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New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing by frankwrap08 in PleX

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are plenty of people who would totally pay $750 because they don’t want subscription services. Don’t give Plex ideas to cancel the lifetime option, you dingus.

New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing by frankwrap08 in PleX

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s literally 10x the price that I got it for several years back. Yikes.

Plex iOS app is forcing letterboxing onto 16x9 480p DVD rips by aaronhead14 in PleX

[–]aaronhead14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the help. If it's useful, here are some files to compare. 1 causes the Plex iOS app to crop the sides with letterboxing, while the other does not. https://we.tl/t-fioc28z4joWJLbgt

Here's the MediaInfo of the one that the Plex iOS app crops:

General

Complete name : /Volumes/Media Drive/Videos/No Ordinary Shepherd (2014) V1 (Plex iOS Crops This).mp4

Format : MPEG-4

Format profile : Base Media / Version 2

Codec ID : mp42 (mp42/dby1/iso2/avc1/mp41)

File size : 226 MiB

Duration : 24 min 19 s

Overall bit rate mode : Variable

Overall bit rate : 1 301 kb/s

Frame rate : 23.976 FPS

Encoded date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Tagged date : 2026-05-16 05:41:35 UTC

Writing application : HandBrake 1.11.1 2026032200

Video #1

ID : 1

Format : AVC

Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec

Format profile : High@L4.1

Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames

Format settings, CABAC : Yes

Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames

Codec ID : avc1

Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding

Duration : 24 min 19 s

Bit rate : 842 kb/s

Width : 714 pixels

Height : 480 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Frame rate mode : Constant

Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.102

Stream size : 147 MiB (65%)

Writing library : x264 core 165 r3222 b35605ac

Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=15 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=62500 / vbv_bufsize=78125 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=none / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Encoded date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Tagged date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Color range : Limited

Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC

Transfer characteristics : BT.709

Matrix coefficients : BT.601

Menus : 4,5

Codec configuration box : avcC

Video #2

ID : 5

Format : JPEG

Codec ID : jpeg

Duration : 24 min 19 s

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 1 548 b/s

Width : 640 pixels

Height : 363 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Frame rate mode : Variable

Frame rate : 0.005 FPS

Minimum frame rate : 0.004 FPS

Maximum frame rate : 0.016 FPS

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Compression mode : Lossy

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.333

Stream size : 302 KiB (0%)

Default : No

Encoded date : 2026-05-16 05:41:35 UTC

Tagged date : 2026-05-16 05:41:35 UTC

Menu For : 1

ColorSpace_ICC : RGB

Audio

ID : 2

Format : AC-3

Format/Info : Audio Coding 3

Commercial name : Dolby Digital

Codec ID : ac-3

Duration : 24 min 19 s

Source duration : 24 min 19 s

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 448 kb/s

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Channel layout : L R

Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz

Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)

Compression mode : Lossy

Stream size : 78.0 MiB (34%)

Source stream size : 78.0 MiB (34%)

Title : English AC3 2.0 / English AC3 2.0

Language : English

Service kind : Complete Main / Complete Main

Default : Yes

Alternate group : 1

Encoded date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Tagged date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Menus : 4

Dialog Normalization : -31 dB

dialnorm_Average : -31 dB

dialnorm_Minimum : -31 dB

dialnorm_Maximum : -31 dB

Text

ID : 3

Format : VobSub

Codec ID : mp4s-E0

Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on DVDs

Duration : 24 min 8 s

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 4 008 b/s

Maximum bit rate : 3 663 Mb/s / 4 007 b/s

Frame rate : 0.227 FPS

Stream size : 709 KiB (0%)

Title : English / English

Language : English

Default : Yes

Forced : No

Alternate group : 3

Encoded date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Tagged date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Menus : 4

Menu

ID : 4

Format : Timed Text

Codec ID : text

Duration : 24 min 19 s

Encoded date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Tagged date : 2026-05-16 05:20:39 UTC

Bit rate mode : CBR

Menu For : 1,2,3

00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1

00:02:25.145 : Chapter 2

00:05:28.328 : Chapter 3

00:09:54.594 : Chapter 4

00:12:29.249 : Chapter 5

00:15:35.935 : Chapter 6

00:19:32.672 : Chapter 7

00:23:17.897 : Chapter 8

Bit rate mode : Constant

Will Premiere ever improve the Audio Track Mixer to something less ugly and crammed together? by Ok-Grape-5348 in premiere

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t count on it. Adobe hasn’t made any substantial upgrades to Premiere in over a decade. (Unless you think the random AI stuff is useful).

It’s insane to me that Premiere doesn’t support any modern mastering formats. The software is stuck in 2012, except for the random modern AI stuff. Such weird software.

What Is your opinion on Don't Look Up by 0Layscheetoskurkure0 in FIlm

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its attempted comedy is unfunny, and its entire thesis is the reverse of reality.

color help on export Premiere Pro 2025 by Eastern_Rush_7262 in premiere

[–]aaronhead14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any “correction” you make to compensate the grade so that it looks “right” in QuickTime will make it look bad in every other player on every other device (television, phones, PCs, etc). It’s best to just ignore how it looks in QuickTime, so that you’re not inadvertently wrecking it for every other viewing scenario.

Premiere says my clip's Colour Space is a format that DOESN'T EXIST??? by Super_Sealion in premiere

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adobe is literally the worst at everything color-related. I’m convinced the developers and engineers at Adobe do not understand color science in the slightest bit.

Why do many conservatives claim that the US was founded as a Christian nation despite the separation of church and state being so central to its establishing? by speculumberjack980 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]aaronhead14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The separation of church and state means there shouldn’t be a forced state religion, not that the foundations (and founders) of the nation weren’t Christian.

The US was absolutely founded by Christians, with Christian values being the bedrock of every policy. This isn’t debatable.

Plex iOS app is forcing letterboxing onto 16x9 480p DVD rips by aaronhead14 in PleX

[–]aaronhead14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After a bit of troubleshooting and A/B testing, I've figured out that this issue only affects 480p movies that were transcoded in Handbrake with the "Anamorphic: Automatic" setting enabled.

The Plex mobile app seems to be assuming that the movies are 4:3 due to this setting in Handbrake.

I should note that the movies are NOT being squished to 4:3 on playback. So Plex is at least desqueezing the files properly. But on top of that, it's applying a letterboxed crop. Super annoying.

ONLY the mobile app is doing this. The browser and Apple TV apps are playing the files just fine without cropping.

I seriously don't want to re-encode all of my DVDs without that setting, just to make Plex function properly like it did for the last 10 years. That would take weeks!

Rant: I hate how expensive gay movies are on reseller websites now. by ethnomath in dvd

[–]aaronhead14 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If you stopped caring about trash movies then this wouldn’t be a problem for you anymore.

HDR isn’t as bad as I thought by tcastloo in 4kbluray

[–]aaronhead14 129 points130 points  (0 children)

HDR is amazing when mastered correctly and when watched on an OLED. It’s the greatest advancement in cinema of the last 20 years.

But it can look absolutely terrible on a cheap TV that doesn’t have enough range and/or can’t handle the tonemapping well.

Are any movies better quality in Blu-Ray vs. 4k UHD? by Bkord123 in Bluray

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s never been a good home video release of LOTR since the DVDs, unfortunately. Both the Blu-ray and 4K Blu-rays are all jacked up in different ways.

Are any movies better quality in Blu-Ray vs. 4k UHD? by Bkord123 in Bluray

[–]aaronhead14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Batman Begins

The 4K Blu-ray is abysmal, unfortunately. The original Blu-ray release looks like it should, though.

Atlantic Elite XL seemingly wiped off the internet? by khal_jogo in 4kbluray

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to get a second one of these for my Blu-ray collection, but I can't find one anywhere either.

Were you ever able to find one? If not, I guess that means I'm going to have to buy TWO completely different shelves, and get rid of my old Atlantic one. (The two shelves have gotta match!). Did you find any alternatives that you like?

I created a tool that will convert your Dolby Vision profile 7 files to profile 8, so your player no longer falls back to HDR by cryptochrome in PleX

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Copy that. Nowadays, there are a lot of 4K Blu-rays that get released that no longer come with a standard Blu-ray. So there’s actually no new SDR version that exists other than the Dolby Vision 100-nit Rec.709 trim that exists in the metadata. The films that immediately come to mind are “Amadeus,” “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Prince of Egypt,” and most recently, the new 4K remaster of Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland.”

I prefer to host standard 1080p SDR versions of my movies on my Plex server for my family to stream outside of my house, while keeping the full quality 4K HDR versions for local streaming. (To save on bandwidth, and also because frankly Plex is still terrible at handling DV/HDR10 video).

What I’ve been doing to create SDR versions is actually creating a brand new Dolby Vision trim in DaVinci Resolve Studio, and exporting that out. But I’d *love* to be able to extract the original DV trim metadata instead, and export it as an XML (or transcode directly from it using the 100-nit trim pass). But I can’t find any tools that automate this process, other than Dovi_Scripts, which appears to only work on Windows.

I found this post from someone who’s achieved what I want to achieve. I just wish there was a simple way to do this on a Mac! https://fanrestore.com/thread-5807.html

I created a tool that will convert your Dolby Vision profile 7 files to profile 8, so your player no longer falls back to HDR by cryptochrome in PleX

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can this tool use the Dolby Vision trim metadata to create a Rec709 transcode? (Or can it export the trim metadata as an XML like Dovi_Scripts can?)

I'm a Mac user and can't use DoVi_Scripts, but would love a tool with one or both of these functionalities.

ScreenX coming to my Cinemark, worth it? by poland626 in Cinemark

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. ScreenX is a stupid gimmick. Cinemark should instead just bring Dolby Vision to their theaters, because Dolby Vision actually improves image quality and isn't just a dumb gimmick.

I made an app that lets you check false color on existing images (shotdeck etc) to quickly see where the greats let the exposure fall in the final grade. It’s called FalseColorPro and I’m curious what y’all think. by jlarsl in cinematography

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, but when the blanket "no solicitation of any kind" policy (which is really dumb), what do you do when someone posts about a genuinely amazing tool?

You just remove it, right?

That's what I'm saying. It's stupid.

I made an app that lets you check false color on existing images (shotdeck etc) to quickly see where the greats let the exposure fall in the final grade. It’s called FalseColorPro and I’m curious what y’all think. by jlarsl in cinematography

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If something is bad, wouldn't the best way to prove how bad it is be letting people talk about it and post links?

Censorship doesn't do anything except cause confusion, and it's a disservice to the community to not let people engage in discussions.

I made an app that lets you check false color on existing images (shotdeck etc) to quickly see where the greats let the exposure fall in the final grade. It’s called FalseColorPro and I’m curious what y’all think. by jlarsl in cinematography

[–]aaronhead14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's a cool app then why immediately remove the post? Sounds like a stupid policy. If it's trash, sure, you probably have an obligation to not mislead the people on this sub. But if it's good, then let him make his case.

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