MXDash

stretch009 said:

@ MXDash
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Received and replied. Apologies, I was not looking out for PMs, I was just checking email. But that’s fine. I’ll keep checking PMs from now on as well.

The Film is now available. Email me at ymxdash@gmail.com for a link to the download.
However, for the time being, the download will only be available till the 23rd of March, 2023.

heathen3017 said:

Is this the Director’s Cut?

No. The Director’s cut has some pacing issues, so the theatrical version is the basis for Golden Edition.

A Remaster of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” that clears up the sound, rebalances the colour, and
a whole host of fixes. The purpose of Golden Edition isn’t to change Star Trek II but to simply correct
issues with sound and visuals that can potentially pull one out of the experience.

–Features and Settings–

3 audio tracks:

• The 2022 Golden Edition Stereo Remaster (English)
• 5.1 Surround (The original unaltered track from the official blu-ray release.)
• Music Soundtrack - Yes, that’s right. I synced up the film’s original score with the visuals, which, as a bonus,
  also includes some musical pieces that didn’t make the final cut.

8 subtitle tracks:

• English
• Danish
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish

–Audio Fixes–

• ADR that sounds totally different from on-set audio has been improved.
• Sound effects that are far too loud relative to dialogue levels has been rebalanced.
• Reduced high base (approx. 100Hz range) and increased low base (approx. 25Hz range).
• Increased High frequencies for a clearer presentation.
• Cleared up instances of muffled dialogue.
• Cleared up instances of muffled music.
• Removed hissing and other background noise in severe cases.
• Reduced dialogue peak distortions.
• resynced intro music with Title and Credits animation.
• Added audible feedback to touch screen intercoms.
• Added an audible critical notifier during damage report sequence.
• Reduced obnoxiously high tones in phaser firing sound effects.
• Added rumble sound effects while screen is still shaking during Sulu’s “I can’t get power, sir!” line.
• Re-centered stereo balance for transporter sound effects.
• Added reverb to dialogue and sound effects during scenes with echoey environments.
• Khan’s nervous sighs sync up with visually noticeable exhaling.
• A torpedo no longer sounds similar to phasers (based on Star Trek 3’s firing sound, but NOT taken from).

–Visuals–

• Reduced a sickly green tint present throughout the entire film.
• Increased mid reds to liven up red uniforms and pale/yellowish skin tones.
• Black levels have been improved.
• Reduced extremely bright red emergency lights after Kirk’s “The hell are they?!” line till end of
  scene.
• Brightness has been increased slightly.
• Colour vibrance has been increased by 4%.
• Cropped out Kirk’s gawking expression during the retina scan sequence.
• stabilized image wobble from film camera malfunction caused by on-set explosion during Kirk’s
  “Scotty! What’s left?!” line.
• spliced in a shot of the Enterprise’s viewscreen during the two ships blindly moving toward each
  other to add more visual dynamics, and to match the audio.
• Hid Reliant in a bright light until revealed in viewscreen to add anticipation of Reliant’s imminent
  attack.
• Zoomed in on the viewscreen to emphasize the reveal of the Reliant.
• Greatly reduced the amount of cyan in the self-illuminating lights on the Enterprise while taking
  damage and firing back.
• Deceased Joachim’s eyes stay open when Khan embraces him.
• Reliant’s comedically underwhelming Genesis explosion shockwave is now more powerful.

–Video Links–

https://youtu.be/FlAm4WDnRkc <-- Comparisons Showcase
https://youtu.be/YTRy019J0wE <-- Fixing a Weird Mistake
https://youtu.be/h3Ky8aD6pNo <-- Fixing a Colour Error

The Film is now available. Email me at ymxdash@gmail.com for a link to the download.
However, for the time being, the download will only be available till the 23rd of March, 2023.

Fullmetaled said:

I’m not having hope those shots will be completely better but were they even remotely worked on at all on the uhd blu ray if not I get it but I’m just curious since no one has talk about those shots on the uhd yet and some people already have review copies.

You’d think the first thing that anybody that got a review copy would be to check to see if they fixed those shots. I’m actually surprised just how few people were bothered by these problems because to me they were jarring. The first time I watched it was on my gaming PC with headphones, I just thought to myself “maybe these problems are not as noticeable on my projector”, but no, it actually is more apparent on a larger screen even though it was only a 1080p projector.

Ri~Lei said:

Greetings, I personally would not mind–even would enjoy–such a color-correction, please.

~Waz

Thanks for the interest. However, things have changed since I posted that comment and I’m gonna first wait for the blu-ray release of The Director’s Edition to see if many of these problems of the digital version gets resolved which would make my recolor of the film moot. But if that doesn’t happen then I will send you a link to my version of the film. That being said, I would like to have another go at redoing the color because some of the scenes look a little too pink in some places. This is due to the fact that the original’s color balance is inconsistent between scenes.

WXM said:

The 4kDE has been showing for a few days now I believe and no comments from anyone so I guess I’ll ask if anyone’s seen it? Thoughts?

Yes I have. I’m glad that it exists, and it probably is the best way to watch this film, but oddly, I actually found it to be slightly less stellar than I hoped. The new background in the officer’s lounge was a nice touch. Too bad the rotoscoping of the actors was awful! X(
I thought there was something wrong with my display, but no, it really does look that terrible.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FP_R-pJWQAAaPti?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPztTaYWUAMXZkz?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

There are some nice touches to the original DVD CG effects now in glorious HD. However they’ve added this fake bloom in a lot of these shots and I hate it! It looks like CG from 2005. I just wish they followed the rules when they were working on the DVD version, which is to not add any effect that doesn’t look like something that could’ve been done in the 70s. The DVD’s effects look genuine, some of the 2022 VFX sticks out like a sore thumb in a similar manner to the Star Wars Special Edition.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOnmTkYXoAIe9CC?format=jpg&name=medium

I like that they went through all the effort to find the original ADR for much of the dialogue to have cleaner, less distorted audio, but again, just like with the effects, they didn’t go all the way. They didn’t add any ambient reverb to help the ADR not sound like it was recorded in a booth. The base is also a little too high. It’s not a big issue unless you have a big subwoofer like I do. All of these things combined makes the actors sound more like sports commentators than dialogue for a Hollywood film.

Anyways, on a positive note, we were long overdue for an HD release of the Director’s Edition. And if people choose not to watch the HD Purist Edition, then I would say that the 2022 release is still better than the DVD original, and especially over the theatrical cut.

I know that there is now a 4K version of the Director’s Edition but I still think this version needs to exist because it’s great for those that still want the Robert Wise handled version. Some people including myself found the new 4K version to be so heavily processed with the smudgy, grain removing filter on everything, and the heavily compressed, bassy, non-reverberated ADR.

So I think I would like to continue to improve it. And one of the things that always bothered me about the Director’s Edition DVD version is how old and dirty the film looked. This look carried over to the HD v3 release. And I was wondering if anyone, especially the creator, would like a version of this film with color correction?

Some screenshots:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UAfDCqv_ulh6EQev0Ty4Qaicu8SSsc4h/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zv6gP3BK2IjIQmNLfrkq2JVFzwi8FLvN/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PXjhSoVQZAsCQ4DFnU9hQFO_GHS2Jmpg/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15SEW5dpnOD5xnwvkHr0lXYsH0jvuejZw/view?usp=sharing

Hey, man! Thanks for all the work you do! these edits are amazing, especially the Purist Edition. I was just wondering if you could take a look at some changes that need to be made:

There is dirt on the lens (seen as black spots) in the Purist Edition (and blu-ray original) that was digitally removed in the DVD Director’s edition
https://drive.google.com/open?id=15nzoGm6pc9TagBEXivrkygUQh2J9FXUy

And the mount for the model was also digitally removed in the DVD Director’s edition
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fWxm1HOKd1I7gfcuLg7-tDTGNaAyqCub

Thanks again ^_^