Thanks for the information captain. I think I follow yours and Servo's advice and put that footage back in.

If I recall the different footage for all the cuts came from a lot of different sources ranging from IPs all the way down to release prints. Wish they would of done a disc a cut but what are you going to do.

Hoping the sequel is good also. If there is ever a chance for it to be good, its with the people involved.

I'm going to split this thread of into its own thing.

With Blade Runner having its 40th anniversary this year, I've been revisiting the movie in its many forms and cuts: UHD, BD, DVDs, LDs and this old project. While I still love those (probably) inaccurate Criterion colors on the LD, this project is now 7 years old is showing its age. It has a few minor problems including and most annoying, an inconsistent black level. I was originally going to update this project some years ago here:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-1442.html

with hundreds of small fixes but I sadly lost the files needed to complete the project. So I thought as an alternative, I'd try to quickly update this project with the techniques I've learned in the intervening years. So I overlaid the original project over the original IC BD and glued on roughly 30% of the original luma to even out the up-and-down levels of the original project. I then did some works with curves, contrast, etc to fix the black level and try to eliminate the flat look of the original. I then added a tiny bit of my CRT LUT, grain and upscaled the whole thing so I could test some 4K encoding and rendering. Not perfect but better then the original.

WIP Pics

40 years! Damn I'm getting old.

Look fantastic by the way.

(2022-09-02, 01:10 AM)Hitcher Wrote: 40 years! Damn I'm getting old.

I hear ya

Very impressive looking indeed! Congrats PDB!