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Post #593367

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You_Too
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Conan The Barbarian 1982 US Theatrical Edition & BONUS! *RELEASED*
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Date created
3-Sep-2012, 7:46 PM

Ok here's an update for everyone!

I've been helping DJ a bit with this one and the reason he didn't upload it yet was because one scene needed a bit of fixing to make it look like the theatrical version.

This scene was originally night/early morning, and was changed into daytime (in which it was probably originally shot) for the cut that's on the blu-ray. You who are interested in this project probably knows about DJ's decision to not change the colors to look like the theatrical, because that would take too much work. So this scene is now color matched with the blu-ray version except it's darker.

DJ posted this side-by-side sample to show you: https://vimeo.com/48708770

Here's also an uncompressed screenshot comparison:

(For those thinking "why not color time it like the theatrical version?" I'll explain a bit. The blu-ray release of Conan has a thin layer of grain over the whole film which doesn't change in brightness. The theatrical version seems to also have this. If one wanted to make a correct-looking theatrical color timing, first one would have to somehow filter out all grain from the entire movie, then match each scene in both contrast/brightness and color, then add the grain back. A lot of times the blu-ray and theatrical aren't even consistent in it's contrast/brightness changes between shots.)

Anyway, DJ wanted me to tell you that he's going to upload it to myspleen soon, and that he wanted ideas on where to upload it on the newsgroups.

He's also made some nice cases for it, check them out: