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David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:29 am
by MichaelB
Jean-Luc Garbo wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:20 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.

Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:00 pm
by swo17
MichaelB wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:29 am
Jean-Luc Garbo wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:20 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?

Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:10 pm
by MichaelB
He's authored literally every Indicator release, so I'm going with "not very".

Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:12 pm
by swo17
Oh wow, I wasn't aware of that! I thought it seemed thin

Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:15 pm
by nitin
Not very.

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

Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:18 pm
by swo17
So is there a comprehensive listing somewhere? That would be nice to have

Re: 1051 The Elephant Man

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:30 pm
by nitin
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.

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:38 pm
by swo17
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?

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:54 pm
by Drucker
I thought he personally told me once that he had offered his services to Second Run. Nothing ever came to fruition from that?

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:35 pm
by nitin
swo17 wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:38 pm 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).

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:36 pm
by nitin
Drucker wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:54 pm 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.

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:22 pm
by Adam X
You can also include all of Mondo Vision’s releases.

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:37 pm
by EddieLarkin
Man, if there's one label that need to change authoring houses, it's Second Run.

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:46 pm
by tenia
I've seen worse (believe it or not), but it clearly could/should be improved indeed.

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:59 pm
by Drucker
Oh another one he's done is the Carl Dreyer and Herzog sets for BFI.

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:24 pm
by swo17
Does anyone care to maintain a master list in the first post of this thread?

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:30 pm
by perkizitore
I am sure David himself will be happy to tell is if it's accurate!

Re: David Mackenzie: Compression Hero

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:30 pm
by knives
A Mr. Swithin Woodhouse Osergood?