Another episode in the "right" color grading series...

Found an interesting comparison here and I've added the HDTV caps;

from top to bottom: Italian VHS, DVD, HDTV (BD should be the same):

Hi everyone,

What's the easiest way to take an H.264 stream from a Blu-ray and get it into ProRes format? My current process is embarrassingly complicated to the point where I don't even want to describe it

Mac tools are preferred, but I also have a Windows machine. Admittedly I don't know much about working with video under Windows - I don't even know whether a ProRes codec is available - so any Windows instructions would need to be newbie-friendly.

It seems that I may need to avoid (or at least limit the use of) QuickTime; some Blu-ray H.264 files work OK when dropped into QT Pro (after remuxing into .m4v) but others end up with duplicated or dropped frames - a brief search has indicated that QT doesn't really "like" some Blu-ray-sourced files.

Anyway, I'll shut up now and let you answer the question

Any tips?

PS. If there's another Mac-compatible codec that can accomplish the same sort of job then I'm all ears. And free tools are preferred, although I don't mind spending a small amount.

Hello!

Cinemas and mixing theaters have a non flat frequency response. The sound systems are allignment to create a torwards higher frequencies falling curve, the so called X curve.
This means that every soundtrack from the cinema is optimised for this reponse and not for a flat response which most hifi / home speakers have.

When cinema sound is remastered for home use, this is mostly equalised by the studios. At the beginning of Laserdisc and DVD this was not the case and THX added a function
called Re-EQ, which did reduce the heights for cinema soundtracks not sounding brighter as it was meant to be.

Some projects here are using soundtracks from cinema, like the DTS cds. My question is therefore, if it is common in most projects to compensate the X curve or not?

Thanks!

This just hit and the audio is crap and it has hardcoded subs but may be of interest to people for future projects

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/214497

Added a simple spoiler tag, just use

An interesting articles - broken in two parts:

http://rjbuffalo.com/apertures.html
http://rjbuffalo.com/filmclips.html

Hey all,

Anyone capping any of the Godzilla films on ElRey this weekend?  It would be nice to get some high quality caps of some of them.

http://www.elreynetwork.com/schedule

Thanks

Hey all ...

I want to download some of my VUDU movies and put them in to an MKV format so I can watch them using a different media player but they apparently have drm. Anyone know a way around this?

Thanks,

Shawn

Hello!

I just joined the forum because I am interessted in listen to the original theater sound mix of movies. Hopefully I will find some other people here who prefer that as well and that we can work together on some interesting projects.

Looking forward to

OK, I must admit I've contracted the open matte fever... it's subtle, and I think it's difficult to heal from it... so, meanwhile, I thought about the open matte version of the whole Resident Evil saga...

Last edit: 2018-01-26

2002 — Resident Evil

Aspect ratio: that's incredible... there is a fullscreen 1.33:1 in HD here!!! It was broadcasted as anamorphic 720p (even if the page title suggests there was a 1080 version); it is "simply" squeezed vertically, so when restored to proper aspect ratio, it would be 1280x960, as following:



sadly there are no seeders...

There is a 1.78:1 BD (Poland); also a 1.33:1 DVD, but I'd prefer to work with the HD one!

color grading: it seems there is only one

cuts: theatrical - it seems no deleted scenes exist

1. DVD (nicer and seems quite close to theatrical)
   
2. BD/HDTV
   

1. DVD PAL
   
2. BD, DVD NTSC
   
3. Nova TV, MBC and others (similar to PAL DVD, more green)
   
   plus
   
   
4. TV 1000 (similar to PAL DVD, more magenta that could be "cured" lowering saturation)