100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics [1080p]

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In 2012, Universal Pictures restored a series of films for their 100th anniversary. This featurette shows the film restoration process used. Uploaded in 1080p for a proper viewing experience.

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  2. That TKAM example was worse “after”… some of their methodology is very flawed, and informed by misguided priorities they do not mention, like minimising film grain to play nicer with inadequate codecs and aggressive low bitrate steaming encodes, or undersaturating their restorations to minimise over saturation by garish default tv picture profiles, leading to low color bit depth issues. They could be using a belt scanner as well for max quality, like Apollo did. Many more improvements, but at least some choices can be reverted in future releases, like the mangled cropped 16:9 release of world at war

  5. Please restore the following and reply to me if you do it, since we have the originals go for maximum restoration, colour & 4k etc:

    1: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m7ifd

    2: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mp8m7

    3: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xh2gv

    4: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xh6em or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z_ciLvkaac

    5: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xroi8

    6: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xroc5 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVdntEqsssA&t=141s

    7: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xrohj or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8x3WzF_cQc&t=157s

    8: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3y6yvm

    9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB82ccBk8M8&t=42s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB82ccBk8M8&t=44s

    10: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3y6yzn or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysF3hdTs2E&t=8s

    11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gySP2qklOnY&t=70s

    12: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ylufj or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA0N1cgE9ok

    13: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ylva9 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGojA59rKtc&t=134s

  9. Get out of here with that "manage the grain" nonsense. Changing the grain size on that push in is a travesty. The DP and director KNEW exactly what they were doing. It creates a dramatic effect.

  10. You'll read a lot of comments about how bad it is to remove grain, but those directors would have given anything to be able to shoot a clean image without it.

  11. sometimes i wish certain steps would be "ignored" in movie restauration
    two examples: terminator 1 sounds like shit since the 5.1 mix exist
    or predator. holy monkey, 2:10 gone wrong. arnold looked like a oily wax figure 🙁

  15. Unfortunately, removing film grain is not a good idea. When you digitally remove it the picture may be subject to soft or faded video quality. This is why I didn't jump the gun with "Sixteen Candles", I waited for a properly restored release.

  25. Yes, fixing the damage/scratches, flicker, jittering, and all that is great and I love the wonderful work they are doing! But I completely disagree with trying to remove/smooth over the grain. Film grain is GOOD, that's where all the detail is in the film, that's just how traditional film stock worked!

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