pittrek said:
If I had any "hardware" for transfering 35mm film I would buy it immediately :-(
Buy it, send it to team negative1 for scanning, and then sell it again.
I would do that right away if I had enough money.
And emanswfan: Your color correction of Ep 2 is much needed. The blu-ray looks horrible.
Thanks for liking the artwork!
I've spent many many hours creating it. I started with basing it on a cover DJ had a friend make for him but ended up changing almost every little detail.
For example, the front pic is from what I think is a print of the original painting, and the logo is from a scan of the soundtrack LP cover. The logo needed some extreme cleanup before it looked good enough.
Yeah please, somebody buy that print! It looks great judging by those pics.
TV's Frink said:
You_Too said:
I hadn't noticed it before. I don't know why but it's like I automatically skip reading people's signatures and just read their posts instead.
Well, since they don't change much, I get tired of reading the same stuff over and over.
Haha, yep that's exactly why I never notice when somebody changes their signature either.
@Nick66: The so called HDTV extended versions are the HDTV theatrical with the extended scenes upscaled from the DVDs. I don't think any HDTV channel ever broadcasted the extended versions. So you're right, they aren't worth it.
Harmy said:
So when you apply colourlike, it doesn't do it on a frame by frame comparison basis? I would have thought it would analyze each frame in the DVD and recolor the corresponding frame of the BD accordingly.
Oh how I wish that was the case!
Colourlike works this way: You specify two videos or images, it will then generate histograms as textfiles for both. Then you can use the plugin to do a conversion using those files.
You can also specify if you want it to create average histograms by scanning whole video clips, but it will take a long time if I remember correct.
This is the reason why g-force created RGBmatch, which can work frame by frame, but just like colourlike it works by balancing RGB. In many cases with films, RGBCMY have all been adjusted separately in hue, saturation and luminance, and there's no plugin that can automatically fix that.
Overaged Kid said:
Weird, on my blu-ray the colors looked like the bottom ones you posted for your recoloring?
Then you probably have the old blu-ray release. The one we're correcting was released in February this year.
Speaking of that, I just wanna ask everybody here who has the remastered blu-ray: Do you know if there are any changes like with Aliens and Titanic?
There's a list of "goofs" on IMDB of which some could have been corrected, and I haven't had the time to check them all yet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/trivia?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf
There's one I wonder where it can be seen: "The wire pulling the tanker truck is visible several times."
@Harmy: If the problem was only the green tint, then colourlike would work, but before that tint was applied they've made more changes. Scene by scene, that is. Some changes are global though, like grey and some blue being changed into dark teal. If we release our own version later, it will have the green tint and global color errors fixed as good as possible. But I wouldn't have the time or will to do a scene by scene correction.
As for the theatrical, get the HDTV broadcast. It's got no DVNR and I don't think it's very compressed either.
If I remember correct, there was a screening of it just before the boxset release, where it opened with Peter Jackson talking about the new color timing. Not sure though.
But since Peter has gotten so many fans after his LOTR trilogy I can't imagine he would just ignore all the critique about this color timing. I bet they will fix it after The Hobbit trilogy is finished and released. Like, release it without the green OR the new color timing.
stretch009 said:
MattMahdi said:
I love your signature:
The changes that George Lucas has made over the years to Star Wars is the equivalent of someone keying your car. On an intellectual level, you know that the car still works, and its only marred a fraction of a percent of the paintjob. On an emotional level, every time you see it, it's all you can focus on, and it makes you want to rip someone's face off.
I've had it for quite a while now and finally someone said something about it.
I hadn't noticed it before. I don't know why but it's like I automatically skip reading people's signatures and just read their posts instead.
That said, your signature is the best ever!
dark_jedi said:
Spleen or newsgroups, I am not sure I want to seed these huge files forever, so I am leaning towards newsgroups, but we will see once I finally have these authored and can start testing, plus all that donate and my Team get their copies first.
I think it would be ok if the people who get the copies would upload them on myspleen. Then they and the others could keep up the seeding. Unfortunately I have a slow upload speed so I wouldn't be able to help much.
Yeah, thank you so much everybody for supporting and believing in us. It makes us even more motivated to keep going.
penguinofgreatness said:
That is really horrid DNR. The bluray looks great, I need to get that soon.
Yeah, the old blu-ray release is great. But the colors in the shots in that iTunes gallery are probably even closer to theatrical than the slightly pink tinted old blu-ray.
Thanks msycamore! I've wanted to see a comparison of those shots for a long time.
Now that I see how minor the snake reflection thing is, I wonder why they didn't keep it on the blu-ray.
By the way, about the Jurassic Park 3D/2D re-release: Have it actually been released on blu-ray anywhere yet?
Because first I see these shots from the new trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/jurassicpark3d/gallery/
They can be downloaded in full resolution and while there is DVNR to some degree, I think at the same time the detail looks great and the colors are amazing.
Then I look at these: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison.php?id=14318
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison.php?id=14319
Are they from the new blu-ray? (The ones on mouse-over) If so, something must be insanely wrong because while it's obviously from the same master as the trailer, there's more DVNR and also a strong green tint.
Yeah I know it's easy for rumors to start but I'd still like to see some shots just to be sure.
Yeah I'll gladly do it sometime later when all the other stuff is done.
And I actually got a pm from Nick66 earlier, he said he's heard that iTunes has a 1080p version without the green tint. I would love to see some shots of this to see exactly how it differs from the blu-ray. Maybe somebody else here knows?
@DoomBot: I'm 100% sure it can be tweaked more to look even better.
Back then after balancing out the green shift, all I could do to correct what was left was using avisynth's built-in "tweak".
Since I helped Harmy with the color correction of the Star Wars BD, I've had the excellent plugin selectivecolour by Darth Editous which mimics the behaviour of the Photoshop standard plugin with the same name. It allows for a much nicer color correction.
DoomBot said:
Hey you_too could i get the script file for fellowship of the rings? I tried coping and making my own .avs from that blog you did but i'm having a problem with it.
thanks
Here you go: http://www.sendspace.com/file/gfl33n
It's both the script and curve file. Though it's way outdated by now but I haven't had the time to make a new version.
And I gotta point out that for my render I remuxed the m2ts files to mkv first.
stretch009 said:
This version is up on usenet:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/regrading-editing-original-trilogy-using-blu-rays-and-german-hdtv-streams-to-remove-bad-but-not-all-specialised-blu-ray-changes/post/553622/#TopicPost553622
No offense against OMEN but his version doesn't correct the teal shift and other color timing changes done to that release.
We'll see in the future if I'll revisit my fix since I now have selectivecolour for avisynth which is better than the method I used back then.
By the way, thanks guys for the info on the aspect ratio of T2. That WMV-HD version is too compressed for my taste though.
Yeah I agree with you bkev, if all cuts are available in high quality then I'm fine with altered releases existing too. I just wanted to point out that the color timing of the final cut is in fact horrible.
dvdmike said:
Final cut? do not forget some DNR, the Workprint is one of the most honest BD transfers out there
Yeah, the final cut is horribly teal-tinted. And actually I haven't seen the workprint BD. I gotta get it!
By the way, has anybody mentioned Blade Runner?
Check this comparison of the DVD releases: http://caps-a-holic.com/vergleich.php?vergleichID=171
This one made me think about The Matrix:
@Harmy: rutracker has a 25gb version of the HDTV broadcast.
And yeah, it's horrible that they changed so much for the blu-ray. And actually there's one more "change" in the 3D version other than being open matte. It's mentioned at the bottom of that article I linked but it's not as visible there:
To convert the movie to 3D they had to cut out all characters from the backgrounds, and as a result all characters have blurred edges, more or less. It's very visible if comparing the edges of their hair.
skyjedi2005 said:
"When George went back and put new creatures into the original Star Wars, I find that disturbing. It’s a revision of history. That bothers me."
--James Cameron, Entertainment Weekly, April 2010
And that comes from the man who did this, just two years later: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=935850
Chewtobacca said:
Harmy's right that the (theatrical) HD DVD looks the best, but there's not much in it really. Basically, all of the old BDs and HD DVDs look very similar. Anything's better than the Skynet release.
From what I've seen in screenshot comparisons here and there, the Japanese BD is the same as the HD DVD, but also has cleaner upper and lower edges of the picture. The HD DVD is bright and blurry at those edges.
