Knight Rider 2000: One Cut Can Make A Difference - Original Trilogy. Knight Rider 2000: One Cut Can Make A Difference Author Date 10-Jan-2008 Author Time 10-Jan-2008 3:43 AM Post link My first Fan-Edit on my own What's It About? This is a fan-edit of, in my opinion, a very underlooked KR movie, Knight Rider 2000 (since Knight Rider is returning with a new pilot movie starring David Hasselhoff in a cameo role, we may as well welcome it's return with a fanedit), this time it tries to make better use of the danger of the handgun conspiracy, putting it at the beggining of the film in a lengthy pre-opening sequence.
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Also edited out is the nonsensical death of Devon Miles, restoring Edward Mulhare to the living for the entirety of the movie.
I recently got the chance to acquire a non telecine 35mm film copy of Knight Rider 2000! I have access to very high end professional hardware & software to update the footage into 16:9 Blu Ray HD format.
Here are some comparisons screen captures: Original 1991 NBC on air quality (video telecine) Original 35mm film HD transfer and color adjustment (Notice the film grain) Film grain removed and cleaned Details in film density brought out of the blacks Final 16:9 aspect ratio conversion for HD TVs and final color correction Final density correction I'll post a video later today to compare the original vs my new blu ray version. Original Blu Ray Original Blu Ray Original Blu Ray Original 4:3 format telecine Blu Ray 16:9 format Original 4:3 format telecine Blu Ray 16:9 format Original 4:3 format telecine Blu Ray 16:9 format. Very cool project, as usual Taoworm! As a film guy tho - I gotta ask what you're doing with the aspect ratio? Since it was shot for TV they shot for 4:3 format, and you're adjusting the 35mm print to be in a 16:9 format by distorting the frame - all the circles (tires, kitt's 'eye') are now ovals for instance.
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Why not leave it at 4:3? I'd argue to not over process it, keep it as true to the source as possible.
See how TNT in Europe is airing Knight Rider in HD - they're adding bars on the side, but at least the image is much higher res ( = better detail ). Neps wrote:Very cool project, as usual Taoworm! As a film guy tho - I gotta ask what you're doing with the aspect ratio? Since it was shot for TV they shot for 4:3 format, and you're adjusting the 35mm print to be in a 16:9 format by distorting the frame - all the circles (tires, kitt's 'eye') are now ovals for instance. You bring up great points about the aspect ratio. I thought the same thing before I started work on updating this film, but when you watch the footage in 16:9 your brain considers everything to be normal. It really doesn't stretch the image to a odd degree perceptively.
I watched over 30 minutes of footage today with some other folks who couldn't even tell that it was originally shot in 4:3 format. The black bars are more annoying than anything else to me, that's why I made it widescreen. Dariusz witowski chemia pdf. (lol) (Also most everyone has a widescreen TV now a days, so it just didn't make sense to keep it 4:3 format if my goal was to bring the footage into the 21st century and future proof the film. Carmen sandiego word detective.
On your advice though I will do a 4:3 format as well for those who don't like the widescreen version. Here's an example of what I mean: I did some test footage on Star Trek to see if it could be done to KR2000. It's the DS9 episode 'Trials And Tribble-ations'. I cleaned up the footage, color and density of the telecine video. The first part of the video is the original clip. The later half is my version in 16:9 aspect ratio.
When you see it in widescreen nothing looks off that your brain can tell. (At least to me) which is why I went ahead and did the same for KR2000. My DS9 example can be found here: When CBS up-converted the DS9 episode for HD for TOS 2nd season Blu ray it was ass. The fans thought it looked like worse than the DS9 DVD telecine version. So I took the telecine version and sought to do a better job up-converting the DS9 telecine than CBS digital.
Thus the clip above. I am making two versions. A 4:3 HD blu ray version and a 16:9 remastered blu ray version. The Remastered version has the film grain cleaned and sound and music completely redone from scratch in stereo. Some of the effects will be redone like the windshield HUD not being black when it went to the camera angle of Susan in the passenger side seat in the police van chase.
Knight Rider 2000 Remastered 1080p (New sound effects haven't been included yet.) The original DVD footage was magenta as hell with muted colors. (Like someone put sunglasses over the camera lens.) Which means the film stock quality was poorly chosen originally. (Bad director of photography.) The remastered clip is so full of info after lossless AVI conversion the 1 minute 4 second clip was 9.5 GIGS!
It was then flawlessly compressed to H.264.mp4 format at 12000mbs for youtube upload. Foreign subtitles has been placed on all footage on youtube to avoid copyright takedowns. KFCreator wrote:I noticed though that the contrast and brightness seem maybe a bit too high, it's especially noticeable in the tower scene when Shawn is outside in the sun.
Some areas of her face seemed to be losing a bit of detail as a result. I agree KFCreator. Youtube fudged up my color, brightness, and contrast when I uploaded it to youtube. I think youtube has some kind of built in compensator.
I am adjusting for that now. I will have a new modified clip for youtube here in a couple of hours. I have to do a separate conversion for youtube if I want everything to match the torrent I will put up. (sigh) Another problem with KR2000 is how much film grain was exposed when I made everything high def. Distracting.) I removed the film grain from 1 clip and left it in another. My next post will have links to both clips to get everyone's opinion here before I make the final changes.
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Awesome job, Taoworm. Your work seems to be that perfect 'sweet spot' between the VHS quality of the original 1991 airing and the color desaturated overly grainy DVD copy. I actually had always preferred my digitized copy of the original airing since there was no film grain and richer color. Let's not forget that most HDTVs have the option to wide zoom the picture to achieve the 16:9 format. I generally do that when I'm watching the original series DVDs as I can't stand the black bars on the sides either.
Regarding the 16:9 vs 4:3 aspect ratios. I'm a strong advocate of 16:9 video content. Even when widescreen started being used on British TV channels in the late 1990's, about 10 years before high definition TV started over here, I've always insisted watching widescreen programs in 16:9, even 'letterboxed' on the 4:3 TV set we had at the time. I really hated seeing widescreen TV programs and films forcibly zoomed and cropped with about 20% of the visuals missing at either side. It just looks awful, especially with films. In contrast, if I'm watching any 4:3 content (including classic KR) on a 16:9 TV set, I'll always watch it in 4:3 the way it was meant to be.
Even if it's 'pillarboxed' it's better than watching it in 'stretchyvision'.! Even worse is having 4:3 content zoomed and cropped to fill a 16:9 screen.
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Congrats on the score! This is a VERY cool project! I'm afraid i have to side with neps, though. As cinematographer, the stretched image made me wince. I think it's great you're also making the 4:3 HD version available.
I breezed through the thread pretty quick, so sorry if this has been asked already. Will you be selling BRs? You mentioned torrents somewhere in the thread. I wasn't clear on exactly how this would be available. I know personally, i would totally be up for buying a BR copy. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the 1960s oddball indie film 'manos: the hands of fate', but a film nut recently found an original workprint and has been restoring it for an eventual BR release. VERY similar to what you're doing.
I would love to hear more about how you came across a 35mm print of the movie! Is this the original master print? I can't imagine there are many 35 prints of KR2000 floating around out there. COOL SCORE!!!!
Taoworm2323 wrote:I recently got the chance to acquire a non telecine 35mm film copy of Knight Rider 2000! I have access to very high end professional hardware & software to update the footage into 16:9 Blu Ray HD format. Here are some comparisons screen captures: Original 1991 NBC on air quality (video telecine) Original 35mm film HD transfer and color adjustment (Notice the film grain) Film grain removed and cleaned Details in film density brought out of the blacks Final 16:9 aspect ratio conversion for HD TVs and final color correction Final density correction I'll post a video later today to compare the original vs my new blu ray version.
Original Blu Ray Original Blu Ray Original Blu Ray Original 4:3 format telecine Blu Ray 16:9 format Original 4:3 format telecine Blu Ray 16:9 format Original 4:3 format telecine Blu Ray 16:9 format Can You Maybe Repost It On a Non-youtube site? Please So That My HD Knight Rider Set is Complete PLEASE.
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Knight Rider had a 2-hour premiere on NBC, airing at 8PM on Sunday night. The show was put up against Dallas, and would eventually move NBC out of third place in the network race. No other show had ever survived that time slot. The show eventually aired on Friday nights, and in December 1982 became the second-highest-rated show of its day; was number 1. The show was renewed for a second season during the filming of 'Short Notice'. This section does not any.
Unsourced material may be challenged and. (May 2015) A car of was eventually sent out on tour to various car shows around the country. Was designed by Michael Scheffe using Pontiac's 1982 Trans Am. Michael Scheffe had worked for Mattel designing toys, and had done some design work on. Scheffe had around 18 days to create his first mock up of K.I.T.T.
For the network. Stuntman Jack Gill says the car was dropped about an inch and a half from GM's stock height.
The car also had around $2,000,000 worth of modifications. Spare cars were always on hand, and Universal eventually did all of the modifications that were needed.
The hero car was the only one of the vehicles on hand that contained the intricate dashboard. A mock up dashboard was used on a sound stage for closeups of the voice box or other buttons. Wanted the car to have a heartbeat and asked Scheffe to design a beam of light like the Cylons had in to be used on the front of the vehicle. The Pontiac's nose was eventually extended slightly. Gill claims that they got the cars from Pontiac for $1 apiece. The only car Universal had to pay for was the hero car. Pontiac would call up the studio and ask how many cars were needed.
Pontiac often gave the studio vehicles that had already been damaged. William Daniels, the voice of K.I.T.T., would record his parts after the majority of the episode were filmed.
Hasselhoff would work with a guy off camera who would read him K.I.T.T.' If the vehicle was in motion, the lines would be read through the car radio.
The vehicle was usually towed during scenes where Hasselhoff appeared to be driving. Received an overhaul in 1984, receiving a new interior to keep up with the times.
The studio had a marketing campaign for Knight Rider. Fans could write the network and they would receive a pamphlet detailing some features about K.I.T.T. The first campaign was held in August 1982. The pamphlet received said, 'The Competition is NO Competition!' K.I.T.T was parked alongside a vehicle that resembled the from.
The General Lee featured a double zero on the door. The pamphlet compared the two vehicles. In the fall of 1985, an ad came out in detailing K.I.T.T.' Season 1.
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