UHD BD to BD?

[Beber]

Here's First Blood with -1 in brightness and 0.95 in contrast. Is that better? Tom, what do you think?

Default / new attempt










And here's the full movie conversion :

[Beber]

Looking forward to your observations on Air Force One, Beber.

I never even liked Air Force One. Maybe I'll give it another shot with the remaster. Maybe it will be more enjoyable...

However, Cliffhanger I like and it looks very promising : https://diff.pics/vw9g8GbZTu7m/2

[X5gb]

Cliffhanger has a 4k remastered bluray as well like the other Studio Canal titles. It will be interesting to compare their UHD with the Sony UHD when it comes out which will also have the bonus of Atmos.

[X5gb]

Your new attempt:

4k Remastered Bluray:

[Beber]

So maybe I shouldn't have gone with -1 in brightness or let the contrast at 1. I'm redoing it right now still at brightness -1 but with contrast back at 1. I also located the Blu-ray so in the end, I guess conversion won't be needed.

[X5gb]

All the blurays (and the UHD) need are the synced Dolby Surround mixes from the original dvd releases and someone capable of fixing that framing error in II by color timing / grain matching the 2012 remaster for that one small scene or even better merging a mixture of the two together (cuting the right and merging part of the left from the 2012 master). Your conversion, you could say, more replicates the darker look of how the UHD looks on a 4k HDR monitor, So its a case again of what you prefer. It would be nice to hear your thoughts on which looks better in motion (conversion/bluray) including grain retention.

[Beber]

Yeah, I checked Rambo II, it's there on the UHD, too. It's a very quick shot, less than a second, probably the reason it went unnoticed. Bummer, though.
Apparently, Bronan has captured audio from LDs and will work on those during the hollydays.

[PDB]

All the blurays (and the UHD) need are the synced Dolby Surround mixes from the original dvd releases and someone capable of fixing that framing error in II by color timing / grain matching the 2012 remaster for that one small scene or even better merging a mixture of the two together (cuting the right and merging part of the left from the 2012 master). Your conversion, you could say, more replicates the darker look of how the UHD looks on a 4k HDR monitor, So its a case again of what you prefer. It would be nice to hear your thoughts on which looks better in motion (conversion/bluray) including grain retention.

bronan has the DS mixes for 1 and 2 captured from the LDs

https://fanrestore.com/thread-2361-post-...l#pid47912

[Beber]

I made a full encode in 2 pass "very slow" @ 15 000 kbps with these tweakings (hue=0,sat=1,bright=-1,cont=1)

Blu-ray / Ripbot conversion




Although darker, the conversion seems sharper and grainier.

And this is how this shot looks now, retaining more details in the bright lake than it did with the original fastest settings (right click to see it full frame):

[X5gb]

Liking the look of that alot, may have to try that conversion myself using 2 pass 30000kbps. At the moment in the middle of converting Die Hard 2 using same settings I used for the first one.