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MutoidMan
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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 10:01 AM
DaveTRON Wrote:I thought it looked grainy and awful.

Bad sound cuts removing certain pieces of dialog.

I was not impressed with this digital version.

It could have been due to the location and other technology, but what we saw today was nowhere near as good as the new 70mm print from El Capitan in 2004.


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on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 12:09 PM
TF, appologies for the bad humor attempt.

I did not believe that DaveTRON would have left his sunglasses on during the TRON presentation or watched the presentation while drinking.

I'll try to tone down the humor attempts next time, but to be truthful, I was still in a state of shock after reading the post about how horrible the new TRON transfer is currently appearing to be.

I am disturbed to hear that the new TRON master could be so bad, but it sounds like it is, and that is very unfortunate.

I am hoping that what TF said about word getting back to Disney about just how bad the transfer is, really takes place. If there is anyone who wishes to have a good transfer of this movie, it is myself, as everyone knows, I have been the most active person regarding the release date for Tron on bluray, and so, this news is most disheartening to myself, moreso than to others who have not even voiced concern, or for those who are not waiting for the bluray release as eagerly as myself.

Disney, once again, please resolve this situation with the bad transfer of Tron. The bluray release needs to be better than these initial first impressions we are receiving.

Everyone here is hoping that the time between now and the bluray release, is going to show dramatic improvements in quality from what was shown at D23 this year. Graininess and sound outages are not what we want to have in this masterpiece when it is released on bluray.

I feel bad for the persons that made the trip from distant lands only to see a film that was grainy and suffered from sound outages.

I myself had thought about making the journey, however, it would appear that perhaps I was better off for not going since the quality of the feature was subpar.

Perhaps this release will be in theatres again everywhere? I would like to see it if it opens up locally, but I won't be traveling very far to see it unless the quality improves.



 
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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 12:58 PM
SuperScooby, the operative word was "attempted" when describing your "humor". I got it, but I have to admit I was a little offended. Take the hint and perhaps try acting differently here, you might gain some friends in the process.

Now, did anyone read ALL of my note?

The fuzziness may have very well been caused by the location and the projection. What we saw in that room was not great, but that does not mean by any extension that the visual part of the transfer is bad. Just that screening was bad. Please don't extend my words beyond what I saw yesterday.

The sound thing is one of my personal pet peeves with TRON. I have watched the movie HUNDREDS of times, in every format it has been produced for, and there are little bits of sound throughout the movie that for some reason the people doing the editing decide to cut. This isn't just this version, it's all versions of TRON.

The PSP version in my POV has the best audio transfer. As they are walking Peter Jurassik's character to his cel for example, you can clearly hear the guards personal chatter prior to the main lines. It's little things like this.

This transfer I saw yesterday had a lot of that in place, but then there are incredibly stupid little cuts like the line that the very first guard you see say when Flynn first rezzes into the computer. He say's "Vacate Entry Port Program", but the uncaring person who cut this version together cut it to just "Program". That is a sign that the person who did the editing just didn't frikking care about what they were doing or TRON.

It's a small thing a maniac like me would notice, but most people would not.

If Disney is going to do a TRUE 100% wonderful Blue Ray version with all of the bells and whistles, they need someone looking over the production who gives a shit about all the little flourishes a fan would care about and not just a mass produced cleaned up version for the masses.

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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 1:11 PM
DaveTRON Wrote:SuperScooby, the operative word was "attempted" when describing your "humor". I got it, but I have to admit I was a little offended.
Indeed, in hindsite it was a bad attempt at humor, appologies for the attempt.

DaveTRON Wrote:

This transfer I saw yesterday had a lot of that in place, but then there are incredibly stupid little cuts like the line that the very first guard you see say when Flynn first rezzes into the computer. He say's "Vacate Entry Port Program", but the uncaring person who cut this version together cut it to just "Program". That is a sign that the person who did the editing just didn't frikking care about what they were doing or TRON.

It's a small thing a maniac like me would notice, but most people would not.

I don't think cutting "Vacate Entry Port Program" down to "Program" is a small cut. To me, that is HUGE. That is one of the first things you see when Flynn enters the new world he is thrown into. It is a big moment in the film.

I have also watched the original movie several hundred times and hope that this kind of careless editing does not make the final release. It will be a shame if this goes unchecked by Disney.

DaveTRON Wrote:
If Disney is going to do a TRUE 100% wonderful Blue Ray version with all of the bells and whistles, they need someone looking over the production who gives a shit about all the little flourishes a fan would care about and not just a mass produced cleaned up version for the masses.

I agree 100%. As someone who has been waiting for the bluray release for a very long time, I want the final release to be superior to anything else we have seen so far, and I am not happy to hear about these careless edits to this film. I wish we had assurance from Disney that these items will be addressed prior to final release.

DaveTRON, what are some other examples of the bad editing, and is the one mentioned above the worst, or were there others that were as bad?

I know the movie line for line, word for word, as do other members of this forum, and we would like to know what else was cut in the version you saw.

Hopefully someone from Disney will hear about these cuts and correct them.



 
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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 3:30 PM
Ok, so I was there and watched the movie.

It was weird, I don't know if it was a audio equipment issue or they were playing a crummy transfer,
but yeah some pieces little pieces of dialogue here and there was missing.

Some of the movie looked grainy and not cleaned up at all, and the tone/colors on some things where still not fixed.
It appeared as if the glowing trace lines & circuits changed to at least 3 different hues of blue, from royal blue to white-blue to cyan blue and then royal blue again. That kind of bugged me.

I love the movie, but that visual quality was *not* worthy of a Blu Ray release at all. My 20th aniv DVD looks and sounds better in my opinion. I hope those flaws are cleaned up before the Blu Ray release....

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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 5:13 PM
ShadowDragon1 Wrote:Ok, so I was there and watched the movie.

I love the movie, but that visual quality was *not* worthy of a Blu Ray release at all. My 20th aniv DVD looks and sounds better in my opinion. I hope those flaws are cleaned up before the Blu Ray release....

Sounds like quite a disapointment. That sucks. It makes me wonder why they would bother with the screening at all since it seems like it is just leaving a bad impression all around. Hopefully, as you mentioned, the issues get resolved. From what you have mentioned, it sounds like the screening was a downgrade if you prefer your 20th aniv DVD over the new digital treatment screening.


 
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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 6:46 PM
ShadowDragon1 Wrote:Ok, so I was there and watched the movie.

It was weird, I don't know if it was a audio equipment issue or they were playing a crummy transfer,
but yeah some pieces little pieces of dialogue here and there was missing.

Some of the movie looked grainy and not cleaned up at all, and the tone/colors on some things where still not fixed.
It appeared as if the glowing trace lines & circuits changed to at least 3 different hues of blue, from royal blue to white-blue to cyan blue and then royal blue again. That kind of bugged me.

I love the movie, but that visual quality was *not* worthy of a Blu Ray release at all. My 20th aniv DVD looks and sounds better in my opinion. I hope those flaws are cleaned up before the Blu Ray release....

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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 7:11 PM
I didn't keep a list of what was wrong dialog wise, I just know I felt things were missing. If I could see it again I could make a more detailed list. It was just off.

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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 9:18 PM
SuperScooby Wrote:TF, appologies for the bad humor attempt.



It's funny that maybe only you and I would laugh at each other saying that..


Yeah who boned up the blueray vid. hahaha!!

I've spent a few hours color matching those scenes, it doesn't take much. And all they need to do is fix those scenes, add some more original content in the supplimental section(and stuff), convert it to DV, give it treatments for blue ray and blast out some 25 GB's for the masses. That simple.
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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Saturday, September, 12, 2009 10:30 PM
I believe the reason why the color changes so much in Tron is because of several reasons:

1) In the Making Of documentary, Steven Lisberger talked about how the kodaliths were mismatched in some shots and created the flickering effect in the movie. Obviously, minute changes in film quality and color show up really easily if the film was spliced together randomly, which was the case in some of the shots.

2) Working with so many layers of animation cels and mattes will end up with inconsistencies in film quality and color. Imagine when you record a song onto a cassette (bare with me ) and make a copy of the cassette for your friend. Obviously, the first copy is going to sound better then the second. The same thing goes for film.

3) With all of the experimental (and analog, mind you) methods of moviemaking and animation in Tron, there's bound to be color changes etc. Nowadays, with digital editing, inconsistencies can be fixed easily, but back in '82, they almost had no control when it came to changes in the light gels and continuity such as that.

As for the sound...it sounds like a bad PA setup to me. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to remove dialogue that's not even considered offensive. Considering what Dave and Shadow said, I think the people who transferred the film were either "asleep behind the wheel", didn't care about the transfer at all or had a very, very short deadline.order abortion pill http://unclejohnsprojects.com/template/default.aspx?morning-after-pill-price where to buy abortion pill


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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Sunday, September, 13, 2009 11:26 AM
I really would not be surprised at all if the people behind the remaster were on a tight schedule, because I like to think the focus right now is TL. I'm thinking it's sorta like the rough clip they showed at ComiCon, they didn't have a lot of time to put it together but they wanted to show at least something.

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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Sunday, September, 13, 2009 11:29 AM


@SuperScooby: Yeah, I got the fact that you weren't being entirely serious. It also doesn't change the fact that I think making those types of comments about anyone, even in jest, is wrong. I'm glad you've decided the same.

Back on topic. Regardless of whether the picture quality was the fault of the equipment used in the presentation or not, I think that unnecessary cuts made to the film is pretty close to being unforgiveable. Put people on the project who care about what they're doing.

If they're going to re-issue TRON for sale once more on Blu-ray, they'd better actually take advantage of the opportunity and the format to present the film in the best possible condition. Both from a picture and sound standpoint, and a content standpoint. Otherwise, there would be no point. Might as well stick with the 20th Anniversary DVD release.

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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Sunday, September, 13, 2009 12:44 PM
Hey what you said is so very true. My infinite patience is about to divide by zero and implode my brain. Waiting for Tron Legacy is proving very tough. :/


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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Monday, September, 14, 2009 5:38 PM
DaveTRON Wrote:
The sound thing is one of my personal pet peeves with TRON. I have watched the movie HUNDREDS of times, in every format it has been produced for, and there are little bits of sound throughout the movie that for some reason the people doing the editing decide to cut. This isn't just this version, it's all versions of TRON.

The PSP version in my POV has the best audio transfer. As they are walking Peter Jurassik's character to his cel for example, you can clearly hear the guards personal chatter prior to the main lines. It's little things like this.

A small note, I don't think the audio was edited in those scenes for the 20th anniversary, because while listening to the movie through headphones I noticed dialogue in the background during the cell scene and right after Flynn grounded his Recognizer.



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on Saturday, September, 26, 2009 9:20 PM
Unfortunately it seems to be a common occurrence where a studio takes a classic, chooses an unimpressive master, pulls a half-hearted effort to digitally convert the film, release it on disc and then after the fans complain they go back later and make everyone buy a properly remastered version all over again.

It happened with The Fifth Element and to a lesser extent The Last Starfighter. Also several of the recently released Trek movies had less-than-stellar transfers. I really hope that it won't be the case with Tron and that they will fix it before it goes to BR.

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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Monday, September, 28, 2009 1:39 PM
Cam_the_Man Wrote:
DaveTRON Wrote:
The sound thing is one of my personal pet peeves with TRON. I have watched the movie HUNDREDS of times, in every format it has been produced for, and there are little bits of sound throughout the movie that for some reason the people doing the editing decide to cut. This isn't just this version, it's all versions of TRON.

The PSP version in my POV has the best audio transfer. As they are walking Peter Jurassik's character to his cel for example, you can clearly hear the guards personal chatter prior to the main lines. It's little things like this.

A small note, I don't think the audio was edited in those scenes for the 20th anniversary, because while listening to the movie through headphones I noticed dialogue in the background during the cell scene and right after Flynn grounded his Recognizer.


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on Monday, September, 28, 2009 5:36 PM
Hey guys, I think I just experienced the same audio problem with Tron while watching it on my kitchen TV. The TV only has one speaker (it's really old ) so it's basically downmixing the 5.1 DVD sound into a crappy mono mix.

Well the people that manufactured the DVD player forgot to include the rear surround channels in the downmix. So, for example, instead of hearing the guard saying, "Vacate entry port, Program"...all you hear, if you're just listening to the mono channel is just "Program". This is because the guard is off screen to the left, so it makes sense to pan his voice to the extreme left so that you know where the voice is coming from.

Either the Live Sound guy forgot to hook up the other surround speakers...or they decided to use the convention center's pa system, which probably wouldn't support surround sound and multiple inputs, so the guy did what he could and plugged in just the mono channel.

Whatever happened, the fact is that the rear surround channels were muted during the presentation.

Here's an mp3 example what I'm talking about:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vlwmnndmidv
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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Monday, September, 28, 2009 5:58 PM
Mr. Sinistar Wrote:Hey guys, I think I just experienced the same audio problem with Tron while watching it on my kitchen TV. The TV only has one speaker (it's really old ) so it's basically downmixing the 5.1 DVD sound into a crappy mono mix.

Well the people that manufactured the DVD player forgot to include the rear surround channels in the downmix. So, for example, instead of hearing the guard saying, "Vacate entry port, Program"...all you hear, if you're just listening to the mono channel is just "Program". This is because the guard is off screen to the left, so it makes sense to pan his voice to the extreme left so that you know where the voice is coming from.

Either the Live Sound guy forgot to hook up the other surround speakers...or they decided to use the convention center's pa system, which probably wouldn't support surround sound and multiple inputs, so the guy did what he could and plugged in just the mono channel.

Whatever happened, the fact is that the rear surround channels were muted during the presentation.

Here's an mp3 example what I'm talking about:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vlwmnndmidv
The first example is when the rear channels are muted. All you hear is "...Program", just like what DaveTRON was saying.

The second example is just the rear channels, which you can clearly hear "Vacate entry port..." but the word "program" is much quieter.

I thought that listening to the rear channels was pretty cool, almost as if you were standing in a nearby room and could barely hear them.


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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Monday, September, 28, 2009 7:52 PM
Mr. Sinistar Wrote:Hey guys, I think I just experienced the same audio problem with Tron while watching it on my kitchen TV. The TV only has one speaker (it's really old ) so it's basically downmixing the 5.1 DVD sound into a crappy mono mix.

Well the people that manufactured the DVD player forgot to include the rear surround channels in the downmix. So, for example, instead of hearing the guard saying, "Vacate entry port, Program"...all you hear, if you're just listening to the mono channel is just "Program". This is because the guard is off screen to the left, so it makes sense to pan his voice to the extreme left so that you know where the voice is coming from.

Either the Live Sound guy forgot to hook up the other surround speakers...or they decided to use the convention center's pa system, which probably wouldn't support surround sound and multiple inputs, so the guy did what he could and plugged in just the mono channel.

Whatever happened, the fact is that the rear surround channels were muted during the presentation.

That's pretty funny, I don't think I've heard of a dvd player that coudn't downmix to mono, just thinking of that makes me laugh.. dunno why..

I don't think Tron wanted to be played in mono.


 
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Re: NEW DIGITAL CONVERSION OF TRON

on Monday, September, 28, 2009 9:37 PM

Well, hopefully that's all that happened in DaveTron's case. He did mention that it was more likely the presentation of the video\sound, than the video\sound itself being the culprit.


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