Mastering and Remastering as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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one of the best feelings you can get while browsing movies is the one you get
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when you discover that your favorite film has been remastered and re-released
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then you purchase it rush home with your new blu-ray of Blade Runner or whatever
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and force your significant other to watch it with you pointing at all the minute little differences but despite
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how often we Fork over large sums of money for better versions of movies or
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music we already own rarely if ever do Studios explain what makes a film or
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music more Mastery let's start with what
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Master means in the first place so in the worlds of film and music it's a
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remnant of the old days of vinyl an adage borrowed from the manufacturing
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Community referring to an object's original mold from which many copies can
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ultimately be made often times though the final versions of records and then
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later films wouldn't be directly copied from the master anyway but instead from
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a small run of high quality copies of the Master known as mothers but nowadays
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when we hear the term remastered often times what they mean to say is
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transferred from an older analog medium to a newer digital one while meeting all
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the necessary requirements to be certified as DVD Blu-ray laser disc or
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whatever you see back in the days of analog there was a lot of contention as
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to which type and size of film was best
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so there ended up being quite a wide range of film using an even wider range
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of color grading and aspect ratio so often times the first step in
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remastering a film is scanning the Master Copy with a specialized digital
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camera usually at a minimum of 2K resolution to meet DVD and Blu-ray
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standards but actually going up as high as 8K and more resolution once
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technicians have scanned the original work at their desired resolution they
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begin restoring the digital print by using software which does things like
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remove film impurities that have been transferred such as dust spots and
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cigarette Burns an industry term for the corner blip on screen which indicated to
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the editor where splice points between reals went they will also likely adjust
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the color fill and contrast to try walking that line between the modern
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standards that viewers expect and the film's original intended appearance from
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there it's just a matter of cutting it down to the proper aspect ratio remember
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that hold warning on Films all the time blah blah blah that something has been
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formatted to fit your screen so it'll most likely be 16x9 these days for now
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anyway and then after the visuals have been settled technicians turn towards
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the audio once again they utilize specialized software along with a lot of
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time and Care in this case to help them remove sound impurities like background
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mosquito noise or to boost dialogue or
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edit audio levels as needed and more importantly if you've got a you know
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fancy surround sound speaker setup adding effects like surround for the
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modern movie Watcher and pretty much there you have it if a studio says that
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they've done something more than that well it's one of two things either
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they're just trying to get you hyped up to get your Nostalgia and therefore
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pocketbook flowing or they actually have
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done more than that something that upsets a lot of people some of which get
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upset about the mere Act of you know colorizing a film saying it takes away
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from the purity of the viewing experience While others are it takes a
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lot more to get them upset you know things like adding dob back so now we
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can buy Star Wars in its fifth form since it's release or however many they
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