FIM was created by David, he’s also engaged in every aspect of the mastering.
You sure about that? There's a difference between creating a video master and encoding it or authoring a disc. The FIM web site says nothing about doing color grading, and I doubt that the content owners (much less the filmmakers, when still involved) would want an authoring house to mess around with the colors and fundamental look of their product.
The encoder's job is to take a video master provided to them by the content owners or distributor and faithfully replicate it onto disc or streaming or whatever other media it's supposed to go onto. They should not be making artistic decisions about the look of the film.
The Last Emperor 4K restoration was performed for Turbine. They'd be the ones doing the film scan and color grading to create the master, not Fidelity in Motion.
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