Hello everyone,

a friend of mine has been capturing LDs for quite some time now, but for now he's been using the analogue-out and captures at 48 kHz, 16 bit.
Now we're looking into options to "upgrade" the system for a bit-perfect capture, but we have no idea what we'd need to buy, which software to use, what settings etc.

First of all the LD-player is a Pioneer DVL-909 (the European model), I guess that should be OK. What else do we need now for a bit-perfect capture?

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

Trying to find a capture device I can use for VHS as well as Sky TV programs and potentially Amazon/Netflix etc. Ideally something portable and not too expensive (within reason!)

Was looking at the Elgato HD S but wanted to see what everyone’s thoughts are?


Thanks

Goal is a little blanket 35mm regrade again, with Cinema DTS synced (the latter is already done). I started doing it with these pics I got off of ebay but half way through the process I got a little suspicious. The framing is remarkably similar to that of the Blu Ray and rather clean and also hard matted. So my question is, do these look like real 35mm pics to you guys or more like a scam? Because the guy selling those seems to be selling thousands of them constantly, of course saying they are real, but I'm wondering. The soundtrack is also rather bright. The colors also look kind of low-contrast, which could imply a Blu Ray source.



For comparison, I found some other ones and at least some seem to have rounded edges and a little more believable colors, as far as that is recognizable in the bad pictures, and all of them seem to have a darker soundtrack and are a bit more contrasty, though that could admittedly just be the result of an inferior photographing technique.




Thoughts? Just don't want to waste time doing a regrade to a Blu Ray, heh.

I'm told that the Japanese LD is the only disc that had digital sound. Does anyone happen to have it? I'm actually doing a reconstruction of the theatrical version and, although I know this isn't the theatrical version, I would hope that it would be more faithful than the 5.1 DVD/BD.

Anyone?

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If someone here thinks about getting new CPU and/or GPU, I'd take AMD in serious consideration - actually, I'd buy their CPU for sure, best price/quality ratio at the moment, while I'd wait for few weeks for GPU.

Opinions?

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Do any of you guys know anything about the mixes available of The Big Lebowski and which one is most theatrically accurate?

According to imdb, there should be a Cinema DTS out there I think https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/technical but I was curious if it might be worth getting the audio from a Laserdisc as well. Do any of you have the LD?

2024 edit: Retiring this as the new 4k remaster apparently fixes this issue and is available for purchase.
Thank you.

Hello,

Just a quick regrade to correct the blue colour filter that was applied to the 2k remaster of 'Project A Part II'.

Otherwise, the Cantonese audio and English subs are as found on the Eureka release.

24 gb MKV. PM for the Mega link.

The thread is tagged as versions, but it can also be for generic discussion of the film.  I've just compared the UHD BD to the 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition BD, and they are in sync all the way through to the end, so if you want to take the 24-bit DTS-HD MA 5.1 from the latter and mux it with the former, you can.  This has two potential advantages:

1. 24-bit audio instead of 16-bit;
   
2. demuxing branched UHD BDs, even with eac3to, can still result in sync issues, which you can avoid by taking the audio from standard BD.