Wow, brilliant news!
Why shots from the blu ray though? I thought all your print scans are basically better in detail and closer to the original. Regardless I’m very excited 😃
Are you thinking of this as a step up from the SSE? How much will it improve on the SSE when viewed at 1080p?
The Blu-ray at least gives the illusion of more detail. A handful of frames at the reel changes in SSE 1.5/6 actually came from the Blu-ray - there was just no other suitable source available (except upscaled GOUT / blu-ray sourced Despecialized). In many cases I was able to interpolate / extrapolate missing frames using PFClean’s Fix Frame effect but the end of Reels 3 and 5 used a few Blu-ray frames. I did my best to make them blend with the LPP and at full speed it’s barely noticeable, but slow it down and it is much more obvious…
I do think this is a big step up from the SSE. This is much shaper (the Eastman prints are perhaps even sharper than the Technicolor), more detailed, will have more consistant colors, and won’t have any of that light streaking that our scan of the LPP had. If I had to put a number on it, I’d say 75% better than the SSE at 1080p. If it was only 10% better it wouldn’t be worth the effort.