Beatles anthology

I'm watching it slowly. One episode a day or so. What people really want to know is what I reckon of the AI. In a word, uncanny valley. Peter's budget dwarfs mine, but it's still similar. 3-5 second loops of stills brought to life, except for a few ambitious ones. Some colourisation, obviously, but my Carmen shots were pretty similar in quality. I don't have the grunt for upscaling and noise reduction. - If we fed a bunch of Carmen video footage into the machine, we might improve it the way that Peter has with the Beatles. He's done a really thorough thing with this. People are describing it like a new coat of paint, but he's basically exhumed every possible piece of periphera and footage and turned it into training material. His people have done 3D scans of all those books and playbills, stills etc. Plus he's dredged up the original 16mm of all that news and home footage. Then he's put them into CGI landscapes and backgrounds. That couldn't have existed in the '90s. I do some compositing and grading, but this is major league vs. bush league. - The most impressive AI/VFX thing is the realism of John's bedroom. Totally fake, but individual book covers seem totally real. The sound is barely noticeable. Hasn't been heavily tuned. He's used the studio audio in some of the TV ones, using AI to sync. - Peter Scissorhands has a similar feel - he always recuts things like this. Patu! is another. It feels fine, but the AI adds a weightless quality which I find odd. Makes me wonder if he's using AI in his cutting. - Wants to recut and tighten Wellington Stories. People reckon we could make it more like the old double features. I thought that myself, and made a few drafts. The trilogy was better. The raw files aren't around for any of the films, so that's impossible.