Doctor M

So I got distracted and completely missed that v2.1 was released and grabbed them today. (Thanks, JJP).

…I hate being the one to mention this, but just checking PoA and I noticed that all three audio tracks are echo-y compared to v1.5.
Some scenes (like inside the Dursleys’ house) sound like they are in a public bathroom or something. I did a quick check on the other films, but it only seems to be an issue with ‘Prisoner’.
Anyone else notice this?

Seroiusly? You’re worried? Deathly Hallows is monster sized. I don’t think anyone expected it quickly.

Weird. Sounds like it isn’t a web-dl so much as a screen cap. Disney+ uses better audio than that.
Thanks for this. I had no idea the BD was better (and worse).

The original home video release cut a line of a song about rolling a cigarette and painted out all Pecos Bill smoking… Disney restored that?
Btw, did you compare the BD’s audio to the Disney+ rip that is floating around?

AFAIK, the Blu-ray is not uncensored.

The Fantasound is very… interesting. But I’ll wait for v2.2 where you fix the frame rate.
25fps with one duplicate frame every second? So much jitter.

I have to assume there is pitch altered speed up in the audio as well, but I haven’t compared it to any other sources.

Anyone know why this project stopped abruptly?

Yeah, it seems like the project was finished, but I have no idea where you’d find it. I’d really like to see it too.

This is amazing!!

They official released the host segments, haven’t they?

I haven’t gotten to watch these yet, but I did notice an increased softness just skipping around after you released them. I did know you really wanted to go with the smaller file sizes, so I didn’t say anything.

Also, as far as audio and specific to my home setup, aac takes a double hit in lossy quality. My system re-encodes AAC to AC-3 in order to pass it to the tuner. AC-3, DTS are passed untouched and most lossless have the cores passed.
Like I said, that’s specific to my setup, so again, not worth mentioning.

Or hit the stop button.

Master Lawdog said:

While everyone here is waiting on the final audiobook to be released, here is a little something I put together for fun that you all may enjoy.

https://vimeo.com/575462602

So much better. Not many composers create such memorable soundtracks.

JadedSkywalker said:

Why is every release since Lowry so soft looking, and a heavy use of DNR.

You would hope a fresh 4K scan that is as sharp as possibly without artificially sharpening the image or using digital video noise reduction techniques, would be the next step for a 4K UHD release.

But knowing Paramount and Lucasfilm it will be the 4K Imax restoration with the messed up colors. Since that is also the current 4K DCP most likely.

Edit:
Well i watched the blu ray version again as it aired on thanksgiving on Paramount Network. I have no idea how this version ever was passed off as releasable. First you have the problem with Satipos face morphing at the beginning of the film and no consistency in the color timing from reel to reel, sharpness or anything really.
Some scenes are heavily DVNR’ed some are okay, but far too many are overexposed and Indy has sunburn in almost the entire movie with an orange face. The colors are overly muddy looking in places and others too much brightened. I hope this is not the version that makes it to 4K and we get a new scan.

Younger audiences don’t watch older movies. Just as silent and then black and white films have been ignored, films from ‘before you were born’ tend not to be watched. Film grain and older analog looking color timings are a dated look.

So like colorizing black and white, scrubbing the grain, inserting some CG effects and adding HDR gives a more modern & digital appearance that they hope will appeal to a younger customer base.

Not animated, but I want to mention that the new Darby O’Gill Blu-ray is also garbage. Crushed black levels, washed out colors, and cropped from the original aspect ratio to widescreen. Looks like they upscaled a standard def release and then added fake grain.

It’s a 29.97i HDTV rip. I don’t know a lot about it, but yeah, it looks like it’s been scrubbed of all grain and edge enhanced like most Disney ‘restorations’.

I know there is a 1080i CtrlHD release, with the Hatfield and McCoy segment, but I don’t know if it contains the “nudity”.

Hey, I’m just thrilled that scene is finished. That and the rabbit scene were always hard to watch untouched. Besides, no one in the scene calls them Pepper Imps, so for all we know they aren’t.

As far as bitrate, I always like higher, but since I store these on my HDD, not burn them, it’s acceptable.

Darth telly said:

Sorry, but I do not feel like reading through 47 pages. Was there ever a scan of snow white?

Not that I’m aware or I would have mentioned it in the first post.

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Pepper_Imps
It’s minor. The smoke is STILL so much better than nothing.

I haven’t grabbed this yet, but seeing the YouTube trailer, I have a question.
In Prisoner of Azkaban, early in the movie Harry eats a candy that makes him whistle and smoke like a steam engine.

The deleted scene that’s been added back, Harry eats a Pepper Imp from Honeydukes, which is different.
“They are actually quite fiery in nature, not only creating a chilli like flavor, but also actually allowing the consumer to breath fire. As a result, smoke also leaves the nose and ears making for quite the hilarious sight.”

It looks like he blows a smoke ring now in the trailer. You didn’t go with fire? Did you add any sound effects to go with it?

❤️
That is all.

Probably true, stwd4nder2. My TVs with HDR are early in the tech, but I feel most of the time it’s more like when you go to an electronics store and they are demoing the TVs in torch mode.

Still, I can’t imagine any director or cinematographer more than 6 or 7 years ago intending their work to look anything like what HDR does to it. Heck, when HDR first came out, they had to teach a lot of filmmakers what it was. Anyway, I guess we’re mostly off topic now.

That sounds about right.

I’m not a huge fan of HDR. I completely believe it’s the modern equivalent of colorizing a black and white film.
You are extracting light levels and colors from a film print (or in this case a computer) that the original creators had no expectations people would see.
I don’t understand why more purists aren’t against it since it isn’t the intent of the filmmakers.

So, the Diamond Edition is probably the last best version. Of course there is still the IMAX reanimation, but unless you’re going to scan a film print, I don’t think we can do more accurate than the LD, which is never going to look great.

Anyone know if “Aladdin 1992 720p HDTV DD5.1 x264-ESiR” is before the IMAX changes?

So. For those looking to upgrade Aladdin from ADigitalMan’s restoration, I noticed yesterday that someone is sharing a theatrical DTS audio track that can be synced to the Blu-ray’s video.

That was news to me. I suppose I should update the first post with details of that.

But here is my concern: I have no idea what the quality of the BD’s audio track is, if the mix is good, the source of the theatrical bits (besides “original motion picture soundtrack”, which doesn’t explain where a possible change to the “Good kitty” line came from), or the fact that the whole thing has to have been re-encoded to DTS if edits were made.

Yeah. Anyone know anything about what I apparently don’t know what I’m talking about?

Edit: And another question. I see the UHD disc and Signature BD have a new AR of 1.66:1. Blu-ray.com claims it opens up the borders and presents the ‘intended’ aspect ratio, but IMDb says that’s the negative’s ratio, but the intended is 1.85:1, which would make the Diamond Edition the preferred video source.

Thoughts here?

My first project was similar. I was syncing another audio track to a SW preservation and I realized that the video and audio, being from different masters, tended to go out of sync at the reel changes (about every 20 minutes). It’s because of missing or extra frames when they edit it together.

Additionally, VHS recordings, being analog, may be sped up or slowed down because of recording or playback equipment. It’s usually tiny, but it becomes additive over time.