Project #4K77 — Page 18

Shuggy said:

I feel confident in predicting that I will like 4K77 enough to masturbate to it.

LOL we should make this the project tag line.

Shuggy said:

Williarob said:

Swazzy said:

Oh no, I didn’t mean that at all. I was referring to him commenting on whether or not this restoration has the photography right, and the insight he might have that we don’t in terms of accuracy, etc…

That would be nice, but if Mike Verta makes any comment at all, it will probably be more along the lines of “Still looks like crap compared to Legacy”, “f**k Negative One” and “if you like it so much go masturbate to it”. Those were his comments on the Silver Screen Edition anyway (I’m probably paraphrasing the first comment, but the second two are direct quotes), so I’m not expecting much in the way of constructive criticism from that direction…

I feel confident in predicting that I will like 4K77 enough to masturbate to it.

That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all week

Williarob said:

[Swazzy said:]

I feel confident in predicting that I will like 4K77 enough to masturbate to it.

LOL we should make this the project tag line.

How come your quote says Swazzy instead of Shuggy? And there’s also no link.

Williarob said:

[Swazzy said:]

I feel confident in predicting that I will like 4K77 enough to masturbate to it.

LOL we should make this the project tag line.

Wait, I said that?

Dek Rollins said:

Williarob said:

[Swazzy said:]

I feel confident in predicting that I will like 4K77 enough to masturbate to it.

LOL we should make this the project tag line.

How come your quote says Swazzy instead of Shuggy? And there’s also no link.

Sorry, I was trying to edit out some of the text above to isolate this fine quote on my phone and backspaced a bit too far. I’ll fix it.

yotsuya said:

I have one question. You may have covered this already, but aren’t the prints you are using missing some frames? I know the SSE was. Are you going to just use the frames you have or add them back so this will sync with the GOUT soundtracks. And if you add them back what source are you going to use?

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Yes, all of these prints are missing some frames. The LPP was only missing frames at the reel changes, but the other prints are all missing other frames too. I will be keeping the GOUT sync as I think that is very important because it allows us all to choose from a growing library of audio and subtitle tracks.

There are a variety of techniques I can use to restore missing frames, each with their own pros and cons:

1. If there are just one or two frames missing the middle of a shot, PFClean’s Fix Frame effect can often be used to extrapolate or interpolate the missing frames. When it works, the new frames are seamless to the viewer. However, if you were to overlay one of these frames on top of an original frame from another source, they may not match up perfectly, especially if there was a single frame laser blast or something that the software has no way to predict. Also, it only works well about half the time. If there is any camera panning, there is often unusual cropping or other weirdness that ruins the new frame(s).

2. Use a frame from another source (preferably another print, but the blu-ray if it cannot be found anywhere else). The advantage here is that we know we are not missing anything and that the frame is the right frame, the difficulty comes in making it look seamless. The colors, sharpness, size, rotation and cropping all have to match perfectly or you can see the difference. For this reason, it is often better to substitute the entire shot with that from another source.

3. Sometimes, particularly if there is little or no motion, frames can simply be repeated.

4. Photoshop. Using, for example the blu-ray frame as a guide, the previous frame and the next frame can be manually adjusted in Photoshop.

5. A black or “Frame Missing” frame can be inserted, but of all of the solutions this is a last resort. I don’t know about you but I’d rather have a single slightly blurry frame than a black Flash!

I’ll do everything I can to make it as seamless as possible.

Great! I’d love to see some of the other reels

Nobody is more sick of looking at shots on the Tantive than me (except possibly Dre!), believe me. Unfortunately, the process I have in place requires a lot of setup: First I copy all of the frames from each source onto a drive (and given the size I can barely manage half a reel at a time). Then I have to write an AVISynth script to sync every source to the GOUT and make a note of all the missing frame numbers in each source. Next I have another script that sorts all the frames from each source into folders based on the shot number and source. This is so that the next script, this time in Photoshop can go through and register the images, and generate the dirtmaps. Another script run in After Effects brings all of these new files into a new Composition where I can make sure they line up, color match the sources after using Dre’s tools to generate the LUTs, let the dirt map do it’s thing and output those files to yet another folder where they are picked up in PFClean and manually cleaned some more, before being rendered again. Finally, I open the cleaned shots in After Effects, apply Dre’s LUT, do some cropping and render that out again as a completed shot. Every render has to be lossless so it all takes up GB and GB of space.

Unfortunately, this means that I have to process all the shots in order. I don’t have the luxury of being able to bounce around, reel to reel, willy nilly. I just don’t have the disk space to process the whole film this way. This is also why I can’t just work on the SE shots first and get Harmy started on his project sooner.

However, I do have the next 10 shots ready for you, so you’ll get your first look at Darth Vader and Princess Leia. I’ll upload them ASAP.

I’m not dissatisfied with seeing more of the current shots, I’m just too excited that I look forward to seeing the rest down the line. Production is production, I understand that takes time and resources:)

As promised here are shots 71-80, No DNR:

https://we.tl/rEu9HvfgOA

This is HEVC again, but this time using the MainConcept encoder which should be better than Handbrake.