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Advice on improve video quality with Adobe Premier?

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Hello everyone,


I am a new member here.  But I am in the process of attempting to create Blu Ray versions of classic Jackie Chan films, pre 1995.  Most Blu Rays are upscales but some are genuine HD, like Police Story (from the Japanese release).

I want to first find the best transfers available, which are usually on Japanese Blu Ray releases and then improve it if I can with Adobe Premier.  I do not intend to do anything incredibly complicated but many times I feel the colors, contrast and detail could be improved slightly.

Usually the films are too bright, so I can easily adjust the brightness with the Proc Amp plugin and perhaps boost the contrast slightly.  And sometimes the built in Sharpening tool can improve detail without looking artificial (set usually at 20 or so).

This is pretty much the extent of what I do.  But considering there are plenty of people here who are working on similar projects, what do you do to the video to improve it?  Are there any great Premier filters or plugins that you recommend?  

Anything that could boost the quality of a Fortune Star upscale?  Or even a not great condition genuine HD source of an 80s/ early 90s Hong Kong film?

What is your process to restoring video?

 

Second, it seems to me that most of the audio tracks for classic Jackie Chan films and Hong Kong films in general have been not great sounding 5.1 remixes rather than the original mono.  Some of the best audio I have heard for these films is sourced from the Laserdisc versions of these films.

For example, I recently did a fan project Blu Ray of Hard Boiled with the original mono PCM audio sourced from the Criterion Laserdisc and it sounds vastly better than any of the upscales.

The problem is it is hard to track down these laserdiscs and I don't have a laserdisc player to capture it from.  Do you know of any good sources to find laserdisc audio of classic Jackie Chan in good quality?

Or if any of you have any laserdiscs of Jackie Chan films (earlier films), I would be happy to trade for a capture of the audio or reimburse you in some way.


Please let me know.  I am very capable of putting together versions of classic Hong Kong films that surpass anything else out there but I just need to find the elements to make it happen.  Communities like this help a great deal and everyone benefits when one of us uploads a custom restoration, fan project of a film that is in need of it.

 

Thanks.