Alien - 40th Anniversary Screenings

[PDB]

If they used the old 2K footage for the DC, makes you wonder how the other extended editions will be handled.

They should of just let it be theatrical 4K only and have the DC on pack-in BD.

Is the DC footage at least graded to match the new 4K?

[bronan]

If they used the old 2K footage for the DC, makes you wonder how the other extended editions will be handled.

They should of just let it be theatrical 4K only and have the DC on pack-in BD.

Is the DC footage at least graded to match the new 4K?

Yea, it appears the DC footage has been graded to match. They added a couple new shots from it: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&...89&i=7&l=0

[Chewtobacca]

They added a couple new shots from it: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&...89&i=7&l=0

That's quite a difference in picture information! The other shots that I've seen have much more modest gains.

[Turisu]

I'm not keen on what they've done with the chestburster scene. Seems like it's been darkened and desaturated to make the blood appear more 'realistic'. This is apparent on my HDR TV as well as the caps. I don't recall it looking this way in the 4K DCP.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

I did read all that over ad BD.com, but it's still mind boggling Fox simply upscaled the DC footage direct from the compressed BD footage, instead of going back to the Lowry based (supposidly 4k) master or even a 2k DI (still more resolution than BD and uncompressed) and start from there.

[bronan]

There are more HDR->SDR shots here: https://imgur.com/a/3TZu9az

Regarding the chestburster - like a lot of the movie compared to the blu-ray, its not overly bright anymore. Seeing the preceeding shot, it seems fine to me

[Chewtobacca]

Yeah, it looks fine to me.

[DoomBot]

Any idea what this professional software he speaks of to convert UHD to SDR?

[Beber]

Any idea what this professional software he speaks of to convert UHD to SDR?

I don't know who "he" refers to, but the chestbuster screencap above looks like it's taken from DaVinci Resolve when you go fullscreen (see the bottom black bar stuff in it). However, I've just started trying to use Resolve, so I don't know if it does the HDR to SDR conversion yet.

[DoomBot]

He as in the person who converted the UHD and uploaded the images. I already tried resolve and it won't except these UHD BDs, even remuxed to other containers. Unless it's just the free version that will not except those yet.