_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

UPDATES:

I found also the italian, french, german and spanish soundtrack from BD: the italian is with "superstitious", while the DVD has not, so I'll use both; the french is 5.1 while the DVD is only 2.0, but I have the PCM 2.0 so I'll discard the DVD one; german was missing, so I'll use it; spanish on BD is better quality than DVD, so I'll discard the latter. I think I'll convert them to medium-bitrate AC3, to give more space to video and because the original recording is not that high quality - opinions about this?

In my opinion i think that is a good idea. Looking forward to this release!

zeropc said:

andrea, why don't you take the dts-hd audio from the blu-ray, instead of the hd-dvd dolby e-ac3? lossless vs lossy - i go for lossless ;)

Obviously the BD DTS-HD MA is better... but I have not it (yet); if you could provide it (along with some subtitles) I'll leave out the DD+ soundtrack.

BDgeek, thanks for the compliments! But without the help of the other members (Jonno in particular) this project could not be done!

I decided to drop the DTS-HD MA (if someone with the BD wants to use it, he just has to remux this project video with that audio); using all the soundtracks I listed, there is about 18GB for video, more than enough to retain the best quality available - think that the original HD-DVD video is about 12GB...

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

BDgeek, thanks for the compliments! But without the help of the other members (Jonno in particular) this project could not be done!

I decided to drop the DTS-HD MA (if someone with the BD wants to use it, he just has to remux this project video with that audio); using all the soundtracks I listed, there is about 18GB for video, more than enough to retain the best quality available - think that the original HD-DVD video is about 12GB...

Do you still want the DTS-HD MA audio?

UPDATES:

I'm preparing the final video right now, using a bitrate of 20,000kbps (that should be more than enough to preserve the quality of the original HD-DVD); I prepared the subtitles: full and SDH for english, and full plus forced for italian, french, german and spanish.

FremenDar007 said:

Do you still want the DTS-HD MA audio?

At the end, I've left enought space (I think) to discard the DTS I've made from the HD-DVD DD+ and replace it with the DTS-HD MA... but it must be around 3.5GB... if so, please send me a P.M. with the uploading link - THANKS in advance!

UPDATES:

Jonno has provided the english DTS-HD MA, along with the italian, french, german and spanish DTS soundtracks from the BD (thanks a lot!)

Today I finished to watch the last version of the video, but there were some frames with artifacts, so I must re-encode it (again)... I hope this is the last time! (^^,)

Apart those few frames (fixed using another color matching script), the whole movie looks really really good! I didn't think it was possible to obtain a so good results taking the laserdisc as color reference... so, I'm just thinking about the next projects...

I'm sad because I have three similar PCs, all devoted (more or less) to video restoration projects, but two of them have their GPU burnt, so I must rely only on one of them... and most of the time, the last weeks it (and now, too!) it was busy on "The Thing" conversions... but I didn't forgot "The Matrix", at the contrary: now that I've done a lot of tests, I understood something more that could be used on it too... next days, I hope to start it...

UPDATE:

I'm proud to announce that "The Thing" is ready... you can find onto the usual place - you know what... I'll seed it for the whole week, before I'll go to vacation, so grab it... NOW!

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I strongly wanted to release it with a proper menu, maybe animated, but I didn't find a free BD authoring - other than MultiAVCHD, but it has some problems onto my PC, probably caused by the computer, not the program... so, I decided to release it as movie-only, because there are a lot of people that could wait no more (including me)!!!

Anyway, if someone would like to do a proper BD menu, let me know - I'd like to add the HD trailer, and my "spoRv" video logo... (^^,)

DO you have a sample of this in motion? I want to see it in motion first.

@DoomBot: there is an HD trailer... I have it, but it's not color regraded (yet?) - as every bit of upload speed is taken from "The Thing", I'll post it later.

@Dark_Jedi: I updated the first post, you could see the last comparison clip or this final clip (dog)

@The Aluminum Falcon: thank you!!!

Jonno have both the UK HD-DVD and BD, and he said that the DTS-HD MA matches perfectly; I think the problem could lies in the fact that the US HD-DVD has 12 missing frames in the middle of the movie, while the UK HD-DVD has the same frames than the BD... Jonno was really kind to capture those missing frames, sent to me, and I add them into the right place, so voilà! the DTS-HD MA is perfectly in sync... obviously, I had to change ALL the audio I made before, but this is another story... (^^,)

I've watched the whole movie twice before releasing: one, to discover WHERE in the movie were the artifacts - and almost of the movie was really beautiful; the second, to discover IF I have forgotten to fix some scenes - two, brief but annoying... so, the movies was 99% perfect, and I was so happy to re-watch "The Thing" ("La Cosa" in italian) and see that yes, this time the dog is black and white, the snow is white and not blue-violet-pink etc. I obviosly fixed that 1% that has artifacts, and watched it after fixing, so yes, the movie should be flawless... I suppose... well, 99% was perfect, 1% was fixed and replaced the wrong 1%, so it MUST be perfect! (^^,)

Should I start the next project ("The Matrix") right now, or I could have some rest, let's say a day or two?!?