Postby Bladez636 » Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:23 am
(Crash Override @ Dec. 06 2012,23:26)QUOTEI think you should see this as an ingredient for your project and not a replacement for it.I'm not sure how the guy would have got screenshots of a Japanese DVD that's yet to surface.I hope the Japanese do a professional job on the remastering.They've made the usual half-hearted but reasonable stab at remastering Gundam SEED for Blu-Ray.I gather that, for the UK DVDs, the masters were sent abroad and the company made a complete mess of the remastering.So, they delayed the release until they could get someone else to do a really quick remaster, which probably only brought them back to the original quality as seen in 1982.I suppose you could call it a restoration, rather than a remaster.It amazes me, the difference between the UK, French and Japanese footage.I mean, how do you wind up with three sets of master tapes that are so completely different?Well I do really, just spent time doing frame by frame remasters of the scenes missing from the French remasters off the Japanese DVD so that would have been a waste of time -- it's just a bit irritatingLike, they're screencaps from the distributor or something, that was more along the lines I was thinking really.I always assumed that the copies got muddled as well. When I think about it, they used the term restoration more than remastered so meh.I dunno, wish I knew -- the UK versions had that odd rustiness to them with inconsistent hues - whilst the French one maintained the blue-ish tint the series had in Japan. It's odd since they're both countries using PAL standards.When the DVD set comes out, would someone be willing to send some MPEG rips from the DVD to contribute toward the remastering project -- that mainly being if the transfers are remastered like the French DVD. Obviously I don't expect Crash nor anyone else to buy it for me like he kindly did for the French DVD for my remastering project. 11,554 Japanese Yen which roughly translates to $140 US Dollars or £87.32 UK Pound Sterling is a bit much to ask anyone for something that in my mind probably costs more like $30-$40 - of course hoping my translations of currency are correct