Why some "remastered" music videos look awful 

Somebody once told me that I could make some money, by remastering old standard definition music videos.

_"Well, they_ (as in: those HD music videos) _don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming..."_

I nean, really, it IS a sharp tool... but to learn what NOT to do.

more like the 'sharpness' tool in the shed

Squidward's Testicles Actually, it would be Why All Star’s Remastered Music Video Ain’t the Sharpest Tool in the Shed. It would have been a bit funnier.

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Like Microsoft Clippy, but more helpful and interesting

Red Tee Buddy

just let Tom talk about anything on your screen

@@professoreisner1851 hello professor

@@professoreisner1851 That would be awesome! A little window in the corner of your screen with Tom Scott just talking about something completely random.

Me in a creative industry with not enough money and way too many ego's... And having been *that* intern...

that's honestly how i did a lot of my work at college. i also did fail half my classes the second semester of the one year i attended but that's not important

@@spencykings3182 and you almost got kicked out that one year for the animal house like toga party you threw? but that's not important now....

I have a distinct feeling that this (,,We don't care, just make it work!'') applies to more than just the creative roles sector.

@@yama123numbercauseytdemand4 It does indeed. I see this all the time in IT. You're wondering why some web site is a pain to use, or is doing weird things, or some company has mangled or lost your data? A lot of the time, "Just make it work," by which the manager means, "Just make it _look like it works,"_ is the issue.

Yes, do it please

Then make a very well edited 7 minute video about why you shouldn't have remastered it

@@YetAnotherGeorgeth : Then a 20 minute Park Bench episode talking about both the remaster and the "why you shouldn't have remastered it" video.

*no badgers or blenders were harmed in the making of this video*

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Judging by the blur in the VHS picture

This is genius and made my day Xd

@@criptych the films we roll are getting really slim

@@FriskDrinksBrisk the nostalgia's getting warm so we might as well sell

Democrats love to make things worse

The thumbnail aged very quickly

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Had a stroke?

@@shellygavaller8442 r/hadastroke

@@cassio_o8180 r/ihavereddit

@@lewdwe1596 r/yeahido

So underrated, can't believe I missed that!

Is Tom Scott the new Clippy?

@@CaveyMoth maybe

@@CaveyMoth Tom Scott isn't a nuisance, I would *gladly* have him take over my computer programs

OH NO EDITING SOFTWARE ATE TOM SCOTT

where

i want to watch that so bad but that film is not released anywhere it seems. such a shame

​@@danielhuang2488 pirate bay genius

@@danielhuang2488 AppleTV for 4k, most other major streaming services in HD

They destroyed or "lost" all the original film. Why do you think they would do that, hmmm?

The classic "film outside, video inside" effect, albeit less dramatic than in, say, the '70s.

if you want, you can look for the "despecialised edition" it's a fan remaster based on fixing up the official remaster, combined with laser-disk footage and original theatre release film.

@@NotAMinifig There are other options too, like "4K77" and its counterparts which, instead of cobbling together footage from various sources, track down original theater run film prints and scan them in at 4K resolution.

Free Hat!

@@tituslafrombois1164 where would you find such a video? Is it online?

@@sawspitfire422 I expect you would start with a good VPN, and then pirate it. If it's openly available anywhere, it will be shut down before too much time passes.

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Ben thank you so much both of you

Same with him laughing

As of posting this reply, this video has 666k views

@@zuzanalovitt1325 you're welcome : )

We have a winner!

same with software updates, subscription models... etc

Ay, matey, we shall sail the seas and bury our treasure with p2p networks. Original Star Wars is only available from the seas

​@@FrozenBusChannelyou can archive diloftear tho (I meant software but that misspelling is too funny to correct)

@@Xnoob545 sadly some companies deliberately disable the functionalities, even though you can still install them

Your pfp is absolutely perfect

@@Pangloss6413 Is that a furry character?

@@HOTD108_It’s Ralsei, from Deltarune.

Also would be nice if they didn't get preferential treatment. For YEARS I've been trying to replace one of my old videos with a HQ rerender. And keep the views/likes/comments/video ID... But youtube vehemently denies all possibility of editing our videos. Yet music labels can do it!? Unfair.

@@x3ICEx RU-vid bends over backwards for anything with money, that's why they're censoring comments for the Chinese government

@@x3ICEx That seems like a bad idea for both people and record labels

Hello my brother

@@x3ICEx I mean, there are good reasons as to why RU-vid would want to avoid giving everyone the power to change their videos whilst keeping all their views, comments, and IDs, but I get the frustration.

RU-vids bitrate is even worse now, since 720p is apparently no longer HD. They lowered the bitnrate for 720p and below

@@israellewis5484 Didn't realize that, but makes perfect sense. I was noticing 720p was starting to look like trash, I just though I had become accustomed to 1080p and above. Noooope

Israel Lewis I’m glad I wasn’t the only one noticing this. There was a time when RU-vid videos had bitrates higher than 5mbps for 1080p content, but it would constantly get lowered as the years went by, probably to accommodate bandwidth limits for those with limited data. Disney Plus handles their SD content with great care. Just because it’s a 480p source shouldn’t mean the bitrate has to be low.

I don't see a difference Probably because i have Bad WiFi and always watch on 144p

YT has always over-compressed, 5 years ago I recall vimeo320 was nearly as good as YT720. I get that data isn't free and its a different market segment, but a lot of data could be saved simply by some flagging option for these dolts that upload a vid shot in 320 as 1080p and limiting 4k to accounts that have some track record that show they actually need 4k. A properly made and displayed 720 is better than most YT4k, which is partly on YT and partly on creators. I would prefer the market went to 12 bit color 1080p playback with less compression rather than 4k playback, but the most profitable consumers don't know that much about it and "4k bigger number than 1k". (4k recording for 1080 playback is appropriate at a professional level.)

thank you for pointing this out!

The Easter eggs in this video are the best

Hi

Why in the world does this only have 29 likes

@@davel1722 Probably because it was posted about two months after the video was uploaded

Pin this!

This leads to an interesting afterthought: how long until web video content starts streaming with post-processing "AI" metadata for sharpening live on the receiver end? Nvidia does this real-time for ray-traced content (games etc.) and it could be entirely plausible that in 2-5 years such a solution could be widespread (unless the approach is sabotaged by patents greed). Perceptual quality per bit transferred could go up quite a bit for the human observer. (Why "web content"? Because there you don't really have to live on basis of oldest common supported solution from 15 years ago or so.)

@@foobar1500 That's more or less how lossy video compression works already - most of what you see is an 'AI' reconstructing frames from metadata hints. The main constraint for rolling it out in a video codec is being able to make a small, low power hardware decoder for things like smart phones.

It's been like 10 years since they remastered TOS. And yes, they did an impressive jobs on most shots.

Unfortunately some of the shows were shot directly to tape which is why we can't have remastered version of Voyager for example. Technology Connections did a video on this.

Antoine Chauvet Technically TOS was always shot on film, they just added effects to that to “modernize” it and try to make it appealing to new viewers. TNG on the other had, they HAD to do what D2W describes by redoing all the SD-only effects.

And then theres the travesty of BtVS's remaster.

I've seen some of these, and those CG effect substitutions are awful, takes me right out of the show. 1960s sets and costumes, BAM, modern CG ship and planet.

I know right! I can always so see Tom again when I’m bored

Unlike the replaced music videos

@Painted Dead Tom Scott and Hank Green should collaborate on this.

those comments will probably get drowned out by already constant flow of shrek meme comments Edit:Nevermind if you sort by new its already begun

Not just smash mouth it's the same with Last Christmas.

Smashmouth doesn't need Tom Scott to get viral-level traffic.

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At least it’s not gonna be as bad as “who’s watching in 2020”

Hahahaha

you’re hd that’s why

I always watch videos at max quality when im using WIFI

@@arandomsupra who doesn't

Yes, it is a major pet peeve for me when the original aspect ratio is messed with, and the frame rate sometimes gets choppier.

Can someone get this video to him?

Image if Hank hadn't given up on the that endeavour(´∵｀)

Who the eff is Hank?

@@junks345 Hank is a ministry of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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A virtual pub, actually

Tom:Here's a QR code it will explain everything.

I remember pubs. 😭😭😭

He's got an animator now to do that part. The silhouet in front of the screen at 6:16 is him making a cameo.

@@Jeroen_Ech nice catch! Real Cameo!

At least Lucas had the original films and not a poor quality VHS version of them.

Oh wait...

What? They really did that? I've never watched it but it's really weird. Usually they restart from zero.

You better shut up or they'll make us another re-re-master with Jar Jar Binks in it. DO YOU WANT THAT?

Jar Jar Binks jokes, really got dated in 2009 !

I fing hate that one. How can people enjoy these, they look terrible

@@lol-ih1tl they love high framerates. they really love that soap opera effect

A lot of the problems with that are from the low bitrate of the source.

Never gonna give you up

@@RGC_animation never gonna let you down

UMG destroyed my old channel.

We cannot replace old video whilst keeping likes, url and comments. Unfair TBH

To be fair though, Sony Music (the other company who runs VEVO w/YT and UMG) has done a great job remastering their videos. Apart from the aforementioned Last Christmas video, London Calling remastered looks really good too. I'd say they put more heart in their remastered videos.

@Boring Name Video games are copyrighted material themselves anyway, people shouldn't be surprised.

@Boring Name actually leagally, you aren't allowed to upload video game footage to RU-vid, but companies let it happen, the uploader *is* in the wrong

His video editors are amazing

"5 child actors that grew up to become older than they were before" this just killed me

Perception 10

Have you read the articles below those headlines? Quite entertaining.

@@andreaoak Milliam Warler reads the comments too :D

Mama

A second in I could already tell the editing was great. This Milliam Warler guy is awesome.

Sometimes a bit unnecessary, but definitely high quality.

best video editing ever!

I thought Tom was the editor

@@SpaceTimeBeing_ "Well you see, sometimes in life, things don't turn out the way you expect." -Tamago2474

Media preservation is one of the most important issues facing the film, tv, music and even video game worlds, but it seems few people actually care about it. As more people will want to enjoy media from the past it will be harder and harder to find what you are looking for, even if you can find it, it may be altered. Think of how little we were able to save ripped from VHS tapes. Countless commercials, cartoon bumpers, original airings of shows are now lost to time or inaccessible to the average person. We have to do our best to preserve media in its original form, with all of its quirks of the era and then if creators wish, they could create a separate remastered version that enhances the viewing experience for modern viewers. But never, and I mean never stretch, crop or pan and scan 4:3 video into widescreen.

Kingdom Hearts is a great example of this. A lot of the original art assets were lost so when doing the HD Remaster they did not have access to them. Thankfully in the modern era, digital recording as well as storage availability means that this problem won't be propagated much further

I too remembered this video after I read the news

There’s tons of Easter eggs in this video

"Tom Scott reveals harrowing secret" is what got me

5 child actors who grew up to be older than they were before

I can't see them because I am in 144p

"Top 2 ways to confuse people who don't understand binary, number 10 will surprise you!" Hahaha

It's the editor (not Tom himself; check out the rest of those "articles"), but he's definitely hilarious, yes! 😄

I fail to see the humour

I don't get it

2:00 Reticulating splines...

I'm annoyed I didn't get to find out the rest of the BSOD text hidden behind Tom...I suspect there's a quality joke in there that we only half see...

Reminds me of what they did on VHS with pan and scan, they had to guess the most important parts of the scene and chop it down. Made the dinner scene in Popeye even more claustrophobic and confusing, poor guy didn't even get to eat anything.

@@geoffreywilson7008 Then there's Back To The Future which was framed to be filmed in both 4:3 and 16:9 ratios within the same camera

That 70s Show was designed to be both 16x9 and 4x3... doesn't quite work all the time, but it's not bad. But let's ask Disney about The Simpsons shall we? What a fustercluck that is.

I’m not even hardcore videophile but the aspect ratio abomination really triggers me too

A different thing that often annoys me with aspect ratios is when a video is in 4:3, but is rendered in 16:9 so that it is windowboxed, with bars on both the top, bottom, and sides, on my 5:4 monitors. I want the originals; my monitors are in an aspect ratio which they actually fit!

And here they're particularly funny if you pay attention to the details. Those who make all these animations etc. are doing a fantastic job!

@@maike5307 Nothing is more enjoyable to watch than something someone talented enjoyed making.

Hell, if Tom's going to do a video about shitty editing, he's going to make sure it doesn't have shitty editing! But yes, I was really impressed, too. I wonder what the pros think… including whoever remastered that Smashmouth video. 😉

That's not how the RU-vid algorithm works.

@@HOTD108_ RU-vid algorithm uses trends, if bunch of people suddenly look up something chances are things related to it might get picked up

Hahaha more people need to see this

“That guy playing the piano looks familiar....

I can clearly read it when you said it, but how did you do it?

“AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-OH”

@@Guztav1337 maybe it's clearer on pc?

I think I know what you need it for... now I want it too

"How dare you!?"

Finally here's an explanation that makes sense! :-)

I hope someone splices it and uploads it on another platform

yes why the hell choose youtube then?

I thought youtube has 'reencoded' the whole website to DASH audio video streams since around 2016? It's opus 128-140 kbps vbr for all resolution except 240p and 144p. Some videos have 192kbps aac for whatever reason but you need to use youtube-dl to stream it.

@@hobrin4242 Because that's where people are searching it

Was literally about to make this comment

What up?

@@TotoDG nice name

Thank you! I knew I'd already seen this somewhere.

What's the link?

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know binary. Those who don't. And those who thought this was a binary joke.

There are 10 types of people in the world: 1) Those who understand binary 2) Those who don’t 3) Those who didn’t expect this joke to be in ternary 4) Those who expected this joke to be in ternary because they watched that Numberphile video . . . n) Those who realise this joke has been generalised into base-n

​@@Lord_Skeptic n=>10 would suggest you assign a number greater or qual to 10 to the variable n, which would impossible, as this is a comparison. The additional sign always precedes the equal sign, no matter if in maths or in CS. So LessEqual is = or ≥ or GE @Lead Nitrate 10 in base-anything(n) is 0 * n^0 + 1 * n^1, which always results in n for base-n. You confused this with 'what is 10_10 in base-n' (which is A) instead of 'what is 10_n' (which is n). This is true for base-16 as well (obviously). 29_10 = 1 * 16^1 + 13 * 16^0, where 13_16 is the symbol D. This gives you 29_10 = 1D_16 So this works for any base-n. The only problem for base-273 would be to find enough symbols to represent every single number. Don't forget that base-16 includes the numbers 0-15, as base-10 only includes the numbers 0-9. It does not include itself. So F is 15, not 16. 16 is indeed 10.

For all bases n; 10 = n.

Never revisited so much of my college math in the comments section of a video about music video editing before.

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Those Easter eggs. Amazing.

I did not notice them before but I love them.

Ooooh, I very much enjoy Technology Connection video style; I must check this out, thanks!

I was wondering why the deja vu was driving me nuts

you (I mean you, but tom is also welcome)

Just discovered Technology Connections last week. It's a great channel.

@@dame-e-in1258 Welcome to the group of people who listen to a guy talking about toasters for hours. ;)

There’s also the fact that Disney’s Cinderella has had way too much screen and design alterations, even when it’s supposedly been remastered so many times.

Rohan Sangani please

YES YES YES YES YE SSYE SYE SYS EYSVESYFBUQA

netflix doesn't deserve him

Yes. It would be really good, something like Vox's series, maybe on tech, lamguage, or something else

Seconded

If an album was originally mastered for vinyl and you put it straight on CD without remastering it, it will sound like mush While record companies do love to milk their cash cows, it's a bit of stretch to say that there's no valid reason to remaster an album

Pink Floyd? Those albums are protected for 120 years already. The only reason to remaster is to.. remaster for digital media.

"It's sharper, sure. It's just not the sharpest tool in the shed."

It's important to note that David Bowie's refusal was about the quality of the song in particular, and not of Coldplay's music in general.

@@AmunRa1 which song? Coldplay seemed to me a sort of band that was the link between older types of rock and the more minimalistic music lots of pop singers put out. Some often simple musical repititions or just lyrics that don't really have any heart behind them, coldplay often seemed to straddle that fence.

Once it was a month ago

we've had months before

There was once when it was 1 week ago

Never question the ascended ones

Not a real comment :/

i might have scrolled down just to find a comment like this. yep. they also did it to sc1 with resolutions/fullscreen. gotta rebuy it to get 1080p back!

well it was remastered by Activision, Not Blizzard so a shoddy job was expected. If only we still had old Blizzard.

Star Wars Original Trilogy Special Edition in a nutshell

Dark Souls 1 would like to join that club

You just did

I was just about to mention it haha

Amazing editing.

Why?

Awful audio

And good quality, too!

Its very helpful, especially when ur eating loud food

@@thefunkiestswag so true!!

*cries in SW fan*

New CGI wasn't the best, but I can't bother watching the original version when additional scenes massively improve the narrative.

@@genyakozlov1316 i agree

@@genyakozlov1316 A family friend of mine has a CD with the theatrical 1977 version burned onto it. I prefer it to any later version any day of the week. It's true to what people saw in theaters

Was looking for a SW/Lucas reference, was not disappointed!

Where can I watch your version?

Same! It's excellent work, and I don't just mean the Easter eggs! :D I wonder if that's his actual cameo in the "underpaid VFX editor" scene...

A.k.a. underpaid editor.

AYYYY OH

The animator's comment doesn't even fit!

Top 2 ways to confuse people who don’t understand binary, number 10 will surprise you!

lmao, from "Dylan W"'s comment's reply

Yep. That’s just a straight transfer from film, though, because it predates videotape editing.

35mm film is far superior to even the highest digital quality (4k/8k).

Nobody says apples instead of atoms.

That'll be in 20 years, actually.

It definitely deserves it but tracking the reels can be a real hassle, if they're still intact there's no guarantee they could be found

@@gwennifergracie-mclauchlan5675 a reel hassle then

@@mmixlinus perish for that pun

@@M50A1 Yes.. I'll die my best

He's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

You are right on that story, I remember reading about the fire that destroyed many master tapes.