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Pleased to bring you this remaster of one of the one video that brought so many to be pumpkins fans..

Also, I released Thirty-Three today, but didn't want to spam the group twice. I personally love this video a little more than Bullet, but that's just me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_ZmfKBaH4&list=PLZ4q5-tPsGwg&index=2

Expect another pair of videos tomorrow. :)

HI all, I recently finished a restoration on the "El Capitan" film that pushed the sport of rock climbing and the art of documenting these journeys in such a beautiful place like Yosemite to new levels of excellence. Much love and respect for Fred Padula, who's an SF film student like myself.

One of the legendary high-effort music videos that utterly succeeds with this song, which is a pop indie rock masterpiece. Directed by the legendary Hammer & Tongs.

Here's my remaster of the fully epic video for "November Rain". Enjoy!

Upscaling code of ethics: https://stevetures.com/upscaling-code-of-ethics

This video doesn't get watched enough . Fantastic work from Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton.

Growing up, I saw this documentary early and loved it. Getting older and realizing that there will be fewer and fewer visits to Lechuguilla, I feel like I should put my hobby to where it's best applied and do restoration work on this documentary. The ones already on Youtube are in pretty bad shape, so I went ahead and sourced a better copy and worked from there. Here's a pretty good 4k restored version. Enjoy!

More about my upscaling code of ethics can be found here: stevetures.com/upscaling-code-of-ethics

Ive listened to this album a lot and safe to say I enjoy the album a lot, my picks from it being "god damn me" and "you walk away". This was a switch from the regular sound that filter had before this album, and it was done well, with the album having melodic tracks like "where do we go from here" or "the only way is the wrong way" while still having heavy tracks like "columind" or "so I quit" its such a good album to listen to. Im not even that much into industrial rock but filter and NIN killed it in this era

A note on this upload:
This is a test upload for quality. It was upscaled as the original was shot on SD TV equipment, so there's no film to scan to get an authentic 4k version of it. In the past, I've received some vocal criticism from a minority of users (source: upvote to downvote ratio hovers around 20 upvotes to 1 downvote, happy to share screenshots if people think I'm inventing this stat)... arguing that this is a disservice to the artist. The resize models are trained cleverly with SD and known authentically HD frames from the same content, and the model builds a more statistically intelligent way to fill in the missing inbetween pixels, better than the simplistic way the fullscreen button in web browsers also does this. But it does mean that it visual mistakes. I have bailed on projects that simply didn't work, like Nirvana's Come As You Are (the resize algorithms on the the water effect in front of the band was hilariously bad).

So my question is this:
I've done 2/3rds of this set, but noticed some artifacts that put me on the edge of flunking this video. Do you prefer this fullscreen version, or do you prefer the fullscreen version for the original (linked here: https://youtu.be/t5SDXbHuSpE?t=1306 )? In other words, do you prefer predictable blocky artifacts, or do you choose a version like mine that statistically more correct but the incorrect portions are pretty noticeable when they happen? Please add detail and remember that this is my hobby, I look for art to get claimed by the rightful owners. I do want to do right by the fans (I've been an REM fan since 1988) and don't wish to disrespect people's memory of this, but also recognize that we all sit in front of screens that are vastly more capable than TVs in the 1990s, and want to provide a reasonable non-distracting version of this video.

Let me know... gently please, as I'm a human with honest to god emotions. Some have been polite, but I've been yelled at pretty ugly and had my work called slop as if it's ChatGPT generating an image from a single sentence, which steals from artists and is bad for the environment. If I'm doing slop, I'll be honest about it, but I politely disagree that this is any more slop than the fullscreen button on youtube. If you don't like that, I respect that as a reasonable opinion, but if you can't say it respectfully, then just a quiet thumbs-down is just as valuable and noticeable for me. TIA

I spent some extra time with this one (a bunch of time fiddling with settings and finishing and then 2+ days of processing time here at home on my solar-powered workstation) and I'm really happy with how it turned out.