Hi, glad to be here.
Recently I've done some high quality open matte releases by mixing widescreen Bluray and open matte sources such as HDTV, web or DVD. It can be found at russian trackers bluebird, rutracker and rutor:

• 300 (2006)
  
• Apollo 13 (1995)
  
• Arrival (2016)
  
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  
• Capote (2005)
  
• Casino (1995)
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
  
• Gladiator (2000)
  
• In Bruges (2008)
  
• Iron Man (2008)
  
• Jurassic World (2015)
  
• Limitless (2011)
  
• Oblivion (2013)
  
• Ronin (1998) 
  
• Terminator 2 (1991) - custom open matte, experimental
  
• The Abyss (1989)
  
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
  
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
  
• The Departed (2006)
  
• The Game (1997)
  
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  
• The Martian (2015)
  
• The Social Network (2010)
  
• Tron: Legacy (2010)
  

Welcome!

Awesome! I have a question, have you considered releases where the corners aren't filled? Only black as they should be?
That would make it like "cross" releases like here:

https://youtu.be/Y9nW75HkGDw

I'd love to watch an entire movie in AAP aspect ratio! https://fanrestore.com/thread-20.html

Glad to welcome!

(2017-12-16, 02:19 PM)Stamper Wrote: Awesome! I have a question, have you considered releases where the corners aren't filled? Only black as they should be?
That would make it like "cross" releases like here:

https://youtu.be/Y9nW75HkGDw

I use the software that makes hybrid in a few stages. First it analyzes two sources to find best intersection for each scene include pan&scan parts. It produces a stat file that can be manually corrected in the visual editor. After that the final video could be rendered with different settings. How to fill the corners is one of the parameters.

Random.next, already have your hybrid's of Jurassic World, Apollo 13 and Terminator 2 and may I say excellent work especially on the first two, Apollo 13 being one of my favorite movies and have wanted an Open Matte HD version since god knows when. Sits proudly on one of my hard drive's along with Top Gun Open Matte AMZN WEB-DL which maksnew kindly offered, both now been my go to versions. While I enjoyed your experimental Terminator 2 and was nice to see it Open Matte, was thinking imagine how much better it would be if we could get a full Open Matte source for the corners, massive respect for your efforts though. Also, loving the fact all these Open Matte Hybrid and AMZN top quality versions are appearing thanks to the efforts of both yourself, maksnew and his co-horts (spartanec in particular) over at the rus tracker forum thread. My next quest is get ahold of that Ghostbusters remake Open Matte on maksnew's list, neither on nc, bb or rus tracker.

I forgot that experimental max frame hybrid version of Watchmen (2009) is also available as custom open matte of T2.

Hey, thanks a lot for your work, care to share the name of program you're using? I would like to try it out for few movies as well.

(2017-12-16, 08:05 PM)Colek Wrote: Hey, thanks a lot for your work, care to share the name of program you're using? I would like to try it out for few movies as well.

It has not been released yet. There will be an announcement when it's ready for end user.