Hello! I've enjoyed fan edits and fan preservation for years and thought I should finally sign up for an account.

Here to find some old gems and hidden gems I've missed to watch in my childhood. 

Mostly looking into some HK films for my parents to watch. But appreciate a little nostalgia myself here and there.

This is my complete fan restoration of Michael Mann's Manhunter, which I made back in 2007.

I used the 4 different cuts of this movie, available in 4 different DVDs and included all scenes in these 4 cuts, and included all deleted scenes in these DVDs. These cuts do not exist in modern blue rays, so it's impossible to recreate a complete cut of this move in 1080p quality.

Unlike other encodes of that era, mine preserved the full DVD resolution and aspect ratio of 720 X 304 @23.976fps, and was enconded with xvid, however rather than the encodes of that era, my encode, after careful study of the xvid codec settings, was done with a view to fully persevere the quality, (and only as a second priority at the lowest possible file size). giving a final size of 2.26 GB, rather than 1.4GB which was a common file size that era. This size is similar on how a DVD9 would encode today on the x265 codec today, on a dual pass mode at maximal quality settings.

For compatibility with modern players and TVs, I reencoded this in a modern mkv container and the x265 codec dual pass at maximal quality settings and the original 720x304 resolution, resulting in a file size of 2.28GB, which proves the above point.

The audio is still the original 5.1 audio from the DVD, AC3 codec @ 448kbps.

The approach I followed here (recreating a complete cut, incorporating all scenes) is the same as leonenut's (whose encode of this movie can still be found on archive dot org), with 2 key differences.

1) From a visual point of view, my encode is of a significantly higher quality than leonenut's 

2) Unlike leonenut, I used as a base the DVD which had a color coding resulting in vibrant and fluorescent colors, which in my view, captures the cult status and late 80s spirit of this movie far better. Please see linked images for details.



Movie duration is 2:10:32

Please message me for a download link

Howdy, I'm new to this site but by no means new to the fanedit community. I've contributed multiple hard to find files to editors on the other forums, including reddit and fanedits.org, and I run several terabytes of seedboxes dedicated to providing communities with access to great art by fans!

Hello, glad to be able to join this community, warmest regards

hi, joined because of my interest in fan restoration, especially those focused in the updating of subtitles in languages that differ from the original.

I have come for the bourne ludlum cut!

hello!
happy to find such a site.
warm regards.

I've only joined this forum to get my hands on the theatrical cut 35mm grindhouse print of Highlander II.
I hope someone here finds a film print of the movie Stepfather II: Make Room For Daddy (1989), so it can one day be released.

Hey, guys.

The past two nights, I've been reconstructing the open matte theatrical cut of The Frighteners using mostly the open matte director's cut remastered 1080p Blu-ray from the German UHD+BD pack, and the AMZN/STARZ open matte theatrical cut of the old master. I also used the movie-censorship website as a guide. Some shots, exclusive to the theatrical cut, were taken from the old master, others more complete on the old master were used as well, since the change of masters would stick out mid-shot, plus the framings are different between the two masters. In fact, the old master is often more generous in its openness, but the remaster looks healthier, naturally defined with no edge enhancement. Obviously, I did my best with color correction and cutting back a bit on the edge enhancement of the old master parts I used so that they blend in better. And finally, I had to use the old master for the bright shots in heaven during the climax, because the 1080p SDR remaster is overly bright in the highlights, beyond repair (see examples below). The UHD HDR is fine in those shots but not open matte, so I couldn't use it.




Audiowise, I plan to include the English and German tracks from the UHD+BD pack, plus the English and French tracks from the Universal Blu-ray.
I couldn't find a lead to a Laserdisc or theatrical dts track that was ever synchronized by anyone here. Does anybody have anything relevant to provide in that department?

Subtitlewise, I plan to include the English and German tracks from the UHD+BD pack, plus French subtitles that I will rearrange from the original file.