Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 4K UHD Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

Welcome to Raccoon City's digital cinematography poses challenges for this encode. Swinging between absolute clarity and noise-infested, compression falls to heavy chroma artifacts frequently. A true 4K source is potent enough to produce fidelity and detail often. Sharpness sustains a high peak, finding the facial definition in most close-ups. Darker cinematography hides environmental details, but not totally. There's still plenty to see.

Assisting is an aggressive Dolby Vision pass, laying on thick black levels, at times crushing by way of the source. Highlights will clip too, again the design, and it's hardly subtle. The dynamics in this master stretch both limits without apology. It's intense, and a great test disc for any display's abilities to render both extremes.

Saturation gives Welcome to Raccoon City a vivid appearance, teetering near a total color bleed. Orange flesh tones stick out, and there's not a natural primary to be found anywhere in the movie. This doesn't help the chroma noise problem either as the digitally graded tones remain at an excess.

Audio

Like the video, the Atmos track doesn't like subtlety. Rain washes over countless scenes, filling the soundstage, heights always included. The score bounces between surrounds as it plays, keeping motion at a constant flow, even during downtime. Zombies and creatures run about, scares frequently preceded by creaking boards or snarls in positional channels. Gunfire whips past, motion smooth and accurate.

Deep low-end engages at every opportunity, whether it's a truck's engine or a monster snarling. Music stings hit with the same thrust.