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Post #1343426

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Chewielewis
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44rh1n's "The Fellowship of the Ring" Extended Edition Color Restoration (Released)
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Date created
10-May-2020, 7:42 AM

44rh1n said:
I’ve been wondering about this myself. Since LOTR is so VFX heavy, redoing visual effects in 4K is probably out of the realm of possibility. Honestly, I just hope it’s sourced from the original 2K DI, and upscaled. No monkey business, no green tint, no DNR, no artificial sharpening, no scanning of a print — just the original file that got rendered out as the master, before it got printed back onto film. That would be the best source IMO.

It’s funny to me that this conversation only ever comes up when discussing Lord of the Rings and Eps II and III. But never for any of the multitude of 2K rendered VFX heavy films that have been released on UHD bluray.

But yeah its practically impossible for this to happen. Consider the hardware and software the vfx pipeline was built on is long decommissioned. An enormous amount of effort for a very minimal upgrade in fidelity.