Michel Hafner

Less commonly known won't last beyond 2012, of course. :-)

Yes, pretty much gives us what can be done with an 8 bit 4:2:0 delivery format. Till we have a 4K consumer format that's as good as it gets on home video.

No surprise... But he shoots his new film again on RED. So how unhappy could he have been?

SN is a 2K DI so you are limited to 2K by definition. And the MTF was high for 2K. If you want to judge RED Epic or MX resolution I suggest you watch some 4K footage on a 4K projector. There is a reason John Schwartzman says Epic has VistaVision resolution and to get more resolution you have to go IMAX/70mm.

Before "The Hobbit" "Spiderman 4" starts shooting on Epic in 3D. First day report from Schwartzman: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=688422&postcount=1

Speaking of VistaVision. John Schwartzman thinks Epic looks like VistaVision: http://reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=686808&postcount=26

The difference is marginally due to 4K versus 2K or 1080p. The old transfer was simply suffering from poor quality DNR and way overdone sharpening turning everything into video garbage. One of the worst transfers for a major movie they dared to release on BD (together with "Gangs of New York" which also got a reissue with a new transfer lately).

Nice to hear that Danny Elfman is doing the score. :lol:

Arte is only 720p. There will be a 1080p BD later this year.

I did not mean to say this one was Fincher's (hence my comment: not the one to get). I said there exists one supervised by Fincher. I should have written "see also" instead of "see", to be more clear.

HD screen shots http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Jennifers-Bo...reenshots/8035/

Fincher personally supervised a HD transfer several years ago. See http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Blu-ray-David-F.../dp/B001P42Y18/ (not the one to get...)

Blu Rays: Baraka (70mm 8K scan), IMAX parts of Dark Knight and Transformers 2, Grand Canyon (IMAX 8K scan), How the West Was Won (3 times 2K scan of Cinerama), The Searchers (Vistavision), North by Northwest (Vistavision)

A Blu Ray would be nice. "Requiem for a Dream" has just come out on Blu.

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It is if nothing bad happens in the chain. Apocalypto The Other Boleyn Girl On the other hand Next Before the Devil Knows You Are Dead have aliasing issues on the Blu Ray which I doubt are like that on the master.

Thanks for the feedback. I tested several options and none were as good in automatic mode as I need it. So I went for something that works well manually: Diamant Dustbuster.

Yes, but it's not yet on Amazon.co.uk etc. because HMV has an exclusive deal for a limited time. http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare/redshoes.htm

It's released on Blu Ray in UK. Good HD transfer.

Any opinions here what the currently best dust busting software on the market is if there is no dust mask from the scanning stage available (program must figure out itself what is dust/speckle... and what is genuine image detail)? Best meaning best accuracy for telling them apart and replacing faulty pixels with pixels that look 'correct' when stepping and in real time playback (no visible artifacts).

The only massaging I would want to be done at scanning is proper antialiasing. Which means a lot of oversampling. Conventional printing does just that, antialiasing by random sampling and random dither. And built in low pass filtering.

Yes, I think so. What I'm not clear about is this distinction between real crawl of film grain and the fake one (with pixels changing intensity quickly). While real grain particles come in all sizes and some are too small even for 4K scanning so 2K/4K sized pixels can not show all their individual behaviour what makes the grain crawl on film prints more real? The losses from copying and during projection are so massive that no very small grain particles in the negative will ever show up accurately on any screens. Whether it's a digital chain or an analogue chain we always see only average cumulative effects of many grain particles working together, and arguably with more clarity and detail on a 4K projector than on any 35mm print. ? You were not talking about grain aliasing, were you? (http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Grain.htm)

So what are we seeing here apart from 'compression noise'? Seventh Seal Each pixel represents several different grain particles? How many?

That Red Code is RAW is not relevant. Grading it does not add information, just moves existing information around or deletes some. That it is a Bayer pattern is relevant. General 4K footage would have to be filtered down to a Bayer pattern (which usually removes some information) and then Wavelet compressed like Red Code (which again removes quite some information). From there the further processing can be done as with Red Code. It could be done with 4K, 2K or even 480p. But I guess the approach works better with smaller pixels (relative to a fixed image size) than with large pixels (SD). The softening might be too obvious with SD.

If it works with all Red shot footage it works will all 4K footage AFTER suitable preprocessing, but hardly always at 10 Mbit/s average (or it's not always indistinguishable from the 'uncompressed' version). What kind of peeks are required to stay indistinguishable for Red footage or any other we don't know yet.