Is it worth capturing the audio with CX enabled for preservation? My player DVL-909 doesn't support CX (from what I could read on internet), but I have LD-4300V that supports it. I was wondering if it's worth capturing the CX analog audio as well, what's your opinion?

I don't know of any 3D Blu-ray that includes the final trailer for Disney's Frozen, and the only high-quality version I could find has the text in Russian. There is an English-language version, but it appears to be a camrip. Therefore, after much futile searching at various different times, I decided an English-language restoration was in order. But to do that, I'm going to need assets I don't have. I do know, however, that I have the 3D Blu-ray from the UK, so I can source clips from the actual film from there; I think the aforementioned Russian trailer also has some usable clips. But anything with text in it, I'm going to need from somewhere else. In fact, some 3D conversion skills may be in order, if anyone has them. And no, no cheating via automatic stereo conversion software, I know fake 3D when I see it (*coughClashoftheTitanscough*).

Name's Koopa. Koopa Luath. For those of you who don't speak Irish, that's Koopa the Quick. As you can see from the title of this thread alone (I greeted you in a mixture of Japanese and Italian), I'm fairly good with languages apart from my native language, that being English. I graduated from college some years ago with a degree in video editing. For years I've been honing my trade at home. I'd mainly restored old logos to old films and television programs, but at one point I used my 3D Blu-ray of The Wolverine and the Extended Edition that came with it to make a 3D Extended Edition with certain scenes and shots in 2D. Though it didn't come out perfect, at the time I was satisfied enough. I've also done some work on PAL speedup reversal on some stuff, including the old Walt Disney Home Video international logo (which is base don the old Disney anthology intro from the early '80s). As for movie-going tastes, I enjoy 3D and IMAX movies. My favorite TV network is PBS. I collect old VHS cassettes and also DVDs and Blu-rays (mainly Blu-rays and VHS cassettes nowadays), so I have plenty of the films whose fan restorations interest me the most (including The Dark Knight IMAX regrade). I was also hoping to contribute some of my own materials, and also work on a few projects of my own.

In any case, I hope to have a great time here!

Many many moons ago Film4 HD (Cable Channel) aired True Lies so I recorded it, watched it, thought 'That looks pretty good, if they released this on Blu Ray I'd be chuffed' so I kept it on the Tivo HDD. Then I got hold of the DTheater rip which like so many of us became my 'go to'. So imagine my glee when I revisited the HDTV airing and found it was better! So I capped it (Lossless LAGS 4:2:2 via HDMI capture card).

Obviously it's not perfect. It's a 1080i50 MPEG2 broadcast so there are compression artifacts, but compared to the DTheater it is less filtered/compressed and is not Hard Telecined, requiring only a change in frame rate to 23.976fps. It's definitely of the same 'vintage' as the DTheater master, showing similar film blemishes/specks although the frame geometry is slightly different. Being a TV broadcast the end credits are time compressed but I would just use the DTheater for those.

Here is a sample clip (with audio, approx. 1:30, 25mbps AVC):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1qewbum2blot4q...s.mkv?dl=0

Soundman has kindly supplied me with a Bit-perfect rip of the NTSC Laserdisc PCM which I will sync. Obviously there are a number of 5.1 mixes which could be included.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Simple preservation project, nothing fancy. Just digitalizing my Laserdisc collection for the masses

Video captured through S-Video output on my PAL DVL-909 unit via StarTech USB3HDCAP to loseless HuffYUV codec using OBS 64-bit.
Audio captured through RCA/SPFID output via Asus Xonar Essence STX II using REAPER at 64-bit 192kHz (analog) WAV or 16-bit 44.1kHz (digital) WAV, after syncing rendered at 16-bit 48kHz with Ultra HQ resampling quality.
Most likely subtitles for most releases (English).

All releases will be released in AVCHD (DVD9) format, no menu.

For requests on next release, check my lddb profile - http://www.lddb.com/account/colek1

Current releases:

• #1 - Police Story 2 警察故事續集 ( 1988 ) [G92F0316]
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• #2 - Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ) [1024]
  

I'm waiting for the new 4TB hard disk (finally!) and I'm thinking about the best hard disk configuration to set up, from a project maker point of view.

I'll probably do the following (conventional letters used just to distinguish the discs):

• C: operating system / temp final project(s) (600GB - think to upgrade to an SSD soon)
  
• D: HD sources (4TB)
  
• E: SD sources (4TB)
  
• F: temp lossless files / final projects archive / analog captures (2TB - would be upgraded to bigger size in the future)
  
• G: H: eventual other small HDDs not used for preservations purposes
  
• (external disks for backup)
  

1. put the sources in D and E
   
2. work on them (using two sources from two different drives should speed up the process)
   
3. produced temp lossless files would stay on F
   
4. final project (that use temp lossless files from F, and eventually other from D and E) will be stored on C until it is seeded/uploaded
   
5. temp project will be archived to F
   

Hey folks,

What is the deal with promo material such as the "For Your Consideration"? I know they are sent out to people who vote on such things so my question is more about quality. Are they made better or is there anything special about them aside from the voting designation that would make a transfer of one desireable?

The one I'm looking at is Star Trek: First Contact.

Thanks.

Hi all,

I just picked up the prised JP evil dead laserdisc, and was wondering if we could match the colour to the 4:3 newer remaster?
Would the subtitles make this impossible for an algorithm to work?