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Dragon Ball "Best of Breed" hybrid...maybe
Dragon Ball "Best of Breed" hybrid...maybe
Molly
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U u uwa uwa...I'm kind-of clumsy at this color correcting bit.
On one hand, the R1s ("Blue Brick") seem to have more or less the right colors from the 80s and are sharper, while the R2s are very much shifted to green (Z and GT have this shift on the R2s as well; GT even has it on the R1s). On the other hand, the R2s ("Dragon Box") have more detail and more image, plus better audio; and it is possible to get a R1-like look (minus the colors) out of the R2s if you know what you're doing.
My attempt to color correct the R2s was a disaster, and I'd like to try to improve it before I try to restart my project in earnest, which originally was just merging crudely the *old* pre-Brick R4 and R1 singles with the R2 video and audio.
As you see...I screwed up hard.
"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
bkev
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See You, Space Cowboy...Man, DragonBall fans are a creative breed. Someone's always trying to fix something (and, IMO, rightfully so.) I wish you the best on this project.
It would be interesting to see the FUNi colors applied to the DragonBox, but I think a middle ground would be a better approach. I've always felt the blue bricks were a tad too yellow... and there's all sorts of video artifacts (rainbowing etc.) that take away from the quality whether it's correct or not.
Molly
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U u uwa uwa...Yeah, I know about the rainbowing.
The closest we got to perfection was the Z 1-34 (and 35-39 on xbox live).
I have original broadcast audio of 2-17, it sounds great, better than the R2Js, and almost as good as DBK...what happened to Toei and Fuji's copies?
"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
bkev
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See You, Space Cowboy...^Toei literally threw them out. Standard practice of theirs at the time.
Mind sharing your sources on the broadcast audio? I know the folks on Daizex who have 'em tend to keep it to themselves unless they attempt to offer their 1st-run tapes to Toei or FUNimation.
Too bad the Levels sets were canceled and we're getting a widescreen blu-ray set instead :/
Molly
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U u uwa uwa...Yeah, I got it from someone who got it from someone else, and was asked to keep the flacs close to the vest. I think GonbeFAN was my proxy, but he went through someone else too. (I'm not at liberty to say who the other people were, but I think they might both be from Daizex too.)
And Daizex, well... they're a bit uptight about these sorts of things (they cost us a chance of getting the AB dub of Blood Rubies), in addition to the mentality I see among the fandom that Toei's colors must be right, even if they're OBVIOUSLY wrong. Because Toei...or something like that.
And DBZ... yeesh. At least DB and DBGT get some respect, while Z keeps getting mangled and mangled and mangled.
"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
Dragon Ball "Best of Breed" hybrid...maybe