Shoot the Piano Player (1960) 4K UHD

[TheBondFan]

Coming from Carlotta Films.

[GenPion]

Another great candidate for a Criterion 4K UHD upgrade. Hopefully in an expansive box-set of Truffaut films.

[rolf2056]

Preorder:
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0D9MQP8RX/

[rolf2056]

Tirez sur le pianiste : bande-annonce - YouTube

[IntheMoodforTark]

Did anyone receive this?

[nicwood]

Originally Posted by IntheMoodforTark

Did anyone receive this?

I should have mine tomorrow or the day after at the latest and will share my thoughts afterwards

[nicwood]

I received my UHD today and it's wonderful. As always, this is just a quick look but I imagine this is as close to flawless as possible PQ-wise, which is a miracle as the master was made by a notorious party that usually guarantee subpar work, Hiventy. The 4K master was commissioned in 2024 by MK2 from the OCN with color supervision by Guillaume Schiffman. Color grading was done by the person who did the Three Colors trilogy in 4K. Thankfully, no one messed with the grain, the opticals seem untouched and colors are appropriately rich with no raised blacks and mushy greys. This is remarkable as only a couple of months ago, Godard's Alphaville got grain managed throughout and The Mother and the ***** suffered from poor grading as just mentioned.

The UHD is a BD-66 with the film having "only" 49 GB in total, however encoding is by LSP and I can't see any issues. Grain resolves very beautifully in opticals and OCN shots. Dolby Vision MEL is included. All of this bodes well for the Truffaut set Carlotta released on the same day. I have this ordered as well and should've received it by now but unfortunately it's not yet on the way.

Here's BDInfo and some screenshots.

DISC INFO:

Disc Title:     TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE - 4K UHD
Disc Label:     TIREZ_SUR_LE_PIANISTE_UHD
Disc Size:      58,210,459,141 bytes
Protection:     AACS2
Extras:         Ultra HD
BDInfo:         0.7.5.6

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00011.MPLS
Length:                 1:21:38.375 (h:m:s.ms)
Size:                   51,703,447,872 bytes
Total Bitrate:          84.44 Mbps

(*) Indicates included stream hidden by this playlist.

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description     
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MPEG-H HEVC Video       78628 kbps          2160p / 24 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 @ Level 5.1 @ High / 4:2:0 / 10 bits / HDR10 / Limited Range / BT.2020 / PQ / BT.2020
* MPEG-H HEVC Video     77 kbps             1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 @ Level 5.1 @ High / 4:2:0 / 10 bits / Dolby Vision / Limited Range / BT.2020 / PQ / BT.2020

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
DTS-HD Master Audio             French          1060 kbps       1.0 / 48 kHz /  1060 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz /   768 kbps / 24-bit)
Dolby Digital Audio             French          256 kbps        2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / DN -31dB
Dolby Digital Audio             French          256 kbps        2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / DN -27dB
Dolby Digital Audio             French          256 kbps        2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / DN -27dB

SUBTITLES:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
Presentation Graphics           French          1.450 kbps                      
Presentation Graphics           French          41.133 kbps

Tone mapped HDR Screenshots:

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See below for HDR caps without tone mapping.

[ko8ebryant24]

Confirmed from nicwood's screenshots that they are true grayscale

Edit: I added a couple more saturation steps. Are these tonemapped? I ask because sometimes the process can add imperceptible color and isn't representative of the true image.

[ko8ebryant24]

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[nicwood]

Originally Posted by ko8ebryant24

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Yes, they are tone mapped. I've done that after receiving some comments from people that my caps look washed out in certain browsers. It's been a while since I heard anything so I imagine things are fine now but I'll have new caps without tone mapping up shortly.

Et voilà:

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[ko8ebryant24]

Unfortunately, it seems to yield the same result. However, given that the presentation doesn't appear to lack in grain retention, it's forgivable. With those Kino and Paramount fake grayscales, there’s a lot left to improve upon, so in those encodes it feels like wasted bits that could be put towards improving in other areas.

[ko8ebryant24]

Finally received my copy and can confirm it's true grayscale.

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[ko8ebryant24]

Artificial Eye BD vs Carlotta UHD HDR10

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=2246

[nicwood]

Originally Posted by ko8ebryant24

Finally received my copy and can confirm it's true grayscale.

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Great news! I’ll look into changing my screenshot setup according to your description.

[vinvanveen]

Does anyone know if this has English subtitles?

[rolf2056]

Originally Posted by vinvanveen

Does anyone know if this has English subtitles?

Unfortunately only French subtitles.

[vinvanveen]

Bummer :-( Ah well, perhaps it’ll come.