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Post by Will Weller on Aug 11, 2013 19:31:30 GMT
Just a quick question about the re coloured episode. Why is this episode's colour recovery not as good as Planet of the Daleks Episode 3 or the Mind Of Evil episodes 2-6's? Is it something to do with the croma dots being different or something else??? p.s. if this tread has already been created then just tell me, as I don't think I can look though 50+ pages of treads!!!  |
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Post by pelham cort on Aug 11, 2013 19:42:43 GMT
Well the telerecording only captured the reds and greens and not the blues. It was originally intended for episode 1 to be recolourised by legend films from scratch(same with episode 1 of mind of evil as it said on the restoration team website)but legend however,raised their prices for colourisation after work was completed on Planet(it should be noted that legend works with 35mm material however ray harryhausen's film print of things came from a poor quality 16mm film print).So the blues was recoloured manually.the result was not of DVD quality but it does show us what the original VT looked like.
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Post by Alan Hayes on Aug 11, 2013 22:43:29 GMT
Well the telerecording only captured the reds and greens and not the blues. It was originally intended for episode 1 to be recolourised by legend films from scratch(same with episode 1 of mind of evil as it said on the restoration team website)but legend however,raised their prices for colourisation after work was completed on Planet(it should be noted that legend works with 35mm material however ray harryhausen's film print of things came from a poor quality 16mm film print).So the blues was recoloured manually.the result was not of DVD quality but it does show us what the original VT looked like. I don't think it was as much a raising of prices as a downturn in the value of the British pound against the US dollar that meant that it was suddenly too expensive. Previously the buoyant British pound (remember those distant days?) made commissioning work in the US cheaper. |
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Post by simonashby on Aug 12, 2013 12:01:39 GMT
Well the telerecording only captured the reds and greens and not the blues. It was originally intended for episode 1 to be recolourised by legend films from scratch(same with episode 1 of mind of evil as it said on the restoration team website)but legend however,raised their prices for colourisation after work was completed on Planet(it should be noted that legend works with 35mm material however ray harryhausen's film print of things came from a poor quality 16mm film print).So the blues was recoloured manually.the result was not of DVD quality but it does show us what the original VT looked like. The patterns for the blue are there, but due to the non linear nature of the footage the software couldn't accurately decode it. It's just a poorer recording - and what's more a print of it. Planet of the Daleks 3 had it's original negative handy, which is always preferred to a print. The blue wasn't manually painted in as such, but rather the quadrants had to to be picked out manually. No doubt there was a lot of touching up needed however. This was the case even with a good source, such as the Are You Being Served pilot. It's quite possible that the negative of the print could have given better results, but generally it seems to just be a duff recording. |
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