These are split-screen comparisons between the original 2000 cut of Evangelion ReDeath and the 2004 remaster. This scene is one of the most dramatic examples of how much of a difference there is, as the source footage for the original version was a well-worn VHS fansub. You’ll notice that though it is split-screen the images don’t line up. That’s because we had to frame our image above the burned-in subtitles on our source tapes for the original cut, which obviously was not an issue for us when we had DVD source footage for the remaster. More often than not, we gave the characters far less headroom than they had in the old version. That, or the shots don’t line up because we put a lot more effort into the lip-synch this time.

Notice how Kaji gets a more natural flesh tone and there’s more of an orange look to the scene instead of a bleeding red. Also, you can see in the old version that Kaji’s head would’ve stopped just over the split, leaving more than a third of the frame open above him.

The background in the old version is nearly black.

Lots more detail on the melon. Mmm, melons.

Dang, look how low Kaji was in the original framing of this shot.

This vertically split screen shows a slight difference in frame size between the two cuts. The TV series footage for the original cut was captured as widescreen at 640×350 resolution (about 1.83:1). The TV series footage for ReDux was captured in its full frame format at 640×480 and had a letterbox matte (based on the framing of The End of Evangelion in the R2 Renewal set) composited over it.

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