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Prodrummer1603 said:

Wraths said:

Could somebody explain what all of this technology is doing to the film?

To get rid of the green tint DrDre decided to regrade the whole movie using reference camera negatives (35mm) which were delivered to cinemas back in the day.

Do you have some more info. on the negatives (straight up negatives or scans?) he is using? I mean, you say they are ones delivered to cinemas back in the day, so why use the HD EE BluRay as source and not the negative (in terms of detail)? From reading other replies I assume that the issue is that the Bluray sourced from the original camera negative, and not some copy-of-a-copy type negative:

illuvatar said:

Well, these are sourced from the Extended blurays, with a custom colorgrade based on the 35mm. The colors should be similar, but the 35mm ones will probably have a bit more grain or scratches maybe, or just general lower quality since the bluray source here used uses the original camera negative and not some copy-of-a-copy 35mm print. Just a guess though, I haven’t seen the 35mm ones yet.

So, what is Dre using? If he is using a degraded copy, does that mean that a 1080p compressed Bluray (as far as Bluray is compressed compared to full scans) sourced from original camera negatives (what about the vfx?) still looks better than 4k scans of cinema negatives like the one Dre has?

*Sorry for being an id–ot and not knowing what I’m talking about at all, but would be nice to get some explanation if anyone has the time 😛.

Any updates? Not just asking to see when it will be done, but also to know if you guys need more donations, help, or anything else. Thanks for doing this historic work.

Any updates on the project?