David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

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David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#1 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:29 am

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:
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Was the 2008 Studiocanal dvd also encoded by David Mackenzie?
No - he'd barely even entered the encoding business back then.

He's only done a handful of SC discs - off the top of my head, The Elephant Man, Don't Look Now, Angel Heart and Flash Gordon in 4K, plus Mulholland Dr. and I'm All Right Jack on BD, possibly a few more but certainly not many.

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Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

#2 Post by swo17 » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:00 am

MichaelB wrote:
Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:29 am
Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:
Wed Jun 17, 2020 7:20 pm
Was the 2008 Studiocanal dvd also encoded by David Mackenzie?
No - he'd barely even entered the encoding business back then.

He's only done a handful of SC discs - off the top of my head, The Elephant Man, Don't Look Now, Angel Heart and Flash Gordon in 4K, plus Mulholland Dr. and I'm All Right Jack on BD, possibly a few more but certainly not many.
How comprehensive is this listing?

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Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

#3 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:10 am

He's authored literally every Indicator release, so I'm going with "not very".

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Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

#4 Post by swo17 » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:12 am

Oh wow, I wasn't aware of that! I thought it seemed thin

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Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

#5 Post by nitin » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:15 am

Not very.

edit: MichaelB beat me to it. He did a lot of Arrow's 2014-2017 output too.

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Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

#6 Post by swo17 » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:18 am

So is there a comprehensive listing somewhere? That would be nice to have

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Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

#7 Post by nitin » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:30 am

I have asked previously at bluray.com's forums but never got a reply.

It would be very nice to have as he also does work for BFI (occasionally), Eureka (again occasionally), Synapse and Mondo Macabro etc so it's hard to keep up.

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#8 Post by swo17 » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:38 am

Did he work on the U.S. 4K release of Christine or only the Carlotta? And what are the odds of Indicator putting out a UHD edition?

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#9 Post by Drucker » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:54 am

I thought he personally told me once that he had offered his services to Second Run. Nothing ever came to fruition from that?

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#10 Post by nitin » Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:35 am

swo17 wrote:
Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:38 am
Did he work on the U.S. 4K release of Christine or only the Carlotta? And what are the odds of Indicator putting out a UHD edition?
Only the Carlotta, he has not done any work for major studios like Sony (Studio Canal being the exception every now and then).

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#11 Post by nitin » Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:36 am

Drucker wrote:
Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:54 am
I thought he personally told me once that he had offered his services to Second Run. Nothing ever came to fruition from that?
Most of the Second Run titles I own on blu are authored by Silversun. I think David did a number of the DVD titles though.

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#12 Post by Adam X » Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:22 pm

You can also include all of Mondo Vision’s releases.

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#13 Post by EddieLarkin » Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:37 pm

Man, if there's one label that need to change authoring houses, it's Second Run.

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#14 Post by tenia » Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:46 pm

I've seen worse (believe it or not), but it clearly could/should be improved indeed.

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#15 Post by Drucker » Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:59 pm

Oh another one he's done is the Carl Dreyer and Herzog sets for BFI.

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#16 Post by swo17 » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:24 pm

Does anyone care to maintain a master list in the first post of this thread?

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#17 Post by perkizitore » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:30 pm

I am sure David himself will be happy to tell is if it's accurate!

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Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

#18 Post by knives » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:30 pm

A Mr. Swithin Woodhouse Osergood?

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