Katy Child, Acting Head Digital Media Services at BBC Studios and Post Production, said: "In all restoration projects there has to be a very fine balance between making it look clean and sharper without taking away that essence that gives a show its nostalgic look and feel. The audio was cloned from previous standard definition digibetas and re-mastered to 5.1 to raise the sound quality to complement the HD vision. The age of the footage meant further clean-up had to be completed manually in Diamant-Film DustBuster - an intensive process but a necessary one to ensure each of the 24x50 minute episodes had a consistent look and feel to them. The negatives were transferred on a Spirit DataCine and a shot-by-shot programme grade was completed using Pandora Pogle PiXi. These revealed some previously unseen and rare footage which was also restored for use as Blu-ray extras. To bring The Persuaders! into the 21st century, the Digital Media Services team worked from the original 35mm negatives supplied by Network.
The restoration has earned BBC Studios and Post Production a nomination at the FOCAL International Awards 2012, which took place last night, in the category of ‘best use of footage in a home entertainment release’.
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Starring two great actors of the era, Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, the classic ITV series was given an HD digital makeover to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a Blu-ray box-set release. BBC Studios and Post Production's Digital Media Services team has digitally restored the complete series of the 1970s hit show, The Persuaders! for home entertainment label Network.
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