http://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/How-Tos-and-Technical-Discussions/id/12
You’ve posted your query in the wrong section.
Mistake on my part. Still new and everything.
I’m currently doing my own little fan project (for myself) for where I’m getting rid of the unnecessary audio tracks from a Blu-ray (foreign language tracks, subtitles for said tracks and remixed tracks) and adding the preferred audio track from a DVD to take the Blu-ray’s main audio track.
To add further to the question, I want to add the DVD audio track to it, getting rid of the unnecessary audio tracks and subtitles already from the BDMV folder, but keeping everything else (main video track without resizing, special features and if possible the main menu) intact exactly as it is.
Is it possible and if so, how would it be done?
Just for comparison, here are some promo pics I scanned in from the 1981 Raiders Storybook and Raiders Book and Record. These are vintage, non-digital publications. All of these are posed stills taken during production. They use different film stock and lenses. You can see they are processed much brighter and possibly with slightly different lighting than the actual 35mm.
Taking these posed stills was a part of the moviemaking process back then. Today on set still photos are more focused on capturing behind the scenes shots, because publicity shots can be pulled from the actual digital movie master.
Incredible, you truly know your stuff.
The explanation for the blu-ray being orange/teal is because that was a trendy color scheme for action movies at the time. It tends to make things “pop”. It was an attempt to make the film look more modern and to better match Crystal Skull.
So that’s why. I’ve heard about this before. According to TV Tropes:
"Basic complementary color theory states that when two contrasting colors are put together, they “pop,” so the natural technique is to color films to have a strong, contrasting palette.
The one thing you will almost always have in a film is people. Human skin runs from pale pinkish yellow to dark brown, all of which are shades of orange. The color that contrasts best with orange is blue. So you turn up the shadows to the cyan end and the highlights to the orange.
Unlike other pairs of complementary colors, fiery orange and cool blue are strongly associated with opposing concepts — fire and ice, earth and sky, land and sea, day and night, invested humanism vs. elegant indifference, good old fashioned explosions vs. futuristic science stuff."
It’s not as big as it was back then, since it was trend like you stated, but I doubt Spielberg and even Lucas (shocking, I know) had this in mind when shooting Raiders back in the day. But if they approved the transfer, then I guess there’s nothing to do other than wish DrDre the best of luck.
It is shocking to me that Spielberg approved it. Not only because of the color changes, but because it is sloppily done. Color is inconsistent from shot to shot, contrast is reduced, gamma is all over the place, it’s over brightened, color is way oversaturated and there is heavy use of DNR. Some scenes look nice, but overall it is really a mess. Especially when you know how it is supposed to look. I find it hard to believe he is really happy with it. But most likely he never watches it. He has a state of the art cinema in his house, and probably only ever watches high quality prints of his own films.
In this link here it states Spielberg worked from an original negative correcting the print and that Raiders is exactly as it was when released in 1981.
http://collider.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-steven-spielberg/
My theory is this is the transfer Spielberg approved for the Blu-ray release because whatever he worked on certainly doesn’t appear to be what the final result turned out to be. Maybe he kept the print for himself?
The explanation for the blu-ray being orange/teal is because that was a trendy color scheme for action movies at the time. It tends to make things “pop”. It was an attempt to make the film look more modern and to better match Crystal Skull.
So that’s why. I’ve heard about this before. According to TV Tropes:
"Basic complementary color theory states that when two contrasting colors are put together, they “pop,” so the natural technique is to color films to have a strong, contrasting palette.
The one thing you will almost always have in a film is people. Human skin runs from pale pinkish yellow to dark brown, all of which are shades of orange. The color that contrasts best with orange is blue. So you turn up the shadows to the cyan end and the highlights to the orange.
Unlike other pairs of complementary colors, fiery orange and cool blue are strongly associated with opposing concepts — fire and ice, earth and sky, land and sea, day and night, invested humanism vs. elegant indifference, good old fashioned explosions vs. futuristic science stuff."
It’s not as big as it was back then, since it was trend like you stated, but I doubt Spielberg and even Lucas (shocking, I know) had this in mind when shooting Raiders back in the day. But if they approved the transfer, then I guess there’s nothing to do other than wish DrDre the best of luck.
I don’t get it, what was the creative process behind the color timing of the Blu-ray transfer about? Did they want to make it “pop” on HDTVs or something?
Newbie mistake on my part. I actually do want to contribute.
I’ve sent you a PM but got no response. Are you busy?
