[In progress] Pirates of the Caribbean saga open matte

[SHM]

No one knows a HDTV source?

[JScarp0512]

Any open matte edit automatically gets my vote.

[babouin]

No one knows a HDTV source?

I have two different 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV recordings of the first movie from the same French Canadian channel.
And I also have a 1080i MPEG2- HDTV recording of the second one from an English channel.
And a low quality 720p MPEG-2 HDTV of the fourth one from another French Canadian channel.

I already did a project of the first movie based on these two recordings and a not too bad WEB-DL but I never bothered watching the result and therefore have no clue if there is any issue with it. It's not even encoded in a distribution friendly format yet, it's still a lossless 160Gb file.

I used to have more but I have since moved on from doing open matte projects, a few years back I got rid of most recordings and moved the rest to two old hard drives and one of them now seems to be dead. I also recently lost my collection of open matte WEB-DL due to not backing it up anywhere, I'm pretty sure I had some decent files for at least the first three movies in there, so they do exist somewhere out there.

EDIT: Good news, the second drive works.
To recap, here's everything I have:
First one:
2x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (French) (Both from the same channel)
Used to have one more but I think I deleted it
Second one:
1x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (French)
1x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (English)
1x lossless HDMI capture of a 1080i MPEG-2 cable broadcast @ unknown orignal bitrate (English) (278Gb)
Third one:
1x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (English)
Fourth one:
1x OTA 720p MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (French)
1x OTA 1080i MPEG2-HDTV @ 17Mb/s (English)
1x lossless HDMI capture of a 1080i MPEG-2 cable broadcast @ unknown original bitrate (English) (264Gb)
5 segments (Total of 2.5 minutes) from a different channel, lossless HDMI capture of a 1080i MPEG-2 cable broadcast @ unknown bitrate (English) (4.8Gb) (To patch issues on the other sources)

Notes: everything is from free channels so there are commercials cuts, logos and possibly on screen ads at times.

[SHM]

No one knows a HDTV source?

I have two different 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV recordings of the first movie from the same French Canadian channel.
And I also have a 1080i MPEG2- HDTV recording of the second one from an English channel.
And a low quality 720p MPEG-2 HDTV of the fourth one from another French Canadian channel.

I already did a project of the first movie based on these two recordings and a not too bad WEB-DL but I never bothered watching the result and therefore have no clue if there is any issue with it. It's not even encoded in a distribution friendly format yet, it's still a lossless 160Gb file.

I used to have more but I have since moved on from doing open matte projects, a few years back I got rid of most recordings and moved the rest to two old hard drives and one of them now seems to be dead. I also recently lost my collection of open matte WEB-DL due to not backing it up anywhere, I'm pretty sure I had some decent files for at least the first three movies in there, so they do exist somewhere out there.

EDIT: Good news, the second drive works.
To recap, here's everything I have:
First one:
2x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (French) (Both from the same channel)
Used to have one more but I think I deleted it
Second one:
1x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (French)
1x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (English)
1x lossless HDMI capture of a 1080i MPEG-2 cable broadcast @ unknown orignal bitrate (English) (278Gb)
Third one:
1x OTA 1080i MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (English)
Fourth one:
1x OTA 720p MPEG-2 HDTV @ 17Mb/s (French)
1x OTA 1080i MPEG2-HDTV @ 17Mb/s (English)
1x lossless HDMI capture of a 1080i MPEG-2 cable broadcast @ unknown original bitrate (English) (264Gb)
5 segments (Total of 2.5 minutes) from a different channel, lossless HDMI capture of a 1080i MPEG-2 cable broadcast @ unknown bitrate (English) (4.8Gb) (To patch issues on the other sources)

Notes: everything is from free channels so there are commercials cuts, logos and possibly on screen ads at times.

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[SHM]

Pirates of the Caribbean 1 Open Matte Hybrid (Potential Project)
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Demo.
2160 AI SDR Master.
https://youtu.be/VLgQDE3eVjQ

Maybe i should do a thread about it. So i can get some help too.
Sources:
- BlueBird Web-DL.
- Unknown Web-DL.
- AVC EUR Blu-ray.

Filters:
- Complexity filter.
- Autooverlay.
- Light 35mm grain.
- Topaz Video AI.

Comparisons:
https://imgsli.com/MTM2MDQ3
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDI0
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDYw
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDYx
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDYy
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDYz
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDY0
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDY1
https://imgsli.com/MTM2NDY2

Screenshots:

[Hitcher]

@SHM Did you get any further with this project?

[SHM]

@SHM Did you get any further with this project?

I did some progress but the project is on hold.
WEB DL OM has a magenta tint that cannot blend with the Bluray. It destroys the image and i cannot fix it as i dont do colour grading.
On another hand, i still cannot understand why a better quality OM has not surfaced yet in any platform after all this years.

[SHM]

@SHM Did you get any further with this project?

I never completed it but shared all my sources and it finally was released on rutracker in HQ. Both Upscaled AI 2160p and 1080p.