Secondly, the color is unbelievably accurate. Dr Dre himself has proclaimed them the best he’d ever seen and is even basing his next 4K77 color grade on them.
If we assume this is getting a theatrical and home media release in 2027, wouldn’t that make 4K77/80/83 pretty much irrelevant? I’m surprised they’d continue to work on them.
I mean, I guess some people prefer the extra grainy and faded look of a 40 year old theatrical print, but these 6K scans of the original negative look SO much better, even just from compressed YouTube clips.
Lucasfilm is going to have access to the most accurate color references, since they have all of the original film elements, including the IB Technicolor print that hasn’t faded at all (which I’m sure they scanned before allowing the BFI to screen it), and the original color separation masters of the negative, which also haven’t faded at all.
A “secondary” 8K scan for certain (or just one) shots is peculiar. It’s considered pointless for 35mm. Perhaps they’re counting pixels across the width of a VVLA frame? Or they had to do a recombine from stems or sep masters and the extra res was helpful? (The “3F” could point to this)
Most of the VFX were done in the 8-perf VistaVision format, which is higher resolution than standard 4-perf 35mm.
The notes mentioned that the VistaVision VFX shots are being scanned in 8K, all of the standard 35mm is being scanned in 6K.