Hi everyone.

I've just accidentally found this boards, during my search for information about some 35mm scans of Star wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I've been interested in various forms of "tweaking" with movies for ten years. It started with my fanedit of Transformers Revenge of The Fallen:
https://ifdb.fanedit.org/transformers-re...erg-s-cut/
with 80s style audio track.

and hybrid cut of fourth Rambo:
https://ifdb.fanedit.org/john-rambo-the-hybrid-cut/

Then I've made some extended cuts of movies like Prometheus and X-Men The Last Stand using materials form Blu-rays, recreation of Lethal Weapon's Director'c Cut in HD, and some others. Also, I've been trying to improve the look of some movies which didn't look that good on blu-ray like:
- The Dark Knight
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Terminator 2 (latest waxy remaster).

This place looks quite interesting

Hi there. A few words about my project.

So, Avengers always looked to me like an open matte version which should be framed correctly for theatrical release and somebody have forgotten to do it. In fact, Whedon really has no distinct visual style and because of that, this movie always looked like TV production. Also, until release of Ant-Man it was the only MCU movie with TV aspect ratio of 1.78:1. So I've decided to do something about it and try to reframe it shot-by-shot for more theatrical look so to speak.

It was done in Sony Vegas, based on standard Blu-ray release of the film. Contains original audio track, and two polish voice-over audio tracks & subtitles. 

Of course this version loses significant part of the picture, but after I've watched in this new form, there's a little chance i'd get back to its original 1.78:1 framing.

Some screenshots will be added later today.

Someone in US can cap it in HD?

https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1267...ic#1267173

Is there a way to separate 4K metadata from a file and add it to a 1080p file to place it in the 10 bit color space?

I had some problems with my PC lately and, even if probably I could solve them just buying a new PSU, this lead me to think about others things (oh yeah, I like to make my life even more complicated, technology-wise! )

Features I noted that I miss with my actual PC (when working) are:

1. GPU HEVC HDR UHD decoder - it stutters, as the CPU is not powerful enough to decode it
   
2. GPU HEVC encoder - not mandatory, but could be useful sometimes
   
3. 10bit output - still not 100% sure about this on better GPU non-pro versions, though
   
4. UHD-BD playback - CPU not powerful enough; not mandatory, too, but nice to get it
   

Ok this is rather specific but let me explain. I found one shot in an old project that needed to be fixed. The original intermediate files are long gone and I’m not going to redo the whole thing for one shot since that would take months.

I would like to avoid converting the project to avi again, fixing the shot and converting again to h264 as that would just add another level of compression.

Ideally I would like to redo the shot (just video) and insert it into the existing MKV without re-encoding. I know mkvmerge will allow you some latitude but not sure it will work in this case?

Any ideas guys? And thanks.

Now that I'm starting to be interested in HDR - it was time! - I'd need a 10bit output from my computer.

There is a bit of confusion about this topic... some says that only pro-GPU (like Quadro and Radeon Pro) have a "real" 10bit output, others say that top consumer models output 10bit, too, but "only in fullscreen mode" DX11 and not openGL...
I also add that few suggested that adding a BlackMagicDesign DeckLink card will solve the problem - even if, according to their website, it seems no "simple" 4:2:0 or HEVC codec is supported.

I just want a 10bit output for everything - starting from HDR video, and ending with video editing... am I asking too much?

What should I get? Is a top consumer GPU like GTX 1080 able to output 10bit? Or do it need an "help" via a BMD DeckLink card? And, if so, will it play an UHD 10bit HDR HEVC video with the right video output?

HELP!

We all have the MonstersHD broadcast I presume of the 1985 re-edit of Godzilla 1984 (aka The Return of Godzilla) which featured Raymond Burr and Dr.Pepper.

I've seen some people try to tackle preserving this version of the film using the Japanese BD and the US BD of the 1984 cut of the film (even using an Australian VHS for the subtitle placement) but I don't think I ever saw a finished version come to fruition. (if anyone does know of a finished version, could they kindly point me in the right direction please) 

if not, think it would be a great title for our little community to discuss and find sources to work with.

Let's say that I have a "natively cropped" HDR file, and I want to add back black borders, to get it 1.78:1 and subsequently burn it on a UHD-BD.
Is there any free tool that would let me do it, preserving the HDR? Davinci Resolve, maybe?

A while back I painstakingly cleaned up as much as I could from Uncle Buck on Blu-Ray, frame by frame, because the current (and only existing) Blu-Ray release is full of dirt and spots, clearly it doesn't originate from negative. This clean-up job was part of a private project aimed to recreate the Italian threatrical version and I didn't think it would raise any interest but some of the members here were interested indeed so I'm going to release the US threatrical for FanRes. You may still notice some spots here and there but for every dot you may notice, 50 others or more have been removed.

These are all the corrections fused into one single shot


I haven't altered the length of the film so all Blu-Ray audio tracks should synch with it perfectly. I'm now at the final phase of rendering. If you own a Blu-Ray version with additional audio tracks I'll be happy to add them to my mux, I'm still in time to make an international version including all of them (I only have English and Italian at hand) but people can mux their favorite language later as long as it's from Blu-Ray or in sync with it.

Final format:
Final format: MKV
Video: 1080p, AVC video bitrate 25Mbps average, 40 max. (2-pass encode: very slow pass 1 + slow pass 2), 23.976fps.
Audio: English DTS MA 2.0
Subtitles: English.

Let me know if you have more languages to be added.