Hi All,
I'm currently about half way through a full regrade of Heat and wondered if anyone can help with the following:
German and Spanish 5.1 Audio - must be sourced from DVDs not blu ray - German DVD for example had both
English 5.1 DTS - Appeared on both Japanese DVDs and the South Korean DVD
Many thanks
Do you have a reference source for your regrade? 'Cause I saw a 35mm print in 2014 or 2015 and was shocked to see how colorfull and warm the movie really is. DVDs and Blu-rays are all cool, bland, desaturated, but the 2009 Warner is the best basis as a bump in saturation makes it a lot closer to a print, reviving the cyan blues and orange warmth, whereas an increase in saturation won't do it with the Fox "remaster" because they intervened colorwise in the meantime, not even to make it right...
Unfortunately the 4K master represents the film as Mann wants it to look now, he basically said if Heat had been shot at this point in time (ie digitally with a DI grade) it would be graded like the 4K.
Interested to hear more about this project. Will it be a reconstruction of the theatrical cut? To echo what Beber said is this a regrade to an existing master (ie LD/DVD) or off a 35mm screening, or other (personal preference etc)?
Your screen captures sure look nice. I made my own thing after my 35mm screening using the Warner Blu-ray. After some tests, I found a saturation level that looked okay and quite similar overall to the print to recapture the cinematic experience. That's all it took. I didn't bother with a shot by shot correction that I didn't even know how to do back then. Surely a few additional isolated corrections would have been better.
Damn! Can't wait to see this! My favorite movie!
BTW, was the 4k released canceled? I've found a webdl from april, but don't know where it came from...
(This post was last modified: 2021-12-17, 04:00 PM by Guiyomus.)