2020-07-27, 09:37 PM
The Past Masters Collection.
A selection of films from my collection that needed a little bit of love and preservation.
The Best Picture - Color Corrected, cleaned up to my personal taste.
The Best Audio - A selection of the best Audio option's I and the wider web have to offer.
The Story so far...
Ive been using avisynth scripts to play files for the past few years now, mainly for DVDs.
I speed change, clean, up-ress and tweak depending on the source and it all plays real-time on my rig.
i7 3770k, 32gb ram, AMDRX480
Ive also found this process helpful for correcting old HD masters on Blu-ray.
Slightly tweaking the YUV channels to remove the 'Red' byass that plagued dated masters and often doing a upscale to 4k and back down to pull out as much detail as possible.
As many of you know here this kind of tweaking can be addictive, and I'd often hit the limits of my real-time playback.
Overtime I started to push things more and would try an mimic what a said film could of looked like when printed on particular film stock.
Dropping the upscale (unless necessary)
often this would contain two levels of color tweaking, one to balance the picture, then one to add the 35mm release print character.
This included a film-like gamma curve.
After much research and discussion in this very forum, it does indeed look like a lot of the more teal releases are in fact more theatrically accurate.
Removing the red byass and getting more pleasurable skintones certainly introduced more green and blues.
I recently found my entire DVD collection had become victim to recent flooding during a very wet period in my country.
So Ive been salvaging what I can and thought it an excellent time to combine all the various versions of films I have collected over the years.
Id always wanted to do it, and have in the past done a few from my 'Hong Kong collection'
They are a lot more varied release to release and can get quite grueling when combining all the best sources.
This is where the Past Masters project was born.
The Best Video, Audio options I have tweaked to my liking.
I understand it's probably not for everyone and not as 'pure' as most would like.
Those options will always be available for more simple remux projects but I wanted to do a little more.
I originally I intended to do these corrections and 'Quick' projects completely in AVIsynth, just rendering the 'real-time' scripts using the methods above.
But as is with anything like this, I found myself trying various different methods and introduced Adobe Premiere CC back into the mix for Color Correction.
And im very glad I did.
Mainly because of my lack of skill with Avisynth, I just could not balance the white points properly when correcting.
Lumetri in Premiere CC changed all that and Ive been very happy with the results.
A selection of films from my collection that needed a little bit of love and preservation.
The Best Picture - Color Corrected, cleaned up to my personal taste.
The Best Audio - A selection of the best Audio option's I and the wider web have to offer.
The Story so far...
Ive been using avisynth scripts to play files for the past few years now, mainly for DVDs.
I speed change, clean, up-ress and tweak depending on the source and it all plays real-time on my rig.
i7 3770k, 32gb ram, AMDRX480
Ive also found this process helpful for correcting old HD masters on Blu-ray.
Slightly tweaking the YUV channels to remove the 'Red' byass that plagued dated masters and often doing a upscale to 4k and back down to pull out as much detail as possible.
As many of you know here this kind of tweaking can be addictive, and I'd often hit the limits of my real-time playback.
Overtime I started to push things more and would try an mimic what a said film could of looked like when printed on particular film stock.
Dropping the upscale (unless necessary)
often this would contain two levels of color tweaking, one to balance the picture, then one to add the 35mm release print character.
This included a film-like gamma curve.
After much research and discussion in this very forum, it does indeed look like a lot of the more teal releases are in fact more theatrically accurate.
Removing the red byass and getting more pleasurable skintones certainly introduced more green and blues.
I recently found my entire DVD collection had become victim to recent flooding during a very wet period in my country.
So Ive been salvaging what I can and thought it an excellent time to combine all the various versions of films I have collected over the years.
Id always wanted to do it, and have in the past done a few from my 'Hong Kong collection'
They are a lot more varied release to release and can get quite grueling when combining all the best sources.
This is where the Past Masters project was born.
The Best Video, Audio options I have tweaked to my liking.
I understand it's probably not for everyone and not as 'pure' as most would like.
Those options will always be available for more simple remux projects but I wanted to do a little more.
I originally I intended to do these corrections and 'Quick' projects completely in AVIsynth, just rendering the 'real-time' scripts using the methods above.
But as is with anything like this, I found myself trying various different methods and introduced Adobe Premiere CC back into the mix for Color Correction.
And im very glad I did.
Mainly because of my lack of skill with Avisynth, I just could not balance the white points properly when correcting.
Lumetri in Premiere CC changed all that and Ive been very happy with the results.
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