Hi everyone!! I stumbled across this amazing forum randomly while researching material for my own little projects. I'm beyond amazed, I never thought I could find such a place.

I'm italian and I have quite a digital collection that I keep expanding daily, but most of the time I have to make adjustments to the material I find (audio and video cropping, sync problems, bad video versions and so on...).

I also often find myself having to work on the italian audio sync of my material since the italian releases usually have bad video sources (I keep every movie with double audio and subtitles - ITA,ENG - even though I only watch with the original audio, but I'm not the only one enjoying the content  ).

Lately I have been fooling around with the Open Matte copies of various movies that I discovered online, and I guess that's how I actually found this place.

If I may, I could actually use a little help via PM regarding the magical places where to find all of your amazing projects, since I read in various topics the words "released!" or "in the vault", not understanding the actual meaning

Thanks! I can't wait to roam around the forums to discover your amazing work and interacting with you all!

P.S. I read that the forum admin is italian, so, I guess that's a plus?

Hello.
It has been mentioned that Eureka were erroneously given an audio track that was claimed to be original mono, but was actually a remix. Does anyone know what the best sounding source for the original mono would be?

The mono from the Japanese laserdisc is very good, but the audio itself has some differences to the HK release's audio (also taking into account the fact that the Japanese cut is an extended version).

Many thanks!

The Police Story 1 and 2 blu-ray set will be out on Monday. But I found out when I read the reviews at Blu-ray.com the color grading is wrong. It's from the same restoration team who did the A Better Tomorrow trilogy. Could anybody do a regrade of these films using the best color wise copies available?

If anyone has PDB's project,Predator Itunes Master and is willing to share a copy I would greatly appreciate it.

I've been away and have missed quite a lot in the meantime. PDB doesn't have this project anymore and am hoping

someone has a copy and can share it.

Thank you for your help guys and a HUGE thank you to PDB for making a beautiful presentation of such a kick ass film.

Hello everyone.

I've been away for awhile now. My health took a turn and I haven't had the desire or the need to be online at my computer for quite some time.

I am recovering from a serious leg infection that almost took my leg from the knee down.

I'm not 100% healed yet but I'll get there. But this is such a great place with so many talented people, I felt the need to explain myself.

-Victor

With the Criterion remaster, this is no longer needed



The Great Escape HDTV Version (v1.1)

Project Info:

I dug this up off an old hard drive and like a lot of my projects it just requires the audio sync to be finished...

When the US BD came out, even though it was a new scan, many people did not like the new dark, cool teal and blue color timing. It was very different compared to the older CE DVD:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare...escape.htm
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=2391&d2=2390&c=490

whereas the older CE dvd was warm with oranges and yellows. A pretty significant difference. Luckily, the older scan had been broadcast several times in HD over the years (like HDNET in the US). I took 3 separate recording and combine them together to create a version with the most frames possible, so GE can now be enjoyed in bright, warmer colors.

I also took both the (now rare) PCM mono and analog commentary from the Criterion LD and synced them to this project, bring back the original sound of the Great Escape.

Note:  This is not synced to the US BD. I didn't do a full count but even with 3 copies, the HDTV was some 70-ish frames off the BD.

Video:
3 HDTV broadcasts combined to create the best overall version and then run through light de-haloing and de-blocking with no color correction

Audio:
1. PCM 2.0 Mono (from the Criterion WS LD)
2. PCM 2.0 Stereo (from the HDTV broadcast)
2. PCM 2.0 Mono Commentary (from the Criterion WS LD's analog tracks)

Pics:

MKV Pics


BD/HDTV

I've read in several threads across the internet and also here that scans from the Interpositive tend to result in a magenta tint.

I don't quite understand why that would be.

Here's an image showing the 4 stages: Original negative, interpositive, internegative (I think) and final print

   

As you can see, the interpositive has an orange base. I am not quite sure why, Wikipedia only states this:

"The orange base provides special color characteristics that allow for more accurate color reproduction than if the IP had a clear base, as in print films."

No idea why that would be, but fair enough. Negatives also come on an orange base and I've never bothered to find out why.

In either way, how do you go from an orange color base and end up with a magenta tint without doing so with deliberation? Is this some kind of historical artifact of some kind of traditional processes or is it somehow related to how the IP is filtered before/after the scan? Does it have to do with fading?

Maybe someone who knows can tune in and enlighten me.

Little update. I found something that appears to be a raw 4k Scan (as jpg, so its not really raw, but you get what i mean) of an interpositive of apparently Dawn of the Dead:


Also very clearly an orange base. How do you go from this to a magenta tint?

Hello, so glad I just found the site, what a shame that is only up to the fans to preserved this things, anyway thank you very much to all the people who puts their time and effort into this.

I stumbled upon a useful tool for working with Laserdisc DTS streams over on the Doom9 forums, written by the amazing tebasuna51. https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p...ost1793642

The goal of the tool is to convert a dtswav file to a standard dts file, while also correcting the frame headers.  

The program was created to work with wav files sourced from DTS-CD rips. Since Laserdisc capture requires manually pressing record on the capture software, there tends to be superfluous samples/padding at the beginning and end of a recording/capture. Unfortunately, the software was unable to handle this padding, as DTS-CD rips don't have this specific issue.


Thankfully, the source code was shared along with the tool, and I have been able to update it to make it functional for LD DTS tracks. This tool is essentially an all-in-one. It takes care of converting a dtswav file to a standard dts file, and automatically corrects the DTS frame headers. This will take the place of DTS Parser and a hex editor for accomplishing these tasks. The only caveat to using this is that it cannot process recordings with more than 30 seconds of silence/junk before or after the DTS stream data. You may have to trim your wav file before using. *Updated to remove this restriction.

Usage: wav2dts <dtswav_filename>

I've also included a simple batch file for dragging-and-dropping multiple files.

https://mega.nz/file/LJ9n0DwL#P-VPSByrCw...5kV8guSbc0

Edit: Link update

Hi,

What software you would recommend for making pan & scan version of a film? I'd like to make a 1.78:1 AR version of a 2.39:1 AR film.

Thanks in advance!