corellian77 said:
Well, I watched the Blu V2 teaser a couple times now. I realize I'm likely in the minority thinking this, but I find the image overly grainy/noisy. Compared with the V3 DVD, the picture actually looks less clear in the Blu version. I know an attempt was made to preserve as much detail as possible, and that no one is a fan of waxy-looking surfaces as a result of too much denoising, but I feel the picture quality could benefit from a little 'cleaning up' or 'smoothing out'. It feels at times that I'm watching the movie through a filter (if that makes any sense).
My apologies for sounding critical. I've been following this project for a long time and am very appreciative of the tremendous effort that has gone into this preservation. I just wanted to know if the image quality of the teaser will be reflective of the final product and, if so, if the level of grain/noise (sorry if I'm not using the correct terminology here) is likely to remain as is.
Just wanted to know what DJ's and You_Too's -- and others' -- thoughts were on this issue.
I brought this exact same thing up myself, I thought it looked more grainy than ever before lol, but U2(short for You_Too lol) said this is how it looks and it brings out detail, when I first started all these tests 3 things stuck out to me right from the bat,
1 was the color, I was so used to it being so dull and washed out, no life, that the new color threw me off a bit, but I love it now!
2 what you mention, the grain seems really heavy, a lot heavier than I have ever seen before on any GOUT project, now I am not saying I do not like it, but this will take some getting used to.
3 the occasional flickering is what I will call it(I am not real good myself on all the real tech terms lol) like during the pan down, the flickering on the walls and ground, and most of all, the flickering on the foliage behind our Heroes at the end of the film.
But for right now things are delayed a bit, we have to fix a tech issue we found mentioned above(sure wish we would have caught it sooner lol) so we are running a ton of tests before we render a new final lossless avi file, because this next file will be final, so we will look at some of the concerns brought up in this thread, like Ady's thoughts on the red, we can look into the "grain" issue, and if anyone has anything else to add now is the time, so please do so.
So does anyone else have any concerns with the grain share your thoughts now please.
Thanks, now it is time to get back to work lol.