@PDB Some are scans, some are regrades, according to my understanding on the twitter texts. personally, I thought it was well stated in the singular tweets, but I also can see why it might confuse
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Anyways talk is cheap right? content is king.. time will show.. Big love guys.. It's so easy to hate on some one but very hard to believe in some one.. so.. yea.. ill let time sort that out..
The diffrence between myself and u guys is u can actually do research on me while you guys? randoms... i always suggest.. wait before u judge.. also shows a lot of insecurity going on some random fan edit site.. talking about me lol. also heads up... alot of the films that have been scanned came from my collection.. Clueless...
@PDB mate. Its a hobby.. its not a definite. also.. there's a strong community of people who like and we all work together on getting better.. look man i maybe an amateur color corrector.. but when it comes to film prints scans. u guys are all gonna feel kind of silly.
haha its gonna be fun @MrBrown and all of you guys when you guys see what's next... my suggestion usually is wait for a person to fail and then hate.. but.. you guys are gonna feel very silly.. and also do some research before u guys make claims. And my emulation is fucking novelty. haha .. I love the he claims lol.. \
what I see on his twitter are mostly scans already shared on the organ and elsewhere, and his "emulations" which are just regular blu-rays with contrast/saturation/grain added. he's mostly uploading his LD and VHS rips on vimeo.
@SilverWook There is a question if his work is real 35mm scans or regrades, he has said things in the past that don't make sense to me. His Twitter/X video post explaining his work doesn't help explain it either.
Has anyone talked with framemaster lately? He has vanished from both here and the originaltrilogy forum since October. I was very looking forward to his scan of Beauty and the Beast and I am among the contributors.
He claims to have someone in Montreal scanning .. https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Wicked.../id/118446
He popped up at ot.com recently, I think: https://originaltrilogy.com/user/undefined/id/82377
Hey guys! Anyone know anything about this fellow on twitter? They have been posting links to a lot of 35mm scans. https://x.com/NCseventeen
Alien Romulus preview they sent to people on VHS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AsRDOP10g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT6-eHi7-sY
The Hitcher 4k remaster finally coming Sept: https://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/...-uhd/49587
Yes you have to post first, Its to prevent new members from signing up just to PM memebers for their projects
Very exciting news, looks like DrDre is coming out with a newly, updated color matching tool: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Color-.../id/118196
hey does anyone know if there are eng subs floating around for the extras in the godzilla minus one bluray set?
https://x.com/EzeBaum/status/1781584698344653034 "So beautiful while maintaining the 35mm character and not DNR’ing the entire movie"
sadly Fincher has been tinkering with Se7en since the laserdisc and with every subsequent home video release. I'm quite impressed they did an 8K scan of a super 35mm negative then 'grain managed' it
Fincher did an 8k scan & some touch ups: https://www.indiewire.com/features/inter...234974911/
The guys from VS talking about film restoration and releasing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuFqjA9CiCQ
All you have to do to make a trailer green band is convince the MPAA that any blood is actually rusty water
well, this is dumb as hell. I no longer trust this guy https://www.joblo.com/james-cameron-4k-r...n-defense/
I read that a red band trailer can become green, all they have to do is turn the blood shades darker.
the new Crow trailer is MASSIVELY red-band material.. yet no red band (unless they fixed it)
@PDB nope... blood, like shown in the alien romulus, isn't an issue if trailers are shown in front of movies with a FSK12 rating and above.
I do not think that this blood would be had to be censored, maybe they preemtively did it, to just be absolutely sure to avoid any issues. As the trailer does not get a FSK rating, it still MIGHT be considered harmful for youth, but only if some institution would file a report, to get that checked it might cause issues. Not by general law, as it is neither pornographic, nor glorifying any nationalsocialistic past...
Since its a teaser not meant for theathers you can have blood for the US. I assume local laws in Germany would require censoring the blood?
In the US if you do that, you can get a "Green Band" trailer that could be shown before any movie.Opposed to a "Red Band" that can only be shown before R rated films.
Common trick in trailers is to color the blood to black so it looks like dirt for a trailer. See Kill Bill Part 1.
Funny thing: The blood on the door in one shot of the teaser is colored black in the german version of the teaser.
@SpaceBlackKnight Yeah I bought it as soon as I could to check it out. I'm contemplating getting in touch with Entertainment Distribution to ask about it; I'd love for it to get a physical release (with the PAL speedup corrected!). If I could get my hands on a Web-dl of this it would make my International Cut HD restoration a much less painful task, and it would certainly help out with my fanedit.
@HippieDalek, I sampled the trailer off PV UK, it's a legit recent HD transfer and totally different to any other masters out there. Looks to be off an interneg or IP. I'd rent it if i'd were you!
PSA: The US Cut of Highlander 2 is suddenly available to buy and stream on Amazon UK! If I had to guess I'd say it's an old, fairly soft, HD transfer made for a DVD that was never released. It's certainly different from every transfer I've seen before. Bizarrely it's even got PAL speedup. I wonder if the UK distributor is planning to finally update their old pan and scan DVD.
Damn, I've had to RMA a few drives before but never been sent a DOA replacement. A good reminder for everyone to make backups
Ever since Seagate shut down all its live phone support (Chat only now; mostly India based) their support quality has TANKED. I have been fighting w/ them since JANUARY when my warrantied drive failed; they shipped me out a replacement drive that was DOA. Its now March.. *STILL don't have a replacement drive! Beware.. I've told them I've been loyal for 20 years but had to say I'm prob going to Western Digital moving foward. Sad. Fun fact: may have lost all my files for my fanedit I've worked on for over a year now 
we'll see.
we'll see.
I know each of their films (judging from how they printed out The Boy and the Heron) have two forms of 35mm negatives (standard colour and three-strip Technicolor). https://online.stereosound.co.jp/_ct/17650657
Studio Ghibli still makes filmouts of their films to this day for archival purposes, they most recently did this for The Boy and the Heron. Unfortunately, digital prints are pure digital transfers that have the Ponyo Filter, instead of being scanned from the 35mm filmout OCNs.
Even Earwig and the Witch (the Ghibli film that was 3D CGI) used the Ponyo Filter. But I would admit, filming out to 35mm is much better when done properly.
The likes of Steve Yedlin's film emulation techniques were merely building upon what Studio Ghibli started with 2008's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. I know other studios can use their tech too, as Studio Ponoc uses this Ponyo Filter 35mm emulation tech.
Before Studio Ghibli came along, it was some goofy and wacky effects that looked like Windows XP Movie Maker.
I know Studio Ghibli invented the first actual good film emulation techniques for when they made Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. They called it the Ponyo Filter, and they used it for all their later films and remasters of their earlier digital films like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.
new controls to auto-convert SDR to HDR in MPC! https://i.imgur.com/BYzDA79.jpeg
I'd image the cost would be pretty similar if not cheaper then filming on 35mm and scanning it for DI
Weren't we told digital was superior in every way to film? Why emulate an inferior format
I really like the look of going from digital to film to digital. I'm surprised it isn't done more often
They transferred the digital to film again, used anamorphic lenses for the 2.39 and spherical lenses for the full sensor for the 1.43 shots, the infared cameras, etc.
Good look at the production of Dune Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqXCWaebuE
@DoomBot yes. It upscaled an SDR 1080p image into 4k HDR in realtime and also captured it on that same card w/out dropping frames
here's my auto SDR>HDR+1080>4k upscale test. My Nvidia screengrabbed this Superresolution upscale+HDR conversion on the fly from the card's output in realtime. This is pretty damn good https://gofile.io/d/3X2Xdb
hello all, just found out about this forum, what a wonderful collection of projects!
^^Hack for Nvidia super-res (upscale) and realtime SDR>HDR conversion in Media Player Classic!-> https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases