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| Dune (1984) - 70mm Mix ['98 Universal DVD 5.1] synced to Koch 4K Master |
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Posted by: spo0n - 2025-09-26, 05:36 AM - Forum: Released
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Dune was released in 70mm during it's original theatrical release with a 6-Track Dolby Stereo Mix
"The 70mm prints of “Dune” featured magnetic Six-Track Dolby Stereo (“A” encoded Baby Boom format [Dolby processor setting “42”]) and 2.20:1 imagery blown up from anamorphic 35mm and provided a superior projection and sound experience in comparison to the film’s 35mm prints."
Source: https://www.in70mm.com/presents/1963_blo.../index.htm
In my research, I found evidence that the 5.1 track on 1998 Universal DVD had duped mono surrounds as well as matrixing in the spectrogram. Referencing with other 70mm mixes from around the same time seems to make a strong case for this being the 70mm 6-Track mix. This mix noticeably has less distortion in the surround channels and slightly cleaner dialogue than the modern 5.1 mix.
This track is available in FLAC 5.1, it syncs to the Koch 4K master (Arrow US/GBR BD, Koch DEBD/4K). If you need the audio in any other format feel free to state in the PM. Freely available to any account new and old.
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| The Terminator (1984) German 35mm DVD Colors |
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Posted by: sanjuro_61 - 2025-09-23, 02:28 PM - Forum: Released
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Hey guys.
Well, yet another regrade arises. There have been a handful of people that have done a regrade before me, but as far as I know, no one used that legendary 35mm print sourced german DVD as reference before. I did. I found a divx in my old friend called emule
People that have seen this theatrically have reported it looked pretty close to the remastered bluray. Even more teal in some places, less so in others. That Ger DVD does look very much like the bluray. Some shots look more teal, others less so. Sometimes it tends to look a bit too much green, so having a certain tolerance when tweaking the colors is common sense.
The upscaled 4K version is also available, naturalised: I did some processing (dynamic dehaloing, some lens blur, regraining...) to make it look less artificial, and more filmic. It's still far from ideal, though (IMO, the 1080p is the way to go).
The two mono mixes (original and MGM) are included here. To whoever shared the laserdisc lossless audio, thank you!
I fixed the sync problems, tape dropouts, and added a bit of eq to the original one.
So:
- 1080p (35.7 GB) and upscaled 4K (57 GB) regraded using the 35mm print sourced german DVD as reference.
- Naturalised 4K.
- MGM mono mix, and original mono mix synchronized and fixed included.
- Harlan Ellison works not aknowledged.
Galleries:
1080p -> https://postimg.cc/gallery/fLGp2Dk
upscaled 4K -> https://postimg.cc/gallery/d306jfj
Mutisubs included (same ones as the original discs).
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| Star Wars - The Phantom Menace (1999) - 1080p - Reconstructed TC |
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Posted by: sanjuro_61 - 2025-09-23, 02:25 PM - Forum: Released
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Hey guys.
I've had this project in the vault for some time.
This is a reconstruction of the theatrical cut of The Phantom Menace, using the Bluray as source. The missing/digitally altered/puppet yoda shots have been replaced with either the 35mm print that has been floating around for a while, or in some cases, the HDTV version (sometimes the HDTV is just better, and it doesn't have any missing frames!). All of them cleaned and graded to match the colors of the BD. The shot of mace Windu and Yoda in Qi Gong's funeral was a real pain in the ass to process (that flickering light... omg).
And, yes, I tweaked the colors of the film, mostly to tame the magenta push. A few scenes required more work to match the 35mm. Overall, the 35mm is not all that different from the bluray colors.
There is some additional processing to make it look more filmic: dehaloing, playing with soften and sharpen, adding a fine layer of grain...
It's been a while, since I did this one, but the audio track does include those "Vote now!" lines, buried in the mix in home versions.
Gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/nQvNLtc
34.3 GB
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Audio: FLAC (framed) 48000Hz 6ch 6912kbps [A: English 5.1 - Lossless [eng] (flac, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s24) [default]]
Audio: FLAC (framed) 48000Hz 6ch 6912kbps [A: Español 5.1 - Lossless [spa] (flac, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s24) [default]]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 640kbps [A: English 5.1 - AC3 [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), 640 kb/s) [default]]
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Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: English Forced [eng] (subrip) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Español Forzados [spa] (subrip) [default]]
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Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: English [eng] (subrip) [default]]
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| Fantasia (1940) 1080p - Reconstructed 1946 Cut (uncensored) |
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Posted by: sanjuro_61 - 2025-09-23, 02:24 PM - Forum: Released
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Hey guys.
Bringing you more stuff.
This is a reconstruction of the 1946 cut of Fantasia. Or perhaps I should say the home video cut, as I used the DVD as reference (title card at the beginning, and end credits).
I used the bluray as source, and the 35mm scan floating around for the uncensored shots (cleaned, enhanced, regraded and regrained). For the interludes, I used the DVD, upscaled, and enhanced the missing scenes, color correcting them to match the bluray interludes grading. Obviously, they're not gonna look as good as a native HD, but I'm happy with the results. I did not regrade the film, except for the said censored shots and the interludes.
I had a bad surprise regarding the audio, though. There is a another restoration floating around that used the laserdisc audio (there seems to be a LD rip and two versions using the DVD as video source). I thought that audio would be in sync with the home video cut... but I was wrong. The guy who did the restoration edited the video, cutting(?) and duplicating frames to syncronize it to the audio. I looked for an alternative audio source, and we were lucky: the spanish dub included in the DVD is the closest (pretty much iddentical, except for the slightly reduced dynamics) to the laserdisc audio. I just needed to add the english interludes narration (no big deal).
But there's more! If you open the LD audio with an editor you'll see it's capped at around 8000Hz, that's why it sound so muffled. I did some work on it, applying several filters to extrapolate the high frequencies (quite an interesting time I had doing this...). The end result is very good. Not going to sound as good as a modern recording (Kostal version, or any other), but it sounds like a huge blanket has been removed from the speakers.
Gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/qTwSQny
25.8 GB
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Audio: PCM 48000Hz stereo 1536kbps [A: Fantasound 90 - Español [spa] (pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s) [default]]
Audio: PCM 48000Hz stereo 1536kbps [A: Fantasound 90 - English [eng] (pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Español [spa] (subrip) [default]]
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| Seven (Se7en) (1995) Regrade - Criterion CCE LD colors (Theatrical Mix Added) |
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Posted by: sanjuro_61 - 2025-09-23, 02:23 PM - Forum: Released
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Hey guys.
I know there's a version called CCEHD around, but I haven't seen it. I don't know how good my regrade is compared to that version.
As the title says, this is a regrade using the Criterion CCE Laserdisc grading as color reference (actually the first DVD, which used the same master). I used the old bluray as source for my regrade, replacing as many black crushed shots as I could, using the 4K as replacement, avoiding, of course, those awfully digitally tweaked shots. There are also a handful of shots from the canadian and dutch blurays, degrained/denoised, AI enhanced and regrained for consistency.
The digital tweaks probably started in that very first Criterion release (rudimentary power windows), in fact, some shots have been tweaked differently though the years. Like I said, the old bluray is the basis here, still, I replaced a couple of shots that didn't have crushed blacks, but they did have noticeable digital pans, where previous releases (dutch and/or canadian blu rays) didn't. There are still two shots (that I noticed) that have camera stabilization, compared to the 35mm scan floating around (BTW, the scan I've seen doesn't look like I would expect from a bleach bypass process).
Something I'm not entirely satisfied with: the x264 encoding is 8bit, but like I said, I've used many shots from the 4K (which is 10bit). I can see some occasional banding in dark areas because of the conversion.
The audio in this release is the one from the dutch bluray, and, yes!, it does include those lines: "...he's not even 30 years old", "...hot shot...". Good news here. 
Gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/2VY9Pb9
- 43.1 GB
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Audio: DTS 48000Hz 6ch 4608kbps [A: English [eng] (dts-hd ma, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16) [default]]
Audio: PCM 44100Hz 6ch 4233kbps [A: Theatrical Mix [eng] (pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 6 channels, s16, 4233 kb/s) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Español [spa] (subrip) [default]]
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| The Matrix (1999) Regraded (4K) & Degreened (1080p) - v2.0 |
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Posted by: sanjuro_61 - 2025-09-23, 02:21 PM - Forum: Released
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Hey guys.
It seems there's a time limit to post messages, so I'll try to be brief.
So, double feature!
As the title says, this is an upgraded/polished 2.0 release of The Matrix. I used a nice collection of 35mm film cells as reference for grading.
When I did the 1080p degreened version (the first version) I noticed that it matched most of the cells just by removing that awful green blanket, which gave me confidence to finish what started just as a fun project. There were some other shots here and there that required further tweaking, and here the 35mm scan that's been floating around for some time came in handy. It looks horrible, but can help for this little things, like "Neo in boss' office". The 35mm suggests it should look cooler than the old bluray, more like the 4K or the first DVD.
What I did for v2.0 is polishing the already quite nice first degreened version (I found some more 35mm cells!). Then, I used this degreened version as reference for the 4K release, which is an obvious upgrade from the first grading (and no, I don't have it anymore). There can be some slight differences (brightness, contrast, saturation... nothing too drastic).
The degreened 1080p it's already nice. The 4K regrade?, get this 2.0 version without hesitating.
Both the 1080p and 4K include the Cinema DTS track!
Gallery degreened 1080p: https://postimg.cc/gallery/q6Pbp4V
Gallery regraded 4K: https://postimg.cc/gallery/pWXwGjG
4K
-59.3 GB
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Audio: DTS 48000Hz 6ch 4608kbps [A: English Master Audio [eng] (dts-hd ma, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16) [default]]
Audio: DTS 48000Hz 6ch 4608kbps [A: Original 1999 5-track Cinema DTS [eng] (dts-hd ma, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Español [spa] (subrip) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: English [eng] (subrip) [default]]
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1080p
-35.7 GB
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Audio: DTS 48000Hz 6ch 4608kbps [A: English Master Audio [eng] (dts-hd ma, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16) [default]]
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Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Español [spa] (subrip) [default]]
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| The Color Of Night (1994) Uncensored Director's Cut (1080p) |
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Posted by: sanjuro_61 - 2025-09-23, 02:19 PM - Forum: Released
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...or if you like, "Meat Popsicle Edition".
Hey guys.
Not much to say about this one. I don't think there are many fans of this film, one of those guilty pleasure kind of films for me, perhaps for some of you too.
Here it is in all it's glory, fully uncut and uncensored. The way it should be.
For the missing/censored shots I used the euro DVD, AI upscaled/enhanced, then regraded to match the colors of the bluray, and regrained for consistency.
That's pretty much all about it.
I corrected the contrast, and colors a little bit.
Gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/7k3RSW7
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Audio: PCM 48000Hz stereo 2304kbps [A: pcm_s24le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s24, 2304 kb/s [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Español [spa] (subrip) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Inglés [eng] (subrip) [default]]
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