>On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, K.T.Kutani wrote:
>
>>  No, I know.  But I mean, if you know what the heck you're doing, and
>>  make an effort to fix any mistakes while you're working, then it's not
>>  hard to come out with good product.
>>
>>  Ok, let's see.
>>
>>  1. Digital Master
>>  2. Transfer of digital master to hard drive in some format, either
>>  uncompressed or DV (5:1), maybe somewhere in between.
>>  3. Chopping the video up for chapters.
>>  4. Encoding each chapter into MPEG-2.
>>  5. Encoding of the audio data.
>>  6. Encoding of any extraneous data.
>>  7. Creation of a master disc or ISO/whatever DVD images are called.
>>  8. Proper printing from the master.
>>
>>  This is simplified a bit and off the top of my head (don't bother
>>  correcting any of it, I just wrote it to make a point and not to be even
>>  80% correct), but the basic idea is there.  If you just take your time
>>  and watch what you're doing, it's hard to end up with crappy product
>>  when you're dealing with a digital master, which is my point.
>
>Easy to say, but there's just too much that can go wrong. You gloss over
>a lot, especially in step 5. Case in point: Ghibli's most recent
>movie, "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" was released on DVD in Japan
>with a very noticeable red tint. They claimed that this was in fact not
>a mistake, but a feature, intended to optimize image quality for
>beamers and LCD displays. Apparently the movie was mastered on such
>a display and nobody bothered to check it on a normal TV set, then
>someone higher up took responsibility for it and everyone else
>in the companies involved didn't dare criticize him and went along
>with the "it's a feature!" excuse.

That's not even true, as those with properly calibrated LCD and 
projectors have the same problem. In fact, it's not a over saturation 
of red--looking at the histograms of images pulled straight off the 
DVD, the blue and green drop completely off at the end.
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