The Aluminum Falcon said:
Here’s where things stand now:
(1) I attended a cinema 35mm screening of Eyes Wide Shut recently. That was my final color check to make sure I was encoding everything in a way that was faithful to a print being projected.
Took detailed color notes, yada yada. Was in a good ballpark but this helped me hone in on things. The home video releases are really not representative of the original look at all.
Despite being a foreign print (which makes it luckily uncensored), it seems to bear the same color as domestic prints.
So color complete.
(2) Settled on a relatively good crop, more info on the top, bottom, and sides than the BD. But obviously this is still hard matted to widescreen.
Crop complete.
(3) Patched in any missing frames so this is a frame-complete release synced to the BD. You can freely put whatever dubs or subs are with the BD.
Frame-complete…er, complete.
(4) I just need to get my encoding finessed as this is a grain-heavy print. A 4K encode alone takes 4 days on my system once it gets started, even without any of the testing.
This is the stage I need to complete still 😃
I’ll PM everyone in the next two weeks with details. Missed the mark on Christmas but there shouldn’t just be one time of year to enjoy some Kubrick
Fantastic work! But about an uncensored audio track? This can be done by patching the current track with the soundtrack CD
Here is some info:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/ae4n5j/the_song_played_during_the_orgy_scene_in_eyes/
https://alt.movies.kubrick.narkive.com/w3dfozPV/eyes-wide-shut-soundtrack-bhagavad-gita
A famous Russian torrent site has the soundtrack CD in full.
The track that interests us is track #9.
I can’t find online videos showing before and after.