Welcome to season 3! To kick things off, we’ve brought Duplitech Film Services Manager Blake Blasingame in to discuss film preservation and mastering for home video. Are you ready for 88 minutes of unadulterated shop talk about grain structure, bit depth, oversampling, color grading, and vinegar syndrome? Of course you are! This is Film Formally, after all.
In this episode, we discuss:The process of preserving and restoring films for Blu-Ray and DVD releases.
Scan resolutions - 4k, and the value of oversampling.
Vinegar syndrome: the silent killer.
How film elements are sourced for scans - negatives, IPs, IBs, and release prints.
Robert Richardson and revisionism.
William Peter Blatty and the restoration of the lost Legion cut of The Exorcist III
More audio restoration!
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Additional Resources:Works discussed during this episode:
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Exorcist III / Legion
The Thing
The French Connection
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner 2049
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Heartbreak Kid
Playtime
Tree of Wooden Clogs
Army of Shadows
Ran
The works of Wong Kar-Wai
S2E09 - EMERGENCY PODCAST: Justice League & The Snyder Cut
S2E08 - Lighting Motivation feat. Paige Smith
S2E07 - Blocking in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
S2E06 - Experimental Animation
S2E05 - American Utopia and Visual Structures in Concert Cinema
S2E04 - Sounds of an Inner Life
S2E03 - Indie Post Production
S2E02 - Varda by Agnès: What is Videography?
S2E01 - Fail Safe and Contrast
Inter-season Special - State of the Podcast & Listener Q&A
Ep 20 - "Cinematic" feat. Nathan Douglas, James Penco & Paige Smith
Ep 19 - Storyboarding with Studio Ghibli
Ep 18 - Vancouver Cinema and Late Capitalism feat. Josh Cabrita
Ep 17 - Finding Star Wars feat. Drew Stewart
Ep 16 - Sounds of Commerce in Early Documentary feat. Tanya Goldman
Ep 15 - Visual Textures with Christopher Blauvelt
Ep 14 - Revisionist Audio
Ep 13 - Documentary Writing and Mr. Jane and Finch feat. Alison Duke
Ep 12 - Fourteen and discontinuous production feat. Dan Sallitt
Ep 11 - Prince of Darkness feat. Mike Thorn
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