The Dark Knight Regrade (Imax Project #1, v1.1)

This project has changed. Originally, it was suppose to be an upscale but now is all HD. See project origin here:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-1071.html

The goal of this project was to first restore the Imax shots to their full frame (from the CE BD and DVD) and correct the picture to remove as many faults (halos, etc) as possible. The second part involved pulling as many 35mm frames, 70mm frames, trailers, promotional material and boots to help better determine DK's look in theaters (less red , more green) and steer this regrade to look more like that. And third include the Cinema DTS soundtrack to the finished project, allowing you to hear the track as it appeared in theaters.

Video:
The BD image was run through a filter to reduce edge enhancement and then mixed with the 4:3/original matte Imax footage from the bonus features in the BE CE. Unfortunately, only 6 sequences were in full frame leave about 30+ shots still in 16:9. For those missing shots the full frame DVD was upscaled, de-blocked and dehalo-ed. The result works well for most shots with only 4 or 5 shots looking poor due to the DVD's noise. The resulting image was then color corrected with a 35mm LUT.

The resulting video was synced to the BD

I also used a lot of information from CSchmidlapp's thread:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-56.html?hi...ark+knight

The video was synced to the BD

Audio:
1. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Cinema DTS discs)

2. Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (from the US BD)

Pics:

MKV Pics (Final)


BD/Regrade (Out of date)






Thanks:
CSchmidlapp: for the needed Imax shots and his research
Chris_solo: for syncing the Cinema DTS soundtrack
Jetrell Fo: for finding and sharing the Cinema DTS soundtrack
Doombot: for advice

Batman - Open Matte (Upscale Project v1.3)

See project origin here: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1071.html

Video:
The open matte DVD upscaled with a combination of super-resolution and nnedi with filters to reduce macro-blocking and edge enhancement/halos. The resulting image was further processed and then re-grained with a real grain best matching the BD version. The video was then color corrected with a 35mm LUT and color matched to some 35mm frames and trailers.

Audio:
1. Dolby Surround PCM 2.0 from the wide screen laserdisc

2. Dolby Digital 5.1 from the open matte DVD.

Pics: (Updated 6/12/18)

Hey guys, I'm new but I will have much to add in the coming year... I wasn't aware of this site until now.  There's lots of cool Cinematic stuff going on and I'm sure we will discuss it all at some point.  I'm looking forward to it, thanks.

I'd be interested to see what sort of performance people are getting on their PCs.
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I'm thinking about getting one of those video enhancers to re-captures a few LDs... but left wondering if, at this point, it would still be useful at all. Any advice ?

Guys, I'm stuck at the encoding step of a few finished projects.

I tend to end my edits with DN-HD outputs (which are about 120gb for a 90mn film), which I then encode to h264/blu-ray or other more lossy formats to share online. However, I still haven't found the right encoding method to deliver satisfying results for those "more lossy" formats, especially h264 and BD-related encodings. No matter what softwares and settings I use, I keep finding the resulting videos disappointing compared to the original source, and at this point, I feel like I've tried pretty much everything.

An example HERE


You can see the BD encode has greatly softened the grain, even though the settings used were tentatively as high as can be for the desired output size/format.
Obviously, quality loss is to be expected, but not to that level (?).

I'm open to your suggestions and advices as to what method should be used to properly encode to "general consumption" formats.  Humble thanks !

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Just finished to watch it. Ain't no Young Frankenstein for sure. But not bad at all, either. Mel Brooks did a nice comedy, with good acting, chose the right star for each role, with respectable special effects. Sure, it's not as funny as the previously mentioned film - that is a masterpiece IMHO - but he made me laugh some time, and smile a lot.

Luckily, it was a light comedy without bad words, and heavy sexual jokes, like the most part of the parodies of these days. All in all, a mild funny flick for the whole family.

No Blu-ray of this; even if it's just a comedy, it would be good to have it on a high definition format. There is a 720p HDTV verions, sadly it has corrupted frames and missing end credits, but could be used as source for an eventual project, along with laserdisc PCM - that "could" be better than 384kbps 2.0 DD track, but I can't be sure...

Avisynth 64bit (even if may be a bit faster than 32bit) isn't worth the upgrading, as many filters works only on the 32bit version - unless someone has a method to successfully run the 32bit plugins using the 64bit version, I'll stick with the x86 version, even using Window 10 pro - it works well, by the way!

But, it's time to follow the multithreading way... I used the MT version years ago, but it crashed frequently, and it seems it's a general consensus to not use it. But I'm open to (re)try it.

So, what are the alternatives? I want something simple that will split the task automagically - I know that I could split the script and open several instances at the same moment, but I'd prefer a simple, single script (adding the needed plugin lines) instead of split, encode, join operations.

SoraThread seems promising; used in conjuction with MT, speed improves a lot. Other alternatives could be Pipeline, Threadrequest; any other?

Avisynth+: as far as I understand, it is 100% compatible with any Avisynth plugin, and should be faster, so is there a reason to not use it?

I'm aware that direct avisynth 32bit -> x264 64bit encoding is not possible - but there are some workarounds for this; not so important, as I always encode lossless before.

x264 64bit seems a lot faster than 32bit - from 10%, to 40% and more with slow settings. I can't see anything that may lead me to NOT use the 64bit version; or, at the contrary, there are problems in the 64bit in comparison to 32bit?