UHD BD to BD?

[Turisu]

The opening credits for Halloween are noticeably less orange on the UHD than on previous releases. What you have there is pretty close to how it looks on my HDR set up.

[Beber]

Here's for the complete Prestige: some details are lost in the highlights, but I guess it's an unavoidable side effect of a more contrasty filmic look. The Blu-ray has more details in those areas, but the whole master lacks contrast. I really like the look of the remaster. This will be more enjoyable for a future viewing of this movie.

Blu-ray / Ripbot UHD conversion

[Beber]

Here's for 10 minutes of First Blood:

Studio Canal 2012 remastered Blu-ray / Ripbot conversion on Default for starters






Default might be too contrasty as we lose details in the lake hightlights.
















Framing is a bit different, but that looks like a very good looking and colorfull 2018 remaster.

[MrBrown]

As StudioCanal also put the remaster to the accompanying HD BDs, I am quite satisfied with the new BDs.except for the audio, but that seem to be same on the UHD BDs...

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&...6&i=11&l=0

[Beber]

They did? Just like They Live, I missed that information. So I guess that's their new policy. Good to know! Regarding audio, the 2012 Blu-ray included DTS 2.0 surround tracks. It's weird they did not include PCM 2.0 as they did on the Carpenter's remasters.

[deleted user]

That First Blood looks amazing to my eyes. Doesnt even look like there's necessarily detail lost in the lake, more like it's very high up the brightness curve. I could be wrong though.

[Stamper]

It's always hard to color time water when the sun shine on it. On old masters which had a narrow, grey range, that pool of water was all there.

Funny they didn't just put up a window so that they could color time and contrast that part differentely from the rest of the shot, it's a moving shot, but you can do that tracking thing so that the window follows the pool of water.

[deleted user]

I checked the shot again and I have to say I really don't have a problem with how they solved it.

There's two things to take into consideration here. For one, a major part of the HDR technology is to get more dynamic range, so a glaring backlit pool of water is basically the perfect thing to use it for. 

And even when we look at the SDR conversion (which is not something the UHD was likely intended to be used for), the tone mapping has resulted in no actual clipping:


I hate clipped whites, but I have no problem personally with merely compressed whites, as they are here. And it does give off the right "mood" imo.

[Beber]

I made a complete movie conversion, now. I reduced contrats to 0.95 and brightness to -1, 'cause I felt the shadows were too bright, in Sly's hair and in the forest. I can post some pics tonight. Also, remember that my test conversions are made on the fastest settings in 1 pass and I even resized them to 720p lately to go even faster. So, it should be more detailed in full 1080p with much slower rendering settings.

[X5gb]

The remastered 4k blurays are excellent, blow away the 2012 remasters. Your conversion looks good too, Beber. Is there any benefit to the UHD conversions over the blurays in motion. I've read the UHD's are darker.

The 2012 blurays DTS 2.0 mixes are not the original Dolby Surround tracks but mix downs of the poor 5.1 remixes.

Original mixes are only on the original LD/DVD releases.

Hoping someone makes them available and syncs them.

Framing has been fixed on all three films compared with the 2012 remasters (which were too far to the left) except for in II at around the 39 minute mark where a very short scene of a machine gun been fired by the enemy on the boat is way to far too the right and shows a black border, a bit poor on their part not to pick up on this.



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Looking forward to your observations on Air Force One, Beber.