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?

Fundamental Collection catalog - updated 2017-12-26

• spine number - title - release date

• #001 - Alien (1979) - 2017-04-18
  
  
• #002 - Aliens (1986) - 2017-04-19
  
  
• #003 - Alien³ (1992) - 2017-04-20
  
                     
  
• #004 - Alien: Resurrection (1997) - 2017-04-21
  
                     
  
• #005 - The Thing (1982) - 2017-03-01
  
  
• #006 - Halloween (1978) - 2017-03-07
  
                     
  
• #007 - Minority Report (2002) - 2017-03-11
  #007 - Minority Report (2002) (open matte) - 2017-09-22
  
  
• #008 - The Arrival (1996) - 2017-04-01
  
  
• #009 - Waterworld (1995) - 2017-04-05
  
  
• #010 - Timeline (2003) (open matte) - 2017-04-13
  
                  
  
• #011 - The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) (open matte) - 2017-05-09
  
                     
  
• #012 - AVP: Aliens Vs. Predator (2004) - 2017-05-17
  
  
• #013 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)  (open matte) - 2017-12-17
  
  
• #014 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) (open matte) - 2017-12-20
  
  
• #015 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (open matte) - 2017-12-21
  
  
• #016 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (open matte) - 2017-12-22
  
  
• #017 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) (open matte) - 2017-12-24
  
  
• #018 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) (open matte) - 2017-12-23
  
  
• #019 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) (open matte) - 2017-12-25
  
  
• #020 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) (open matte) - 2017-12-25
  
  
• #021 - Alien: Covenant IMAX (2017) - 2017-09-07
  
  
• #022 - The Keep (1983) - 2017-10-19
  
  
• #023 - Prometheus (2012) (open matte) - 2017-12-04
  

• use a color reference to regrade the film so it could be closer to the theatrical presentation
  
• add an open matte version as a companion to the OAR version
  
• reinstate eventual cut shots/scenes
  
• add a film grain plate when the grain is absent or weak
  
• clean the image only when needed
  
• adjust the aspect ratio when wrong
  
• select the best audio mixes, using the original ones when available
  
• include five different languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) when available
  

• regrade a film without a color reference
  
• add an open matte version when it is heavily cropped, or contains unwanted objects like boom mics and the like
  
• use the original shot when director wisely chose to replace it with fixed one, like security ropes deleted, matte garbage removed etc.
  
• add always a grain plate even when the grain is right
  
• clean always the image even when it is right
  
• use the best quality audio mix when it is not the original one, and the latter is available
  

Film preservation geek down in Austin, TX. I don't have the technical wizardry, nor the time in what y'all do, but I love seeing how everyone progresses.

I stumbled back here after looking at what sporv has done and I'm so excited to go down this rabbit hole.

Here's something that has me bumping my head against the wall. I captured a movie tonight for a project and just in case there were any dropped frames, I grabbed it twice at 1080p60 and twice at 720p60. It's from a Roku box, hence the 60fps. And sometimes 720p will appear sharper than 1080p from some sources that stream hence the decision to cap both resolutions. I was on a time limit so I wanted to try and cover all of my bases. Well I loaded the two 1080p caps up on timelines in Vegas, turned opacity to 50% on video track one so I could see both video files. I found a good frame to sync with and got them perfect. Then when I hit play, sync is fine for several seconds then they drift. I did the same with the two 720p caps and everything was good. I am leaning heavily toward my system not being able to cap 1080p reliably.

Capture source in this case was a Roku 2
Capture device is an Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro
Capture software is the Elgato software (but I am reading up on OBS, dxtory and Virtualdub)
System is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Intel i7 CPU, 8 cores, 12 gigs of ram and a partridge in a pair tree.

Any ideas here? While the system or the Elgato hardware/software could be culprits, it could also be the Roku 2 maybe? During capture, the game capture software is the only thing open although I realize that other processes are running. I did kill any that I knew I could but didn't kill things I was unsure of. Thanks in advance for any insight.

I was referred here by another forum member interested in capturing LD audio.

I have a fairly basic LD player (Pioneer CLD-V2400), but a decent ADC (Sony DVMC-DA2), and I enjoy obscure/overlooked restorations. I got into it for a different member who requested a LD or VHS capture of The Santa Clause (1994).

Other hobbies are homebrewing (prefer juicy IPAs), landscape/architecture photography (Canon), and working on cars (have a Honda S2000 and Jeep Grand Cherokee).