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I know it sounds unnecessary, but I believed I tapped into uncovering buried dynamic range in television animation by playing around with Adobe Premiere Pro one day. At the expense of breaking broadcast standards, I sort of theorized special "videophile" editions of the shows you'd see on cable/satellite television these days. I figured some here might appreciate it.

The first main goal of this idea is to avoid clipping the contrast, all the blacks and whites extended, but not trimmed. The other main goal is to keep the spirit and tone of these cartoons, but provide an alternate way to view them. This is purely out of a hobby, and the secret reason I'm kind of doing this is to sharpen my grading skills. I am still an amateur, but I could use a fun side project like this.

The first (and only) example is an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball, "The Fight." It's the finale to the first season (which IMHO has aged like milk) and I've heard criticism over 4chan about the lighting. I wondered if I could touch it up, and here are the results:

Here is what it originally looked like. It's acceptable, but I feel this shot had the most drastic change later on.

And here is the regraded shot. Note the enhanced grip of prestige.

Here's another shot I felt like it needed to be touched up. Note the blue cast, causing bluish pupils on the eyes.

It's tough to see the cast, but it's there. Here's the regraded shot.

Any criticisms, thoughts, comments, and suggestions are welcome. If everyone likes my version of "The Fight", I might make more.

Endian, I watched the CAV LaserDisc of Jurassic Park last night. Good old PCM Lt/Rt audio. And yes, I noticed the distortions on some lines of dialogue. I'm glad to find out I wasn't the only one.

Perhaps those distortions were inherent to the mix. Not a miscalculation in the transfer, but dialogue distortion right in the master. Strange. Also Jurassic Park is a very hot film. It's loud and never lets go. Even with its imperfections, I prefer the 1994 CAV LaserDisc audio to the 2013 IMAX audio for the 3D version.

Also, can you by any chance hook me up with the theatrical far field DTSHDMA of JP? I really want to listen to it right now.

I'm interested in hearing the CDS mix. Can someone PM me that mix? I don't come 'round here often.

It has been fifteen years to the day the long-awaited prequel to Star Wars was released. I was curious why no one has made this thread, as I assume it's a big deal.

To most of us, it is nothing like the original trilogy and it was not as good, but 15 years ago today it was the biggest thing in the world. I remember being brought to the cinema when I was four to see this exciting new thing, but I was talking so loudly we left the theater right when Jar Jar, Obi and Qui Gon dove into the underwater Gungan city. I was bored. This whole trade and senate thing isn't something a four-year-old would understand. Mind you I was more autistic back then than I am now.

Share your memories.

I am very interested in restoring the Criterion edition of Akira (#151).

Not only it has the original English dub in uncompressed 16/44.1 PCM Dolby Surround, possibly the best copy of the dub available, but the color timing is much, and I mean MUCH better than the later DVD releases, and even the new Blu-ray! I don't know if that is how Akira was meant to look like, but the colors have more life and the whites are very bright! I own the 3-disc CAV Laserdisc, with all the awesome supplements. It's definitely an LD treasure.

Months back, I've uploaded the very first 54 seconds of the LD on YouTube, to test out my LD-to-digital conversion skills. It contains the opening shot of the nuclear explosion, which, in my opinion, has more color fidelity than the DVD/BD (you can try to compare the two with yourself, if you want).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaPtaFKZing

It is one of my top priorities to release a Criterion DVD preservation of Akira on a two-disc set, but I currently do not have the enough equipment to do a proper, deserving transfer.

Hi. I’m new to this forum, so let me introduce myself. I am a sixteen-year-old kid with a high interest in the film industry and its history, the technology that powers the filmgoing experience, and the preservation of fading works. I’ve been lurking this forum for some while now, because I was interested in how fans are endlessly restoring the ORIGINAL theatrical versions of the Star Wars OT, which has been over the years, insecurely modified to a film more incomplete than it originally was.

On the subject of film preservation, I became aware that an earlier mix of the THX trailer “Cimarron” existed, and it’s not just different in panning and levels, but it has a completely different soundtrack! If you are not familiar with “Cimarron”, it was produced at ILM and released in 1988 with the premiere of the almost-forgotten Lucas/Howard film “Willow.” When I found a crappy in-theater live recording of the trailer, I’ve realized that the fate of that mix is in the hands of whoever owns the closest-to-the-original materials and myself, as THX, Ltd. today consists of very different people who are not aware that an early mix of “Cimarron” exists.

Below is the latest version (v1.1) of the restoration project on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCH5EYtrDuQ

As you can hear, I’ve gotten one step closer to the original since I’ve started this project in August. If you have any contributions to the project, please let me know.