Hey, guys.

I'm currently recreating the French version, international cut, based on the Arrow UHD that I'll tonemap to SDR in Ripbot264 and resize to 1080p.
I already resynchronized the French dts 5.1 from the 4K remastered MGM Blu-ray, except transcoded to PCM stereo. I used the dts HDMA 5.1 from the English version in a few spots for better transitions, also transcoded to PCM stereo. I have a lead on a VHS tape that should include the original mono that I'll try to sync to it as well.
Now for the French parts, I have the opening credits and closing credits from the Arrow bonus section, in fake HD. I also have a French TV recording in fake HD for the credits and characters' nicknames.











Now there's a problem with the end credits: my French recording has a pop-up at the bottom for the next program, and apparently Arrow must have used that same source 'cause they cropped the bottom part and, doing so, the aspect ratio is now wider. So I'll have to zoom in to recover the same black bar thickness as the rest.




Now for the help part: can anybody with the best AI upscale capabilities chime in and try their best at upscaling these fake HD parts? I'll deal with the color matching afterwards so it all blends in the best I can. All I managed to do with built-in AI upscale in Shutter Encoder is this and, although it gives better delineation to the texts, it seems to smooth the image:





The final product would include the French international version in 1080p with French audio from MGM, possibly VHS and English and audio commentary from Arrow, plus French subtitles from MGM rearranged by myself and English SDH subtitles from Arrow.

Someone did sync (VF VHS Warner) to Blu Ray UK Arrow Vidéo
Pour l'audio de la Version Française du film, elle provient de ma VHS au édition Warner Home Vidéo la 2ème édition édité en 1987 avec le 2ème Logo Warner.

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auvYjbUMh8A
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax6oAnI3wtA
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuGTjL6_kac

Pour une poignée de dollars (1964) VF VHS René Chateau (Blu Ray UK Arrow Video)

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxWHsxpCOOk
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALsYUu0Ybsg

Juste on a note, the Arrow is coming to France and IndianaGilles who did lots of syncs on his blog, will be in charge of matching the french dub. Team QTZ already did syncs on all three films (no recreation of the french titles though, so this remains interesting).

(2026-05-08, 09:55 AM)Stamper Wrote: Juste on a note, the Arrow is coming to France and IndianaGilles who did lots of syncs on his blog, will be in charge of matching the french dub. Team QTZ already did syncs on all three films (no recreation of the french titles though, so this remains interesting).

Which boutique label will release that in France?

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France
Dollars Trilogy 4K UHD (2026), ESC Films

ESC Films
April 22
🔥 C'est officiel : la Trilogie du dollar arrive en UHD 4K chez ESC cette année !

Plus de détails dans les prochains jours…
Mais croyez-nous : vous n’êtes pas prêts

-https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1340699468080122&set=pb.100064202437213.-2207520000&type=3

Yeah, well, hello no! ESC, no thanks. There's no chance their encode will surpass Arrow’s. I don’t see ESC providing the variety of cuts Arrow has provided. And I already know my rearranged French subtitles are miles better than those MGM will provide ESC anyway. I'll stick with my Arrows and personnal sync jobs.

Looking forward to see the final result(s) of your work, @Beber. Very promissing (despite what Indianagilles and his "team" did with his own releases of the Dollar Trilogy, which are still holding up quite well for today.

Keep up with the good work

IndianaGilles didn't sync any Arrow releases, to be precise, QTZ team did. All his syncs were on previous Blu-ray releases.
Carmelo Mike will also be involved in the ESC version of the Arrow release. So the audio will be in good hands.