So this is a project that I have been working on a couple of months. Sort of a fun throw away. The goal is to upscale old DVDs so that they are more watchable on newer technology (ie HD). I found myself still watching old interesting DVDs. Most were open matte, some interesting color schemes or simple the movie didn't exist in HD. The problem was that many of the transfer were showing their age. So my goal became to process upscale these DVDs to look as best as I could get them (probably other could do better but I wanted to see what I could do).

Problem is I can't magically make SD into HD. You can never create detail that isn't there but what I can do is make the old SD transfers look more like 35mm film. Remove EE and macro blocking. Re-grain the footage with real grain that was filtered out. And best of all, I can also take all the sources I have been collecting and hopefully color correct these upscales to hopefully look more like they did in the theater. Or at least a fun alternative.
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The original projects are in the next post. Come 2022 I'm going to re-boot this project

Hi all,

I have the new 4k UHD and BD set and the atmos audio is pointless!
Anyone have any of the LD release they can rip and sync to a bd rip at the correct frame rate?

http://www.tntdrama.com/schedule/index.html

Starting at 8pm with Phantom Menace if someone would cap them to see if we get something nice for projects.

Hi. I wonder if it's possible on this forum to have a special sticky thread about custom artworks that could be shared, showed, discussed & requested ?

By artworks I mean anything related to projects happening here, like DVD/Blu-Ray covers, title cards (openings & endings) reconstructions or recreations, Posters (custom & originals), etc.

I think personally the forum & all the projects happening here could benefit from this. Don't you agree ?

Can we make this happen ?

Thanks to answer

EDITED 9/17/2016 @ 1:00 am PST - DUE TO VIOLATION OF FORUM RULES - ADMIN - Jerry

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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