Great job, and I am very much looking forward to seeing the finished product. Looking very good from those caps. I can’t see where the Japanese subs were masked, at least not in those stills. Is it just as seamless in motion, I wonder?
How will you handle distribution once it’s done?
It’s not always as seamless in motion, but none of the masking work is really egregious. I might fine-tune it when I go back through for v1.0, but for the most part I think it’s satisfactory.
As for distribution, I’m kind of wondering about that myself. I’m somewhat limited by the fact that I’m on a university wifi connection with a pretty draconian anti-torrent policy, so while torrenting seems like the most widely used and convenient method, I won’t be able to upload it myself. I may start by sharing it on MEGA, then arrange to have somebody make it available to torrent. We’ll see.
God Save Pop Punk said:
The MHD isn’t available in HD. The point is to try and prepare a decent-looking HD copy of the film with as little upscaled SD material as possible.That’s the thing, though. Toho’s HDTV is less than stellar. The currently available copy of Godzilla 1985 at least has more accurate colors, and at least registers more detail, even if hampered by the compression and artifacts.
I don’t know about the detail - I’ve yet to see a full HD copy of Toho’s transfer - but I disagree on the colors. I wouldn’t say Toho’s transfer is incredible when it comes to color, but it seems a bit more natural in comparison to the MHD, which has a pretty heavy blue tint by comparison.
In any case, though, if the MHD is that preferable an option, then it’s out there and readily available. I’m doing what I’m doing mainly so there’s at least a mostly-HD option available to people; if people prefer the SD MHD recording then it’s there too.
Anyway, I’ve just gotten past the scene where the Prime Minister meets with the ambassadors and the Soviet colonel makes contact with the missile-launching satellite, so I think most of the subtitle replacements are behind me now. From here on out it should mostly be matching edited scenes and masking the occasional location super, which is pretty quick and easy by comparison. The final touch will be re-creating the end credit crawl in HD, then probably adding brief credits for those who’ve contributed sources.