Hi all, very excited to find this site
I'm loving reading through the work on audio that's been done here!

Topaz VEAI 3.0 is out, lots of bugs unfortunately

https://community.topazlabs.com/t/topaz-...0/35818/67


I'll wait for the next update

So, I was planning my first HD preservation.  After much trial and error I picked some editing software that works well for me.

The movie: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear.  Briefly: The U.S. DVD has an extended cut running 12 minutes longer, there is no U.S. blu-ray and the international discs are the original TV runtime.

I snagged the extended cut from TubiTV.  It's low bitrate @ 2.4GB.  I was going to edit it with a Blu-ray source, inserting the missing pieces and swapping at least one wrong shot compared to the U.S. DVD.  I also planned to sync it to the DVD audio since Tubi does stereo AAC and the BD is only 640kbps 5.1, hardly worth editing the audio tracks and re-encoding.

That's when something interesting happened.  I started playing around with AnyStream.  The free version can do Amazon Prime (which I don't have), but it can, as a result, rip freevee... which has the extended cut of the movie weighing in at 10.3GB with 640kbps 5.1 DD+.  Hardly worth editing at all now.

Except: The freevee 5.1 audio has (at the very least) the center and right audio channels swapped.  I haven't aggressively tested the rear or LFE channels to see in they're in the right place.

My first thought was just to, again, sync the DVD audio.  Except freevee's version is 24fps, not 23.976 like my other three sources.  So I guess not only do I have to resync the track, I need to adjust the frame rate... which means the same needs to be done for the subtitles, and yeah, now I'm hating this.

The stereo track on freevee seems okay, but that doesn't help.  I don't know if a lower bitrate 5.1 track would be in better shape or not.

I guess I could swap the audio channels, but AFAIK, there is no way to do that without decoding to 6 WAV files, re-arranging and re-encoding... to 5.1 PCM? FLAC?

Anyone have any good suggestions, because I hate all the answers.

Someone went on the Deluxe site for theater releases, looks like Universal is re-releasing some movies for some flashback screenings and They noticed that Back to the Future is one of them and the strange thing is the date on the CPL, its dated 2021.

Is there a newer transfer now that may eclipse the 4K? Or is it when the existing 4k transfer may have been downloaded onto a DCP file?

Hi,

I was wondering if there's a way of coloring subtitles in this color in HDR color space, working on an SDR monitor? Is there a way of knowing what should color be in SDR to look a certain way in HDR color space?

Hello, has anyone here in this community captured the original mono mix from either the 81' or 91' Laserdiscs?:

1981 LD:
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/20318/LV-1305/Airplane!

1991 LD:
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/20319/LV-1305/Airplane!

Since all we have is the 5.1 remix, I am planning to sync either mono track to the recently restored blu-ray that was released a couple years ago. If anyone has captured them, would you send them to me so I can sync it and make it available to everyone else? Thanks for helping!

Hi, one of the problems in Blu-Ray / UHD is their color calibration which often does not suit everyone.
Would it be possible to use HDR metadata to create multiple color calibration in one file?
For example, Matrix in HDR10+ would be like 2000s green calibration, HDR10 would be like cinema 35mm, and Dolby Vision would be like the actual UHD BD

Back to the future 1 and 2 terminator 1 and 2 plus the Jurassic park films that were grain reduced or can get them do a 4k scan of them with Dolby vision grade to give them the treatment that should have been given to them.

I figured out how to import *.mkv (also w/ DTS-HD MA support) directly into Premiere w/out re-encoding.

Use case: losslessly transcode a blu-ray to MKV without re-encode and keep the DTS track in-tact, edit 5.1 in Premiere, DM me for details

The Beach is one of those movies like True Lies and The Abyss that is completely absent from Blu Ray. And whilst it's not on the same level as those movies I have a soft spot for it.

There are two different HD versions floating around, a HDTV recording in the original aspect ratio and a cropped open matte WebDL. For this project I used AutoOverlay (I actually got it to work!!) to place the WebDL on top of the HDTV, as the WebDL was higher quality. Color was matched to the HDTV, so the far left and right side of the image is from the HDTV and the rest is from the open matte. The matching worked great, aside from two shots everything lined up perfectly.

Next that file was run through upscaling/downscaling, cleaning, slight sharpening and dehaloing in AviSynth. Then into Phoenix for dirt and dust removal. Finally into After Effects for re-graining. I did not fully trust either the open matte or HDTV to have an accurate representation of the grain due to the lower quality of the clearly older master, therefore I used the match grain function and matched it to Gangs of New York - which according to imdb was shot on the same negative stock.

Thanks to @PDB for some AutoOverlay guidance.

I would have loved to get the Laserdisc audio for this but sadly it's a very rare and very expensive disc - the only one I could find was on eBay for $900! So the audio tracks and extras have all been ported over from the DVD, along with a few interviews I found on youtube. English SDH subtitles are also included, but these required a lot of manual retiming. Some appeared early, some on time and some late, it was all over the place.

• BD25 with animated menus, background video, pop up menus and resume function
  
• 1080P AVC Video
  
• English AC3 5.1 448 KBPS from the DVD
  
• English AC3 2.0 192 KBPS from the DVD
  
• French AC3 2.0 192 KBPS from the DVD
  
• Audio Commentary by Director Danny Boyle from the DVD
  
• English SDH, French, German, Italian and Spanish Subtitles
  
• Making Of
  
• Deleted Scenes
  
• Entertainment Tonight Segment
  
• Take2Mark Interview
  
• The Priory Segment
  
• Music Video
  
• Theatrical Trailers, Teaser Trailer and TV Spots