Just found the open matte version of Underworld theatrical cut, on BD; never thought it exists! Way better than the HDTV, and with DTS-HD MA English track instead AC-3.

I thought to put my hands on it, sooner or later; the biggest problem is that there are few languages available for the theatical cut, namely Russian (got it along the HDTV), French (available on French BD) and Italian (available only on the UHD-BD, along with French, both DTS-HD MA).

Now, I don't know if it's possible to get audio 1:1 from UHD-BD; if so, at least I'll get my language... if not, I should give up, or restore the unrated extended version using BD to patch missing parts (I've even thought to add few seconds not present in the unrated version, yet in the theatrical one); it would be a PITA to reconstruct it, but at least I'll get all the needed audio (and subs) tracks; it has been made before, using HDTV for open matte TC, but the BD parts were quite off, color wise; eventually, I'll regrade the BD (or the TC to be closer to BD, or better regrade both), and use cropped BD to get a 100% full screen version - yes, I know I'll lose part of the image, but at least it would flow better, maybe...

Opinions?

Alien: Covenant - extended edition [spoRv]

• TED speech (Prometheus deleted scene)
  
• Meet Walter (trimmed, official clip)
  
• The Last Supper (official clip)
  
• Crew messages (trimmed, official clips)
  
• She Won’t Go Quietly (first part, trailer)
  
• The Crossing (trimmed, official clip)
  

I've been busy doing a digital clean-up of another film lately, removing unwanted speckles from a home video product, and I noticed that, judging by colour alone, there are at least three types of speckles appearing throughout: black, white and blue speckles.
Anybody knows where they come from, at which stage of the film processing they are introduced, what do they tell us about the source used?

Another episode in the "right" color grading series...

Found an interesting comparison here and I've added the HDTV caps;

from top to bottom: Italian VHS, DVD, HDTV (BD should be the same):

Hi everyone,

What's the easiest way to take an H.264 stream from a Blu-ray and get it into ProRes format? My current process is embarrassingly complicated to the point where I don't even want to describe it

Mac tools are preferred, but I also have a Windows machine. Admittedly I don't know much about working with video under Windows - I don't even know whether a ProRes codec is available - so any Windows instructions would need to be newbie-friendly.

It seems that I may need to avoid (or at least limit the use of) QuickTime; some Blu-ray H.264 files work OK when dropped into QT Pro (after remuxing into .m4v) but others end up with duplicated or dropped frames - a brief search has indicated that QT doesn't really "like" some Blu-ray-sourced files.

Anyway, I'll shut up now and let you answer the question

Any tips?

PS. If there's another Mac-compatible codec that can accomplish the same sort of job then I'm all ears. And free tools are preferred, although I don't mind spending a small amount.

Hello!

Cinemas and mixing theaters have a non flat frequency response. The sound systems are allignment to create a torwards higher frequencies falling curve, the so called X curve.
This means that every soundtrack from the cinema is optimised for this reponse and not for a flat response which most hifi / home speakers have.

When cinema sound is remastered for home use, this is mostly equalised by the studios. At the beginning of Laserdisc and DVD this was not the case and THX added a function
called Re-EQ, which did reduce the heights for cinema soundtracks not sounding brighter as it was meant to be.

Some projects here are using soundtracks from cinema, like the DTS cds. My question is therefore, if it is common in most projects to compensate the X curve or not?

Thanks!

This just hit and the audio is crap and it has hardcoded subs but may be of interest to people for future projects

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/214497

Added a simple spoiler tag, just use

An interesting articles - broken in two parts:

http://rjbuffalo.com/apertures.html
http://rjbuffalo.com/filmclips.html

Hey all,

Anyone capping any of the Godzilla films on ElRey this weekend?  It would be nice to get some high quality caps of some of them.

http://www.elreynetwork.com/schedule

Thanks