I heard from a few sources that US iTunes now has the new Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises master. Someone also said that the Batman Begins master on iTunes has slightly different colors now and as opposed to initial speculation, the new BB Blu Ray is only a reencode of the old master.

Does anyone have access to these iTunes masters? I'd be very interested in watching those. And who knows how long they will stay up.

From the little I read, the new masters (at least the 4K Blu Rays) also have VAR, with the 1,77:1 AR for the IMAX shots.

Edit: I realize I could wait for the 4K Blu Ray, but the SD version will likely have it's own adjusted color grading that will likely not be the same as a blanket conversion of the HDR to SDR.

With the advent of quad-core mid-tier processors from Intel, 2018 may very well be the Year of the Editing Laptop. That said, here are my first five picks, one for each category, for best editing laptops according to reviews I checked out on Laptop Magazine:

Budget: Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming
Power user: Gigabyte Aero 15X
Professional: MSI GT75VR Titan Pro
Supercomputer: Dell Alienware 17
God-tier: Razer Blade Pro (and this one isn't likely to give up its top spot anytime soon, let alone in the next quarter)

All of the above picks are for Q1 2018, mind.

This one has been on eBay for a while: https://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Feature-DE...2499999289

Quite a cool and iconic movie.

Costs $100, which is about 85 EUR. Double it for the shipping.

It's faded and probably won't be a good reference for the actual theatrical colors, but I think it can be fixed through grading a 16bit scan, to at least have a decent image. 

I could add 50 EUR to the pot for buying the print (can do bank transfer to most European bank accounts). Seller says it's only available till the end of 2017, but apparently he's gone and the offer runs for 4 more days, so I'm guessing that means we still have a chance.

Anyone interested in seeing this happen? 

Will post on OT.com as well.

The European BD didn't come with the original mono mix. It can only be found
on the U.S. BD. If someone has said BD, could you please share the audio?

Thanks

Blutopia has open registrations right now, whoever still wants in.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/127589

I'm doing a fan edit of Legend which involves editing together different transfers. Of the three available HD transfers, the American theatrical cut is the only one with edge enhancement applied, so it's somewhat jarring whenever I cut to it. The edge enhancement also results in the grain becoming overly coarse.

In the free edition of Nuke, I was able to conceal the edge enhancement using the "soften" filter and just messing with the settings until I got the just enough width to cover the halo. The grain was replaced using degraining tools in Digital Vision Phoenix, and my own regraining setup in Nuke.

The side effect is that your video will look softer than the original on comparison. However, on it's own, it looks perfectly suitable and is much more natural looking.

I read here (https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?su...1514014662) that Itunes now has 4k masters of most of the bond films with some (mainly Goldeneye and a few others) being completely new transfers than what was on the Blu-ray sets. 

However, some sites report the 4ks only available to stream on Apple TV but then others say you can purchase the 4k as a download? I wonder if the 1080p versions on itunes were updated to the new 4k masters downconverted, so it would avoid the hassle of AppleTV?

These would be nice to see IMO (I hear some of them restore original UA logos), but I wonder if there's any way these can be properly preserved or something? Since ppl somehow have ripped from 4K netflix and recently UHD BD  (I wonder what software they used for since it's keys have been kept tightly closed) I imagine someone sooner or later is working on getting iTunes 4k downloads out in the wild.

Has anyone really worked with the x264 xvYCC color transfer setting? For a specific example - I am unimpressed with HDR on lower end TVs. It tends to leave a very dull picture, which is very disappointing when dropping money on UHD discs. With more UHD discs becoming available as sources, I was wondering if anyone has tried to take, lets use Harry Potter as an example, the 4k UHD, and reencode to a 1080p xvYCC bluray compatible file. That way, we get the color benefits of 10 bit without the somewhat unbalanced HDR implementations.

I ask mostly because everywhere I read says using transfer characteristics in x264 is frequently pointless.

У меня из японской Amazon фильм «Вокруг света» за 80 дней 2004 года в «Open Matte», но, к сожалению, нет отключенных японских субтитров, я не мог найти другого чистого источника, чтобы скрыть их, только с китайскими субтитрами, может быть, кто-то еще столкнулся с чистым другим фильм.


 

Wasn't sure where to put this thread... so I put it right here! Hopefully this is a good spot for it.

I have two external USB hard drives... both failing simultaneously... These are hard drives used to store some fun little projects you all most likely already know about. I've plugged both hard drives in to other computers to make sure that the issue is not computer-specific. It is indeed a hard drive issue.

My question is this: Is there a good way to recover the data on my own? Is this something that I would need to pay for? What methods have you all used in situations like this?

One hard drive is a Seagate 2TB and the other is a Western Digital.

Any help would be appreciated!