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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Aug 8, 2021 15:52:27 GMT
Christmas has come early. It looks like Happy New Year has been remastered to 4K on YouTube today. Awesome!!!
So it’s the 2nd video that’s been remastered after Dancing Queen. Hope there’s going to be more to come.
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Post by tagaytay on Aug 8, 2021 22:00:34 GMT
the close-ups are breath-taking!!
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Aug 12, 2021 12:44:04 GMT
Now Waterloo, SOS and Mamma Mia have been remastered.
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Post by justabba on Aug 13, 2021 7:18:23 GMT
Overnight 3 more..
Ring ring
Bang a boomerang
I do I do I do I do I do
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Post by HOMETIME on Aug 13, 2021 8:24:50 GMT
They look great! Can't wait for the more sophisticated videos - SNC, TDBYC, TNOTG etc.
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Post by Michal on Aug 13, 2021 18:50:05 GMT
It looks like a Blu-Ray collection of videos will be a part of the 50th anniversary celebrations...
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Post by HOMETIME on Aug 14, 2021 9:43:46 GMT
The videos are mentioned on Udiscover Music. No mention (yet) of a Blu-Ray/DVD, but I suppose it makes better marketing sense to dripfeed information (especially if it's likely to get lost in any imminent publicity surrounding new music....) www.udiscovermusic.com/news/abba-4k-hd-music-videos/ |
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Aug 17, 2021 20:49:29 GMT
Three more videos have been remastered. Fernando, Money Money Money and Take A Chance On Me.
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Post by justabba on Aug 18, 2021 8:53:44 GMT
Knowing me knowing you too...
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Post by Alan on Aug 21, 2021 23:02:57 GMT
Unrelated but I stumbled across this two minute compilation of outtakes from the Happy New Year / Felicidad video shoot:
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Post by tagaytay on Aug 22, 2021 4:11:23 GMT
the girls are sooo cute! thank you Alan!
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Aug 26, 2021 9:19:28 GMT
Brilliant news today. Can’t wait to see what ABBA Voyage really is.
Meanwhile, Chiquitita, The Winner Takes It All and Super Trouper have been remastered.
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Post by Liebezeit on Aug 30, 2021 3:40:57 GMT
The 4K remasters look very promising; in some videos like Knowing Me Knowing You and The Winner Takes it All, it sort of looks like they went back to the negatives and premasters that were just digitised recently and recompiled them (obviously through a different fading, perhaps) as a new master.
Some videos, they use finished prints and redid some scans or fixed something up.
There are some things that I find flawed here, recurring in some videos, luckily not much:
-Excessive noise reductions that it sucks the film grain out (oh boy. This might seem good or necessary but I just like my copy of a digitised film a bit rawer, haha!)
-Deinterlacing shows a bit edge in Chiquitita; this is inevitable but it seems a bit too obvious when you take a bit of a closer look, but not obvious when it's not directly in front of you.
The dynamic range of the music videos recorded via film is somehow better, no doubt,
but I kinda wish they were a bit consistent and fixed in terms of brightness; but I suppose the way they left it a tad brighter, would give people more ways to customize their settings on TV.
And the other fixes in the remasters are a bit of a labour of love and interesting that it's photogenic - forget photogenic, it's cinegenic!
Considering that these were made for broadcasting everywhere rather than being limited to a spectacle of theatrical vendors, and/or perhaps there was a deadline to get on with ABBA Voyage,
I don't think it would be too much of a problem when viewing it from a reasonable distance at a comfy room;
as long as it's viewable and not intrusive, I can live with it.
I did see a post a while back via ABBA The Museum on IG that some music videos were filmed in 16mm which kinda accounts for some of the flaws being that it's "lower quality" (is it?) - whatever workflow or masters they used to do this is beyond anyone's ken.
ABBA's timing of jumping on the 4K remaster bandwagon as other bands did is quite a stroke of luck, yet it coincided with preparing for a newer journey that seemed fitting.
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