This is a personal project and is for educational & historical purposes only. I do not own the rights to this film.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow aired as a TV movie on NBC in 1980. Directed by Henning Schellerup, starring Jeff Goldblum, Dick Butkus, Paul Sand, Meg Foster, and Laura Campbell. It was subsequently released on VHS and has never been shared in higher quality (DVD copies are ripped from VHS). This version enhances the VHS release's poor quality, closer to how it was originally shot. Watch at "4K" quality for the best viewing experience.
Work done on the remaster:
(Video)
Color Corrected (blacks and whites are now at their proper levels, adjusted some strange color casting from the VHS)
Color Graded (my creative adjustments based on how I interpreted the original "look" the filmmakers were going for)
Bitrate artifact removal
Selectively Sharpened the image
AI Upscaled with manual adjustments (Topaz, see exact specs here: https://imgur.com/WOAxPr8)
Reintroduced film grain (similar to how the original film would look if it wasn't compressed)
(Audio)
Re-balanced / re-leveled audio
Denoised
Removed hum
Clicking reduction
REMASTERED SPECS:
Resolution: 1440x1080 (Uploaded to YouTube at 4K for better bitrate playback)
Video Bitrate: 40 mbps
Framerate: 23.98fps
Audio Bitrate: 320 kbps
Audio type: Stereo
Audio sample: 48 kHz
ORIGINAL SPECS (Indirect VHS copy):
Resolution: 640x480
Video Bitrate: 0.2 mbps
Framerate: 23.98fps
Audio Bitrate: 128kbps
Audio type: Stereo
Audio sample: 44.1 kHz
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