pittrek said:

If I had any "hardware" for transfering 35mm film I would buy it immediately :-(

Buy it, send it to team negative1 for scanning, and then sell it again.

I would do that right away if I had enough money.

And emanswfan: Your color correction of Ep 2 is much needed. The blu-ray looks horrible.

dvdmike said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Print-STAR-WARS-THE-PHANTOM-MENACE-LIAM-NEESON-/181122903796?pt=US_Film&hash=item2a2bc42ef4

 

I will just leave this here

That's exactly how I remember it looking when I saw it back in 1999. I can't believe how more Star Wars looking it was then than it is now in blu-ray. I love the grain and the warmer colours. Sigh, and to think, the sterile looking blu-ray is going to be the version people will remember from now on.

rockin said:

Sigh, and to think, the sterile looking blu-ray is going to be the version people will remember from now on.

Not once somebody will make a blu-ray from a print like that. I think it's just a matter of time.

rockin said:

dvdmike said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Print-STAR-WARS-THE-PHANTOM-MENACE-LIAM-NEESON-/181122903796?pt=US_Film&hash=item2a2bc42ef4

 

I will just leave this here

That's exactly how I remember it looking when I saw it back in 1999. I can't believe how more Star Wars looking it was then than it is now in blu-ray. I love the grain and the warmer colours. Sigh, and to think, the sterile looking blu-ray is going to be the version people will remember from now on.

 

Not much time left on the auction. Somebody should buy it before it's too late. 

The reds on the lava look a lot better to me, and there's more detail in the highlights. Unfortunately, the entire image is darkened and contrasted too much, resulting in a loss of detail in the shadows, at least on my screen. It's a step up, in any case. I like the green shifted colors in particular.

theevildriller said:

Not much time left on the auction. Somebody should buy it before it's too late. 

Is that...leeegal?

bttfbrasilfan said:

I have made some little tests using this new plug-in for Adobe Premiere called FilmConvert. The results are here:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/19700 

Faces:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/19704
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/19705

Lava:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/19706
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/19707 

I actually quite like those especially in how well done the grain is.  It's much closer to what I'm trying to acheive.

The color correction is more filmic and that is one other thing that isn't shown here in this thread yet.  The color correction stills are first passes, which will go through stock emulation work.  I'll have to check it out.

NeverarGreat said:

theevildriller said:

Not much time left on the auction. Somebody should buy it before it's too late. 

Is that...leeegal?

I will make it legal! ;) Hmm, on second thought, perhaps you are right.

Why shouldn't it be legal ?

emanswfan said:

I actually quite like those especially in how well done the grain is.  It's much closer to what I'm trying to acheive.

It's subtle, I think it looks great!

Jetrell Fo said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Print-STAR-WARS-THE-PHANTOM-MENACE-LIAM-NEESON-/181122903796?pt=US_Film&hash=item2a2bc42ef4

Bid now starts @ $499.00

Damn... If my economy was just a bit better I would not hesitate. I'd personally go through the work of restoring that print.

rockin said:

dvdmike said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Print-STAR-WARS-THE-PHANTOM-MENACE-LIAM-NEESON-/181122903796?pt=US_Film&hash=item2a2bc42ef4

 

I will just leave this here

That's exactly how I remember it looking when I saw it back in 1999. I can't believe how more Star Wars looking it was then than it is now in blu-ray. I love the grain and the warmer colours. Sigh, and to think, the sterile looking blu-ray is going to be the version people will remember from now on.

 

I watched TPM in 1999 in an old Eastern European communist era cinema that probably had 70-80's technology. And it looked fantastic, one of the best movies I've seen on the big screen even today.

No idea how LucasFilm managed to borch the BluRay so bad...

I'd love to see TPM from a 35mm reel transfer.

emanswfan, any trailer yet ? ;)

Jetrell Fo said:

Ya know, I've offered my TPM film trailer up numerous times for someone to scan and absolutely no-one showed the slightest interest in doing it so it's going back in storage until I can maybe get it done myself...

I think only a handful of people on the board have the equipment to do something like that.  I have an ep 3 trailer that I've thought about scanning frame by frame on my flatbed to see what kind of quality I can achieve (it does 4800dpi resolution) but it would be a huge and long project, I just haven't been motivated to take it on.

Back with a new screenshot.  The colours I haven't touched too much yet, I think I made the image too warm in parts, but I think I may have gotten further to nailing down a filmic texture.  I'm trying out another method of applying grain and I still have to work on the contrast, the contrast might still be too much in the shadows.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/24851

I'll finish up some other previews over the next couple of days.  I have some pics that look like the film was truly shot 35mm.  I even have gotten the jedi council to look identical to the TPM look, aside from its odd tints.

I'm also looking foward to the new version of Adobe Speedgrade coming out within the next month; it looks like it has some features that could add some help beyond my current AE/Speedgrade/Magic Bullet workflow.

It looks good, however I think I can see something that looks like chroma noise where the grain has been added. That might be the wrong word for it actually, but I can see where you've added grain it is having the side-effect of causing some tiny coloured dots to appear in places.

rockin said:

It looks good, however I think I can see something that looks like chroma noise where the grain has been added. That might be the wrong word for it actually, but I can see where you've added grain it is having the side-effect of causing some tiny coloured dots to appear in places.

Actually there's chroma noise in the original shot, though the grain I've been adding is multicoloured grain, I could add grayscale grain instead if preferred.