List of UHDs that utilize 4K or Higher Masters

[birdztudio]

i noticed 2 of Blade Runner 2049 US / UK at the first page what's the difference?

[Pieter V]

Originally Posted by birdztudio

i noticed 2 of Blade Runner 2049 US / UK at the first page what's the difference?

I bumped the wrong thread, the double was meant for the Dolby Atmos list.

Originally Posted by Pieter V

UK (Sony) Dolby Atmos as well.

If Goofnut could fix this?

[Visitor2014]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

The wider ratios are more epic.

Epic landscape aspect perhaps, versus "character driven" aspect.

Although PATTON was filmed in epic landscape, the character driven scenes worked equally well.

I was disappointed in the smaller aspect of PASSAGE TO INDIA, with some great landscape scenes. But the over all story if character driven.

[Pieter V]

New:

[Brahmzy]

Even the crickets fell asleep in here...

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

[Show spoiler]New:

Done.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Brahmzy

Even the crickets fell asleep in here...

This is a very useful thread to learn what 4K content is real or fake out there...true dat

[AML]

Originally Posted by Brahmzy

Even the crickets fell asleep in here...

Its going to stay that way for a long time I think. We will keep seeing new re-masters trickling in from time to time. But not many new films being made/mastered in 4k.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by AML

Its going to stay that way for a long time I think. We will keep seeing new re-masters trickling in from time to time. But not many new films being made/mastered in 4k.

You can't expect modern, VFX-heavy movies to be 4K mastered

[jvonl]

Thanks for this list!

[AML]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

You can't expect modern, VFX-heavy movies to be 4K mastered

Sure you can. Just need to render in 4k. Look at Dunkirk.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by AML

Sure you can. Just need to render in 4k. Look at Dunkirk.

Dunkirk was not VFX-heavy

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by AML

Sure you can. Just need to render in 4k. Look at Dunkirk.

It was a pretty short movie all told and some stuff was in-camera. A Marvel or Star Wars or DC type film that is wall-to-wall digital SFX...? Not for a long time.

[boe]

Sorry for my ignorance - is the first post being updated? I see a lot of people throwing out random movies throughout this and I'm not sure if they are asking if they are real 4K, wanting them to be real 4K, stating they are real 4K or just saying they happen to like these movies.

[legends of beyond]

Originally Posted by AML

Sure you can. Just need to render in 4k. Look at Dunkirk.

A practical-effects driven, 1 1/2 hour, directed by a man whose notorious for using as little CGI as possible movie that was finished on film is comparable to Marvel movies with CGI in almost every frame, nearly 3 hours, and likely impossible to finish on film?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by boe

Sorry for my ignorance - is the first post being updated? I see a lot of people throwing out random movies throughout this and I'm not sure if they are asking if they are real 4K, wanting them to be real 4K, stating they are real 4K or just saying they happen to like these movies.

If a UHD you are curious about is not on the first page then its master is something below 4K, typically 2K.

[Fendergopher]

I guess the best thing we could all hope for would be for post-production and VFX work to become easier, faster and cheaper to do in 4K, thus enabling even the most VFX-heavy movies to deliver DIs at 4K. I would assume that a lot of it comes down to rendering times, as well as just VFX artists needing more time to do more detailed or intricate work for 4K to become the norm. Most big-budget movies now don't seem to shoot at anything lower than 4K, so the camera tech is certainly up to the task.

Time is of course money, and studios generally have an urge to get the movie done as quickly as possible, which will inevitably lead to some kind of sacrifices being made at some point. In this case it's having a DI at 2K when it could easily have been 4K.

[Brahmzy]

I know the capture, ingest, storage, compute, client and networking infrastructure is significant for a true 4K editing workflow.
That said, these shops have deep pockets.
But alas, we’re talking about the bottom line here - it always wins.

[AML]

Originally Posted by legends of beyond

A practical-effects driven, 1 1/2 hour, directed by a man whose notorious for using as little CGI as possible movie that was finished on film is comparable to Marvel movies with CGI in almost every frame, nearly 3 hours, and likely impossible to finish on film?

Are you all saying a company like Disney, that made 14 billion dollars last year, cant render CG in 4k?

[legends of beyond]

Originally Posted by AML

Are you all saying a company like Disney, that made 14 billion dollars last year, cant render CG in 4k?

If they spent recklessly on 4K CGI, which would also require God knows how much more computing hours to finish and greatly extending post production deadlines as well as increase costs for something most of their audience doesn't care about, than they wouldn't be getting 14 billion dollars.