Help Wanted: Rare Original IB Tech print of Alice in Wonderland (1950) Found! — Page 4

Geez, the Blu-ray is a disaster! Even George Lucas would cringe at the alterations they made on Disney’s work.

The scan was done, but no restoration as such has taken place, if anyone wants to do the restoration, just drop me for a PM.

I will! …if I have enough hard drive space.

About 2TB for ProRes

I’ll have to get a new HDD then. Does PFClean work with ProRes?

Excellent. I’ll just get a 2TB drive and then I can start. Or… would you be able to ship one with the data out to me?

Send me a PM, it would be in your interest I think to get a 4TB HDD, you will need some working space!

4 TB? That’s… I’m not exactly made of money anymore…

If you can’t afford a 4TB HDD and postage, then I would suggest that you won’t be able to undertake the restoration.

You need at least twice the space of the scan to be able to do a restoration, just for working files, and you need to be able to output the final result.
That is part of the reason I am so broke, the need for working space, and preferably fast working space is a huge requirement, but one you really can’t do without.

I go through hard drive space like you wouldn’t believe, and I don’t even deal in ProRes (much).

…would you be willing to donate?

FrankT said:

4 TB? That’s… I’m not exactly made of money anymore…

PFClean works fine with ProRes files, I’m surprised you would be using it, it isn’t cheap.
Make sure your license is up to date, PixelFarm are extremely litigious and go out of their way to protect their software.

It’s… not mine. I have to borrow someone else’s machine to use it. I’d… rather not talk about it, actually.

Are we still going ahead with this or not?

FrankT said:

It’s… not mine. I have to borrow someone else’s machine to use it. I’d… rather not talk about it, actually.

I’d strongly recommend not talking about that package unless you own a license 😃

I am happy to help anyone that will genuinely undertake a restoration, but they have to supply the drives and freight etc.
What I am not doing is sending out files to people that just want a copy or have a look, genuine restoration or research projects only, so anyone that asks, please forward details of your restoration project via PM - I am not ‘distributing’ files as such.

You can rely on me. I may need input here and there, but I won’t let you down. Hopefully. Anyway I want to see this film restored to its original glory as much as you do!

(There’s also the small detail that the original book was written in my home country, but whatever.)

Although… will the final restoration be distributed at all? Or is it just for archival purposes?

I too would like an update at least. I wanted to do a 5.1 audio mix for it.

I’ll be taking a look at the Prores files in a month or two.