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Backdraft (1991) :: Audio Sync :: LD [41131] to UHD



Movie: Backdraft (1991)
Source: Universal LD [41131] - 3 Sides | Synced to: Universal UHD
Input: PCM 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect) | Output: FLAC 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced: Soundman | Ripped: Soundman | Synced: BlightedTomato

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I have a decent enough VCR I believe. What would be the best and/or easiest means to capture VHS? Also curious what filtering processes ought to be performed during capturing or after the fact. Thanks.

What would be the best and/or easiest way to go about this? I want to work on The Phantom Menace, using the 4K UHD as the primary source. Thanks.

Anyone have OG stereo tracks for the following films?

1. Above the Law.
2. Hard to Kill
3. Out for Justice

DVD/BDs are 5.1 remixes only.

And given Steve's current below zero popularity I can't see Warners rushing to put these out on UHD...

Interestingly, despite AOTC having been apparently shot mostly on cameras that only had REC709 color gamut, it seems that many SFX expanded to wide gamut colors, at least for cyan/aqua/turquoise type colors and they seem to have also maybe gone in post and made the Pantoran(?) on the left of the first set of images look way more intense than sRGB/REC709 standard gamut colors can show.

Also interesting and weird, is that the UHD release, although it should be able to show wide gamut colors easily, does not seem to show these wide gamut cyan/aqua/turquoise colors much, if at all, and it almost seems like they locked the post theatrical release workflow for AOTC (and think maybe all three prequels) into standard gamut REC709 at some early point and are now stuck with it?? Either that or maybe the transfer to print film simply way hyped up some of the colors in that part of the spectrum and that is not how it was intended to look even if it was how most people saw AOTC most or all of the time. But it sort of seems almost like they clipped the colors at some point and got stuck with that unless they go back from scratch and rebuild all the post theatrical changes made to the prequels?
 
Here are some demos that show the differences between how AOTC looks when you have wide gamut color palette available vs. when it is restricted to sRGB/REC709 color palette (of course you need to use fully color-managed browser/viewer and have a wide gamut display set to wide gamut display mode with proper display profile installed in order to see the differences, and in some cases, to even see the WG labelled images properly at all). For each pair SG is first and WG is second (should be obvious on a properly set up wide gamut display):

The Conformist (1970) original mono to UHD

Just receive the italian UHD, the italian and english tracks aren't synced properly at the beginning...

Thanks for the help

I imported the German Mediabook release a few years ago, which does contain a 2.0 track, but I'm not sure on the source used. I don't believe it is a simple  mixdown, but I also don't think it's the original track.

I'm looking for the early laderdisc mono, or DVD track if the latter is confirmed to be the original track.

Hey new here although the bar above the page says i'm a lurker from 2021 apparently, spend a lot of time upscaling or cleaning up long forgotton shows or tv movies where official releases, transfers or materials have not been available, was looking to see what anybody may have regarding the theatrical cut of 1979 Salem's lot and 1986's In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro?

Here's a brief clip comparing the Criterion Blu-ray and the recent Kino 4K.  Only a minute but shows everything you need to know:
https://files.catbox.moe/4sjymi.mp4

The Kino people did nothing right with the audio. Just wondering if anyone has gone back to LDs, etc. to see if the sound is any better there; the Criterion is missing a lot of detail also.