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Post #669728

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spoRv
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The Matrix [spoRv] *BD-25 RELEASED*
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Date created
7-Nov-2013, 10:01 AM

Hello, glad to hear you again! Your opinions matter, as usual, and you and other person made me think about this preservation, and I want to share with you all my thought about it.

To preserve "The Matrix" color grading perfectly, using the BD as video source, and the DVD as color reference, is impossible, as there are contrast/brightness problems in a lot of scene that actually could be not recovered to be exactly the same as in the DVD.

Anyway, if someone has a (lot of) patience and time to spend on this project, I think that actually could be possible to color regrading perfectly about 95% of the scenes, doing it scene by scene, shot by shot; for the others - the ones with contrast/brightness problems - the color matching will be partial, as the color grading process in not only about chroma, but luma too... so, those scenes could be similar to the DVD, but they will never be perfectly identical.

But, as I wrote before, I have not time nor patience to devote a year or two to this task - until the Wachowskis will decide to pay me to do it... (^^,)

So, to me, there are other practical way to accomplish the mission better than what I did:

  1. Upscaling the whole DVD: while this could seem the worst solution, it will be 100% color wise accurate - of course, and it will look (almost always) better than a "on the fly" upconversion done by a TV or computer.
  2. Using the BD luma, and colourmatch'ed BD chroma; this solution should avoid artifacts, but color wise will not be so close to the DVD, color wise; but at the end color grading will be WAY better than DVD.
  3. Using the BD as main video source, and HDTV as color reference, should avoid some imperfections in the color matching process; plus, it will be possible to use the superior quality of the HDTV, instead of upscaled DVD, for those scenes that need to be replaced.

 

I think the first solution has perfect color matching but not so good resolution; second has the best resolution with not so good color regrading; hopefully, third will be the best compromise, with the most scenes with resolution intact (and the replaced ones with better quality than upscaled DVD) and color grading should produce less, if any, artifacts, remaining as close to the color reference as possible...

Further tests are needed, as always. Opinions are welcome!