(2021-01-01, 12:59 PM)Kynch Wrote: What resolution were these U Matic tapes in? The colour grading is very intriguing with its much higher red levels.

My scientifically informed estimate is it's somewhere around 5 pixels in horizontal and about 3 pixels in vertical resolution. Don't hold me to it though!

(2021-01-01, 03:34 PM)pipefan413 Wrote: Do you not agree there's a lot of warmth in the screenshots of the regrade? Also it's a regrade rather than the actual tape so I'd wager that the tape it was intended to look like may be even more pinkish than the regrade.

Which regrade?

Raiders shows a lot of magenta hues IMHO, while Terminator seems not IMHO - and of course, they are both regrades, so possibly (probably) in the original U-Matic that could be even more!

I'm wondering if this guy does some chroma swap magic, as the colors really pop.

His The Terminator U Matic is probably a telecine of a print as he says it's a "cinema copy" so not based on any home-video version and probably just a 1/1 of the source with just the limitation of the tech of the original color capture.

His Alien which I posted in other thread years back is also 100% the original colors (as they match the one from the book made of 35mm stills and my remembrances), including blown out whites the movie had originaly!

So I dived further and found out the guy doing the U Matic remasters uses a free software called Shotcut.

It's a free video editor available on PC, Mac and Linux, and it looks a bit basic if you are used to Resolve or FCPX.

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/shotcut

Maybe is there some tool in the software though, that make it easy to match chroma and luma from two different sources or match grade.