As the title, are any directors involved in transfers and sign off of their movies when they hit home video ?

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As the title, are any directors involved in transfers and sign off of their movies when they hit home video ?

Mainly the big guns that can get final say, and often it has to do with the final transfer and encodes.

David Fincher
Francis Ford Coppala
George Lucas
Steven Speilberg
Michael Bay
Ridley Scott
Peter Jackson
James Cameron

And that's the group I know off the top of my head...

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I think Paul Thomas Anderson is another. He was not happy about the original DVD transfer for Boogie Nights, and had another done a couple years later.

There are also instances where the transfer is approved by the cinematographer. Vittorio Storaro has approved some, and enforced his preferred 2:1 aspect ratio. There's controversy over Halloween, which had its DP Dean Cundey approve a transfer years ago that looks different from the more recent versions. Cundey's transfer had a bluish tint in some of the nighttime scenes, for instance, and more recent versions are more "natural" looking.

Many directors are directly involved with the home versions of movies releases. At a minimum many directors provide commentary tracks, but some also are involved with the video and audio transfer processes, including personally supervising and approving masters and sound mixes.

Criterion releases are always supervised and approved by the director before production begins. I mean, you know, if the director is alive, since Criterion issues a lot of old movies after the principals involved in the film's production are long dead.

Unfortunately you can add William Friedkin to the list.

Is it better they are involved ? I cant make my mind up

not in friedkin`s case ...