinokopie 1979
















Blu ray 2014:

U Matic Kinokopie 1979:

U Matic Kinokopie von 1980

File is only 8,85 GiB, Bitrate : 7 095 Kbps

I don't have any of these regrades, I have only found these screenshots to show how it looks.

Anyone ever encounter a Laserdisc which was sped up to exactly 60.00Hz instead of 59.94?  I think that’s the case with an anime series I’m currently trying to sync (details below if you’re curious)*.  The Blu-ray audio constantly lags behind the Laserdisc by about 1 millisecond for every 1 second of audio, so I’d have to stretch the LD audio by 60ms or so every minute to keep the audio from drifting out of sync.  Sure enough, when I slow the LD audio down by setting the sample rate to 44056Hz (=44100Hz divided by 1.001, just like 60 divided by 1.001 is 59.94) in Sound Forge, the timings stopped drifting.

The Blu-ray is definitely 1080i59.94 and not exactly 1080i60 (according to MediaInfo at least), so I don’t think it’s the one that was mastered at the wrong speed.  I’ve never had a problem like this with Laserdisc audio before and I haven’t changed anything in my capture setup, so I don’t think it was a problem with my capture either.

So to sync this audio, I’m first going to set the sample rate at 44056Hz (without actually resampling to this rate) and then resample to 48kHz instead of 44.1, since I’ll need to get 48Hz for BD compatibility anyway, and I don’t want to resample the audio twice.  This will mean no 44.1kHz for this audio, but oh well. (Is it even possible to make an mkv with 1080i video?)

If anyone has any suggestions for a better way to go about this, please LMK, thanks!

*Details: Well, I’m pretty sure that the Laserdisc is still outputting NTSC at 59.94Hz since I don’t think a LD player can do exactly 60.00Hz, but for some reason the LD master must have been transferred to disc at 60.00Hz (there might be frame skips in the video, but I’ve only been paying attention to the audio recently).  
The anime series is called Devilman Lady and I’m attempting to sync it to the recent Japanese Blu-ray release, which has a host of video problems (1080i, all 26 episodes compressed to hell on 2 BD-25s (which makes each one 5+ hours), poor black levels) but is still in HD and not an upscale, so it still looks better than the DVDs and Laserdiscs.  But the BD audio also appears to be sourced from the 16mm film master’s optical track rather than the actual audio masters, so it’s in mono and sounds rather poor in comparison with the stereo Laserdisc audio.

Hy Guys.

I Hope this is the right Topic here. I am done the remastering of all Buffy Promos. But i need help for the Design from the Promo Videos. Maybe someone can explain me how i can Design it with Adobe After Effect or something like this? I can work with Photoshop but this doesnt work.

Many greetings

Hey guys,

So I see from time to time old timers who were away for a while, posting again.

I know one can make out you're an old timer by the numbers of post & thanks.

But those newbies avatars you still have visually send the info that you're a newbie.

How about spending some time to personalize your Avatar?

I mean we're all unique. By default avatars make you look anonymous and a newbie.

Just sayin'.

So, I'm a total novice in all technical matters but after finding you wonderful people I've been inspired to "fix" a few things. So far I've got enough information from this site and general web searches to begin identifying the problems I want to solve. This will be a slow process for me as I'll be learning as I go and I created this thread in order to keep things organised and to beg for help if I get totally stuck!

Here's what I'm going to try to accomplish:

Upscale a 10 second cut scene from 720p to 1080p in the best quality I can and edit it back into a movie and swap the DD 2.0 soundtrack on the 1080 version for the DD 5.1 version on the 720 version.

Capture an HD version of a French movie which is not available on blu ray (and also not available to stream anywhere in my country!) and create a custom blu ray with menus and include the special features from the dvd release. Also, create English subtitles for the documentary as none currently exist.

Take two versions of the same movie (both 720p tv captures, one at a different frame rate than the other) and combine them in order to increase general quality and to eliminate logos. Colour correction will also be necessary as they are noticably different.

I have other things in mind for the future but I'll start here with, what I believe to be, achievable goals for these three movies. I'll update as I go with any progress I make, which I hope you'll critique if it's not good enough. I learn best by figuring things out by trial and error (and it'll be more fun too!) but if I get really, really hopelessly stuck I'm hoping you guys can point me in the right direction.

Send happy thoughts for Krenko, he's gonna need them!