I had some time, I had some computer bandwidth, and I have a copy of Topaz Video Enhance. So I put the Enter the Matrix cutscenes through an upscale, using the Proteus Fine Tune with a "decompress" setting of about 11.

I'd love feedback, knowledge, tips, notes...really anything! I'm sharing just to give back to y'all fine folks.

From Blu-Ray.com reviewing Scream Factory Blu-Ray of Screamers

Quote:Scream has only supplied a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo mix. According to my research, Screamers did receive a DTS presentation in select theaters as well as Sony Dynamic Digital Sound. This is one sound presentation that deserves a lossless 5.1 mix (at minimum). Scream has encoded the stereo at just 1614 kbps (24-bit). I kept wanting the surrounds to come alive because the f/x produced distinct separation along the fronts and were quite active. When Jack Matthews reviewed the film for the Los Angeles Times he apparently heard it with at least Dolby Digital 5.1, noting that the Screamers' buzz-saws eject "a brain-piercing shriek that will tear the covers off your theater's surround-sound speakers." He also wrote that the sound track has a decibel rating of about 120. The Philadelphia Inquirer's Bonnie Britton advised her readers to see Screamers "in a theater equipped with a good sound system." Unfortunately, this sounds like a missed opportunity for Scream. I also felt that the dialogue sounded too murmured and muffled (perhaps by design) as I had to frequently adjust the volume. Composer Normand Corbeil's score sounds like warmed-up Bill Conti, which is a plus but it isn't that original.

I have it on good authority that the original cut of Superman 2 is streaming on Apple TV and Vudu. The pre bluray master without the revisionist colour timing and blown out whites. Is anyone in a position to capture this version. The last time it was available was a HDTV rip that's been missing online for about a decade.

I'm restoring old SD footage.. whoever encoded it did a "half" de-interlace where fast motion is all blurred, but you can still see the jaggy interlacing lines on edges of arms and faces.. ugh.
I've tried:
-de-interlace 29.97 > 29.97 (no dice)
-frame doubler > 59.94 (line jaggies mostly removed, but bizarre blur's still there..)
-de-interlace 29.97 + motion interpolation to 59.94 (all jaggies gone, blur's still there)
I've thought of doing an inverse telecine > 23.976, then do motion interpolation to 48fps... but I think the jitter from the dropped frames will make it look visibly worse, stuttery
I don't really know how to use QTGMC; I have Topaz VEAI, Rife/DAIN FF, Virtualdub, lots of editing programs..
I've already tried Dione deinterlace in VEAI and Resolve's AI Deinterlacer.
I think I need to invoke some clever AI where I know what I'm doing...
Any tricks, tips, ideas?

I'm trying to sync a BD audio track with a DVD. I've only ever edited Dolby Digital mono tracks. In Reaper. But that re-encodes. I know you can do it through MKVToolNix, but I can't find the option and I don't know if it lets you easily compare the two audio sources as you are working. What's the easiest and free way to do it? The BD is missing 8 seconds of frames present in the DVD, so I can't just set a delay.

Hey all,

Got some NTSC DVD's I've ripped and am looking to edit/encode but they have variable frame rates. I've tried encoding in Virtualdub but it changes the frame rate to a constant 29.970 and introduces noticable stutter.

Just wondering what the best way around this is if anyone can help?



Thanks

Killing Zoe has been released on blu ray in France and Japan as the Director's Cut. These releases do not contain subtitles for the French dialogue sections, they only contain 5.1 audio and they have a washed out color grade. There is also a UK blu ray of the Theatrical Cut which is reported to be similar to VHS quality.

This project is an attempt to fix those issues. The original Dolby Surround track has been captured from the laserdisc (thanks @williarob). The 5.1 from the blu ray has been downmixed to a 2.0 track using the Dolby Pro Logic I encoder in BeSweet. These two tracks have then been merged, using the LD for the majority and only reverting to the BD for the extra scenes. I tried to match the levels you may notice some changes, but I think it sounds pretty good. The majority of it is Dolby Surround.

The color has been taken from the laserdisc. The laserdisc does not look perfect, it's a lot better than the blu as it has nice warm and bright colors, but it might be a bit too much for some people. Truth be told I have no idea how this movie is supposed to look, I did reach out to the director but did not hear anything back. I think the LD is the best reference, although I did run it through a CRT LUT first to tone down some of the red.

The Blu Ray also suffers from blown highlights, particularly lights during the bank. I did try to patch this in from the DVD but I found it very difficult and did not get satisfactory results so there have been left as they are in the blu ray.

The subtitles have been retimed where necessary, including some brand new translations by @Stamper. There is a sub track for just the French sections and a full SDH track with the French and English sections.

Since it's only available on an awful looking UK Blu Ray I've also included the theatrical cut, that uses the complete LD track. The blu ray has been cut to match the laserdisc and where necessary a few DVD shots have been used. However as this DC is really just additional violence I don't see a need to revisit the TC, but it's there for completists.

Also I noticed the subtitles differ between the DC translation and the LD translation - there is a scene where one of the characters tells a joke and in the LD he talks about a woman's belly button, in the DC translation he talks about... well something else. So I have used the belly button version for the TC subtitles and the x rated version for the DC subtitles.

So hopefully this is a much better presentation than the standard Blu Ray.

• 2 x BD25 with animated menus, background video, pop up menus and resume function
  
• 1080P AVC Video
  
• English 2.0 Laserdisc PCM Hybird (DC only)
  
• English 2.0 Laserdisc PCM (TC only)
  
• English 5.1 DTS-HD (DC only)
  
• French 5.1 DTS-HD (DC only)
  
• Audio Commentary with Director Roger Avary (DC only)
  
• English SDH and French Section Subtitles
  
• French Subtitles (DC only)
  
• Shooting Zoe Documentary
  
• Making Of
  
• Interviews with Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hughes Anglade and Roger Avary
  
• Deleted Scenes
  
• Image Gallery
  
• Trailer
  

I can't access your site sometime in my region?
https://iswebupordown.com/status/fanrestore.com (check) you will know.

It's been observed by myself and others that dual mono tracks on LD always have a minor volume difference between the L and R channels. I believe the reason for this is to prevent everything being sent to the centre speaker by a Dolby Pro Logic receiver.

Dual mono tracks on modern formats don't seem to do this and have identical L and R channels. So my question is; are modern receivers able to distinguish between plain 2.0 stereo tracks and matrixed DPL 2.0 tracks in a way that LD-era amps could not?

The reason I ask is that I've previously been 'correcting' all of my LD mono tracks by deleting one channel and then duplicating the other prior to muxing. But I'm worried that by doing so I'm dooming everything to the centre speaker on a multi-channel receiver. I only have a 2-channel set up currently so I'm unable to test any of this for myself.

Hello

Does anyone have the Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track from the 70th anniversary Blu-ray or DVD?

I have the older 60th anniversary DVD which contains only the 5.1 remix. I don't know what the 70th DVD looks like, but 60th hasn't been grained scrubbed like the Blu-ray.

Thanks.