Afternoon all!!

Been lurking quite a bit recently due to losing my login details at OT and not being able to navigate their previous upgrade. 

Anyway, signed up here a while ago but never got round to posting thanks to work life but hoping to get a bit more involved with discussions here! I do collect quite a bit of vintage release due to different sound mixes and colour timing, alternate cuts so looking forward to sharing my findings with everyone!

Gone with the Wind was released on Blu-ray a few times, but each time the original mono audio wasn't added in lossless.
So I'd like to request the audio from the LaserDisc. I don't know which one would be the best version, maybe the 50th Anniversary?

Anyone can help?

Is Handbrake a good tool for doing a conversion from .m4v to .mp4 or is there a better route to consider?

Thanks in advance.

I know that preserving LD audio and syncing to bluray is done for a few reasons. When the bluray has been significantly altered, for example, or when the bluray mix is of the crappy near-field variety but how do you all determine when an LD has better audio than the bluray. I realize the most obvious answer is to listen and compare but is there a good rule of thumb to go by, as in movies released in the 80s will probably benefit from having an LD sync done. Just curious as to what you all think.

If anyone can (a) do a bit perfect capture of the PCM track from Willow or (b) loan it to me or someone who can, I would appreciate it. I only need side B. I just finished syncing side A to the region A blu-ray BUT failed to check out the entire rip and side B is unusable. Thanks!

Back in the good old analogue days, Dolby Labs and Filmack made some brief animated logos to show in front of features presented in Dolby Stereo. Unlike the digital equivalents, these trailers haven't been terribly well preserved in the years since; indeed any copies you might find online are sourced from some opportunistic VHS recordings.

A couple of years ago I got in touch with the owner of a tape containing some of these logos, and he let me transfer them at as high quality as the recording would allow. You might have downloaded some of these transfers back when I posted them on OT (the guy who grabbed them and posted them on his YouTube channel certainly did!) These transfers were still quite lacking in definition, being sourced from second generation tape copies of screen tapings (in frame-mashing PAL, no less). That said, the stereo sound was very well preserved, so they seemed ideally suited to reconstruction.

A couple of years on and that project is done! These versions have been rebuilt from scratch in After Effects (in 1080p, of course) and synced up to the original audio (preserved in PCM). For my own purposes I've given the basic animation a good hammering in terms of gate weave, grain and damage, but for sharing I've kept them clean so other folks can make their own minds up about that. I've also slightly re-composed them to make scope versions, which I can make available on request; for now these are just the authentic flat 1.85:1 format.

I hope they are useful for people's vintage home cinema experiences! For now I'd like to keep them exclusive for the good people of FanRes - I'll put them on my own YouTube channel in time.

A few screens:

Dolby Stereo - Our Feature Presentation

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Dolby Stereo - For Your Listening Pleasure

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Dolby SR - For Your Listening Pleasure

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The Criterion Collection laserdisc of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the only release that features the complete original mono score recording. All other releases are either remixes or reinterpretations. Having the original recording would mean the world to me. If anyone has this disc, I would love the isolated score and effects track, and would be willing to make a donation. Thank you very much! :)

I've only ever seen this as a non anamorphic release. I have the Anchor Bay DVD release from several years back and while it is or had also been available directly from Disney that DVD release is also non anamorphic. Does anyone have a preferred method for converting letterboxed to anamorphic and up scaling. I'm thinking something like what was done to the Star Wars DVD versions that HARMY used in the initial Despecialized edits. I could probably count on one hand how many people I know who have even heard of this much less like it. I assume I can do what I want in avisynth but on the off chance that someone familiar with scripting is on here and likes the movie as well, I wanted to check.

I've been offered a Philips 4-heads Hi-Fi VCR model VR502-08 for 40 euro shipped. I can't find info on it and I was wondering if it's worth it. I could do with a spare VCR in case mine breaks. I want to know if it's take it or pass.

How do I open and convert mxf files? I have some USB sticks from distribution with official trailers in them. They are in 2K and it would be nice to convert them into MP4 or similar formats.