[In progress] The Dark Knight Rises (2012) IMAX Hybrid VAR

[Hitcher]

The Dark Knight Rises

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent,
Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation
and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department.
Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane,
a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest.
The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.



Quick project.
IMAX scenes restored on the BluRay.
Cinema DTS track added.

Source -

Another IMAX hybrid for the IMAX scenes alone as it the video itself had some errors.
BluRay rip for the rest of the film.

BluRay/IMAX
(Note the images have been resized/cropped purely to illustrate the height  added to scene for the IMAX shots.
When played you will have black bars on the sides for the IMAX scenes)

[Hitcher]

[PDB]

Very cool Hitcher. Sign me up.

[SHM]

Looks amazing @Hitcher !

[Hitcher]

Just waiting for some feedback before release.

[Bilbofett]

I'm not grasping what you're doing here.. this has already been done?
I had an idea:
Use the 2160p scenes from the UHD for the main part of the movie; use the blu-ray extra scenes from the trilogy bonus disc for the IMAX shots, except upscale them to 2160p (using Topaz VEAI), so the entire movie is in 4k.
What do you think?

[Hitcher]

I'm not grasping what you're doing here.. this has already been done?

Yes there is already a hybrid but I don't know its origins and when I went to watch it I noticed a bright flash between some scenes. Inspecting the video I found a lot of white frames inserted between switching aspect ratios scenes. So I decided to simply use this version to get the IMAX scenes and replace them in the BluRay.

I had an idea:
Use the 2160p scenes from the UHD for the main part of the movie; use the blu-ray extra scenes from the trilogy bonus disc for the IMAX shots, except upscale them to 2160p (using Topaz VEAI), so the entire movie is in 4k.
What do you think?

Sounds good but I'll leave that to more experienced editors.

[stwd4nder2]

I had an idea:
Use the 2160p scenes from the UHD for the main part of the movie; use the blu-ray extra scenes from the trilogy bonus disc for the IMAX shots, except upscale them to 2160p (using Topaz VEAI), so the entire movie is in 4k.
What do you think?

You'd have to do SDR>HDR grading on the IMAX footage or HDR>SDR tonemapping on the rest of the film. Either way doing it in way that looks good and consistent throughout would take a good bit of effort.

[Plissken1138]

Are these thumbnails without links to full res frames? I'm clicking but nothing opens. What's the AR?

[Bilbofett]

I had an idea:
Use the 2160p scenes from the UHD for the main part of the movie; use the blu-ray extra scenes from the trilogy bonus disc for the IMAX shots, except upscale them to 2160p (using Topaz VEAI), so the entire movie is in 4k.
What do you think?

You'd have to do SDR>HDR grading on the IMAX footage or HDR>SDR tonemapping on the rest of the film. Either way doing it in way that looks good and consistent throughout would take a good bit of effort.

I will be leaving the main 2160p footage as-is in HDR, and upgrading the IMAX footage to HDR, I may even have Tekno3D do that HDR pass for me after its upscaled to 4k.
Every intermediate step (and sources) will be lossless until the final output