hi there.

Hi everyone, I found my way here from a Star Wars fan restoration galaxy not too far away. I'm excited to learn more about the work being done here

Quote:In addition to different animation when Grandma talks to Garfield about Grandpa, the original 1987 version features some slightly extended scenes that were removed in 1991 to make room for the "O Christmas Tree" scene. These scenes include: · An extended sequence of Jon, Odie, and Garfield leaving their home for the farm (showing the car start, pull out of the driveway, and travel down a street before leaving the city limits). · Grandma feeds Garfield and Odie potatoes from the table before feeding them ham. · Dad's reaction to Grandma's comment about eating for two is slightly longer. · Dad looks dazed as the family leaves for bed after he finishes reading "Binky: the Clown Who Saved Christmas", whereas in the 1991 version, he looks mildly annoyed. · The music and sequence of the family going to bed for the night is slightly longer, showing the lights in the house going off. · The musical intro to "You Can Never Find an Elf When You Need One" is longer.

Tears Of The Sun had a longer Director's Cut released on DVD but this has been absent from the Blu Ray. I used the US DVD, took the extra footage and went through a process of de-haloing, cleaning, upscaling and sharpening. I used both avisynth and topaz for this. Then I regrained the footage in After Effects using a section of the blu ray grain. Thankfully the color grading was the same so no additional colour grading was necessary.

The blu ray is not the best looking, this also had edge enhancement so I applied de-haloing to this as well. I then rebuilt the movie using both sources and matched it frame for frame to the DVD. The audio is the 5.1 AC3 from the DVD untouched. In terms of the extras everything is ported from the DVD.

The final result is not perfect and I found that some of the extra footage, even in the DVD, looked lower quality then the rest of the footage. However I did the best I could.

• BD25 with a menu, background video, pop up menu and resume function
  
• 1080P taken from the Blu Ray
  
• English 5.1 AC3
  
• English SDH Subtitles
  
• Journey to Safety: The Making of Tears of the Sun
  
• Voices of Africa featurettes
  
• Trailer
  

Hi there, 

Just your average purist here, interested in preservation, original mixes and so forth

RCV DVD Region2 PAL synced to the Arrow UHD.
Audio overall is way better than whats on the Blu-ray.

Notes: Converted to flac with speed corrections and synced 
Spectrogram - https://slow.pics/c/icgrfOv5

PM for links.

I have been into movies and cinema sound since my first visit to what was the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square. The THX sound system there blew me away! I now install high end home cinema for a living.

I loved Prey. I felt it was a great addition to the Predator franchise.

Being Native American, I was completely blown away that they made a Comanche dub, and it works quite well for the film!

Of course, cause nothing can just be perfect, the English subtitles for both the streaming version AND the physical 4K disc/Blu-ray can't just be plain ol' English subtitles, they also include details such as sound effects spelled out between dialogue! This infuriates me when I try to watch the Comanche dub, which is my preferred version.

Would anyone be able to take up the task to create a new English subtitle track that only retains the dialogue?? I just wanted to throw the idea out there in case anyone would know how to do that. Thanks.

Hello! I'm a longtime lurker in film school right for editing right now. I love everything about what goes on here and hope to be a part of it.

Hey everybody!

Longtime lurker & lover of all things film preservation and restoration. I've learnt so much over the years from this great community.

I thought it was about time that I finally started contributing here.

Thanks for having me!