Interesting to see they use a Red Hat (enterprise) linux based operating system. I would have thought maybe a Macintosh or maybe a old Windows XP monstrosity would be their pick. I cannot make out what sort of software they use, it could be custom made, but I know for certain that the drivers for that scanner must be completely custom and one of a kind. Would be interesting if one could get their hands on this to see what the workflow looks like to go through the scanning, editing, color correction and final assembly of the whole product.
While I was watching this, I was blown away that 8K scans existed back in 2017… Then I remembered that I was animating in 8K then downgrading to 1080P back then. I’m not sure why they’re acting like it was such an uncommon thing, I was like 16 and I had access to 8K graphic processing
Was unbelievably fortunate enough to see an original 70mm print of this film in a theatre setting twice - once as a high schooler, once as a college student. I know this video is about selling the fidelity of the 8k, but nothing will ever beat the analogue. The 8k restoration is a great experience at home on your TV and way better than the previous commercial option, absolutely worth getting because this film is a masterpiece. But it can't ever and won't ever beat the print.
The biggest difference and that which makes it impossible for the Eastern and Western cultures to meet at a midpoint is their concepts of Time beliefs. Hinduism, which is the philosophical origin point of almost all Eastern religions, such as Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shintoism, and many smaller religions, treats Time as cyclical. Kāla Chakra is a frequently occurring term in everyday conversation of Hindus, meaning the cycle of Time. The Sanskrit term for the Universe, Brahmānda, conceives of the Cosmos as an egg. The Sanskrit term for the material world, Saṃsāra, itself means ‘the cycle of birth and death’, as opposed to Nirvāṇa, which means liberation from this cycle.
The biggest difference and that which makes it impossible for the Eastern and Western cultures to meet at a midpoint is their concepts of Time beliefs. Hinduism, which is the philosophical origin point of almost all Eastern religions, such as Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shintoism, and many smaller religions, treats Time as cyclical. Kāla Chakra is a frequently occurring term in everyday conversation of Hindus, meaning the cycle of Time. The Sanskrit term for the Universe, Brahmānda, conceives of the Cosmos as an egg. The Sanskrit term for the material world, Saṃsāra, itself means ‘the cycle of birth and death’, as opposed to Nirvāṇa, which means liberation from this cycle.
Wasted on Blu ray or HD. Why go to all that effort and not even bother to release it (or Samsara) on 4K UHD disc in Dolby Vision/Atmos....Note DISC and NOT on a streaming platform.
As we by now have the Alexa 65mm at 6.56K, and BMD teased their own 17K 65mm sensor based camera. And other manufacturers are getting there as well. I am curious if there will be a third film in this series but shot on best available large format digital cameras. I am knowingly blaspheming of course. But I am curious about what Ron Fricke and Co can come up with when essentially, negatives and processing costs disappear. If anyone could put those cameras through their paces it woule be this team.
I don't have any 8K displays (yet) but I'd love to see this in 4K (I don't have BluRay either). There's a bootleg "4K" version of Baraka on RU-vid - can't believe its still up after 8 months - but it seems to be just an upsample of the HD version - and it shows. Surely 65mm film would benefit from 4K vs 1K (HD) format?
Ok but now we have 8K TVs in every train station in South Korea displaying schedules, I've at least got a 4K monitor and TV at home so... 👀 can we get a 4K release of this 8K scan anytime soon?
A remarkable feat by everyone involved. Extremely grateful that this crew sacrificed and put forth so much effort into making such a moving film. Any film made by Ron Fricke is a spiritual experience unlike any other.
Picked up the DVD of Baraka today for a couple bucks at a thrift store because it looked interesting and seeing "mastered in 8k" on an early 90s film intrigued me.
downsampling from 4K (or even 8K in this example) to 1080p is really effective to get non-aliased pictures. it would be interesting indeed what effort it would be to re-process the 8K source material and downsample it to 4K for example (having in mind current 4K TVs). or even directly play the digitalized 8K material on an 8K TV/screen.
When I heard down sampled to HD, I was like why, why not just stay in 8k, then I realized this video was uploaded 5 years ago, then I realized this video is much much older. I'm thinking 2005.
I dont know when this was done but 65mm-70mm can be scanned at even higher resolutions. If I am not mistaken 65mm can deliver 12k! So they werent even close to overspamling anything in here.
Why scan? Why not shoot with a modern camera and macro setup? All the mechanical transport and ultra-exotic backlight setup is still necessary of course, but I can't imagine the technical reason to not do it at 3 frames a second and much higher resolution than 8k. other than "our only scanner in the world" is 2006 tech with most parts of it and the approach stemming from the '80. I educated myself and take that crap back. It was done in 2006. 8K (~32Mpixel) was not anywhere on the horizon of DSLRs back then. That is for stills. They were around 4K resolution for stills.
