I peed myself just a little bit.

Which filters did you use for frame #5 ?

BTW Puggo, regarding cleaning up the reels, I've been curious about that. Is it too expensive and/or dangerous to clean the film itself, or are you just not interested?

It's not dangerous at all to clean the reels (unless there is sprocket damage or a lot of splices).  Actually, I do a quick cleaning to try and get the big pieces of lint off of it.  I'm not set up to do a really thorough cleaning, and even after cleaning, the film and the projector still attracts dust and hairs.  So often I have to stop a capture midstream, rewind a ways, clean out the gate, and continue.  Sometimes I don't notice something caught in the gate because it's too small to show up on the viewfinder, but is clearly seen when the image is blown up.  That is frustrating and happens a lot.  Also, after doing 5 or 6 captures, the film is getting dusty again.

Wow. I am very impressed with what Ady was able to do with the color correction. What is now possible is a darn near perfect looking film sourced ESB.

I hope you do release the work version Puggo. I still highly enjoy the non-corrected editions. Some of the tinkering ideas already presented here are imo worth checking into.

AND THERE WILL BE A RETURN OF THE PUGGO!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Take that freaking Blu-ray!

captainsolo said:

Wow. I am very impressed with what Ady was able to do with the color correction. What is now possible is a darn near perfect looking film sourced ESB.

if you mean "... darn near perfect" in a mouse-dropping sort of way, I agree! :)

The secret to the success of the various Puggo editions is to lower expectations!

Yes. It's darn near perfect in a "real" (or should I say "reel") sort of way. Give me a battered print reduction any day. It's something tangible and has life and breath on a screen-even if it's a bedsheet.

Then again this is coming from a guy who gets excited over reel change markers. ;)

I now also like mouse droppings!

captainsolo said:

I now also like mouse droppings!

Their similarity to raisinettes has its down sides.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

It's exciting to see people experimenting with the captures. I am happy to give a copy of the raw transfer to anyone who wants to play with it.

You would, really? I would love to have copies of SW and ESB when finished and an eventual Jedi if you are planning on doing that one as well, how would you share the raw files? how large are they? should I ask here, or should I PM you instead?

Thanks Puggo

The raw captures would fit on a 32G thumb drive.  Keep in mind that they are the wrong aspect ratio, the wrong speed, and aren't synched with any soundtrack, including their own optical (which was captured on a different machine).

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

The raw captures would fit on a 32G thumb drive.  Keep in mind that they are the wrong aspect ratio, the wrong speed, and aren't synched with any soundtrack, including their own optical (which was captured on a different machine).

all meaning both SW & ESB audio\video will fit on there, or 1 at a time? where is the best place to find one of these devices?

Thanks

No, just the raws for SW would fit on a 32G flash drive.  Actually, it would probably consume only 20-24G, but flash drives jump from 16G to 32G.

ESB would take another 20-24G.

By "thumb drive" I meant "flash drive".  Best Buy has 32G flash drives on sale for $39.99.

Man, those shots Laserschwert provided on the last page were amazing! The potential for these is somethin' else.

I'm about 3/4ths of the way through the sound-sync of reel1.  Just thought I'd give a progress report  :)

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

I'm about 3/4ths of the way through the sound-sync of reel1.  Just thought I'd give a progress report  :)

Hey Puggo, did you get my PM?

Good news about the PSB sync.

I just wanted to reiterate how much I'm anticipating this. Untouched or cleaned up, it's bound to be a wonderful viewing experience. Though I must again say Laserschwert's work made the print almost remind me of the Evil Dead official blu-ray quality wise.

Best of all no CGI.

The real version of the movie Kershner made, not ruined by Lucas like the blu ray.

Cannot wait to see this and will wait for return of the puggo, with no cgi eye-blinks by wicket.

PM sent.

"This deal's getting [better] all the time."

agreed!!!  Thanks for the updates Puggo.  Your preservations are the main reason I keep checking this forum :)