Lol.

Tell that to the makers of “a scanner darkly”.

This wasn’t a color corrected crop of a still photo, it was a complete change of a short film.

Technically any digital photo is cgi, but that’s a red herring…this was digitally altered video, a much higher bar.

If the term is so meaningless, why argue against it?

You exaggerate to the point of hyperbole, which indicates you know you’re wrong. This argument isn’t about any still image ever digitized, it’s about a video digitally altered so much that it no longer resembles the original. Just because it’s a simple process doesn’t change that it’s an image generated by a computer.

Not sure that I'd call it trivial, but from what one can gather, using the panel of known colors as a calibrant for correction during processing does seem like an obvious approach. I'm assuming that the newsworthiness of this is in the trick or complexity of the post-processing - removing scatter, haze, correcting the full color spectrum with multiple calibration points - it won't be a simple linear correction. I ain't no expert, but have spent oodles of time trying to color correct videos and stills from our scuba trips, and the *automatic* color correction in current software is still pretty poor IMO, relying often on a single color as the calibrant (so, a "pure" white region in the photo, a "pure" black region in the photo etc.). Manual adjustment of the photo color balance for UW vids and photos is on my list of "What Hell must be like".

If there is one thing I have learned from cinematography, NEVER believe the lighting condition! it is insane how many night scenes are shot in the day and color corrected to night in the final.

I think the cgi-ness is our brains trying to associate what we see with what we have seen in the past. This vehical seems to be;

a) Super light weight hollow body
b) DC motor driven
c) all electric

It is literally a big boy version of modern RC helicopters which also exhibit weird looking physics because the motor totally overpowers the mass of the body.

Obviously most of the footage is of the only way this vehicle can hover, on its back. Being all electric and light, the flight time is likely only minutes.

We have seen many vehicles like this, the only puzzle piece no one is solving is a sustained source of power.

Most of this footage looks a lot better than the air-brushed, color-corrected and CGI'd end product.

It looks more like Road Warrior when it's this raw. Road Warrior felt like a movie, Fury Road, while great, felt to me like a theater play.

Besides the centre-framed shots and the vintage-style color correction this is really nothing like Wes Anderson, especially where music selection and editing is concerned.

The new one will be, without a doubt, much better. The old version was edited together using VCRs in order to get the episodes done on a tight schedule, so the quality was pretty bad. (Worse than the quality of TOS at times.) Since they are reediting from scratch, that alone will result in much better quality than we've ever seen. Add to that the excellent color correction, cleanup, cg enhancement, etc that they did to the remastered TOS, and it will end up being quite impressive indeed.
Pay attention, George Lucas. This is how you remaster your old work the RIGHT way!

color correction of death!!

have spent > 60 hrs probably observing Mars through nice telescopes.... In a very modern telescope with great color correction I'd say Mars is a salmony-orange huge. Much like this:
http://iftheworldmadesense.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/mars.jpg

In a telescope with less color correction, the red is a bit blown out and the blue is a bit blown out and they push Mars to look more like:
http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/images/mars.jpg

So I surmise early telescopes definitely made things look more RED overall. Plus looking at Mars naked eye the casual person would definitely say its the red planet. Though the overall color naked eye appears more like the first photo to me.

Even a brilliant finook deciding what's unnatural is like having the color-blind naming colors.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but promiscuity has been the norm for gay males and it's hell on them physically, mentally and emotionally.

The timelapses are amazing but i dont think they are beautiful at all.

The truth is that a lot of videos on vimeo very often seem to be color corrected to death and tend to look like kitsch. Too sweet for me and the music just adds to it..

Thanks for the education - but now you've ruined all future movies for me...
I didn't even get to choose between the blue pill or the red pill
>> ^volumptuous:

Yes of course I don't like the colors.
It's not only because the original Tron was BLUE vs RED. But also because every film coming out the last five years or so has done the overused bullshit Orange and Teal color grading nonsense.
Look, before a film is in the can, it goes through a color correction process done on a multi-million dollar machine called a Davinci, with a colorist controlling the whole thing. This process is used to do corrections on bad saturation levels, making sure teeth aren't yellow, and making sure skies are blue. It's also used to heavily influence color, do tricks, and re-color shots in creative ways.
But, lately the directors have been going nuts with ORANGE & TEAL. Don't believe me?
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-
hollywood-please-stop.html

This is the color-grading equivalent of a photoshop lens flare.
I've done massive amounts of telecine/divinci color correction sessions, and have worked as a color designer for many many years. Color is my specialty, and is the biggest reason why I ever get hired on projects. So when I see one of my favorite feature films of alltime being shit on by the easy hollywood hack system, I get a little offended.

>> ^volumptuous:

Yes of course I don't like the colors.
It's not only because the original Tron was BLUE vs RED. But also because every film coming out the last five years or so has done the overused bullshit Orange and Teal color grading nonsense.
Look, before a film is in the can, it goes through a color correction process done on a multi-million dollar machine called a Davinci, with a colorist controlling the whole thing. This process is used to do corrections on bad saturation levels, making sure teeth aren't yellow, and making sure skies are blue. It's also used to heavily influence color, do tricks, and re-color shots in creative ways.
But, lately the directors have been going nuts with ORANGE & TEAL. Don't believe me?
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-
hollywood-please-stop.html

This is the color-grading equivalent of a photoshop lens flare.
I've done massive amounts of telecine/divinci color correction sessions, and have worked as a color designer for many many years. Color is my specialty, and is the biggest reason why I ever get hired on projects. So when I see one of my favorite feature films of alltime being shit on by the easy hollywood hack system, I get a little offended.


<shuac rolls eyes>

Yes of course I don't like the colors.

It's not only because the original Tron was BLUE vs RED. But also because every film coming out the last five years or so has done the overused bullshit Orange and Teal color grading nonsense.

Look, before a film is in the can, it goes through a color correction process done on a multi-million dollar machine called a Davinci, with a colorist controlling the whole thing. This process is used to do corrections on bad saturation levels, making sure teeth aren't yellow, and making sure skies are blue. It's also used to heavily influence color, do tricks, and re-color shots in creative ways.

But, lately the directors have been going nuts with ORANGE & TEAL. Don't believe me?

http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html


This is the color-grading equivalent of a photoshop lens flare.

I've done massive amounts of telecine/divinci color correction sessions, and have worked as a color designer for many many years. Color is my specialty, and is the biggest reason why I ever get hired on projects. So when I see one of my favorite feature films of alltime being shit on by the easy hollywood hack system, I get a little offended.

>> ^blankfist:
It's hard to tell looking at a small vimeo video, but the darks look deep in low light, which is really nice. Did you treat the contrast at all, or is this raw? If it's raw, that's pretty amazing. Have you tried the Casio EX-F1? It's supposed to be a pretty sweet camera that shoots 1200 fps.


raw, no color correction, nuthin'. You should click through to vimeo and look at some of the other examples, pretty fricken sweet.

I had the Samsung equivalent of the Casio for about 12 days before I returned it, not enough manual options.

"Internet Explorer supports PNG images but is unable to correctly display images with gamma correction or color correction. Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 7 are unable to correctly display images with alpha channel (for transparency) without additional coding [24]" From Here.

Internet Explorer for Mac supports PNG though. IE really doesn't support much of anything. If you take a look at this statistics link, from w3schools.com, you'll see that Firefox is becoming QUITE popular though, with it's users quickly rising. Link.

I don't think GIF would be a viable option because the filesizes are too large and dithering looks worse then JPEG artifacts. You could limit the filesize for GIFs? What do you think dag?

Another idea. Allow hotlinking of images for avatars from approved sites. Postimage might suffice. But then thumbnails would be a problem, no? Let me know if it's a viable option.

Bring these ideas up at your next board meeting dag! lol

This makes me sad, I really like PNG. Damn Microsoft. Can't they get anything right?

I do have good news though. If you go here you can sign a petition for IE to support PNG. Not excellent news as I don't think Microsoft will give a Flying V.

*As a side note, IE doesn't even fully support JPEG either, "Internet Explorer does not support progressive display of progressive JPEG." From Here.)
I swear I have OCD. I've edited this post atleast a dozen times.