(Yesterday, 08:24 PM)palachdredd777 Wrote: Hello, the release looks fantastic! ))) If you don't mind, please answer a few questions.
1) Did you use the theatrical 4K version or did you upscale the Blu-ray remaster?
2) Did you increase the video contrast or increase the exposure? (I feel pressure on my eyes, usually due to the high brightness of bright objects.)
3) Did you use film scans for color correction: Rob Nostalgie and WB Optical?
Thanks.
Glad you downloaded at last.
1) 4K UHD. Except for the scene from the special edition (for obvious reasons), and 3 other shots, I must confess: T-1000 "secret piercing weapon" (upscaling the whole shot looks better, more consistent than upscaling and inserting back the area erased from the remastered shot), and also two shots from the T-800 entering the molten metal which are overly bright to the point of clipping and losing details on the UHD. All of them Human managed-AI upscaled from the Lionsgate.
2) Yes. The HDR in this particular disc is pretty much non-existent, and when tonemapping, the resulting picture is pretty dull, more so than other films. I used my own curve, to make it look more like the remastered bluray. But many shots are further tweaked, either a bit darker or brighter depending on what the 35mm suggest.
3) WB optical. Like I said in the first post, when using one of these amateur 35mm scans as reference (I have to say this is one of the best scans I've seen) you must look beyond the flaws. Matching what you see, just like that, is not the smartest thing to do.
