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blakninja
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The Mask (1994) - 4K Open Matte 35mm Scan - 2024 Edition [WIP]
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8-Jul-2024, 10:49 PM

little-endian said:

MrQuiche said:

Definetly interested too, i’ll wait for some preview pictures too but i’d love seeing this movie in 4K. Thank you in advance 😃

No intention of spoiling this great project, but you won’t see it “in 4K” with this either, as the film print will be far from that resolution level. It’s already questionable whether 2K/HD will be reached, as it’s usually a copy of a copy of a copy (which reminds me of “Fight Club,” which could also benefit from a long-overdue UHD release, but I’m drifting …).

This won’t be a real 4K as we are not scanning from the original camera negatives. But we are scanning the 35mm print at the highest possible quality to ensure that we are capturing all of the details available on the film. Scanning at 2K would be borderline and we might miss some details, and scanning 8K would be overkill and we just get a bigger image with not necessarily more details.

It will definitely have more resolution (details) than HD (1080p), at least for the non SFX scenes.

On top of this, the grading should be closer to what you’d see in theatres (not that the Blu-ray grading was too much messed with) and we get to see it in open matte.