Posts by Rigby Reardon

Quote: Originally Posted by Vincent Pereira In the photochemical world, color timing is done from the Negative-to-InterPositive stage. So, the 2-perf negative was color-timed and contact printed to a 2-perf IP, which was then optically...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vincent Pereira Read the link to the Film Foundation that I posted several posts back- the IP is 2-perf. This is standard practice, the optical conversion is done from the IP to IN stage. Super-35 was also...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vincent Pereira If you're talking about the Blu-ray I don't think so since they'd have used the 2-perf IP for the film scan, not the 4-perf optical IN. If the restoration, new color timing etc. was done...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vincent Pereira ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST didn't undergo a DI for the restoration. It was restored photochemically and the conversion to 4-perf anamorphic for the 35mm theatrical prints was done...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lyle_JP Rigby's script is nice, but the soundout plug-in and function call seem unnecessary. I replaced "Soundout()" with "return last" (since I couldn't find a 64-bit version of soundout to run on 64-bit...

Quote: Originally Posted by MSchu18 ^This... I must not be the only one who thinks this release is particularly bad. it's suffering from lack of saturation and over exposure. all the blues and reds are completely gone. the sky's look...

Quote: Originally Posted by eric.exe The type of grain in this release is not hard to handle at all. It's gigantic lumpy balls of fuzz. The question is whether the grain was that "lumpy" on the source or was altered by the...

Quote: Originally Posted by oink And another thing....the grain wasn't as prominent in the HDTV broadcast. Of course not. DirectTV uses bitrates of about 10-15 Mbps and realtime encoders. The image is usually heavily preprocessed to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Injected Sin $15@walmart Target will supposedly have it for $10 next week: http://www.examiner.com/dvd-in-new-y...-blu-ray-deals

Quote: Originally Posted by oink The DETAIL is simply NOT there. WAY way softer. And that means someone cheaped out with this release... Are you sure it wasn't just sharpening in the DirectTV version? Movies on television are almost...