[Retired] The Dark Knight (Regrade and Imax Restoration)

[spoRv]

Thanks for the update!

50GB: I'm not against it, in particular for long movies. It's up to you, maybe the best choice will be to do two versions, one 25GB barebone - just DTS Cinema and, at least, a DD version with low bitrate, and the other, 50GB full of tracks.

Evit, did you hear that an Italian track is needed for this project?

[CSchmidlapp]

I've already converted them to Lags and laid them on my current timeline and there are a lot more Imax shots missing then I thought.

Wow. there certainnly is!
When I was working on my project it was a regrade and 2:35:1 conversion so didn't really pay attention to these Imax scenes other than checking there colour grade.

Your upscales are really good so it should not look to jarring.
Is there anyway to use the 16:9 cropped iMAX shots positioned correctly over your upscales?

[MrBrown]

The UK BD (and I assume all western European BDs) has Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and German Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio.

[PDB]

I've already converted them to Lags and laid them on my current timeline and there are a lot more Imax shots missing then I thought.

Wow. there certainnly is!
When I was working on my project it was a regrade and 2:35:1 conversion so didn't really pay attention to these Imax scenes other than checking there colour grade.

Your upscales are really good so it should not look to jarring.
Is there anyway to use the 16:9 cropped iMAX shots positioned correctly over your upscales?

You mean to get the extra detail from the 16:9, if only for the middle part of the frame?

[PDB]

The UK BD (and I assume all western European BDs) has Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and German Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio.

I could add all those assuming they are in sync and there is no reason for them not to be

[CSchmidlapp]

I've already converted them to Lags and laid them on my current timeline and there are a lot more Imax shots missing then I thought.

Wow. there certainnly is!
When I was working on my project it was a regrade and 2:35:1 conversion so didn't really pay attention to these Imax scenes other than checking there colour grade.

Your upscales are really good so it should not look to jarring.
Is there anyway to use the 16:9 cropped iMAX shots positioned correctly over your upscales?

You mean to get the extra detail from the 16:9, if only for the middle part of the frame?

Yes.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear.

[jerryshadoe]

This project looks awesome

Looking forward to seeing this once it's finished.

[PDB]

Thanks jerry.

[PDB]

Ok pics updates. I'm pretty much done so now time to encode:


BD/Regrade

[TServo2049]

Oh wow, I didn't realize the official BD transfer leaned purple/magenta *that* much. I don't understand how nobody ever complained about this, once I started noticing it on transfers it became almost as annoying as badly done/overly revisionist teal/orange. Just look at the Joker leaning out of the police car...

(It especially intrigues me how many critics of teal/orange or other revisionist regrades hold up these older, under-graded, low-contrast magenta-tinged versions as more "correct", despite almost certainly being no more theatrically accurate than the remasters, and in some respects may be *less* accurate, even if they seem more neutral and balanced. The original BD transfers of Terminator 1 and Fellowship of the Ring come to mind - in some respects the newer masters may be closER to the theatrical timing in some respects, as heavily flawed as they are. I'm sure much of this is just down to years of home viewing overwriting any memories of theatrical viewings we might have, but it is interesting.)