Nick66 said:

kk650 said:

A new fellowship of the ring regrade where i've taken a completely different approach to my previous release, very closely matching the image dynamics of the theatrical blu-ray and hdtv transport stream, will be coming out tomorrow. It has a lot more visible shadow detail than the previous release like the theatrical blu-ray and makes the daylight shots in Hobbiton brighter like they were on the theatrical blu-ray. Should be interesting to see what everybody thinks.

Oh, this is great to hear...I actually just posted my thoughts on your existing (25gb) attempt at tackling the FOTR green tint issue here.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with this time, and glad to read it should be closer to the theatrical. Will it be another 25gb version? (hopefully).

Thanks for doing these!

It is indeed a 25gb release. :)

I have finished the encode and it looks good. I'm very happy with the image dynamics ie. contrast, brightness, etc. I'm not so sure about the saturation though.

Certain scenes in the theatrical blu-ray are very colourful, some are very desaturated, its very difficult to know which way to go when regrading the extended edition transfer, more colourful overall or more desaturated overall. All my previous releases have leaned towards being more colourful, like this one does, because it generally appeals to me more. More desaturated might be the intention of the filmmakers though with this film, I don't know.

I'm going to create another encode with the same image dynamics but the saturation reduced, much like i'm doing with the Star Wars films where i'm creating both Classic and Technicolor versions. I'll put both up and everybody can go with what they prefer. It means I'm going to have to delay the Fellowship of the Ring and Star Wars releases though. Or do you prefer that I put up the Fellowship of the Ring version i've already done straight away, then get on to encoding the other desaturated version?