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http://imgbox.com/g/e0sE5xG5BU

This has different settings for some of those scenes now. I think everything else looks the way it should.

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When I get a chance I will post some some stills perhaps so what i Need from you is the shot of Arnie Looking in the mirror with sunglasses on (eye Surgery) and the shot of Arnold turning and looking at the answer phone after he Kills Ginger (the one I posted that still for).

Essentially it’s all about those parts where it seems this is the same master as all other versions seem to vacate the Color style at the same points. I won’t mind if you don’t agree with those bits but I am trying to find out whats going on with those bits.

It seems the later transfers sorted out the Hue Fluctuations anyway. What I will do is try and grade those shots the same as the 35mm cell and that image of arnie or close enough. And I will give you those setting and you can agree or disagree or fiddle with those settings how you like.

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I didn’t have time to upload those this morning but I will get to it this afternoon. My grade in the shot of Arnold looking at the phone is actually really similar to the screenshot you posted here.

For the sunglasses, do you mean the shot I already have in the gallery I posted, or the puppet with glasses?

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
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THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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Dek Rollins said:

I didn’t have time to upload those this morning but I will get to it this afternoon. My grade in the shot of Arnold looking at the phone is actually really similar to the screenshot you posted here.

For the sunglasses, do you mean the shot I already have in the gallery I posted, or the puppet with glasses?

Whoops sorry man missed that pic of the Arnold in the Mirror. But instead of arnold turning around show me Sarah Connor in the street outside the pizza restaurant.

It could very well be it needs more saturation on those parts or it’s part of the issue. The Arnold in the Mirror does need the Shadow gain dropping as this was also over bright in the Hemdale DVD compared with the 35mm Frame I also pushed a bit more cyan in the mids than you I think. Red Contrast increase also springs to mind especially the arm repair scene.

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Looking at it in gimp it looks like you need to drop Shadow Level (Gain Down) down push Shadow Blue Harder and possibly increase red contrast a bit. In the mids you need a small cyan tint.

I will post you setting later on for the Eye Surgery and Arm Surgery.

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Well that looks good so considering the old DVD and the new version share similarities of problems in the same spots, in my old DVD it looks worse than this and I had to handle these separately. I mean it was very different.

Here is what I am currently getting for Traxler and the police station (not saying this is correct at all) But it does match the scenes later. Bear in mind also that I have over saturated this as it’s what I do to see what is in there so yeah de-saturating this would be needed, but to me this is on the right track for the police station.




This is currently what I have for Technoir same as above I over saturated part of my process to see what in there and pull it about.

This is not altered very much from the original DVD it was just slightly adjusted.

My general feeling on the Hemdale dvd is in places it’s too saturated in others it is not saturated enough so I am trying to find the balance in that currently. Also I notice various shifts in green gain.

Although i have had a guess if it helps you more to have images with no changes made to them let me know. At the end of the day i am trying to help really. So if you want to see a certain shot from the Hemdale unchanged let me know and i will post it.

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Thanks. I’m happy with the overall grade as it is and I don’t think I’m gonna change it anymore, but I’ll take another look at the specially graded scenes to make sure they’re at the place they need to be. The tech noir is one that I want to look at working on more, but the new grade should be ready to encode pretty soon either way.

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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Here is the current color correction as it stands.

http://imgbox.com/g/LKEwK4bAgO

I feel I’ve done everything I can with it at this point. From the evidence available to me, this regrade seems to be extremely accurate, though not perfect, of course. The big issue with accuracy is that no two prints would’ve been exactly the same, and the specific things that would be consistent are things that I can’t replicate without having more complete references as well as making this a shot by shot correction. It also doesn’t help that the Blu-ray transfer doesn’t like being conformed to nicer colors, so the things that don’t look 100% in the ballpark like the Tech Noir will just have to stay that way. That said, I’m very happy with how this all looks, and I truly believe that what I’ve done is nearly as accurate as can be achieved with this Blu-ray transfer.

I’ll try to get this new regrade encoded in the next few days, and then I’m going to stop hosting the old regrade and put this one up in its place.

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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Dek Rollins said:

Here is the current color correction as it stands.

http://imgbox.com/g/LKEwK4bAgO

I feel I’ve done everything I can with it at this point. From the evidence available to me, this regrade seems to be extremely accurate, though not perfect, of course. The big issue with accuracy is that no two prints would’ve been exactly the same, and the specific things that would be consistent are things that I can’t replicate without having more complete references as well as making this a shot by shot correction. It also doesn’t help that the Blu-ray transfer doesn’t like being conformed to nicer colors, so the things that don’t look 100% in the ballpark like the Tech Noir will just have to stay that way. That said, I’m very happy with how this all looks, and I truly believe that what I’ve done is nearly as accurate as can be achieved with this Blu-ray transfer.

I’ll try to get this new regrade encoded in the next few days, and then I’m going to stop hosting the old regrade and put this one up in its place.

Looks great, man! Can’t wait!

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Can’t check out the images at the moment, but from everything I’ve seen so far, I’m excited to get my hands on this! 😄

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The first encoding pass is running now. This should take 'til tomorrow morning or noon, and then tomorrow night I’ll make the final encode. So it should be uploaded by Tuesday at the latest, as long as nothing goes wrong. I’ll update the first post then, but I’m going to go ahead and take down the first upload of the film right now. My old LUTs are still staying up so anyone who wants my old version in the future can make use of them.

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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I’ve started uploading the new 29.2 GB MKV. It should be done and ready tomorrow morning some time.

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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By the way, anyone who already PMd me for the old version should be able to use the same link, since I just replaced the files in the same folder.

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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Okay, I kind of lied about this being done for good. I made a mistake when implementing the selective color corrections in some scenes. When adjusting the colors for scenes with lots of flames, I accidentally forgot to check if work was needed in the explosion that occurs after they leave the Tech Noir, and the explosion and burning photo in the future flashback. After looking at these scenes, I feel I should’ve done some selective work in them as well.

Does anybody who already PM’d me care about this, or do you not want to bother? (the changes won’t be massive by any means, I just think the flames look too bright and yellowy in some shots)

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SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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I haven’t gotten a chance to download it yet, so I can’t speak for those who’d have to redownload or for your having to reencode and reupload, but I’d say if you’re not entirely happy with it and this change would bring you closer to being satisfied, then go for it!

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ChainsawAsh said:

I haven’t gotten a chance to download it yet, so I can’t speak for those who’d have to redownload or for your having to reencode and reupload, but I’d say if you’re not entirely happy with it and this change would bring you closer to being satisfied, then go for it!

Agreed, but please don’t go all Lucas on our butts. AKA please keep both versions avaible. Just a thought.

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Dek Rollins said:

Okay, I kind of lied about this being done for good. I made a mistake when implementing the selective color corrections in some scenes. When adjusting the colors for scenes with lots of flames, I accidentally forgot to check if work was needed in the explosion that occurs after they leave the Tech Noir, and the explosion and burning photo in the future flashback. After looking at these scenes, I feel I should’ve done some selective work in them as well.

Does anybody who already PM’d me care about this, or do you not want to bother? (the changes won’t be massive by any means, I just think the flames look too bright and yellowy in some shots)

I mean, if you feel there’s room for improvement, then go for it. I’m interested 😃

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Glad to know you guys are willing to wait a couple more days, I know I’m pretty impatient myself, haha.

When I make the new encode, I will take down the currently uploaded version, since I’m too cheap to pay for my MEGA account. 😛

All that is being changed in the grade is a couple scenes with heavy flames that don’t have enough red to balance the bright yellow. The difference will be pretty small, but it won’t look weird anymore, and that’s what counts. I’m also changing the selective grade on the flames at the end, since I found a better balance when looking at these other shots.

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SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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Really impressed with the screenshots. The daytime exterior shots look like still photography with the improved tonal curve.