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It is only a couple of days until Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated Lord of the Rings Trilogy arrives in 4K Ultra HD. Featuring a brand-new transfer from the original 35 mm film, the release has already begun garnering positive reviews. The Digital Bits has reported about the process used.
The original camera negative was scanned by Park Road Post (a New Zealand post facility owned by WingNut Films) in 4K.VFX film-out elements have been scanned in 4K.Some digital VFX shots that were originally done in 2K have been upsampled to create a new 4K digital intermediate at the proper 2.39:1 aspect ratio. Completely re-graded film color from the ground up, which includes new grading for both HDR10 and Dolby Vision.The...
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