Hello.
I wanted to ask, does anyone have any unused film reels that he would throw anyway, that he would be able to send them to me to use as decor?
Of course I'd pay for the shipping expenses.

I have in mind something like this (hanging them on the wall)
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The QUOTE box is a quirky piece of programming. Generally speaking, from things I've tried to make it do, it ultimately breaks it's internal programming -- after which I must go to source to sort out the mess.

But one obvious and quick fix would be to change the appended word "Wrote:' to start with a lower-case letter, to be "wrote:".

If you're up to it, how about working-in titles that have links in it. Quoting without a built-in reference method makes for sloppy-looking external-to-the-quote links. Thanks!

I just wanted to rewatch Armageddon and sadly found it absolutely unenjoyable due to the sound. The audio is dynamically compressed a lot, which means that an asteroid crushing into the street isn't really much louder than room-loudness dialogue before.

The audio curve pretty much confirms this, especially the center channel goes in the direction of being brickwalled (I am exaggerating, but considering it's not a music CD, it's a fair comparison I think).

Anybody know of a better audio? I'd like to sync something better to the Blu Ray, because this sounds just flat, boring and sad and doesn't live up to the movie imo.

I've read about the Laserdisc audio of Armageddon supposedly being very good, one mention was on this forum in reference to a Japanese laserdisc (link).

Does anyone have a capture of that? I'd kill for it if it's any better.

Although I guess DVD would be fine too if it doesn't have these issues. 

Still, if the LD is the reference sound, I think it should be synced to the Blu Ray just for preservation purposes.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (35 Project #2 v1.3)

This is part of my 35 Project:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-1741.html

See post 22 for final MKV

Project Info:

This is an attempt to make Temple of Doom look more 35mm trailer scans, 35mm/70mm frames and 35mm print sections. The result is a lot less red with added greens and blues while preserving the golden/yellow/orange and brown skin tones. Also added a small luma curve and contrast to better duplicate the 35mm's look.

Video:
The BD image color corrected using a LUT(S) to match the 35mm trailer scans, 35mm/70mm frames and 35mm print sections.

Audio:
1. PCM 2.0 from the US Widescreen laserdisc

2. DTS-HD MA 5.1 from the US BD

Pics:

MKV Pics (Final)


BD/Regrade (Out of date)


Collaborators (in order of help):
TomArrow: For his upmix of the LD PCM 2.0 into a 4.0 and 5.1 track

I am not sure how to reproduce this but sometimes when writing a post and possibly while editing or using Backspace-button, the browser will use the "back" function. It's happened a few times to me now and it's infuriating, because I often end up losing some progress (I can get some of it back by simply using "Forward" again). 

It's possible I'm just doing something weird with my keyboard without noticing, but I haven't had this issue anywhere else. 

Am I alone with this?

Criterion's Brazil Blu Ray apparently has a matrix-encoded Dolby Pro Logic stereo track.

In other words, it's a 2.0 stream, BUT this stream has "matrix-encoded" 2 additional channels into it which can be extracted to have 4 separate channels. I tried this with foobar2000 and free_dsp_surround (which aims to do precisely that) and it seems to work. I actually get a center channel with much of the dialogue and SFX as opposed to the front channels. I only tried the plugin with the 5.1 channel layout which isn't really true to Dolby Pro Logic (which has 4 channels = front, left, center and a back center), but it still seems to do a decent job, as far as I can judge.

Here's why I believe it does have such a channel; an article written by someone who owns it and it apparently says "DTS-HD MA 2.0 surround".
http://audiophilereview.com/audiophile-m...preme.html

The Criterion website is a little ambiguous, says "with DTS-HD Master Audio surround soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition", but obviously it only has 2 channels, as seen on blu-ray.com.

So anyway, that was kinda tough to figure out. Even the blu-ray.com review doesn't mention it, so I'm guessing this knowledge has become kind of obscure. I wonder if there's any list of movies that have such a track? Downmixed back to headphones (with Dolby Headphone plugin) it definitely sounds like a step up from the original 2.0 track. Much more "roomy" and alive. (I don't have a real surround system, so this is the best I can try)

This could improve the experience of a lot of movies and more importantly give an option to create actual surround tracks for movies that don't seem to have one.

I wonder how many movies are out there with such a track without anybody (even the studios) knowing about it?

And by the way, this is just the original Dolby Pro Logic. The later version Dolby Pro Logic II (which some claim to be compatible) apparently can even mix full 5.1 channels into a stereo track. This is rather impressive, considering that it is (to my knowledge) a fully analogue technique. The original one is, anyway.

UPDATE: imdb has a "Matrix Surround" list but I am not yet sure how complete it is and whether it includes Dolby Pro Logic. Brazil for example is not on that list, nor is it mentioned in its technical specs.

UPDATE 2: Found another very interesting article on the subject in general: Matrix audio. It boldly claims that pretty much every movie since 1977 has such a soundtrack. Makes you wonder ...

UPDATE 3: Just realized I'm not the first one to bring this up. Nevermind. Still, anyone know of a list of movies that have this?

Hi everyone,

Just a quick message to present myself, currently working on the X-Files OAR restoration from the Japanese Laserdisc release.

More of that soon!!

Cheers,

- MusicWorks

Probably a silly question, but it's something I'm curious about.... I've noticed that some of my BD's have 2.0 DTS HD audio tracks.

I've tried doing a bit of searching but couldn't really find anything to satisfy my curiosity.

One such film is Toy Story (which has DTS HD-MA 6.1 and 2.0)... Could it be an original-ish audio track? Mix-down of the 6.1 track?

The Logan (2017) 4K disc also had a DTS HD-MA 2.0 track (DD 2.0 on the BD).
The BD of Baby Driver also has an English Dolby Surround track...
Are the 2.0 tracks for these films likely remixed audio tracks unique to these home video releases? I can't imagine many theaters with anything less than full surround sound these days. Hard for me to think that there are films receiving unique 2.0 mixes any more for theatrical release... but I could be wrong!

Hey, guys.

I've been with you for a few months now, and I realized that I had jumped right ahead into a thread back then to help PDB finding a 20th Century Fox logo for his Die Hard 2 project without even passing through the presentation thread as tradition requires.

So here I am: Beber, from France, near Paris. A movie fan obviously, that has the chance to live near cinemas that still project movies on film, as some of you already know. But what you probably don't know is that I'm a French subtitle maker (from scratch), collector (from TV broadcastings and VOD/replay platforms) and remaker (as I'm never fully satisfied with the job already done). We can't all be editing and color correcting wizards, right? To each their skills.

I don't know how it is in foreign countries, but in France, since the DVD era, many subtitles have been poorly remade for DVDs and then ported onto the Blu-rays of the same movies. Many Universal, MGM, Fox, Paramount, Sony classics (well, my classics from my youth anyway) have low-cost subtitles that the studios have had remade instead of buying the pre-existing files made for the theatrical release since that new digital era that started with the invention of DVD. Indeed, movies such as Alien, Back to the Future, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Gladiator, Carlito's Way, Scarface, the Star Wars saga, The Usual Suspects, E.T., the Jason Bourne movies, Cape Fear, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Rocky, Robocop, the Die Hard trilogy, Ghostbusters, the Indiana Jones trilogy, The Abyss, Top Gun and so on have crappy French subtitles ever since the DVDs came out. But some TV channels still use the good ones that were made by competent professionals for the theater release, and I happen to collect as many as I can by recording them when broadcasted or downloading them from Canal+ replay platform to then synchronize them onto my HD video collection. So for those who plan to include French subtitles into their projects, you might want to reach me to get proper ones.

I have some already properly reworked and synchronized with Blu-rays and others are ongoing projects. For instance, I'm in the process of reworking the Jaws subtitles based on a TCM recording and the file that I collected from the recent Arte broadcasting. They're not exactly the same as the Arte is the modernized one also used on the DCP, and the TCM is most likely the true original work. They're both far better than the ones available on the DVDs and Blu-ray anyway.

Oh, and it seems that my issues with EasySUP are history. I just found out why it didn't work like it used to: it just needed to work with avisynth and Java. D'oh!
By the way, any of you guys know how I could add a font into EasySUP? I'd really like to have Futura available in that soft. I have it in my fonts in Windows and yet it doesn't appear in the EasySUP selection.

Hi everyone! A friend of mine tipped me that this was the place for me and I like what I see so far. I'm a blog writer for alostfilm.com so unavailable movies, lost scenes, neglected gems, restoration and all: they're my thing. Not only the technical part but the research behind the restoration. My preference goes to classic movies, especially American, British and French (but not only), Hitchcock, Disney films and their various versions especially Snow White for which I found and restored the original 1938 French version with a friend. I also love classic scores and much more... I'm eager to see what you guys have in store. I hope I can help, too. This is my first time on a forum so be gentle.