Hi! Big fan of all the work you do, and I've been watching your cuts since! I just had a question about your upcoming Godzilla 1985 project, and I don't want this to be put the wrong way. I do have background knowledge in video and was concerned about the output quality of the eventual bluray file of the print (since its such a game changer actually having a print like that out there) and I am greatful you guys were even able to get your hands on it!

Basically, I was wondering how you were encoding your projects and if you're going to be using the same process with this project. My concern was, I do like the output quality of your encodes but I find that, if I read correctly from your blog, for a 25mbps bitrate it should look better concerning mostly grain/noise on the projects? What I mean is if you look at the grain during bright scenes, they are there but due to the nature of however its being encoded, the macroblocks are actually denoising slightly, so you see the actual blocks in the film.

If you aren't using x264 to encode already, have you thought about it? I do a lot of bluray encoding and when it comes grain and old film such as your projects, x264 retains the grain source as is with no loss and that shouldn't be happening at 25mbps. My only guess is that you must be using Adobe's default MainConcept h264 encoder to output these (which is a nice encoder but it can't output very high quality and has less customization for h264)?

Again I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, I just would like to see that scan in all its glory (without the uncompressed nonsense of course). 25mbps at 15/17gigs of a file is possible. If you would like a sample I have done I can send it. I dont think the normal viewer will realize but I do work on video all day and just had some questions about it.

Thanks for the work you do for the fandom!