Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
This was an attempt to improve the quality of the famous Genesis 1976 tour film. There's still been no new official release of this for decades and it doesn't look like we'll ever get a proper new film scan from Tony Maylam, who directed and produced it.
Viewing the 4K stream is recommended even if your display isn't 4K, it will still look better. (Less compressed by YouTube)
This restoration isn't perfect, especially in the wide stage shots where there was very little detail to work with. I did as well as I could with what was there. The source for this is a Domesday Duplicator RF capture of the Japanese Laserdisc released in 1994, which was then decoded with ld-decode.
I did a modest 2x upscale with AI tools in an attempt to improve some details. Then I did a bit of luma grading to improve the bright highlights and make them pop just a little more, and scaled the rest of the way to 4K with traditional lanczos scaling. The idea was to minimize AI hallucinations while still further improving the detail of outlines/edges but occasionally there's still some weirdness just because of the extremely low resolution of the source and the and old, poorly done film transfer.
This is also speed corrected! The original master was 25 FPS PAL, and they simply sped up the film 4.1% from the normal 24 FPS film rate to 25 FPS. All of the home releases were then converted to 29.97 FPS NTSC, causing further issues like motion blurring between some frames. The whole thing is just a mess and it's impossible to properly restore the film frames correctly like with a standard inverse telecine.
I also did some minor tweaking of the audio to add a bit more presence and clarity, and a slight low end boost.
If I ever manage to come up with something better than this, I'll definitely upload it.
This was an attempt to improve the quality of the famous Genesis 1976 tour film. There's still been no new official release of this for decades and it doesn't look like we'll ever get a proper new film scan from Tony Maylam, who directed and produced it.
Viewing the 4K stream is recommended even if your display isn't 4K, it will still look better. (Less compressed by YouTube)
This restoration isn't perfect, especially in the wide stage shots where there was very little detail to work with. I did as well as I could with what was there. The source for this is a Domesday Duplicator RF capture of the Japanese Laserdisc released in 1994, which was then decoded with ld-decode.
I did a modest 2x upscale with AI tools in an attempt to improve some details. Then I did a bit of luma grading to improve the bright highlights and make them pop just a little more, and scaled the rest of the way to 4K with traditional lanczos scaling. The idea was to minimize AI hallucinations while still further improving the detail of outlines/edges but occasionally there's still some weirdness just because of the extremely low resolution of the source and the and old, poorly done film transfer.
This is also speed corrected! The original master was 25 FPS PAL, and they simply sped up the film 4.1% from the normal 24 FPS film rate to 25 FPS. All of the home releases were then converted to 29.97 FPS NTSC, causing further issues like motion blurring between some frames. The whole thing is just a mess and it's impossible to properly restore the film frames correctly like with a standard inverse telecine.
I also did some minor tweaking of the audio to add a bit more presence and clarity, and a slight low end boost.
If I ever manage to come up with something better than this, I'll definitely upload it.
