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  Hi everyone
Posted by: Zain Iftikhar - 2025-02-05, 04:58 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Excited to be a part of this community. cant wait to see what kid of projects you all restore. xd

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  Greetings and good salutations!
Posted by: Vikki - 2025-02-02, 03:58 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Hello there!

I'm just a creature from the Caribbean looking to see some good restored projects on this site.  Smile

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  Greetings
Posted by: anolnymous - 2025-01-30, 08:20 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Hi i'm excited to see some great restoration projects from people.

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  Greatings !
Posted by: Morhize - 2025-01-25, 12:22 AM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (1)

Hi everyone,
 
I’m new to the world of film preservation and I’m excited to learn more about this fascinating field.
Looking forward to discovering and sharing with you all !

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  Greetings everyone!
Posted by: mikemilligan - 2025-01-23, 07:13 AM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Greetings everyone I'm getting into film preservation and I couldn't be more excited to start working with people in here!

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  Greetings, Programs!
Posted by: plaidcookies91 - 2025-01-23, 04:00 AM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Howdy!

I've been a long-time lurker here for a few years.  My love for Star Wars introduced me to the fan edit/restoration community and I'm very passionate about movies in general.  As a creative myself, I feel its important that the work of the original artists and technicians is treated respectfully on home video.  Glad to see I'm in good company there!

I have a background in audiovisual restoration and transfer work, though there are many brilliant and more experienced members here who have provided me with a lot of valuable advice and insight through their posts which I am very grateful for.  I have some experience working with matrixed audio formats for film and television and hope to be of help in future projects.

Live long and prosper
-Plaid

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  Wong Kar Wai - Japanese Trailers
Posted by: LucasGodzilla - 2025-01-21, 11:06 AM - Forum: Official and unofficial releases - Replies (8)

So lately I've got Wong Kar Wai on the brain, and I randomly stumbled on an odd little rabbit–hole that has been sort of nagging at me since I've discovered this, but I noticed that on YouTube you can find a handful of Japanese WKW trailers, and the thing that struck me the most about them was that they looked very much akin to what I would expect from a print?

I'm embedding all three down below (Days Of Being Wild, Chungking Express & Fallen Angels in that order). Unfortunately from what I can tell though, they seem to not really be playable on the site here, so you'll have to jump to some other tab to check them out.



Anyways, given I know that the color situation for WKW's works have always been a mess to keep straight, I thought I'd drop these here if anyone's remotely interested in attempting some sort of oddball blanket regrade to any other existing UHDs out there.

That said, I imagine you'd have to track down the original encodes of these trailers to get anything workable out of them from something like Dr. Dre's color matcher. I don't suppose any WKW fan would know where these trailers were included, do they?

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  Felidae LD with English Dub.
Posted by: uVSthem - 2025-01-20, 11:34 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (4)

The Singapore LD has English audio and is NTSC.

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/61364/5002/Felidae

What are the chances of someone finding this to make a hybrid remux with the UHD? The UHD doesn't have the English dub on it.

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  Greetings
Posted by: RufusUsA - 2025-01-18, 10:40 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Thanks for better versions of great movies.

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  The Terminator (1984) DEFINITIVE REGRADE + Laserdisc Mono/Dolby Atmos
Posted by: uhdfan93 - 2025-01-18, 05:52 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (22)

The Terminator '84


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Greetings!

I’ve been working on a T1 regrade this past year. It was supposed to be released before the 4K UHD came out but the project got put on hold due to personal health issues. The new 4K isn’t the worst thing in the world like I was expecting (it ain't no True Lies) but it still has many problems. The mono audio included also unfortunately isn’t the greatest and neither is the old 5.1.
I highly recommended watching Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader’s YouTube review of the 4K for a purist’s perspective and his video on the history of the home video releases of the film. That being said I believe the best source is still the ‘13/15 Blu-ray imo.

There have been a few regrades posted here throughout the years but I wanted to go in depth a little bit more, and also wanted to make sure the encoding and bitrate/file size matched the Blu-ray for maximum quality. I ripped the transfer from the disc and made sure to export/transcode appropriately after color correcting. Special thanks to kk650 for inspiring this project with his past releases.


This transfer is ripped from the 2015 MGM Blu-ray (which is the same as the 2013 release). I used the 2006 MGM Blu-ray, 1997 Image DVD and some 35mm stills I found online for references, although my intention was NOT to match them exactly. My goal was to make the color grade look overall more natural but with a resemblance of past releases. I also wanted to make sure to keep the exposure levels the same as BD source so there would be no black crush or overexposure. I tried my best to shift the color tones only. It is not 100% perfect but it is also incredibly difficult to make minute (extremely small) adjustments within DaVinci Resolve without going too far one way or the other. I went back and forth on hundreds of different variations of color grades until I finally settled on one that I felt looked the most balanced.


https://imgur.com/On26Nff
Since this comparison above shows there's been so many different looking color grades across the home video history of the film, I found it appropriate to just fine tune to my personal preference. I may continue doing improvements and updates, and further adjust certain scenes if enough people are interested. But for now I think it's time to release this little bastard, I've been working on it for too long.


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https://imgur.com/kbTEbmP




Special thanks to Stamper for providing the 1991 laserdisc domestic mono mix. It is included here for purists as an uncompressed PCM.

There was a 2.1 mix created by kk650, lazyzod and dmuk which combined a laserdisc mono with the .1 LFE of the 5.1 track, using Sony Vegas for encoding. I decided to recreate one myself using DTS-Master Audio Encoder to ensure the best quality. I took the 2.0 mono and encoded it with the .1 LFE of the 5.1. I also attached the Orion logo intro to the beginning, as that is absent from the laserdisc mono (21 secs). This will be the default track on this release as I believe this is the definitive mono experience.

The two main 5.1 tracks, the international mono mix from the 2001 MGM SE DVD, as well as the new Dolby Atmos track have been added for a complete audio experience. All tracks are precisely synced to the 2015 US Blu-ray release. All tracks except for the laserdisc tracks were ripped by me straight from the source.


I do not make compressed versions. This will be a full size release only.



MEDIA INFO:

VIDEO:

AVC/H.264
33.0 Mb/s, 1920*1080, at 23.976 FPS, (High@L4.1 / 4 Ref Frames), 24.7 GiB
source: 2015 MGM Remastered Blu-ray

AUDIO:

ENG Dolby Atmos TrueHD
(3,075-4,752 kb/s 24 bits 48.0 kHz, 2.30 GiB)
source: 2024 Warner Bros. 4K UHD Blu-ray

ENG DTS-HD Master Audio 2.1 Mono + LFE (default)
(2,169 kb/s 24 bits 48.0 kHz, 1.62 GiB)
source: 1991 LaserDisc/2015 Blu-ray - created by uhdfan93

ENG DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround
(4,119 kb/s 24 bits 48.0 kHz, 3.08 GiB)
source: 2015 MGM Remastered Blu-ray

ENG PCM 5.1 Surround EX
(4,608 kb/s 16 bits 48.0 kHz, 3.45 GiB)
source: 2006 MGM Blu-ray

ENG PCM 2.0 Mono (original 1.0 also included)
(1,441.2 kb/s 16 bits 44.1 kHz, 1.06 GiB)
source: 1991 Image LaserDisc - captured by Stamper

ENG Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (International Mix)
(192 kb/s 48.0 kHz, 147 MiB)
source: 2001 MGM Special Edition DVD

*Subtitles also included

Total size: 37.0 GiB



*NOTE: I recommend NOT using VLC player if watching on a PC. For some reason a couple of the audio tracks sound compressed and muffled on VLC. Not sure why, not sure if it’s only my version. I recommend using MPV Player.

Special thanks to Kreep for valuable feedback.


PM for link! Smile

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