2025-09-23, 02:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-10-04, 09:33 PM by sanjuro_61.)
Hey guys.
I know there's a version called CCEHD around, but I haven't seen it. I don't know how good my regrade is compared to that version.
As the title says, this is a regrade using the Criterion CCE Laserdisc grading as color reference (actually the first DVD, which used the same master). I used the old bluray as source for my regrade, replacing as many black crushed shots as I could, using the 4K as replacement, avoiding, of course, those awfully digitally tweaked shots. There are also a handful of shots from the canadian and dutch blurays, degrained/denoised, AI enhanced and regrained for consistency.
The digital tweaks probably started in that very first Criterion release (rudimentary power windows), in fact, some shots have been tweaked differently though the years. Like I said, the old bluray is the basis here, still, I replaced a couple of shots that didn't have crushed blacks, but they did have noticeable digital pans, where previous releases (dutch and/or canadian blu rays) didn't. There are still two shots (that I noticed) that have camera stabilization, compared to the 35mm scan floating around (BTW, the scan I've seen doesn't look like I would expect from a bleach bypass process).
Something I'm not entirely satisfied with: the x264 encoding is 8bit, but like I said, I've used many shots from the 4K (which is 10bit). I can see some occasional banding in dark areas because of the conversion.
The audio in this release is the one from the dutch bluray, and, yes!, it does include those lines: "...he's not even 30 years old", "...hot shot...". Good news here.
Gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/2VY9Pb9
- 43.1 GB
I know there's a version called CCEHD around, but I haven't seen it. I don't know how good my regrade is compared to that version.
As the title says, this is a regrade using the Criterion CCE Laserdisc grading as color reference (actually the first DVD, which used the same master). I used the old bluray as source for my regrade, replacing as many black crushed shots as I could, using the 4K as replacement, avoiding, of course, those awfully digitally tweaked shots. There are also a handful of shots from the canadian and dutch blurays, degrained/denoised, AI enhanced and regrained for consistency.
The digital tweaks probably started in that very first Criterion release (rudimentary power windows), in fact, some shots have been tweaked differently though the years. Like I said, the old bluray is the basis here, still, I replaced a couple of shots that didn't have crushed blacks, but they did have noticeable digital pans, where previous releases (dutch and/or canadian blu rays) didn't. There are still two shots (that I noticed) that have camera stabilization, compared to the 35mm scan floating around (BTW, the scan I've seen doesn't look like I would expect from a bleach bypass process).
Something I'm not entirely satisfied with: the x264 encoding is 8bit, but like I said, I've used many shots from the 4K (which is 10bit). I can see some occasional banding in dark areas because of the conversion.
The audio in this release is the one from the dutch bluray, and, yes!, it does include those lines: "...he's not even 30 years old", "...hot shot...". Good news here.
Gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/2VY9Pb9
- 43.1 GB
Quote:Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 23.976fps [V: h264 high L4.1, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [default]]
Audio: DTS 48000Hz 6ch 4608kbps [A: English [eng] (dts-hd ma, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16) [default]]
Audio: PCM 44100Hz 6ch 4233kbps [A: Theatrical Mix [eng] (pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 6 channels, s16, 4233 kb/s) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: Español [spa] (subrip) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: English [eng] (subrip) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: No subtitles]
