Friday, June 29, 2012

The Aristocats captures

7:44 PM / Blu-ray / Comments8 Comments

For Robin:

The Aristocats
label: Buena Vista; disc country: UK; region code: ABC;
codec: AVC; aspect ratio: 1.66:1

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Note: Full size captures are hosted on ImageShack and may take a while to load.

 
8 Comments

1. Robin said:

That was fast, thanks so much. Your high res, unmarked caps are a great starting point, always looks different when it's in motion on a large screen though.

(Posted on Friday, June 29, 2012 at 9:48 PM)

2. Emil said:

It seems soft-ish, or is it just me?

(Posted on Friday, June 29, 2012 at 10:27 PM)

3. Kram Sacul said:

Looks like a bad Photoshop session.

(Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 12:45 AM)

4. Author Profile Page Michael said:

It's not just you, Emil. It's definitely the worst-looking of all the grain-removed Disney titles.

(Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 6:58 AM)

5. FoxyMulder said:

Grain removal can sometimes cause serious bluravision, that's how these caps look to me, Disney have not been doing that well with some of their latest catalog live action films either, The Color Of Money as one example.

(Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 9:07 AM)

6. Christopher D. Jacobson said:

Man, that looks terrible. I never thought animation could look waxy.

Good thing I hate the film and won't be picking it up.

(Posted on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 7:51 AM)

7. Author Profile Page Michael said:

It's not pretty, is it? I get the feeling this was taken from a less than optimal source - there's a big of gate weave that they haven't managed to - or haven't bothered to - stabilise and the occasional black fleck (suggestive of a positive source, so not the original camera negative), which I suspect would make it infinitely more difficult to remove the grain while still retaining an acceptable level of detail. I'm not a fan of Disney's degraining in general, but at least the other releases don't look as smudged as this.

And Chris, while I don't personally hate the film, I do agree that it's pretty near the bottom of the Disney barrel. It's definitely characteristic of the output of that era: the work of a bunch of amazingly talented old men coasting their way towards retirement.

(Posted on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 4:50 PM)

8. FoxyMulder said:

Just for fun i took the captures on your site and put them into Photoshop, i added 5% noise to each, what a difference it made, it gave the illusion of detail and made things much more pleasant to look at, pity i can't do that for live motion, well i could use Adobe After Effects and their added film grain but it would take a lot of skill and time and a super fast computer to do right, i'd probably need to re-encode the video too.

(Posted on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 6:15 PM)

 
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