Incidents like this are a strong reminder of how essential real, human QC is — even on rush jobs. A proper review on both sides would have caught this instantly. But in an age of automation and AI-driven workflows, mistakes like these can slip right through and derail all the hard work that should be the focus. Instead of celebrating the restoration or the quality of the show, everyone ends up talking about what should never have been visible in the first place. https://lnkd.in/gkX9SaPf
David Klafkowski
3mo
It’s so important to keep humans in the loop, especially people who truly understand how 35mm workflows used to operate. Many years ago, I remember Friends being remastered to HD, and the impact on the life of that show was incredible. The new versions looked so up to date, and it was a wonderful example of how fantastic and timeless 35mm is as a capture medium. But I also remember that the occasional effect and establishing shots were simply up-rezzed and reframed to 16:9. They looked pretty poor, and even my very young kids at the time noticed. Did it affect the overall quality of the show, not that much.. but they were still edited in. In this case, a simple up-res from the original HD master would have been perfectly fine, and only very keen eyed viewers would have noticed...but as you say, it needed a smart, intelligent humans in the loop to know that.. maybe we do still have our uses! 🤔
Luis Otero, CSI
3mo
Jason Bowdach, C.S.I , I always remember when the 24 series was rescanned to show 16:9 aspect ratio. Way before AI, in one of the first 3 or 4 episodes, it showed the entire second camera crew, camera set up, dolly and whatnot. It was during an interrogation scene. For my son and I, it was more a disappointment than a funny situation. So, imagining this happening now is not funny at all.
Shontel Horne
3mo
Humans that are also encouraged to and supported in flagging concerns! Too many leaders would trust the technology over living, breathing experts and that has to change as well.
I was once doing a DCP for a special in-cinema screening of a large $100m+ sci-fi show. Marketihg team at the studio booked a cinema, cinema said "we need a DCP", marketing googled and called my facility. No problems, send me the master. They WeTransferred a 700mb Stereo H264 (60min show) 😂 I said "surely you have a 5.1 mix and a higher quality file". They said "this is the master". I asked for the contact to the post facility in LA, called them. Turns out they had a beautiful 5.1 DCP already made 🤦 I facilitated the transfer and got it to the cinema (and they agreed to pay the full fee for saving their bacon).