who's seeing ABYSS 4k tonight w/me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cCVYAcIIAo

you have to remember a week in Jim Cameron time is like 5 human years

"Streaming started to blur the lines and say, 'Well, what is a movie? Is Birdbox a movie? It looks like a movie, and it quacks like a movie. It's got Sandra Bullock in it, but it was never seen in a theater." lol

James Cameron on why his movies haven't been remastered earlier: "I think what people don't appreciate is that it is basically a week of my time to do a proper transfer" yeah, James, that's it, lol.

I love James Cameron's films but man his arrogance knows no bounds.

Furiosa trailer: https://youtu.be/XJMuhwVlca4?si=TdB7gf2LPRz7w0mR

People are so used to Netflix and other digital look, they don't know film anymore or how it does look like for real, even on the O-neg.

Now, when people get 4K remaster, and realise half the shot in the film are out of focus, or have blurry problems, they go apes--t.

That's because 35mm use to iron out image problems like lack of focus etc.

https://twitter.com/hdmoviesource/status...6453632280 So is this what we've come to? We kept asking for more resolution, more sharpness, more clarity; finally on UHD we're getting it, and now he thinks its too much and prefers the softness and bluriness of older media? JFC

@The Aluminum Falcon I would kill for a nice 4k HDR of Magnolia. I knew Boogie Nights was a foregone conclusion since PTA has been screening a new 70mm print of it

The Criterion Grading of Mean streets is SO RIP!

Hard Eight could use a 4K as well

Ooh I love Boogie Nights

BOOGIE NIGHTS strongly rumored to be coming to 4k next year.

For True Lies? I don't think revisionism would be the issue here, I don't recall seeing any on the streaming version. Color correction would definitely be in order though

None that I recall off the top of my head.

Were there any fixes in the HDTV/streaming version

You mean like in T2? I don't like these changes. I like these goofs and little "errors"

I’m more concerned about how many ”fixes” there will be.

Love that reply PDB.

It can be fixed. It can all be fixed.

Get ready to do some audio comparison

WTF

Audio: Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD MA 2.0 for the 4K BD and DTS-HD MA 5.1

True Lies is coming on 4K BD on March 12th, 2024

Hope I'm wrong but I'm expecting some teal!

Bout damn time!

Hopefully with a new, proper master

HO BOY! CAMERONMAS! And look, they put my picture on the box! https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-tw...11523-0659

You should write a guide Bibofett

well, how about that, I learned a secret trick/hack/loophole for HDR conversion.. DM if you'd like it

@alleycat the pacing and scene order is the same as the D.C. from 2017

That's what I said to myself when T2 in 4K was announced. What a let down it was when I saw the movie on 4KBD

Never ever judge a video transfer by YouTube. They have some of the worst compression around. I thought it looked eerily similar to the HDTV version I saw on HBO some years ago.

That HDTV had wonderful grain on it so I'm not expecting the worse...yet

It's clearly the same transfer as the HDTV that has been floating around for years

LOL I was just coming here to post that Abyss trailer

But knowing Cameron's distaste for film grain, this and probably True Lies, will be another DRN mess

T2 in 4K is just garbage. I've low hopes we get a real proper release.

I remember people complaining about DNR on the titanic trailer on youtube then saying the DCP looked a lot better. I didn't get the chance to see it myself though

Is the footage in the trailer scrubbed like hell? DNR mess or just Youtube encoding?

The Abyss coming back to theaters >> Trailer >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cCVYAcIIAo

Is it significantly different? Do they still fix the order of events so the Chinese dialogue doesn't have to be dubbed?

I can confirm Mann's D.C. of BLACKHAT is still yet a 3rd revison cut, even slightly different than the D.C he showed in 2016 and then later aired in 2017 on FX/DirectTV/TNT.

https://github.com/Asd-g/avslibplacebo#tone-mapping this does a decent job when you are tonemapping using Avisynth frame server

@Falcon in the latest version of Avidemux, use the "HDR Tone mapping" function setting under the "Video" tab at top. You can also set it permanently under Preferences. : https://i.imgur.com/uAW1nw6.jpg

Are you just watching or meaning to color correct the results? I used FFMPEG, others use ripbot264

Handbrake automatically does this quite well. Premiere pro you have to adjust the calibration yourself. But if there are regulars who do it with better tools, I'm interested.

Hi everyone, what is currently the simplest and most effective way to convert HDR to SDR ?

Thanks

@PDB MPC-HC x64 that comes w/ K-Lite CP

@Bilbofett which version of MPC is that?

Great to see that Arrow is doing all the cuts of Conan and restoring the mono

sure y'all know this but the latest version of MPC in Win10 (and 11 no doubt) play Dolby Vision with ease, (I'm doing the Video Renderer, not MadVR) and no tone mapping hack thats really SD over HDR. I confirmed this because the thumbnail when I scroll is still that weird mostly shades of purple+green, but the actual playback itself looks great.

crom!

Conan The Barbarian + Destroyer coming from Arrow in 4K https://www.arrowvideo.com/conan-the-bar...76084.html

DCPs are a different aspect ratio to home formats, either 1.85, 2.39 or 1.9. The imager chip/panel is 1.9:1

Why not just scale directly to the DCP size?

No problem signing in for me

Myspleen suddenly saying my password is wrong? Anyone else having issues? Won't let me change either

ffmpeg can also to HDR to SDR tonemapping

3840x2160 > 1920x1080. Prob select "Square pixels". Leave FPS, colors, full/limited colorspace to same/default.

its a conversion

theres guides on videohelp, doom9, etc. But essentially you load in the source into a video editor like virtualdub, tmpgenc, handbreak, Ripbot, Premiere, Vegas, etc. and set the output to 1080p

Scratch that - I want to convert a UHD source to FHD - how do I do it?

How do I convert a video's colourspace when converting it from UHD to normal HD?

Super off topic but I managed to score "Daft Punk - Random Access Memories" 10-year anniversary ed., in Dolby Atmos. DM me if you'd like a copy

What a comeback!

Yojimbo work is top tier too

Excellent news!

Happy to see Moshroom's work on Casablanca!

Glad to see Moshrom is back

Great news, really excellent website

Looks like Moshrom/Blah-ray is back in action after a long hiatus: https://blah-ray.blogspot.com

Same, also a big fan of Joel Kinnaman so fingers crossed.

Hoping for a return to form for John Woo: https://youtu.be/iCNsLqHr4d0?si=He8KlGPxkjE8F0ZH

Very cool projects going on here, glad to have been told about this forum

Ok, thanks stwd4nder2

^^this is the way. I believe Miami Vice and Battlestar Galactica are like that in 4:3

I think you'll have to encode black bars and make it 1920x1080

Just one question please, is it safe to do a BD compat encode in 1440x1080? It's a 4:3 anime

Ive not watched it in this form only both SAC series. I think there was another one that did the same.

GITS The Lauphing Man is just all the episodes from SAC involving that storyline edited together to make a feature.

Ah, it's a SAC movie in the GitS Universe.. The Design of the DVD release from UK just put me off, because it's not Designer as I would expect an anime dvd release would be Designed.

Does anyone know what a "The laughing man" dvd release for ghost in the shell: stand alone complex is about? Is it a special English dub?

hello

Hi everybody!

Blackhat delayed to 28th November

Glad to hear it Zoidberg

Arrow just confirmed their Blackhat release will include the Director's cut

Thanks WXM!

I suppose most will find out on their own, but OT.com is back up

Might be useful for anyone who uses ffmpeg - https://ffmpeg.lav.io/

Hey WXM, thanks very much

This thread on reddit has been looking into OT.com. It seems the best post is by BlueSnaggleTooth359, in a mini conversation here https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/commen...t/jy6821r/

Sad thing is it's hard to get ahold of any staff these days