Hi, I was wondering which releases have original theatrical surround-sound audio? thanks

Hey, guys.

I found out about this commentary (https://www.podcastone.com/episode/The-R...ara-Knopic) by Mark Reilly from Collider and Dan Murrell from Screen Junkies, accompagnied with their significant others. I watched the movie on my media player with the commentary playing on my PC on the side, and I enjoyed their views on it. Both these guys, who have been part of my daily routine for movie news for years now, are massive fans of the movie: they comment on Spielberg's direction, John Williams' score, meaning of scenes, the mix of genres involved, the structure of the movie, the flawed audio remix and the pan & scan butchering the old home video releases, etc.

So, if any of you audio guys would give it a shot at downloading this commentary and trim the introduction to sync it to the Blu-ray, that would be a cool bonus. They give you a count when they start the movie and you can hear the movie sometimes to check on the sync, so I'm sure for someone with the know-how it will be very simple. They also comment beyond the end credits, so I don't know what could be done there-- either cut it out or let it and depending on the player, maybe it will stop or continue to play without video... I don't know.

Oh, and happy new year!

A simple regrade of John Carpenter’s The Thing. While certainly revisionist, some felt that Dean Cundey’s color grade for Scream Factory’s 2016 2K scan served the film better than Arrow’s likely-true-to-source grading on their 2017 4K scan. This project seeks to marry the two. Using Arrow’s superior scan as a base, I’m doing a SHOT BY SHOT color regrade to the Scream Factory color grade using Dr. Dre’s fantastic color matching tool by creating custom LUT .cube files for every single shot in the film. I’m up to shot 234 at the moment and am nearly 1/4 of the way through the movie. I’ve also created a custom mask so as to not incorporate the color changes in the letterbox bars as, in a few shots, they were raising the blacks in the bars a tad. I’ll be muxing the finished video product together with the untouched 4.1 70mm audio and releasing as a BD-25 on myspleen.

Just found out that a German DVD has a different color grade, and took the chance to regrade the HD-DVD (I know, there is UHD-BD around, so what? ) - result is here: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/126785

I think it's quite nice, deleting that nasty magenta blanket and increasing contrast.

Opinions?

Hello all,

I'll be honest with you, I discovered this forum through Google while searching for a good quality copy of Journey into Fear (1943). I came across this thread that seems to advertise what I'm looking for. Now, I'm no dummy, so I read the site rules and scanned the Presentation forum to see how it works around here. Hell, I even tried to PM Aluminum Falcon directly to request a copy. But, "No" the System said, "You do not have permission to access this page." Fickle b*tch, that System.

I understand you're not in the habit of handing out download links to strangers. That's okay, because by the time you're through reading this, I hope we won't be strangers any more (cue audience: "Aww"). That's because this is going to be the best damn Presentation post this forum has ever seen (cue audience: "Gasp"). I mean, there's only ten pages of threads in this Presentation forum. That's not a lot of competition. 20 threads per page, but only 13 on the last page. 193 total. And just glance through some of these posts! Super low effort. "Hello, and how do I get stuff?" Pfft. Not by appearing desperate, bud. "Hallo from Germany"   Looks like somebody didn't read the rule about posting in English only... It's spelled H-E-L-L-O, am I right guys? I could just go down the line and roast all 193 of these chumps, leave you all in stitches, but even I'll run out of material eventually, and then I could veer into "Rule #3 Violation" territory, and that wouldn't be pretty. These posters don't deserve that kind of abuse. On the other hand, an immediate ban could lead to this post becoming infamous, and therefore solidifying its position in Presentation forum legend. We'll see where it goes, I guess. Strap in, things might get weird.

I'm getting ahead of myself. I was making an introduction. I'm Lanark. My birthday is October 27th. Lanark1027. Now we ain't strangers anymore. Swell, ain't it? Let's get down to business. Journey into Fear. 1943. It's got Orson Welles in it. I need to watch it.

You see, I'm a film buff. And like all film buffs (even the ladies), we get erections at the mere mention of Orson Welles' name. Citizen Kane, anyone? Rosebud=The Sled, dummy. On a film related forum like this, I estimate that by just typing his name I caused eleven erections. That's an erection for every letter in the name Orson Welles. There, I did it again. I'm starting to enjoy this. Is this how a cam girl feels?

Back to the topic at hand. You want something from me in exchange for this movie. I'm already giving you everything I've got, but I'm prepared to give even more. Below you will find a list of my most admirable qualities, most of which I've made abundantly clear in this very post.

-Dashing good looks (not sure if this was clear from the post, or if there's a reflection in my monitor...)
-Unmatched wit (remember when I roasted that German guy? GOT 'IM!)
-Math skills (remember when I calculated the exact number of threads in this forum, without even a calculator? Eat your heart out, Isaac Newton.)
-Movie knowledge (even beyond the filmography of you know who)
-Your friend, and certainly not a stranger.

What I lack are any discernible audio/video skills that may be useful to a film restoration community, even if I do respect the hell out of what they're trying to do.

In conclusion: Greetings Fanres community. I hope you enjoyed my Presentation as much as I enjoyed giving it to you. I'm signing off now, I fully expect that when I sign back in tomorrow my PM box will be full of download links for Journey into Fear (1943), with of course a healthy amount of d*ck pics. I'd expect nothing less from you beautiful bastards.

I saw that Beauty and the Beast was airing on ABC the other day, so I decided to record it. It's a super clean copy though, so I imagine it's probably just from the same master as the Blu-ray... But if anyone wants it anyway for whatever reason, let me know. I'm not too familiar with the exact changes made to this film, so if someone more familiar with it has any desire to to look through it, you're totally welcome to do so. (It's a 720p .ts file, by the way).

EDIT: Turns out this is indeed a different master than the Blu-ray, as seen in posts below. Cool! So if anyone wants this for any restoration projects, feel free to send me a PM.

Does anyone have a direct way to encode from DNxHR to h.264 using the x264 encoder on Windows? Perhaps by loading the clip in Avisynth (but I can't get Avisynth to load the clip) or by frame-serving?

Well, even if D-Theater has most of the time a bigger frame than BD, sometimes BD has a tiny slice of image more on top and/or bottom (plus, bigger frame during initial credits); so, I thought to take the "best of both worlds", to get the biggest frame ever available for this masterpiece!

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/126530

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/126528 (and YES, there is still at least one shot where BD has bigger frame... guess which one?)


Note 1: I never liked BD colors, but, apart personal preferences, there is something wrong also on the blacks, like in some space shots, where stars are gone, and space is greenishly black! (like in the third comparison, first link)

Note 2: don't hold your breath... it will surely be released, but not in this year!

Got to choose between two sources of the same movie for a restoration, one at 24fps and the other at 23.976fps.

I'd go with 24fps, because this version has two commentary tracks in AC-3, plus the lossless movie track in its original language; at the end, tracks from PAL DVD should be converted anyway, and *I think* 25->24 *should* lead to less "errors" than 25->23.976.

But, in other cases, if all audio tracks would be equal, I'd go with a 23.976fps version, because it seems that 99% of BDs (and WEB) versions follow this, AND it seems that some hardware players have some problems playing 24fps discs.

Opinions?

Hi,

I need to convert and encode a larger MOV project file to a reasonable (say, BD-25-compliant) size. Are there any programs that you'd recommend that can do this without quality loss*?

Thanks!