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Not in this thread, we won't.

Any way you can keep the length identical to the original so those of us who want to mux in the original DTS-HD audio can do so? Thanks in advance! :)

Hello again. Could you post your new lut? Thanks!

Newguy, there are a couple of other things you might want to consider reinstating. The censored blaster flashes on the imperial troopers in the docking bay command center and the detention center might be doable? Not sure if adding them would throw the soundtrack out of sync or if it could still work.

Curious what your thoughts are on the highlights/shadow setting, age. The automatic setting is way too high, but were you able to make some manual tweaks? Trying to figure out an ideal setting for it. Would it maybe be better not to utilize?

I played around with these a bit this weekend in Aftereffects, using the Star Wars Blu-Ray video. The filterblue I thought gave everything a bit too drastic of a golden amber-hued tint I thought. The filtertemp V1 looked excellent. I applied the "shadow/highlights" as suggested but ended up with a drastically blown out image. The highlights was at 50 I believe. I reduced that down to 5 and got a slightly brighter more vibrant image. Is the shadow/highlights tweak even necessary? I'm really a lay person when it comes to all of this.

Also, is there a difference between the .cube and .dl versions of these files?

Anyone played around any more with these settings? Curious if any more tweaks can be made.

Why are you guys feeding the troll?! :)

Just something about your version feels more "right" than anything I've seen previously.

I just love how vibrant this new version looks in the screenshots above. Beautiful stuff.

Great work! Color correctors are coming out of the woodwork lately it seems, and the results are fantastic. I very much look forward to your release!

Dark Jedi, any chance of persuading you and Teamblu to offer up the extended cut of Terminator 2, like you did with Conan? Wanting to see the film again color corrected, but prefer the extended version. :)

Really loving what I'm seeing. Everything looks so "natural" with the luts. If anyone wants to post a tutorial on the best way to work with these I'd even be willing to try an encode on my system. Great stuff! :)

Not trying to be a downer ... just the so close yet so far away analogy. lol

Well, my enthusiasm for this project went down to zero. Can't wait to read about how glorious this is come September and know I'll never see it. lol

Out of curiosity, and I can't seem to find anywhere on here besides statements from years ago, is this still being done for an audience of one or is there going to be some kind of torrent or newsgroup release? I would hope the latter ...

Booshman, after seeing what you've done, I'm putting my project completely on hold. You're going far beyond what I was capable of. I would strongly recommend you go lossless for the audio, if at all possible, though.

I've actually had some success with Multiavchd. Good news, you DON'T have to reencode the video at all. When you go to the Media directory to manipulate your video files, click on the transcode button. Once you get in the transcode menu, near the bottom there's a prompt that (if I remember correctly) says something along the lines of BD or AVCHD compliant. You can click on that, which brings up several encoding options including NO RECODE or somesuch.

On a side note, I've been using Multiavchd to create custom Blu-rays with working menus. Although the menus are a bit rudimentary and the program has some annoying limitations, it beats not having any menu at all for a disk with a movie and extras. Even better, knowing what files to edit, you can also label the disk and create a thumbnail icon for PS3 (requires some extra steps outside of using the program).

Hi kk650, did you ever do another version of the regrained Phantom Menace? Wasn't there a 25 gig version you planned to do or am I confused?

I'm FINALLY starting to get the hang of basic editing in Adobe Premiere, with the exception of audio. For the most part, all I'm done are simple edits, and I would like to cut and splice the audio right along with the video WITHOUT changing its attributes. For example, if I start out with a 7.1 DTS-HD file in 24 bit, I don't want to re-encode the audio through Adobe. I know I may have to re-encode to Wave files and put in as multichannel tracks but when it comes time to render out the file, I don't want to change the audio attributes from 24 to 16 bit or make any other changes. Anyone have any advice on how best to proceed on 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 audio. As it stands now, I have to edit the audio and video separately, which is a bit annoying, to maintain the exact same quality.

Cool. Yeah, I'm a bit undecided as to whether or not to share on these, although I will be doing my own NTSC, English friendly version. :)

For these, I would consider them loosely as preservations as they're not available in the U.S. without having access to a region free Blu-Ray player. Of course, if this puts me in violation of some forum rule I wasn't aware of I simply won't offer these up.

Hi all. Apologies if this is in the wrong forum area. I have several ongoing preservation and fan edit projects in varying stages of production and have the editing and sound work mostly a lock, but really want to do a nice professional quality menu and disk art to send with when finally posted ... but don't really have the time/resources to complete. Teamblu's just set the bar so high! :)

Soon to be completed are:

Exorcist (99% completed)
Essentially the new director's cut, losing all the unnecessary CG additions and some of the over-the-top new sound effects and music cue additions (airplane flyover at beginning, Spider-Walk, Regan morph and a few others). The final edit is in full HD 1080P (didn't even have to re-encode the video) and DTS HD-MA 6.1 Matrix.

Re-Animator Unrated and Integral Editions NOT AVAILABLE IN U.S. (100% completed)

In short, the German release had beautiful remastered HD picture quality but some rather annoying film scratches that weren't cleaned up throughout the first 10 - 15 minutes of the film. The UK release mostly fixed these issues, but had some pretty bad compression artifacts in their place in some shots. My release is technically a best of both, utilizing the cleaned up shots without artifacts and relying on the German transfer for a good majority of the film. This goes for both unrated and integral editions. Also has the restored opening scene that was missing a bit of footage on both the original UK and German releases (provided from the Bride of Re-Animator disk).

Both versions are high bitrate re-encodes in Adobe with the DTS HD-MA tracks and include ALL the extras from each release.

Superman II (95% completed)

My much talked about edits of the Theatrical cut and Richard Donner cut are very close to being completed (have a few more minor tweaks I've decided upon). There's a full thread on these already so not going to go into further details here, except to say that these are high bitrate re-encodes via Ripbot with the 5.1 DTS HD-MA tracks.

Saw I - III Director's Cuts (No work completed yet, but won't take long to do)

Finally obtained the French releases featuring the Director's Cuts in 6.1 sound and will be transferring to new disks with their various extras.

Trainspotting Director's Cut (No work completed yet)

Planning to take the superior US video and splice in the "unrated" bits exclusive to the Japanese release. Will be released in DTS-HD MA.

Akira (No work completed yet)

The new 2014 release video and the 24-bit audio from the 2011 release (and any other tracks that may be unique to either release).

So far, I've learned to make a rudimentary menu for each using Multiavchd, but would prefer to do something much more professional looking.

I'm looking for a menu guy and/or someone who can do disk art for the blu-ray case and the disk itself. Don't really have a lot of money to outright hire someone but anyone interested in helping me out will get a BD-50 containing whatever project they assist me with.

I'm really putting a lot of time and effort into my projects to create something that looks professionally done, and don't want the menus and cover art to be where these fall short. Anyone who can help or point me in the direction of anyone who may be interested in helping would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks all! Planning to upload any completed projects to HD-torrents and/or myspleen.

Very curious to hear how your progress is going on this. :)

Verbatim media ALL THE WAY. Ebay has good deals on BD-50 in sets of 10 or more, all the way from Japan. I would recommend you max out the bitrate on your encodes.

I've noticed there doesn't seem to be much interest in the fanedit community of doing lossless audio. Not really sure why, for anyone going to the extra effort to do an HD Blu-Ray edit. Seems like they'd want that extra quality in the soundtrack...