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Good evening everyone, I'm Daniel.
A sound enthusiast with a knack for movies, I'm here to contribute with projects and learn more about preservation.
Thank you all for having me.

• Uses the blu-ray the whole time, except for that censored part, which uses the R2 DVD to fill that part in.
  
• File format: MKV: 17.22 GB
  
• 24 frames per second, and yes, that's genuine 24fps, NOT the typical HD frame rate of 23.976 fps. And don't worry, I remembered to adjust it properly for speed (I know what I'm doing  )
  
• Audio format: 5.1-channel Dolby True HD
  

• This is the R2 PAL DVD from the UK. I left it in the original PAL resolution
  
• File Format: MKV: 5GB
  
• 24 Frames per second (true film frame rate and speed)
  
• Audio format: 5.1-channel Dolby True HD (exact same audio as my HD version)
  

Proof of Life has not been released on Blu Ray. There are a few digital HD options, a couple of WebDL’s which are open matte and a HDTV recording which is in the original 2:35:1. The base of my project is the HDTV recording. I did look at overlaying the open matte onto the HDTV and cropping to 2:35:1 but it didn’t make a massive difference to my eyes and the open matte has burned in subtitles during non English dialogue which look out of place in a 2:35:1 frame as they are too far down the picture.

The HDTV was cropped, upscaled slightly, de-haloed and cleaned in Avisynth. That was then taken into Topaz for some further cleaning/deblocking. Then it was dust cleaned on an automatic pass as the print suffers with quite a few white specks. It was then adjusted slightly so it matched the DVD frame count and finally the red levels were toned down in Premiere using a CRT LUT.

There was an instance of pixelization/video breakup at one point on the HDTV recording. I tried AutoOverlay, overlaying the open matte onto the HDTV and then overlaying the open matte onto the DVD but neither got ideal results. In the end I upscaled the shot from the DVD, cleaned it a little and color corrected it.

The next problem was the lack of burned in subtitles on the HDTV recording, as all the subtitles I could find online did not contains these. In the end they were transcribed line at a time. Just a note for anyone ripping this to mkv, you must include the first English subtitle track if you want to see the non English dialogue translation.

Another problem, the burned in DVD subtitles also include the names of locations and at various points the number of days in captivity. Originally I included these in the subtitle files but the problem was that in several places normal dialogue was being spoken at the same time, which interfered with them. Therefore using Premiere I have burned in just the locations names and number of days, matching the font, color, size and shadow of the DVD. All non English dialogue is still via selectable subs. Not ideal but no choice really and on every version apart from the HDTV recording they are already burned in.

Then in terms of sound the Cinema DTS was synced. This was decoded in foobar2000. Speed change, surround/LFE changes (-3 on surround, +6 on the LFE) and dithering in Izotope using auto blanking. It was then encoded as a DTS-HD file with the -21ms offset baked in. That opening scene in Chechnya was loud!

Also included are the DVD English 5.1 track and the Audio Commentary. In terms of the extras everything is ported from the DVD, plus some interviews I found on YouTube and a 75 minute behind the scenes/location scouting segment!

• BD25 with a menu, background video, pop up menu and resume function
  
• 1080P taken from the HDTV with cleanup/color grading
  
• English 5.1 Cinema DTS
  
• English 5.1 AC3 and Audio Commentary taken from the DVD
  
• English Foreign Dialogue only, English SDH, French, German, Italian and Spanish subtitles
  
• Making Of
  
• Behind The Scenes
  
• Cast Interviews
  
• Ebert At The Movies (does suffer from baked in interlacing artifacts)
  
• Trailer
  

Hey, everyone. Long time lurker here. Hope to be fairly active going forward!

Here's an interesting thought...

The 1957 TV production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella was broadcast live and thought lost in time. They discovered a kinescope recording of the March 17, 1957 of the first dress rehearsal. It was published on DVD.

Watching clips of it today, I noticed a lot of dot crawl artifacts... which is awesome!! You see, kinescope recordings are film captures from TV monitors. Although black and white, it usually didn't have the chroma information filtered out. When it isn't, it showed up as dot crawl.

In 2018 the British came up with a digital recovery method that analyzed the dot crawl patterns in order to restore the original chroma data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_recovery

So that means Cinderella could be restored to color, not just colorized.
I'm assuming this is beyond a home computing process, but I was wondering if anyone here knows the process and if it's fan restore-able.

Hi. My name is Jason and I have been enjoying fan edits for over 10 years now. I respect everybody's view and perspective. I am glad I have joined.

Leos Carax's unreleased masterwork "Pierre", the uncut version of his 1999 theatrical release "Pola X", has gone without any kind of release since its first airing on Arte in September 2001. Allegedly this is due to rights issues but that's just hearsay. A recording of a VHS archival copy finally leaked onto a Québécois forum last autumn, and with the help of a French speaker who wished to remain anonymous I have produced the first, as far as I know, English translation of the additional scenes & merged that with the official subtitles for "Pola X", which are probably not quite to the standard of precision I'd like from a translation for such a great filmmaker but I couldn't find anyone willing to transcribe the French of the whole film for me to produce a new translation from scratch, only the additional scenes (I can translate written French but I'm no good at spoken French, and none of Carax's films appear to have any French subtitles on their official domestic releases.). Don't know if it's perfect, the picture quality certainly isn't, but it's a damn sight better than not being able to watch this great miniseries at all.

Hugely recommend for fans of Mauvais Sang and Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf, it's horrendous that this has gone without even a DVD release. Featuring both Guillaume Depardieu and Scott Walker at their most sublime. I don't know anything about private trackers and all that but the files are now up on Soulseek semi-permanently under my username. Looks like somebody's already reposted my version on YouTube, too. Enjoy!

I own the 70th Anniversary Emerald Edition Blu-ray+DVD combo pack of The Wizard of Oz (1939).

According to Blah-ray, the 1989 MGM/UA LaserDisc and the 1991 MGM/UA LaserDisc, both marked ML101656, share the same mono soundtrack, which is the blogger's favorite audio of the movie.

I was wondering if someone could rip the digital/analog left channel mono audio from the 1989 or 1991 LaserDisc of the movie and sync it to the Blu-ray and UHD. I would like to use the BD-synced audio to replace the Dolby Digital 1.0 mono track on my MKV file rip of the BD. I don't want the 1988 Criterion LD audio, because that has heavy noise reduction applied to it, according to Blah-ray.

Thanks.

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.