Hi guys,

I opened this thread because I need your help. I'm starting to rip from Netflix the Family Guy's episodes of the first seasons that were on 480p. My resolution is 4K (3840x2160). In each episode, for the true first 4-5 seconds, shows up the Netflix "play/sound bar". What I ask, is there a way, through "delogo" or similar, to make the frames clean?
I have no experience with avisynth so I hope I could get some help from you guys about it. To make it short, I need a full guided list of possible and concrete solutions.

Attached you will find some screens of the episode.

https://ibb.co/eM8twS

https://ibb.co/ktg2qn

https://ibb.co/fftyVn

https://ibb.co/mgFRi7

Looking forward to a prompt reply, hoping to get some help, I thank you very much.

(continue from this thread: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1627.html)

I thought that a "mere" open matte edition is too easy... so it's time for an AAP-AR treatment, and eventual color regrade.

Predator (1987) Open Matte / Dolby SR 4.0

Title: Predator
Runtime: 1h46m33s
Video format: x264 1920x1080 23.976fps open matte 1.78:1
Overall video bit rate: 14.4 Mb/s
Audio format: AC3 4.0 384 Kb/s English
Subtitles: English
Release notes: Video source is a WEB-DL. Audio comes from the French Blu-ray edition.
Release format: MKV
Size: 10.7 GiB

Screenshots: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/131138/  (Contains 7 screenshots)

Special thanks: Mass_5160 - Muxing the file / BlueBird - Ripping the video

Hey buddies, I managed to grab on the russian tracker an open matte 35mm scan of Running Man. It looks like it comes from a russia only DVD.

I know it's a scan because it looks nothing like the bad video scan that as existed now for about 20 years, and there are points flashing at the reel changes. It was in Pal so I resynced it at 23.976 both image and audio which was off pitch.

The audio is weird, it's 5.1 but sounds nothing like the Blu-ray / DVD 5.1 and looks mangled but doesn't have the weird effect of the remix where you can hear differences of sources in Arnold's dialogue dubbing and the gunshots sounds OK instead of being in a bin. I fixed the pitch and speed and re-authored in AC3 640kbps.

I think the remix was made from the stems and the separate music because on this version the music sounds nearly mono whereas it's spacious stereo on the remix.

I would be happy if someone take my work as is now and resync the Dolby Surround track from the Olive Blu-ray (which I don't have), and also the french track plus subs. PM and I'll send you a link when I up it later tonight.

Here are some grabs: You can see the old scan isn't has clipped in the whites as the DVD/Blu, in fact this old scan looks like I remembered the movie. The crap DVDs and Blu-ray look like it was shot on DV video.




Incidentaly, there is a french version with localised intro that has been on youtube for years and is never disturbed. It looks to me this movie might be in legal limbo in France due to the plagiarism trial by the french director who did the film adaptation Le Prix Du Danger based on the novel Stephen King also took inspiration from.

https://youtu.be/sC8t26QXyYE

The Terminator (1984) Open Matte / Mono

Title: The Terminator
Runtime: 1h46m59s
Video format: x264 1920x1080 23.976fps open matte 1.78:1
Overall video bit rate: 14.6 Mb/s
Audio format: DTS-HD MA Mono English
Subtitles: English
Release notes: Video source is a WEB-DL, the Cinemax logo at the beginning has been removed without reencoding. Audio was originally PCM.
Release format: MKV
Size: 10.9 GiB

Screenshots: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/131028  (Contains 7 screenshots)

Special thanks: Mass_5160 - Muxing the file / BlueBird - Ripping the video / Dark Jedi - Ripping the LD audio

As spoRv suggested, here's a thread where we could share our discoveries regarding Blu-rays, HDTV broadcasting or DVDs, for lack of better sources, that use textless and free of burnt-in subtitles masters which would help for international localization projects.

As it happens, Braveheart was released by Paramount in the US and by Fox in Europe. So, while there are burnt-in subs for foreign parts on the US master, there are none on the French Blu-ray for example:



The same thing happens between Lionsgate in the US and Metropolitan in France. Here's the example of Rambo/John Rambo:



Or even with The Expendables (screen is from the Poland open matte):



Expendables 2, Lionsgate. On the French Blu-ray, no burnt-ins:



Live Free or Die Hard (screen not taken from US Blu-ray as it is the HD Unrated version I have here) uses a different master in Europe, subfree that's even entitled Die Hard 4.0.



Now there's the case of many Universal catalogue titles that use US masters with texts and burnt-in subs that are fully free of those on the master used in Europe.
Such as Carlito's Way :





Or Scarface :






Or the Jason Bourne original trilogy. Here's The Bourne Identity:




Yes, in Europe, they even have used a master free of those fancy inscriptions.

Here's The Bourne Supremacy:



The Bourne Ultimatum:



Speaking of fancy insciptions, John Wick has a very fancy use of subtitles on top of regular ones. In the US, Lionsgate uses them in English obviously. In France, Metropolitan uses a French master that have them in French. However, in Scandinavia, they have a fully subtitle free master.





There's also the case of MGM that has used on DVDs textless and subfree masters in Europe, but has returned to US masters for Blu-ray.
The Terminator, The Silence of the Lambs and The Usual Suspects are good examples.




The same goes with Universal's Schindler's List. The European DVD is textfree.



In the same vein, Die Hard with a Vengeance, not a Fox title in Europe, but a Disney/Buena Vista one, has used in France a subfree master but has returned to the US master (minus the Fox intro) on blu-ray. However, the Web UHD remaster is subfree.




Stargate (Studio Canal in France) has used a subfree master on DVD, but has returned to a US master on Blu-ray, and I wish it was subfree 'cause they're probably the most hideous burnt-in subs I've ever seen, with that thick black border...



Men in Black on DVD used a subfree master (in France at least) but has returned to a US master in both Blu-ray releases (original and mastered in 4K). However, the UHD is subfree.



There is obviously the missed opportunity on The Force Awakens Blu-ray, while Rogue One did it properly using seemless branching...




And finally, there's the case of foreign HDTV broadcastings that can have their own burnt-in subs with different placement on the frame, that can be used to erase the original ones to create a subfree master.

Batman Begins :




Independence Day:








I wish there was a way to get rid of those in The Dark Knight, but the French broadcast uses a French master that has the French subs with the same placement and done as poorly as the original English ones.



There's also the case of The Incredible Hulk, a Universal title in the US that's a M6 release in France. I'd have to check the status on the French disc, as M6 may have burned the French ones on their own master as they did with Lord of War. The same could go with Iron Man, from Paramount to M6...




Feel free to add your own discoveries.

From yesterday, if I visit FanRes using Firefox, pages takes forever to load... while on Edge, and also on my Android phone, it works perfectly... Firefox version is 58.0.1, and seems to work with any other sites.

Anyone else noted this behaviour?

A little regrade project. I always found the colors in Shaun of the Dead a bit boring and dull and thought the movie deserved a more exciting look.

I regraded the movie with a couple of 3D LUTs which I generated using DrDre's ColorMatch tool and some snaps of 35mm film cells on eBay. 

No idea what those film cells were taken from. Likely trailers. Either way, there is little consistency in them. Sometimes the same scene is present with two different gradings.

But, for what it's worth, I was able to figure out two basic looks with a few variations. The one is a normal kind of warm film look. The other is something that looks like some extreme kind of Bleach Bypass. 

I don't know which one of these looks is more theatrically accurate, so I decided to use them both depending on the current scene/context/music/score. Neither really fits in all the scenes, so a blanket LUT doesn't make much sense. Bleach Bypass look usually when zombies are involved, the normal film look in more calm scenes - especially in the beginning of the film, at Shaun's workplace etc.. And then there's one that looks a bit like pushed slide film and on the colder side, which is good for the indoors shots in the bar; but I think that one is just a variation of the normal film look.

Here's an screenshot comparison of thumbnails: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/130893

Here is a screenshot comparison of a few images I semi-randomly picked for demonstration: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/130894 (it has multiple tabs!)

I don't think there's a big chance of me ever finding out the "true theatrical" colors, but I like my results so far and I think it's a step up from the boring standard colors which look not much more exciting than some random TV show. After all, it's a zombie apocalypse movie and should be a bit flashy/fancy/gritty.

This whole thing also pushes out the grain of the movie a little more, especially in the final scenes.

Will be rendering the movie out soon.

I've been spending the past few too many months on a personal project cleaning up a whole film by digitally removing dirt from more than 1000 frames, dot by dot, splotch by splotch, scratch by scratch. All dirt that Universal never ever bothered cleaning (and probably never will) before dishing it out in blu-ray.
I wondered how I could convey the amount of work that is spread all through-out its 98 minutes running time so I came up with the idea to make one single image with all the patches fused into one single layer and here it is:


I called it "Universal dirt", post-modern art of sorts.

And I made this image when the frames fixed were "only" 660. I ended up fixing 1000 frames in total... probably there are many dots that ended up behind the bigger patches but you get the idea. Each element is a little patch that covers seamlessly some type of damage or dirt on the original film. It's what Universal should have done in the first place, honestly.
I figure it would have taken me only 3 weeks if that was my actual job, probably a lot less with different tools, but I learnt an invaluable lesson: never promise to yourself "I'll just fix a couple of things" if you know you're OCD

For now, I'll plan a single aspect ratio version in 70mm, seeing that I've not yet found the best way to get rid of that damn ghosting in the open matte version that isn't incredibly time-consuming even by the standards of time-consuming methods. Needless to say, preliminary specs are as follows:

VIDEO
Resolution: 1080p (BD), 480p (NTSC DVD), 576p (PAL DVD)
Aspect ratio: 2.20:1

AUDIO
English (Viz dub, THX Surround EX 6.1, main feature only)
English (Viz dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
English (Viz dub, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0)
English (Cloverway dub, THX Surround EX 6.1, main feature only)
English (Cloverway dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
English (Cloverway dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
French (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
French (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
German (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
German (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
Italian (Mediaset dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0)
Italian (Shin Vision dub, THX Surround EX 6.1)
Italian (Shin Vision dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
Italian (Shin Vision dub, Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0)
Japanese (THX Surround EX 6.1)
Japanese (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
Japanese (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0)
Castilian Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1, main feature only)
Castilian Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0, main feature only)
Mexican Spanish (THX Surround EX 6.1)
Mexican Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 5.1)
Mexican Spanish (Dolby Stereo Digital 2.0)

SUBTITLES
English
English (rhyming)

English SDH (Viz)
English SDH (Cloverway)

French
French (rhyming)
German
German (rhyming)

Spanish
Spanish (rhyming)
Italian
Italian (rhyming)
Dutch
Dutch (rhyming)
Hungarian
Hungarian (rhyming)

Japanese
Portuguese
Portuguese (rhyming)

The above spec list is not final, which is most true for the subtitles; I might have to drop some of the subtitle options, ultimately, and I have no illusions that I'll be able to get everything I want for this project. But I'll do my darnedest with what I do have.