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).

I ask the experts around here, which version is best to buy between the UK (Second Sight) and the German (Subkultur) Blu-Ray releases of Scanners (1981). They both seem to have the same quality of details but different colors and brightness. I wonder which one is more accurate.

https://www.caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x...0&i=4&go=1

In this scene in particular, the flames on the left seem to be overblown in the German release while they preserve more information in the UK version.

Hi everyone,

(I've PMed a couple people about this, only to then realise that they're already a part of the 'audio sync scene' here!)

Basically, I'll sync the LD (or even DVD) audio of any film released from the Classical Hollywood era, provided it sounds better than its blu-ray counterpart.

People here have contributed greatly to the preservation of mixes that haven't been issued on blu-ray, but as I'm finding with increasing frequency there are also countless instances where a film's mono or stereo mix has been filtered to such an extreme degree that it is no longer truly representative of the original sound mix.

This offer extends beyond just Hollywood films: anything from the 1960s and earlier, anything belonging to the Criterion Collection, etc.

If it's a movie I like, I can often bang out a synced version in a couple hours.

It would be great if anyone interested could reply with a list of the movies they own on LaserDisc that fall into these criteria. If you are unsure of whether the blu-ray sounds better or worse, I'd be happy to examine the captured track (or even an excerpt of it) in detail.

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.
Give this a run when you are bored, it doesn't require an install, you can run it from a USB stick if you want.
https://downloadmanager.cinegy.com/downl...15.351.zip

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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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