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Crocodile.Dundee.1986.The.Encore.Cut.Patched.2160p.HDR10.HEVC.PCM.2.0.v1.0

Long story short, there was a new Crocodile Dundee UHD just released, called The Encore Cut. It's a new scan with different colors and different framing. While the scan looks good, some parts of the film were removed. You can read more on the Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_...Encore_Cut

I not going discuss the politics of the removal but for those who want the full US cut, I took the US Web-DL and regraded and patched the missing parts including the original title card and the Paramount logo into the Encore Cut's video.

Finally, the original Encore UHD is in SDR so I gave it a 2020/HDR10 grade.

For the audio, I plugged in the Web's DTS MA soundtrack, which I assume comes from the BD. I took the Encore UHD PCM track and patched the missing parts from the LD. Finally, I synced P&S LD's PCM soundtrack and decoded it to a 5.1 track for the discrete fans. I tried to include all these tracks because they do sound different...some are echo-y, some have NR applied, etc. There also seems to be some foley objects missing or with different timing when comparing the LD to the UHD BD.

Video:
The UHD with parts from the Web-DL color corrected to match. Then graded in 2020/HDR.

Audio:
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the P&S LD) <--- Default
FLAC 5.1 (upmix of the P&S LD)
DTS-HD MA 2.0 (from the Web-DL)
PCM 2.0 (from the Encore UHD patched with the P&S LD)

Sync and Size:
US TC Web-DL

Pics:
HDR to SDR Conversion


More Pics
https://imgur.com/QGKObaz

Man, nice work.  I stumbled on your post after hearing about the Encore release.  Looks fantastic.