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_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

PDB said:

Is it possible to add back the old Saul Bass Warner logo?

 And you ask it?!? (^^,) Of course!

@Jonno: waiting to know your track comparison...

 Awesome!

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So I want to preface this by saying I'm not sure what I'm doing 100%, I'm no expert (like a lot of guys around here) but I'm trying to teach myself something new. I wanted to see if I could regrade RW/MM2 back to the more yellow of the DVD/LD/35mm colors (also want to try The Good The Bad and the Ugly but one thing at a time). I was going to use colourlike and Avisyth scripts but didn't feel comfortable with that so instead I tried Adobe Speedgrade and Davinci Resolve Lite.

I first attempted one single regrade for the whole movie but quickly found out that I would have to regrade scene by scene, shot by shot. So using Adobe Premiere I cut the opening chase on the BD into all its component shots and regraded them best I could to the equivalent shots from the DVD. Not sure if this is the smartest/easiest method but it is the one I came up with. Anyway, I wanted to see if I was on the right track, so I uploaded a sample for people to see:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/vb6sny

I think it is about 85% - 90% there. Just wondering if this was good enough to keep going or if I'm way off. Comments welcomed. For those with the DVD can you let me know if anything looks way off.

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I think it looks pretty damn good PDB!

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If anyone has kk650's color-corrected Mad Max 2, please consider including it on the spleen.  Thanks in advance!

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DoomBot said:

I think it looks pretty damn good PDB!

 Thanks Doom

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Awesome news. MM2 was screwed up by somebody with this fresh HD scan of the Australian uncut neg. The cinematographer has gone on record with how difficult it was in the labs to push the IP for release prints to get that dark saturation and deep red/browns of the desert. Thus it isn't this way on the negative, and that's why the BD is the way it is. They did not replicate the post-production processing, and the US DVD utilized some print/IP of the edited US release version which maintains the intended look.

BTW, the boxset has the new encoded disc, but ironically if you were like me and got them seperately-the new MM2 disc has the same individual cover art but has been bleached of color like the feature itself!

Interested to hear if there are any differences in LD audio Jonno, I oved you old track and had long wanted the remastered LD.

Thunderdome looks and feels correct on BD. The transfer feels more natural and less video-ey than the poor flipper DVD. The 5.1 isn't bad but I still prefer the dirtier matrix original.

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Jonno said:

So it turns out the first two films have had new restorations - I'm going to see them in a double bill tonight:

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/film/Mad_Max_1_2_Double_Bill/

It will be interesting to see which MM2 colour grading has been used on this DCP - fingers crossed the proper warm tones have also been 'restored'.

 How was it Jonno?

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Sorry, forgot to feed back.

To be honest I wasn't wowed by either film's DCP presentation. Mad Max was probably as good as that film is going to look - it seemed sharper than the (now fairly old) BD, but still a little soft overall (perhaps an inevitable by-product of the low budget photography). The colours were appropriately muted, so no problems there.

Mad Max 2, on the other hand, had a great deal more detail - impressively so, in fact - but it still suffers from the uncorrected colour timing of the Blu-ray. If this is indeed a new transfer, and the studio has paid any attention at all to the feedback on the earlier HD releases, it's disappointing that this hasn't been addressed. As such, this was hardly a definitive or archival restoration - more a higher format release of the versions we're used to seeing.

Bring on the spoRv...

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Jonno, you call, I answer! (^^,)

Well, with the latest ColourMatch version, I think there is a good chance to obtain a very good result with Mad Max 2...

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For those interested, i've just put up a 16gb version of my Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior regraded release with DTS-HD 5.1 audio on tehparadox.

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Will someone please be a hero and put kk650's version on the spleen... thanks to everyone who has ever existed!

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haha, good one Flexicon9!

i've got a lot of uploading to do over the next few days with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and new improved versions of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Once Upon A Time in the West i've just finished but i'll see if I can upload the 16gb release of Mad Max 2 to the spleen by Wednesday. :)

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You're a gentleman and a scholar... I just have issues with the dox but I understand why it's awesome.  Right now the spleen is the king of my stupid world.

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SPORV bring on your MM2 regrade! Can't wait to see it!

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Okay, the 16gb regraded release of Mad Max 2 is now up on myspleen.

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Thank you so much kk650!

It will be perfect if someone can sync the LD PCM to your fixed version

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Thanks for upping to the spleen. Watching it now and a very nice job indeed.

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@Flexicon9, BDgeek and milw50717: My pleasure! I'm glad you like what you're seeing.

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Once again, this project turned out spectacular... highly recommended to anyone who loves The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2).  Just do yourself a favor and get it.  Thanks kk650 for another bitchin' flick in 16gigs.  This one looks and sounds stunning!

http://i60.tinypic.com/m91xja.jpg

http://i62.tinypic.com/24o821k.jpg

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Stamper said:

SPORV bring on your MM2 regrade! Can't wait to see it!

 Agreed SPORV ! Bring it on !

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Flexicon9 said:

Once again, this project turned out spectacular... highly recommended to anyone who loves The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2).  Just do yourself a favor and get it.  Thanks kk650 for another bitchin' flick in 16gigs.  This one looks and sounds stunning!

http://i60.tinypic.com/m91xja.jpg

http://i62.tinypic.com/24o821k.jpg

 Thanks Flexicon, I'm very glad you're enjoying this! :D