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    Best film restoration companies?

    From a compression standpoint, the most obvious problem is that sometimes the encoders will under-allocate bits when they get to any kind of optical shot. The overall picture has less high frequency content because of the softer optically printed film source (relative to the rest of the feature...
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    Best film restoration companies?

    The masters typically contain PCM audio, which needs to get extracted before it gets encoded (or just passed through as is if it's going on the disc as PCM). You can view that waveform with any standard software. If it seems especially quiet then we'll adjust it upwards (but never in a way that...
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    Best film restoration companies?

    Hi everyone, We usually get separate SDR and HDR masters delivered. Further up the chain, the colorist might work first in SDR and then do an HDR pass after that (I'd need to clarify). Setting color and brightness etc. are the job of the colorist, and that goes for both SDR and HDR. On the...
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