The Lord of The Rings - 35MM GRADED — Page 4

Could someone send me a link? This looks amazing!

Could I have a link too please, PM’d you

Could I please get a link to these please? I have sent you a PM previously too.

Wow… amazing stuff, been zooming in on the screenshots for the last hour ^ ^

Excellent work really! And though HDR would be great, tbh, SDR is more optimal, it makes it so much easier to play on lots of different players/hardware without having to worry about the performance or the color being off etc., some players struggle with the HDR playback, especially on slow laptops ^ ^;

Would love a link (especially if there is a torrent up) plz, would really make an excellent Christmas surprise for my gf who is a huge LOTR fan!

Huge THX in advance! 😃

I just watched Fellowship and gotta say you did an amazing job. The 35mm version already looked really good but this is definitely the best way to watch the trilogy.

What would at the moment be the best versions for the extended editions? I know there is a 35mm version and regrades (like 44rh1n version) of fellowship extended, but what’s the way to go for two towers and return of the king?

Would love to have these versions. I would also seed them and spread them across, with your permission. If you don’t want to, then that’s fine by me.

hey, i would love access to a torrent or dl link.

will seed. much appreciated

Would love links if possible, thanks!

Hi, I’d like to request a link! It’s surreal seeing scans that align with my memory as a kid.

Would also love a link if possible, tysm!

May I have a link too, please?

Hey I’m interested to have a copy as well. Send me a link please. Thanks!

hy; Would it be possible to get a link, torrent or so for the movie??? Thanks in advance

remsouille said:

Hi everyone,

I’ve been at it for quite some time, and I think I’m finally ready to release my graded versions of the LOTR scans that have been hanging around here.
It has proved a more complicated task than I expected. What started as 1 grade per reel job ended up being a scene by scene, sometimes shot by shot regrade. Not because I wanted to, but because after some time it seemed obvious that the files had been tampered with already and that some sort of grading was applied to them at some point.

As much as I would have loved the grade to be 100% faithful to the original, I don’t think that it would be possible given the material. As I said, the scans seem to have been worked on already, and of top of that some reels have pretty intense shifts going on, plus there’s no other reference to what the original grade looked like, not to mention that those original grades were pretty funky to start with.
What is certain is that the 35mm Fuji prints had a lot more contrast going on that what can be seen on the DVD’s and blurays, which is a good thing in that it makes the picture a lot more vibrant, helps making the vfx compositing a lot more believable. On the other hand, it makes those bold grading choices (and also the color shifts) a lot more obvious, and subsenquently harder to nail, as you always feel like you’re going way over the top.

So what I did was using a “contrasted up” bluray rip as a reference, not to 100% match my grade to it, but just to use a that, a reference. Some shots are very consistent from the 35MM to the bluray, some not so much, especially in FOTR, as the theater realease didn’t use a full Digital Intermediate. When there were obvious difference between the two versions, I just tried to make the 35mm look as good as possible within its palette and relatint to the other scenes on the reel.

I’m ready to share FOTR at the moment, I don’t have a mega account, so I could maybe share it via resilio to someone who could upload it somewhere? I’m away a lot and can’t keep resilio on at all times. If someone wants to help, do reach out!
As said previously, FOTR was the hardest one to deal with. Some bits I’m still not too happy about, but I think they are the parts where the fading was just too bad (The Wizard fight in Orthanc, Arwen meeting Aragorn and the Hobbits and The Shards of Narsil scene come to mind) I’m anxious to know what you all think. I still think this is the best way to experience these movies, the last time I enjoyed watching them that much was 20 years ago in the theater!! This is the real deal, this scan really takes suspension of disbelief to another level!!

EDIT: All three movies are done, here are some updated screencaps:

I just sent you a request for the links through a private chat. I’ll be waiting.

Just watched Two Towers and wanted to give some feedback. It looks really great for the most part. The colors are beautiful, except for a couple shots in the snow that look a bit too purple. Especially the openingshots but perhaps a few others as well. Not sure if it’s also the case in the original 35mm scan though, but it’s definitely noticeable.

The screenshots look amazing! If anyone has a download link to share, please PM me. Thanks in advance!

If somebody has the link for these movies, please share it with me. 😃

remsouille said:
I’m only working on the theatrical editions! I’ll get in touch once the new versions are rendered!

What’s the current status of this project? Could I get a link too pls?

Has anyone gotten a link they could share? Sent a message a couple weeks ago and haven’t heard anything. Looks like Remsouille hasn’t been on in a while…

Resilio links for all 3 films by Remsouille:

Fellowship of the Ring
BEVMQPBADX2Y6YCMIDV7BPCKTV7X4EMNR

The Two Towers
BNDR6CFYLCYOH5HSVTORLZO6HESGK2SAV

Return of the King
BU4OJHYWJDAEDBE4CS6VH3VY7ZMITOUVQ

remsouille said:

Sandman said:

It seems like ffmpeg doesn’t like the MKV as input, had the same VFR issue when remuxing to MP4. I had to extract the videostream from the source MKV first with mkvtoolnix and gMKVExtractGui:

https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVToolNix
https://www.videohelp.com/software/gMKVExtractGUI

Open gMKVExtractGUI, set the mkvtoolnix path, select the video stream and hit extract, which gives you a file called “LOTR FOTR HDR 23_98fps_track1_[eng].hevc”

You can then use MP4Box (part of GPAC Tools: https://www.videohelp.com/software/MP4Box ) with this command to remux the HEVC file into a new MP4 container, keeping the constant 23.976fps:

MP4Box -add "LOTR FOTR HDR 23_98fps_track1_[eng].hevc" -new "LOTR FOTR HDR 23_98fps.mp4"

ffmpeg also worked after extracting the videostream (with warnings though):

ffmpeg -i "LOTR FOTR HDR 23_98fps_track1_[eng].hevc" -c copy "LOTR FOTR HDR 23_98fps.mp4"

I’m on osx, so unfortunately I can’t use MKVextractgui…

Not sure if this helps but you can do essentially the same thing as MKVextractGUI on macOS via ffmpeg to extract just the video stream. An example of the command would be:

ffmpeg -i "/path/to/file/lotr.fotr.mkv" -c:0 copy "/path/to/output/lotr.fotr.hevc"

This command will copy the contents of the first stream of the input file to an output file, in the example is an hevc file. If the video stream is located on a different stream id, just change to -c:0 to -c:X with the correct stream ID.

Also, I would enjoy having the original MKV files if they are available. Thank you for all your hard work!

Helooooo - this looks totally amazing. Hats off to the dude who made it that’s amazing work. I can’t for the life of me fathom why the cultural consciousness decided at some point in the 2000s that everything should look grey and sludgy - I’d love a copy of these films with a bright colour grade so if anyone could share a link it’d be so appreciated - thanks!

lreek said:

Resilio links for all 3 films by Remsouille:

Fellowship of the Ring
BEVMQPBADX2Y6YCMIDV7BPCKTV7X4EMNR

The Two Towers
BNDR6CFYLCYOH5HSVTORLZO6HESGK2SAV

Return of the King
BU4OJHYWJDAEDBE4CS6VH3VY7ZMITOUVQ

Thanks mate!
Downloading now, new to Resilio, how large are the films, I’m assuming 100gb or more for each?

Also if any of you have tracked some Indiana Jones 35mm, I know its unrelated to LOTR, please let me know!

Nevermind, just saw its 85Gb, awesome! Thanks!

Can I get a PM link please?

lreek said:

Resilio links for all 3 films by Remsouille:

Fellowship of the Ring
BEVMQPBADX2Y6YCMIDV7BPCKTV7X4EMNR

The Two Towers
BNDR6CFYLCYOH5HSVTORLZO6HESGK2SAV

Return of the King
BU4OJHYWJDAEDBE4CS6VH3VY7ZMITOUVQ

Thank you!