At present, I use Mega.co.nz. It's good because there are no captcha codes for the downloader, but the upload speed isn't great. It takes me ages to upload a BD-50.

Can anyone recommend a (free) alternative that might be quicker?

Hey guys,

I have few WEB-DLs and HDTV that are only in 720p and are pretty low bitrate (filesizes from 1.5GB-4GB), but details are noticeably better than DVD versions. I wanted to know what could I do to get the best out of these. Of course I will do Superresolution, but what after that? Regrain? Anything else?

I made a custom BD of Star Trek VI.  It is sourced from the Sky HD broadcast.  I replaced a few shots from the escape from Rura Penthe that have always looked terrible in all the pre-BD releases, but the rest is pure HDTV.  The custom BD is synchronized to the official one, so people should be able to mux in whatever dub tracks they want.

Details
BD-50
OAR
PCM from the LD
DTS-HD MA (from the official BD)
various subtitles

Thanks
Andrea
Buster D
combspecialist
Mangoat
Mic
The Aluminum Falcon

Please do not:

pass on my links;
remux my releases;
re-encode my releases.

Was capturing the LD PCM of The Keep ever discussed? There are various encodings of the old LD master floating around these days, but I haven't seen any with lossless audio.

Just watched the trailer for The Revenant and got to say it looks really good.



Not a particular fan of Alejandro González Iñárritu or Leonardo DiCaprio (I do like Hardy). I am a fan of westerns or specifically in this case mountain men movies or just survival movies in general. So I really like that aspect.

What I'm really excited about and what I was waiting for; is this is the first movie production to use Arri Alexa 65. Unlike previous Arri cameras (or Red, Sony, what have you) that have Super 35 size sensor (something less then the 4 perfs used in anamorphic film), this camera's sensor is the size of 65/70mm film (6560 x 3102, 14 stops). So you can use spherical lens to capture a giant scope-ish picture without the cropping the top and bottom like in S35 sensors. In the hands of the seriously great cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki , it looks just great:

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I love the panning around, it gives me a Cinerama feel. And the camera doesn't seem to be a slouch using low light. I'm still a film devotee and I can't wait to see Quentin Tarantino's (who I'm not a super fan of either) answer to this, in the Hateful Eight. He is using real 65/70mm film with an anamorphic lens. I can't wait to see both through technical eyes, I just hope the movies' stories are there too.

I've been using Adobe's Media Encoder to change my H.264 files to AVI (Lag or Magic) just fine. But I notice when it comes to VC-1, I seem to be gaining about 3 second inexplicably. That's enough to cause all sorts of sync errors. So does anyone know another (better) way to convert VC-1 to AVI? I tried Vdub and it didn't like VC-1 either.

Also I can't get TSMuxer to accept VC-1 when I was trying to convert my MKV to a TS, anyone else have this problem?

More of a curiosity, than anything else...
Many of the projects here include audio ripped from Cinema DTS discs, which I think is absolutely awesome! But given that DTS is now no longer used in theaters, making way for Datasat Digital Sound. My question is... Would it be theoretically possible to rip the audio from Datasat CD-ROM's used in theaters? Assuming, of course, that one would be able to get a hold of these discs... If so, I may be on the lookout for certain titles.

I believe you already know that this masterful animation short, sourced from a 16mm print is in HD at youtube, don't you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzyC9CZuOA
It looks very good, but I was wondering if any member here is the one that uploaded it, or if he knows the uploader.
It would be great if we had the original 1080p file before uploaded to youtube, which resulted of course in some quality loss..
I was thinking of starting this thread in another section of the forum, about "film print scans found at youtube", but I believe this film is the only one, right?

I posted this in originaltrilogy.com a while ago, but since this forum is more for general preservation, I decided to check if any of you know the answer to my question.

Quote:I am looking for a specific wcbs news broadcast from 1995, and I don't know where to look. I knew that it's possible that some of you have a copy of this specific broadcast, but it is unlikely. I know not the month, nor the day, nor the hour, but I can tell you the subject matter. It involved baby security in a hospital. As you might have guessed, the content of this news broadcast is personal to me. I once had a decent recording of it, but 7-year-old me thought that it needed more sports and other nonsense, and partially wiped the recording. Recently, I tried their website but it was broken. I then called them, but after a long line of redirecting, there were only broadcasts from a couple years ago.

I know the chances of this specific broadcast surviving are nil, but if one of you can find it, I will be very grateful.