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.

Yesterday I tried to watch an HDR UHD demo, encoded in HEVC, and the video stuttered with MPC-HD and other players (but first decoded HDR properly).

My CPU is an Intel i7-4770 and the GPU is a GeForce GTX 760... yes, not the latest top tech, but I was sure they was good enough... I was wrong, it seems.

So, would a "simple" GPU upgrade solve the problem? Or I should upgrade to a better CPU? (not using my actual motherboard, I'm aware)
Or, I need both new CPU and GPU?

Becuase I'm thinkering the idea of upgrading to another brande new used PC... AMD Ryzen or ThreadRipper, perhaps?

Hi, I want to synch a dolby track from a DVD with a video from a blu ray.

The Dolby track have the good speed, but not the same length.

Can I add or remove silence of the track, without re-encoding (like smart rendering), and keeping the surround encoding?

If I do not have the choice to re-encode, do I need to mount the bitrate (192 to 224)? I imagine that all softwares do not have the same algorithm of compression, and if I add bitrate, I make sure to keep my quality, right?
Thank you in advance, and sorry for my bad english

just an idea

I presume that a lot of the community here keep these amazing restorations on hard drives which is easier to stream.

I'm in the process of building of a media server (slow process due to funds sadly) but thanks to a friend or two, I do manage to get some of these projects burnt on disc. 

but to be honest, some of these efforts are so good that I feel that they deserve a place in my movie collection. having it in a case with some custom artwork makes it a bit more special. 

So I was thinking it would perhaps be a good idea to have a section dedicated to artwork for such releases or custom artwork in general and some tips on printing. It might even bring some photoshop talent to the boards as well with the same interests in preserving film in the form of original posters etc

Independent to my Police Story 3 correction, I've been asked by offer some input on my friend's reconstruction of 'First Strike'. It's going well, except the video has this kind of 'strobing' (is there a technical term for this?) on and off throughout.




Is there a program/filter we could use that'll correct this (or at least reduce the effect)? PC or Mac, both are fine.

Any information/help is greatly appreciated 

Hi everyone! I found you because I unwittingly bought a Teamblu bootleg from eBay (Jason Goes To Hell Unrated) which was literally unavailable anywhere else on blu ray - of course, I now know that it was a fan creation. After the dodgy disc arrived it was clear from the packaging and print job (and tobacco smell) that it had been cheaply run off in some dude's house.

The quality of the actual content was amazing though so I did some research and discovered this whole new world of fan creations. I had vaguely heard of people making their own Star Trek fan films but I had no idea that so much work on such relatively obscure movies such as Friday the 13th part 9 had happened.

I've found a lot these past months - from restorations to full new edits of movies, and there's a lot more I have yet to watch but I just wanted to say that after finding this site I've thoroughly enjoyed reading about all your work. It's also a really nice atmosphere here, and there's a lot of passionate and talented people posting here. I always look forward to checking back.

I might not have much to contribute but I just wanted to let you know how happy I am to have found you!

(referring to Arrow and Shout! BD releases)
Do you guys know if any of the two scans was made from the IP?

Is there anyway to separate chrominance from luminance channels?
I want to use super resolution software to reconstruct lost chrominance.

I discovered this place on accident, but I'm looking forward to being a member here.