AS THE UPLOADER, I SHALL SEED FROM TWO LOCATIONS FOR A RATIO OF 30, AFTER THAT THE COMMUNITY MUST SEED.
This movie was a difficult one!
The original Blu-ray, which was my source, had a grainy, noisy, soft and very dark! scenes. I actually uploaded a 4K version, under the same title, a little while ago, but I was so unhappy with it, that I took it off.
To produce this version, I have done the following:
- Processed the Blu-ray, using Ai to enhance, de-noise and do a general cleanup. The output was saved, uncompressed, for further processing ( about 300GB).
- It was processed one more time using Ai, only to upscale to 4K. Output was saved one more time, uncompressed, to make sure no quality was lost ( 500GB this time).
- Footage was processed for the third time, to adjust contrast, brightness and colour, including minor colour-correction. Output was slow encoded to HVEC x265.
- As a rule, I do not process audio! However, the audio on this movie has a wide dynamic range (CD+ range). It means, low-volume sections are very low, and loud sections, very loud. This was sending my TV speakers crazy! I had to keep turning volume up and down.
So I processed the sound and applied a little compression to the dynamic range. This makes watching the movie on a standard TV much easier. But fret not! I have included the original audio too, so if you want to route it to your home-cinema sound system, you can.