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It's the same master that was used for the blu-ray. No DNR was applied. There is only a slight temporal grain stabilisation but that's it.

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Thank you :) It's only a work demo. I did not grade the whole movie. Even if I wanted to the UHD disc is filled with DNR and AI that cannot be undone. Besides, color grading is my field of work and I would never share personal gradings on a whole movie when I come to work for physical media editors. We Can only hope that we'll be able to get new masters and color gradings in the future. Mainstream physical media is in decline, maybe third party editors will re-release some of these titles in the future. I recommand you to buy the spanish ''bootleg'' blu-ray edition of True Lies that is a carbon copy of the 720p D-VHS.

Yes. But it manage to retrieve the lost information in the specular lights that were clipped on the blu-ray. The color grading is also different with more yellowish skin tones.

@@menkros1 It's the UHD Taco Bell version here but you can chose the one you want in the menu.

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On UA-cam it's only in HDR10. But DV Dynamic Metadatas won't really matter for this title. If your SDR blu-ray looks brighter it's probably due to a wrong image mode (Dynamic/Standard/Sports) or a wrong calibration. Scopes don't lie, you can see how the HDR presentation is far brighter than the SDR blu-ray. Your SDR image should look as the one in this video if your TV is correctly calibrated/set-up. :)

@@spikewilliam hmm i tried it again and i do have my tv on a vivid setting, running the movie off a pansonic ub820 player, in dolby vision setting... but the blu ray still looks better to me hahaha. Grain and detail is pretty bad when anything is in moving vs stagnant scenes in the new 4K uhd release. The regular original blu ray seems like how the movie was meant to be watched and seems closer to how I remember it being in theaters colors wise. So I guess in the end its just subjective haha

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Hello. Which edition are you referring to? There are several.

@@spikewilliam It was really reddish in my souvenir so i think it was the 2019 edition. Definitely not the other one here that looks really blue. But if there was others than those two, i don't know

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Lionsgate clearly used the 2003 DI. Grain structure is typical of old 2K DI. The HDR presentation is an improvement for retrieving highlights details that are no longer clipped. The real issue of this new color grading lies on the skin tone hues that I find a little too warm. It might also be too bright for my personnal taste.

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The DI was done at a 2K definition back in 2003. Making a new 4K master would imply rescanning the footage, developing it, and re-editing it. Its easier for Lionsgate to use the old DI and just make an HDR grading out of it. At least the whites are no longer clipped in the HDR presentation.

It seems to be a bit too bright in the 4k, maybe?

@@Mimbrera666you are not watching this in HDR, and with an HDR colorspace compatible profile, and likely not on an HDR device…Hence, you can’t make heads or tails of this.

@@spikewilliam one thing to note Tarantino doesn't seem to be a fan of creating new 4k masters from scratch seems he would rather keep what was done originally than risk alternating it in some way at least for his films with a DI since jackie brown was pre DI and it got an original negative scan for 4k and he did approve all 3 new 4ks

Hello, The link is dead.There was an issue with my account and it was deleted. I will try to retrieve the original file and reupload it. I worked on the blu-ray SDR file, upscaled to 4K using Topaz Video AI (Gaia) & Davinci Resolve Studio with custom DCTLs and various plug-ins (Neat Video, Dehancer, Film Convert.) The goal is to give a neutral image in the white balance using the primaries wheels (lift, gamma, gain) in order to get rid of the color grading.

The blu-ray Digibook is great. I love those old Warner releases.

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The 7.1 mix had a lot of issues, most of them corrected in the new 5.1

Interesting. Is it a new sound mixing or the previous 6 channels track that was present in the DVD and Laserdic releases ? I know that The Game has two different audio mixes, a Theatrical and a Near Field one. So i'm wondering if Se7en has something similar with its audio mixes.

Thanks for your comment. I also like the dark gritty look of the blu-ray but the DVD color grading looked more like the UHD release. The blu-ray was too contrasted on some shots and there was a lot of black crush/clipping. These issues were corrected (some others also appeared). A lot of work and effort were done for the making of this UHD disc. This might looked too over-processed and the greenish tone of the new color grading spills a litle too much on the whites but this is nevertheless a solid video presentation.

@@spikewilliam I still prefer the 4K. Watched it a couple days ago. Just a bit too bright for me.

Unfortunately no. This is a just a work demo. It would take me a lot of work to restore and regrade the entire movie. I had to work this grading using the 1080p blu-ray disc since the UHD HDR presentation was too destructive on skin tones as well as some color slection tracking badly done.

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Completely agree - shame they didn't use the same colour grading on the 4K UHD

@@yeeehaar It's a bit complicated. The DVD color grading was not good either and far from the original internegative. After the release of Reloaded & Revolutions, the Wachowskis wanted to homogenize all the films with a similar color grading across the three movies. For the release of the UHD re-editions, cinematographer Bill Pope wanted to change the color grading of the films again. There are therefore four different color grades for The Matrix...

The 4K UHD presentation was made out of a new negative scan of the movie. The master is different than the 1080p Amazon release which was sourced out of the previous old master. On UHD some shots are very problematic some others very well defined, Indeed a lot of artificial intelligence was used to create this disc, as well as a massive use of dnr. They tried to correct some out of focus shots by creating a combination of fake bokeh effects and image enhancement and It looks Bad. No real HDR grading work was also done, just a minium Rec.2100 HDR P3-D65 limited 203nits reference conversion that looks over-exposed. I don't recall Lowry Digital working on True Lies, The Abyss or Aliens Restorations. They did work on Avatar and Titanic though. Or maybe I'm wrong. This sequence has less DNR usage than the reste of the movie, that's why I choose it for my color correction. I did not restore the image to its original state, which was too neutral and I tried to keep the look Russell Carpenter was aiming for at that time (you can see blue lights were used in the backgroud). It's not that easy to make reverse color grading without propoer sources. On Aliens it took me hours of work, and I understand why in the end they did not even tried to make it look better in HDR. I agree it's a shame to have waited 17 years for that, but keep in mind that is what James Cameron wanted his movie to look like in UHD... it's like his obsession with HFR and TrueCut Motion... it's not for me but maybe it will appeal to others. I will keep my bootleg spanish blu-ray. ^^

Thank you for your kind comment and your subscription. I did this 4K upscale and restoration before the UHD was released. I'm also disappointed with the results on this one and The Abyss but not as I am on Terminator 2, True Lies & Aliens.

Thank you! I'm currently working on a new color grading/4K master for Aliens too, that will be the next video :)

Thanks! James Cameron wants his old movies to look like they were shot with modern digital cameras. Fortunately the blu-ray is still very solid.

Thank you. I restored the image from the 2010 blu-ray transfer wich was also pretty "blue-ish", but not as the 4K edition is. I would like the movie to be re-released in the future from another editor, like Arrow, Kino Lorber or Criterion and get the original color grading. That would be amazing!

@@spikewilliamdid you regrade the color of the whole film from the 4K master, by any chance?

I know that The Abyss 4K Master is already ready, since there were some special showings around the world. The 4K disc could be announced for its 35th anniversary next year (let's hope). I don't believe the Extented Cut was shown though... Indeed there is no information regarding the aspect ratio for Titanic 4K presentation. What I hope is that the movie won't be as bad as T2. that was plagued with DNR and an altered color timing.

@@spikewilliam aah, T2, so true. 😭 i hope they atleast release the extended cut of The Abyss on blu-ray because it needs more breathing room than DVD.

Like the Special Edition DVD where you could chooe between the Theatrical & the Extended cuts. @@shijoejoseph2011

i do hope that widescreen in jimmy's language is whole 16:9 and 1.78:1. as his previous movies bluray cover it will be mentioned if its going to be letterbox or widescreen 1.78:1

no, en imax se parecían más los errores de la pelicula, cosa que James Cameron no ha solucionado a pesar de los años, hay varios errores en secuencias, etc que se podrán corregir quizás para el 30 aniversario, ojalá