Postby Blue Three » Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:26 am
Regarding the DVD box, what I hadn't quite realized was that "as it was shown on TV" apparently means that there's even going to be the "This program is presented by ~~" announcements that usually sandwich commercial breaks.
Here's most of the article.
SONY PCL started with the project around 2010 and at the time they weren't decided on what type of Telecine process should be employed. While the opening of the anime is on 35mm film, the rest of the show is on 16mm. It's easy to make it grainy so they tried out various mastering techniques that come after Telecine. SONY PCL got new equipment right around the time of the Blu-ray box release announcement, so when they started working in earnest on the remastering process, they used a process newer and better-suited than the one they had considered to work with originally.
They had a detailed list of fixes/retouches done by King Records for the DVD release in 2003, so they started comparing the DVD master and film, visually and on a data level. Naturally they found many other cuts they felt were in need of amendment, so in the end there's about 600 places where SONY PCL fixed the picture - adding to the fact that they had to re-do the previous fixes because they were working with a new master.
Work on Eva took about ten times as long as on other series.
Color correction consumed about 40 hours per episode. The Telecine equipment was different from the one used for the 2003 DVD master, so it was difficult to have the colors be entirely identical. "Then again that's what we were trying to produce. 2-3 years prior we would have given up due to technical limitation and now there's hurdles of time and cost. Yet as an engineer you don't really want to say that something's not possible, especially when you know that it can technically be done. So ultimately it was a question of spending a whole lot of time on it".
"It's a really detailed anime, so there were many things that had to be done by hand. Some parts we did five times over. Things like newspaper articles really add to the setting and they should be much more readable this time around."
Then some comments about the extras, but nothing particularly new.
An up-converting technique called "Real Scaling for HD" was used on Episode 16.
What had to be checked was whether the footage available to them was identical to what had been on-air in 1995. Luckily one of their staff members had VHS tapes of the original TV Tokyo broadcast, even including commercials. What's on the DVD Box is everything except the commercials. Even the breaks announcing the show's presenters are there.
Whether it be LD, VHS or DVD, many retakes were done for previous releases. What you can see on the upcoming DVD is something about as close to the original broadcast as it's going to get.
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Blue Three on Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:27 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reichu wrote:I'm unemployed, I have no space for any new stuff, and I don't have a BD drive anyway. The timing on these box sets couldn't be much worse for me. Sucks being a hardcore fan of 15 years and knowing that the right decision is to totally forget about owning the shiny new thing for the foreseeable future.
Really pisses me off.
That seems more on the technical side of things, so I don't think I could translate, but hopefully somebody could give us a basic rundown about the process!
