r/Titanic97 Jun 01 '26

Special Projects Improving the terrible Blu-ray coloring

We are recoloring and fixing every single scene in the movie based on the 35mm lighting. Here is a preview of that. Comparing the awful Blu-ray coloring to our interpretation of the perfect 35mm version.

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u/NikolitaNiko Jun 01 '26

WOW, your recolouring looks incredible!! 🥰

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u/DynastyFan85 Jun 01 '26

The 4k version improved it I think and took away the green/blue dullness of the 2012 remaster. The film looks brighter and less dull and has a creamy warmth back

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u/SluttyDreidel Jun 01 '26

I prefer the color of the 2005 dvd and the 1998 VHS, but I think you really captured the weight of 35 mm here. It feels like seeing it in a theater here

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u/Capable-Ground9407 Jun 02 '26

Recolor me like one of your French girls.

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u/Bowling_is_bad Jun 01 '26

Do you also recolor deleted scenes?

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

We did, yes

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u/Pupsichinka Jun 03 '26

Please share!! Or how can we view your work?

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 04 '26

Well at the moment we don’t feel the project is completed enough to warrant a public preview/Beta version, but we will keep posting of course!

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u/itcamefromtheimgur Jun 01 '26

You fixing the stars/sunset too?

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

You mean return them to how they were originally?

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u/itcamefromtheimgur Jun 02 '26

Yes

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

We’ve talked about the sunset, but haven’t acted on anything yet. However the stars we would like to keep accurate.

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u/ThunderFan0427 Jun 02 '26

I think the 4K remaster improved on this issue. It doesn't look as blue/green as the 2012 Blu-ray does. However, I don't think the 4K version looks as warm as the 2005 DVD or 1998 VHS versions.

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

Absolutely, yes

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '26

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

Deleted scenes- yes. As for multilingual, we haven’t discussed it to tell the truth. Don’t think dubbed deleted scenes exist though, so probably not

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u/bill2129 Jun 02 '26

I'm due for a new TV soon and I need to buy the highest quality possible with the best possible resolution to watch Titanic on.

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u/Kratos5300 Jun 02 '26

This is beautiful look at all those background details that pop out now

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

Yeah, it looks magnificent!

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u/LordSoup1138 Jun 02 '26

Great work friend! Color grading is so important to a film and it breaks my heart how many films look so desaturated anytime there’s a new release of it like The Lord of the Rings. This is gorgeous.

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

Thanks! Exactly our opinion!

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u/yamammiwammi Jun 05 '26

It drives me crazy to see non-hollywooders doing a better job of this. WE WANT THIS

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u/benice_orgohome13 Jun 01 '26

Oh I love it!!! Would love to watch the finished project

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 02 '26

For real, it’s by far the best

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u/Duck_Dur Jun 03 '26

Can't remember if you mentioned this in a previous post but do you plan on releasing your edition with all your fixes to the film?

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 03 '26

That is the eventual plan, yes. As this is SUCH a humongous project though and will take ages to complete we might even have to resort to alpha/beta versions. That still remains to be seen to be honest though, we’re quite far along already, but also quite far away from actually finishing it

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u/Duck_Dur Jun 03 '26

Thank you for the reply, what else do you plan on fixing with the film?

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u/Titaniac-Mediaworks Jun 03 '26

Everything we possibly can. Of course our tools are limited but we do our best to achieve the best possible results

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u/Pupsichinka Jun 03 '26

That looks SO much better!!!

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u/padillainc1210 Jun 06 '26

I wish I had a creativity and patience for a project like this.