Ministry.Of.Fear.1944.CRITERION.720p.BluRay.x264-tranc    5.82 GB

Ministry.Of.Fear.1944.CRITERION.720p.BluRay.x264-tranc [PublicHD]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037075/

Technical information:
RUNTIME…….: 01:27:08
SIZE……….: 5,82 GB
VIDEO CODEC…: x264, L4.1, CRF
FRAMERATE…..: 23.976 fps
BITRATE…….: 9000 kbps
RESOLUTION….: 986×720
AUDIO1……..: English, FLAC 1.0 (LPCM Audio / 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit)
SUBTITLES…..: English
CHAPTERS……: Yes
SOURCE……..: 1944 1080p Blu-ray AVC LPCM 1.0-ESiR

ENCODER…….: chico99/tranc
THEATRE DATE..: 16/10/1944
RELEASE DATE..: 25/03/2013

“This new digital transfer was created in 2K resolution on a Lasergraphics scanner from a 35mm
safety fine-grain master. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps,
and jitter were manually removed using MTI’s DRS and Pixel Farm’s PFClean, while Image Systems’
Phoenix was used for small dirt, grain, noise reduction, and flicker.

Transfer supervisor: Lee Kline.
Colorists: Jason Crump/Metropolis Post, New York; Lee Kline.”

Criterion’s new 2K digital restoration of this nearly 69-year-old film does not disappoint.
Detail and clarity are consistently pleasing, while contrast levels are stable. Even where long
dark shadows fill up the screen image depth is also very good. The blacks and whites are stable,
and there is a wide range of nuanced grays. There are absolutely no traces of problematic degraining
corrections. In fact, rather surprisingly most close-ups have plenty of very evenly distributed
light grain (see screencapture #2). There are no traces of excessive sharpening correction. Large
damage marks, cuts, debris, and stains are also not present. I only noticed a few small vertical
lines as well as some very light wear around the edges during a couple of scenes, but overall
the film looks very healthy. (I tried to get a screencapture so that you could see how difficult
it is to even notice a few of these vertical lines that pop up. Please see the right side of
screencapture #15). Finally, there are no serious transition issues to report in this review.
To sum it all up, this is a very strong organic presentation of Ministry of Fear that is guaranteed
to please its fans.

x264 [info]: frame I:735 Avg QP:16.09 size:100602
x264 [info]: frame P:22075 Avg QP:17.11 size: 67000
x264 [info]: frame B:102556 Avg QP:19.24 size: 42218
x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 0.7% 0.2% 1.2% 9.0% 15.6% 57.3% 7.7% 3.2% 2.8% 2.3%

encoded 125366 frames, 2.51 fps, 9000.39 kb/s