I'm hoping to recreate the original TV version of The Day After from high-quality sources. The idea I have is to reconstruct the original matte from various releases, maybe upscale it if I have time (or, if PDB is willing, I can pass it on to him so he can work his magic). I imagine I'll need several DVDs of the film. Anyone know where I can get my hands on each different version?

Encoding a finished Premiere project with 2 pass x264 either through Simple or Megui and whatever I've tried it is removing one frame at the twenty one second mark on the second pass (removing the final frame of the Paramount logo before it goes to black). Tried it with other encoders including Handbrake (not quite as good quality) and no such problem so am stumped as to what could be causing it. Have resorted to adding an extra black frame and see how that goes which I'm encoding at the moment but would prefer to work out what is causing this. First thought it might be a glitch in the source but tried it with a lesser second source I'm using in the project (from different original source) and surprisingly it does it with that as well which seems weird.

Any advice as to what could be causing this is much appreciated.

Picked up Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country on the Phillips CD-i format. Any idea how to rip it to PC and convert it to DVD?

Hoping it’s an open matte version to preserve.

Hello.

Would anyone happen to have a capture of the sync sound Cantonese track from either the HK or Japanese laserdisc? Also the 5.1. sync sound track from the HK R3 Warner DVD? I know a guy who is working on a fan edit of the film (not sure if he's registered on the board). and he's curious to see how those respective audio tracks sound?

Cheers.

Hi guys

is it posibble to revise a letterboxed 3D-Movie in a Open Matte 3D-Movie?

For example Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead men tell no tales.

We have a letterboxed 3D movie and a open matte 2D Version.
So we have a open matte and letterboxed Picture for every eye.
That doesen´t work, right?

Maybe it exist different Open Matte Versions with different anglesr?

Haven’t seen any ideas in terms of soundtrack recordings here yet so apologies if this is the wrong area.

The Man of Steel soundtrack release originally contained a redemption code to use on iTunes to download an app which was an enhanced version of the Man of Steel soundtrack that was mixed in DTS:X and included speaker versions and headphone versions. It was only playable through the app though on Apple products.

Is it possible to rip this and put it onto BD and have a lossless soundtrack in a BD audio format.

For the record, big fan of the film and the score is amazing

I was searching the internet to see if there were any automatic 2D to 3D conversion methods available. I didn't find much, but I found this:

https://github.com/n1ckfg/deep3d

Has anybody here tried this out?

Hi.

I have a short (40 seconds) animated clip which has been subjected by image stabilization (probably Youtube's), which has failed miserably. The image rotates and zooms in and out and is generally horrible to look at.

The clip is available here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1VlH4...jl0RGFGLWc

I already have the background in good quality, so my hope is that it's possible to recreate the camera movements on the background, and copy the foreground element onto it. But first I need to undo the movement created by the attempted image stabilization.

There's a huge channel logo in the picture, and I do have a black frame where the full logo is positioned exactly where it's supposed to be. Is it possible to do a new image stabilization that focuses only on the logo, and moves, rotates and zooms every frame, so that the logo fits properly?

I only need the last 23 seconds of the clip, and it's mostly animated at 12fps, so it's probably less than 300 frames. I'm fine with manual labor too. If there's a tool that easily lets me move the frame along all three axes, and rotate it, using only the keyboard, I could probably make something that's "good enough" for my use.

A member on OT sent me Mode.dll for avisynth. I'm not on my project computer - hopefully someone can test this out?

File attached.

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Started this one out just wanting to do a Dolby Headphone track for Armageddon. The Blu Ray track didn't satisfy me, so I set out on a quest to find the best audio. Made the other thread for that, if you remember.

Ended up getting the Cinema DTS from a generous donor. Decided to use it, because it was A) a nice new skill to learn and B) It sounded a bit better than the other tracks I had tried.

It still wasn't quite ideal for the Dolby Headphone thing. The center was too loud for my taste. Ended up just reducing the center channel by 3 dB and including that as an extra track; let's call it the TomArrow mix (original is still included of course). That pretty much did the trick for me personally.

Anyway, by then I had invested such a ridiculous amount of time I thought why not go full retard; so I ordered a 35mm trailer from eBay. Went ahead and scanned individual frames with my 35mm scanner (somehow I weirdly pulled the whole trailer through it without having to cut it up, lol). Used DrDre's ColorMatch to create a 3D Lut. That worked really well. Did some mild adjustments to the 3D LUT in Photoshop and 3D LUT Creator, et voila.

Here's a lazy comparison between vanilla Blu Ray and my regrade: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/133846

Man, this was fun. Some of the trailer shots still had the cables in them used to pull around the exploding cars, but they had been retouched out of the final movie.

Anyway.

Looks much more cinematic now, if you ask me. No annoying punchy colors (lower saturation), almost none of the horrible green cast over everything, nice contrast and tones, but whatever, you can see it yourself. Now, in combination with the Cinema DTS, I think it feels so much more like a "real movie" and less like a Disney Channel cartoon.

Okay, anyway, there's still a few things I wanna do before I release (final video encode is finished):
- Sync the LD AC3 and PCM tracks to include them (kindly provided by zoidberg while I was working on the grading!)
- Create a Soundtrack-only audio track made from the bootlegged score and the official soundtrack. Most of the score is already synced, soundtrack still missing.
- Actually, that's already it.

Anyway, I expect this to be finished anywhen between 1 week and 2 months, depending on how my laziness allows it. Now that I finally found a way to do a nice actual encode (and succeeded), I feel motivated to bring my first big project (kinda) over the finish line.

Final file will be a 4:4:4 1920x800 10bit x264 mkv file around 30GB, with Cinema DTS + two Dolby Headphone tracks as lossless FLAC (the normal one and my special mix), the LD PCM as FLAC, LD AC3 as AC3 (assuming I don't need to change the speed, which I think I don't need to do), FLAC soundtrack-only track, FLAC Soundtrack Dolby Headphone track (experimental) and the Criterion commentary tracks as AC3.

That's it. Possibly I forgot to mention something but whatever. Oh yeah, there will be a little (but to most people likely meaningless) surprise, but I will not mention it until the release.

P.S. If the DTS track from that super rare and super expensive LD were to turn up and be as good as everyone says, I'd totally include it as well.