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Post by hoopdiddy on Jun 15, 2022 4:01:01 GMT
This is exciting! I hope a Blu-ray release is on the horizon
I wonder if they couldn't track down the 35mm film for A Kind of Magic because the animation studio never gave them it. cartoons like The Simpsons have the same issue and can't be properly remastered because the animation studio gave tape masters to the producers and kept the film.
I hope nothing is preventing the Innuendo video from being fully remastered.
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Post by boffy on Jun 15, 2022 11:33:31 GMT
I hope nothing is preventing the Innuendo video from being fully remastered. From the look of it, I think Innuendo's situation is a bit different. I'd imagine the rotoscoped artistic versions of the band were originated on video, but please correct me if anyone knows otherwise. I'm also unsure just from looks if the animations of the Grandville drawings were created on video or film. Hopefully we can at least get the beautiful stop-motion animation scanned in true HD from film. There's The Invisible Man too, which is in a similar boat to AKOM; lots of live-action film with effects overlaid on video. Radio Ga-Ga has a couple of film-based composite shots, but I believe all of the stuff on the flying car was shot on video to make the bluescreeen/CSO background replacement easier.
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Post by simonferocious on Jun 16, 2022 7:28:34 GMT
I hope nothing is preventing the Innuendo video from being fully remastered. From the look of it, I think Innuendo's situation is a bit different. I'd imagine the rotoscoped artistic versions of the band were originated on video, but please correct me if anyone knows otherwise. I'm also unsure just from looks if the animations of the Grandville drawings were created on video or film. Hopefully we can at least get the beautiful stop-motion animation scanned in true HD from film. There's The Invisible Man too, which is in a similar boat to AKOM; lots of live-action film with effects overlaid on video. Radio Ga-Ga has a couple of film-based composite shots, but I believe all of the stuff on the flying car was shot on video to make the bluescreeen/CSO background replacement easier i can't be a 100% sure but... judging by the look of the film slate and the raw frames of deacy playing it seems to me that those sections were made in hand-drawn animation. if innuendo already looks amazing in SD, imagine how that video will look with a fresh transfer and a proper restoration. (excuse me for my bad english, i'm not a native speaker heh)
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Post by mercurialfreddie on Jun 16, 2022 16:09:15 GMT
This is exciting! I hope a Blu-ray release is on the horizon I wonder if they couldn't track down the 35mm film for A Kind of Magic because the animation studio never gave them it. cartoons like The Simpsons have the same issue and can't be properly remastered because the animation studio gave tape masters to the producers and kept the film. I hope nothing is preventing the Innuendo video from being fully remastered. If I recall correctly, the 35mm film for AKOM music video was used when Rhys Thomas was producing the Let Me In Your Heart Again videoclip so going back to the master tape is not a problem for Queen Productions.
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Post by highlander on Jun 16, 2022 16:59:44 GMT
This is exciting! I hope a Blu-ray release is on the horizon I wonder if they couldn't track down the 35mm film for A Kind of Magic because the animation studio never gave them it. cartoons like The Simpsons have the same issue and can't be properly remastered because the animation studio gave tape masters to the producers and kept the film. I hope nothing is preventing the Innuendo video from being fully remastered. If I recall correctly, the 35mm film for AKOM music video was used when Rhys Thomas was producing the Let Me In Your Heart Again videoclip so going back to the master tape is not a problem for Queen Productions.
That must be WWTLF
It has other music videos in there too: - I Want It All - Snippets of Montreal 1981 - Footage of the band in Munich 1984 - Living On My Own - I Was Born To Love You - Barcelona - Play The Game - Snippets of Freddie playing piano from the late 70s
- Hammer To Fall
- Radio Ga Ga
Some of these videos came out on the Blu-ray edition of the "Days Of Our Lives" documentary and looked better than the copies on the GF and GVH ones.
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Post by popy on Jun 16, 2022 18:35:13 GMT
It is, literally, a kind of magic at 5:16 with Freddie doing is moves to thin air. Here's the same shot on the video clip, at 2:19, but this time we see him interacting with the sfx.
Let's see how they deal with Save Me and Princess of the Universe, although that is just transitions between Queen and the movie Highlander.
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Post by emrabt on Jun 16, 2022 20:35:13 GMT
They've clearly got the live action footage and at least a tape of the animation overlay.
The only theory left is that the time / effort / cost of compositing the two together is too high.
The fact they can't rescan the cells is also a possible reason, beautiful 4k live action, with the very low resolution very limited animation overlayed.
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Post by antonio on Jun 18, 2022 10:00:57 GMT
In Spain there is a coca cola ad that features A Kind Of Magic...
Maybe is this the reason to remaster this song?
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Post by emrabt on Jun 18, 2022 19:39:45 GMT
Now I'm not blaming Brian May or his curse but ever since I watched this video at 1080 I've not been able to view youtube on my phone in Firefox browser in anything less than that, if I do In lower resolutions just get the top corner of the video displaying and that is it.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 18, 2022 20:23:11 GMT
Now I'm not blaming Brian May or his curse but ever since I watched this video at 1080 I've not been able to view youtube on my phone in Firefox browser in anything less than that, if I do In lower resolutions just get the top corner of the video displaying and that is it. It's a kind of magic...
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Post by Dean on Jun 23, 2022 16:02:42 GMT
LONG overdue!!
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Post by dane on Aug 19, 2022 7:29:12 GMT
From a production point of view it would make sense that in a larger project of remastering these videos they would start with the one(s) that have compositing elements like animation in them. For these it would be OK to just remaster from the original 'finished' product. Saves a lot of time and money.
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Post by manymilesaway on Sept 14, 2022 21:26:11 GMT
This is exciting! I hope a Blu-ray release is on the horizon I wonder if they couldn't track down the 35mm film for A Kind of Magic because the animation studio never gave them it. cartoons like The Simpsons have the same issue and can't be properly remastered because the animation studio gave tape masters to the producers and kept the film. I hope nothing is preventing the Innuendo video from being fully remastered. Innuendo animation cels have been auctioned off to collectors in the past, so I don't think it'd be possible to re-scan that.
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