2018-04-02, 12:30 AM
Stamper has the "surroundized" file, and he's working on fixing it; even if the surround is fake, and so voice spills over all the channels, I think that probably the only central channel will be enough for the restoration; if not, TomArrow is ready to use his hardware decoder, that *should* work better than software (I believe/hope)!
Back to UAR: checked further 35000 frames (24m); confirmed that almost all the shots (I bet around 95%, if not more) are substantially "enhanced fullscreen": a 1.33:1 frame with a little bit more on both sides. I was forced to use the 1.85:1 alone only for a handful of shots - few hundred frames in total - because they were missing from the fullscreen version, but apart them, the rest is "pure UAR"!
Very few wobbling frames, not so noticeable - and I bet they will pass unnoticed when watching the movie WITH sound, and immersed in action.
I noted some shots where top/bottom slices from fullscreen seem a bit darker than center; dunno if it's in the source (like fullscreen is darker or letterbox lighter), or it's due to different grain; the strange fact is that's noticeable only in some shots... it maybe that the sources differ in brightness (by one point, I guess), but this is not always noticeable... I'll finish the lossless encode, then I'll check it out.
Back to UAR: checked further 35000 frames (24m); confirmed that almost all the shots (I bet around 95%, if not more) are substantially "enhanced fullscreen": a 1.33:1 frame with a little bit more on both sides. I was forced to use the 1.85:1 alone only for a handful of shots - few hundred frames in total - because they were missing from the fullscreen version, but apart them, the rest is "pure UAR"!
Very few wobbling frames, not so noticeable - and I bet they will pass unnoticed when watching the movie WITH sound, and immersed in action.
I noted some shots where top/bottom slices from fullscreen seem a bit darker than center; dunno if it's in the source (like fullscreen is darker or letterbox lighter), or it's due to different grain; the strange fact is that's noticeable only in some shots... it maybe that the sources differ in brightness (by one point, I guess), but this is not always noticeable... I'll finish the lossless encode, then I'll check it out.