Hey guys.

Though I'm a relatively new user here and I don't know most of the users here, I want to ask if here are some of you who are living in Europe and have the possibility to scan 35mm film material?

I obtained a 35mm trailer from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and I would greatly make it accessible to our community. And because I have no possibility myself to make a digital scan of this material, I would like to send it to someone here who can be trusted.

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I've been trying to preserve some LD tracks with a basic set-up: Pioneer CLD-V850, hooked up to a Toshiba DVD Recorder. Unfortunately, not a bit-perfect workflow, but better than nothing. 

Unfortunately, after transferring only three tracks (two of which turned out to be worse than the Blu-Rays), it seems as if I cannot do any more because all subsequent transfers are plagued by a mysterious buzzing noise.

Moshrom's been trying to help me troubleshoot, but so far we haven't been successful. Under his advice, I tried moving the player and recorder in case it was electrical interference from that particular outlet. Unfortunately, I've moved it twice with no luck.

Is it possible that my player is just finally giving up on me?   

Anyone have any advice?  

EDIT: For context, here is a sample of said buzzing noise: https://mega.nz/#!e0UESL6Q!Xtx4yycCi2Lxt...cgLshsK6ow

With the new PC I discovered that I can speed up a lot of tests, so I tried to put my hands again on The Matrix to see if I can solve the problems of the first version.

To whom it may not know it, long story short: the movie in BD has a modified color grading, while the DVD has the same (or, at least, closer) of the theatrical print. In my first attempt, despite the fact I was able to get many shots very close, if not identical, regraded, in many I get artefacts - sometimes just a frame for one shot, but it rendered the whole project a pain in the... neck, and I was forced to use upscaled DVD parts to replace them... not bad solution if it would be for a couple of shots, but it happened in a lot - too much - of them.

Now, I discovered that the main problem doesn't lie in the software, but in the BD, which has a lot of white clipping; in these parts, the color matching software simply says "Hey, what I'm supposed to regrade here? It's just a white (green/blue/red, choose your color) spot, so I'm going crazy!" and replace these with various random artefacts...

So, the solution is to use the BD contrast somehow, to limit the artefacts to the minimum; it works pretty well, even if sometimes the colors are not so close to the DVD as in the previous version, BUT... I also discovered that the DVD has very flat palette, so for example faces have a lot less tones in the DVD than the BD; so now, even if faces are not of the same exact colors of the DVD, they have more details, thanks to more skin color shades.

I picked up an "anthology" of some shots previously ridden with artefacts - they were all located in the bright parts of the image, like lights, fires, explosions etc. - now they are almost all gone, apart few... want to take a look at the new version? LINK - test clip 5min, 5mbps, 229MB size, English and Italian audio (would expire around mid May 2017) - remember: it's a "patchwork" of short shots, you are warned!

At the end: do we need a revised edition?

Sometime may have not noted, but when I see the following things, I fix them every time; so, if you can follow these guidelines, my work - and the ones of the other mods - will be easier, thanks!

IMAGES

To insert an image, just copy the URL, but DO NOT FORGET to add the s after the http - basically, if you want your image to be showed, you must write your URL as https://yoururl.com - if you forget to use the https, or simply your image hoster can't use it, your image will appear just as a simple link.
Hint: http://postimage.io offers free image hosting since several years, it works well!

MEDIAINFO (and other monospaced fonts data)

If you post mediainfo data, and other formatted text that reads better when using a monospaced fonts, please use the CODE tag; it will be more readable, and avoid to have looong posts!

EMOTICONS

If you want to add emoticons to your text, typing directly them, please do not forget to put a space BEFORE them, to be recognized by the forum software; this is done to avoid confusion, and to let the poster to write something like this

...the movie (released in 1978)...

without having this

...the movie (released in 197...

got the point? want to have some space between the emoticon and your text? Just type two spaces before it and one after... when finally we will have a new set of emoticons, I'll plan to solve this, and add some space to the sides, to avoid double space before (single space would still be used, though) and one after.


Last thing: "preview" is your friend; use it, at least sometimes!

Thanks!

I wanted to pick some brains here. Anyone get banding from avisynth?

I ask because I'm getting some banding in some of my upscale work. I'm wondering what is causing it. Some of the DVD's have it built in already. Problems of the 8-bit world but upscaling seems to make it worse. Could that be a function of working in the 8-bit area or some color space conversions?

I've tried some of the avi plugin de-banding solutions and they all look sub par and destroy picture details.

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]