I definitely need a partner for this. I don't need technical help, but I do need someone to assist in planning and review.

My time-management is poor, at best.

Also, it'd be nice to have someone with whom I can discuss the various issues I encounter along the way; a second opinion is always helpful.

Starting Scene #1!

doubleKO said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Starting Scene #1!

Have it finished by tomorrow.

*cracks whip*

I wish!

In fact, I hit a snag early-on: I have to re-install PFClean. The VirtualBox VM I have it running in is totally b0rked. :-/

You_Too said:

AntcuFaalb said:

In fact, I hit a snag early-on: I have to re-install PFClean. The VirtualBox VM I have it running in is totally b0rked. :-/

Why do you have to run it in a VM? Can't you just block the software with your firewall? (Assuming that's the reason)

Anyway, looking forward to see your results!

I'm running a 32-bit OS (Windows XP Home) on a 64-bit CPU, but PFClean requires a 64-bit OS, so I'm using Windows XP Professional x64 in the VM.

I don't want to dual-boot and I can't install any 64-bit OS on my machine because I use certain (older) hardware devices with drivers that explicitly require Windows XP 32-bit, nothing more or less.

benduwan said:

any Deleted Scene finished?

Unfortunately, no. I've had quite a bit going on outside of OT for the past few months, so I really haven't had the time to do much.

I'll continue working as soon as I can.

AntcuFaalb said:

My time-management is poor, at best.

Get your finger out or I'll knock your tooth out ;-D

ziggyonice: I now have everything setup again, so I should be able to restart my work on this project.

What would be helpful to have are:

1  shot-change frame numbers for each deleted scene

2  frame numbers for clearly destroyed frames in each deleted scene

3  a partner to correct (in, e.g., Photoshop) said destroyed frames

It might be a handy audition tool to publish a nearly destroyed frame and a nearby nearly complete frame so we can test our ability to help.

Then it would be just be a matter of farming the frames out to people with the time and the skill.

I actually found this web-site many moons ago looking for this sorta thing. War of the Stars 2 included some the scenes from the Blu-Ray but not as extened cut per-se.

Try A Digital Man or The Hand Behind The Mask at fan-edit.org maybe if they can help.

Work it.

The primary issue I'm running into now is that my computer isn't sufficiently powerful and I don't have the funds to build a better one.

It runs PFClean fine when I feed it SD material, but stepping up to HD material makes each and every little operation take that much longer.

Restoration is an experimental process, so most of the work involves applying a transformation, stepping through many frames to see if it was an acceptable one (e.g., no artifacts), and then repeating the process over again when you realize that it wasn't (this is usually the case).

When it takes ~1 minute to preview a frame... well, you get the idea.

Common problem for most of us with even the most modern set-ups i'm afrid. It took me 16 hours to re-encode a "better the than Blu-Ray release" of a HD-DVD, but it was worth it, for the audio alone.

Mind you, that is a little laboured AntcuFaalb. What are you running?

Darth Solo said:

Mind you, that is a little laboured AntcuFaalb. What are you running?

~2007-2008 PC...

A hand-me-down AMD Phenom II X4 925 with 4GB of RAM.

GPU: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT

Erm, stickle point now.

Memrory is okay, GPU is a little dated but okay, i guess. Processor is having to work hard though. There is your problem with HD stuff. As i said, all current PC's struggle somewhat with HD. Though i personally think its fabricated to be that way.

Darth Solo said:

Erm, stickle point now.

Huh?

EDITED my privious post to expand, but can you edit out my quote about the HD-DVD I re-encodeded from my past post for legal reasons. Although i DO own the original title anyhowz.

Darth Solo said:

EDITED my privious post to expand, but can you edit out my quote about the HD-DVD I re-encodeded from my past post for legal reasons. Although i DO own the original title anyhowz.

Thanks. Done.