moviebarcode - a little idea that could help us all...

[spoRv]

A movie color grade condensed in just one image:

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com

the first thing I thought is "nice, but useless..." -  then I found this avisynth script:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread....post731122

and wasted two minutes to download and test it... then I realized a thing...
"what if we use this for a 'fingerprint' of the movies we are using?"
It could be useful to make comparison between a movie with different color grading at a glance!

An example from The Arrival - top IT DVD, bottom US BD (click for larger versions):

[Image: moviebarcode_the_arrival_IT_DVD.jpg]

[Image: moviebarcode_the_arrival_US_BD.jpg]

What do you think?

[DoomBot]

That's actually pretty damn cool, almost artistic.

[Feallan]

Awesome. The BD is so washed out it's not even funny.

[spoRv]

Here you are a before and after the levels correction:

[Image: moviebarcode_the_arrival_US_BD.jpg]

[Image: moviebarcode_the_arrival_US_BD_right_level.jpg]

The washed out colors are a bit more alive now!