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[Cancelled] Mad Max 2/Road Warrior Regrade (Warner 97 DVD and LD)
Awesome, yep forgot the DVD color, it's been a while...
The reason it's darker is because there's sand and smoke floating all over the shots...
Those idiots who remastered the Blu-ray filtered out the sand and smoke with the color timing.

The night scenes were darkened because they were underexposed, and are very grainy from the negative. I know because I saw the film like 7 times upon release, and those scenes were always very grainy.
When you try to bring luminance back on them, you bring back the grain.
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Do the black levels of the image itself fluctuate as the letterbox bars do? I'm concerned about milky blacks during the darker/night scenes (though that may be how they were originally presented).

Nice work so far.
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The black bars changing is just an side effect of dres program when applying the lut to the whole of the pic. That will be cropped out for the last stage. For this I'm trying to match the DVD as close as possible (after I adjusted it). So that's for good and bad. So if there is a problem with the DVD, there might be the same look here.

If it makes you feel better I did look at in the ire scopes and it was 0 ire for the movie. I haven't decided what to do with the night scenes yet.

I'll post some video later.
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Good to know, PDB. Keep up the good work!
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It also doesn't help that the DVD is an early WB DVD flipper port of the letterboxed LD and is thus awash in video noise and contrasty where it shouldn't be and has that wonderful early DVD look that is almost VHS like due to what I call the VHS haze look..and don't forget early compression issues!
Ahhh the good ol' days of flipper DVDs...where every release has these issues...but at least are relatively accurate.
Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader
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I've still got my PAL DVD in the 'snapper' case. Not a flipper, although it does proudly have the Italian title emblazoned upon it - "Interceptor"
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Great work, great project.
And a great movie.
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Ok let's try that again. I removed the audio and stagered the video to prevent YT copyright software from picking it up. Hopefully it will hold.

BD (Top Left)/Regrade (Bottom Right)
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Wow forgot the dead dude was pale in the orginal! In the crap Blu-ray he is now in living flesh color!
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I was thinking of doing a music only track. Would that be of any interest to anyone?
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