Escapay: What you remember is the original version before Lucasfilm made the SE changes
just kidding
btw there's a prevous b/w version of that movie directed by Hitch himself (so the color version is a "remake
) but i don't remember if they sang in that one too
Luke wrote:deathie, right now it's just that I look at the two frames and I try hard to see what is different.
Oh that's cus i did a deathimastering on both of them.
<---I'm posting the original captures (For a limited time only! First time ever on UDVD! err i mean Forum
) as they looked originally downloaded from that site so you see what i mean with "demastering"
Those captures don't trully reflect how they look on LD but they give you some idea of how both transfers differ from each other. The THX LD one looks nothing like the THX LD looks on a properly calibrated monitor (cus it's waaaay too dark) and its reds look magentaish. The original LD capture one looks closer to the original look but the reds there are orange! So i lightened them up and brought the color back to normal, so that's why they ended up both looking good and similar. Which always amazes me when i buy a dvd that doesn't look good cus if i can make two completely off kilter heavily compressed jpeged captures whose colorimetry runs in opposite directions look good enough and fairly similar, and i'm only using readily available software why do video transfers made from superior resolution and color richness filled 35mm film sources in million dollar telecines come out of whack?
They should at LEAST look as good as the avatars
I usually made the avatars i post here slightly lighter than i prefer (darker they'd look richer and the reds glow with Technicolor vibrancy) so to show all the detail possible, cus my normal viewing conditions are in a total darkened room and with the brighness setting (black level) on the monitor set so that 0 0 0 RGB gives totally absolutely 0 light output like it should be done (very tricky to get that right : you have to use a special PLUDGE pattern (NOT THE THX ONE!
) and mmm make your eyes acustomed to the dark in a for like 20 minutes
) but since most people at a computer have their lights on, or nowadays use LCD panels (whose 0 0 0 RGB black sometimes look like my 20 20 20 RGB greys! LCD panels don't reach true blacks yet) or sometimes even with a CRT and a darkened room they have the black level setting turned up higher than 0 black well i sometimes (but not always) try to make the avatars look slightly more suited to those "uncalibrated" conditions (by opening the widows when i make them!
) Also the bright light blue background of the site also change's their lightness perception a little too
Anyway it's easier to make therm darker again if needed than to lighten things up cus the way bits are allocated in dark regions (and mpeg2 compression
)
btw if you saw the full sized captures youd see the original laserdiscs (not the THX) looks better, richer, and with more definition. It also has 4 more vertical lines at the bottom with extra image (278 total) than the THX one (274) But the THX one is wider cus the guy who did them tweaked his video driver afterwards to capture the whole video signal width into the capture card's 704 pixel window width for the THX one but not for the standart LD one (As I've mentioned, analog NTSC is 711 wide, and as you know digital NTSC reaches 720. That' s why many things (like supplements) made on analog standarts show up with slight black borders on the sides on dvd software captures: Cus 1.333 is either 480 x 702 or 486 x 711 wide . Well actually, since it's a fraction more than 702 that's why some capture cards use 704 as the width.
well it's called "Explain your avatar" isn't it?
I'm curious about the others avatars that might have left you scratching..
PS. the dynamic duo's secret identity was ..
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