Booshman said:

rockin said:

Hi everyone, hope you all had a nice Christmas.

For the record mine is a PAL laserdisc, so yeah... it is cropped unfortunately.

Booshman has kindly provided me with the missing scenes which I needed, so the only thing I can think of is try and upscale them to fit the blu-ray. However I am more inclined to try and either downscale the blu-ray to 480p so the difference isn't as jarring. But as already noted, the DVD has a colour timing closer to the LD footage... so it's really finding the right balance. I don't know which people would prefer.

I will post some screenshots of my attempt at colour-correcting the blu-ray at some point, which has for the most part, been desaturating it slightly, and to remove some of the teal.

I think if you're going to downscale the bluray, you might as well use the DVD as the source. It looks a lot nicer colour wise and will save you work. I think based off the quality of the rip that the footage will blend better this way too.

I think it is possible to get really good results using the blu-ray source to match the LD footage or vice versa, but as you said, it will be time consuming, and there could be a number of problems making this look seamless.

For the sake of just getting the whole cut out there, I would agree that it would be easier to use the original DVD and the LD footage for the missing scenes, which I may simply do.

For the audio, I was wondering if there were any differences between the LD, DVD and Blu-ray?