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Empire Strikes back 35mm restoration feedback thread (POUT) (a WIP) — Page 2

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poita said:

The less compressed version is now up. It has 7x the bitrate so compression artifacts should be greatly reduced.
https://infinit.io/_/34Eyh4J

The page just says "There doesn’t seem to be any files here"
The first preview looked terrific, really looking forward to watching at greater resolution and will feedback soon.

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Could you please reupload the file for those of us who wanted to get it when they come home from work? Or do you have enough opinions already?

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poita said:

I am re-rendering reel1 with a bunch of changes fixed, and will upload it in the morning when it is done, so you all might want to hold off on feedback until it is up as I have re-done about 800 frames or so.

don’t worry about the dead link, new file coming.

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Some issues:

1336 - bright blob on letters e and b in "Rebellion"
7766 - blob to left of Han’s head.
7786 - dark blob on left of frame.
7792 - dirt to left of Han’s head.

[ Scanning stuff since 2015 ]

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Unfortunately Infinit has closed down, so I need another way to upload 10+GB files.

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Thanks.
Trying it now, not sure if it is working.

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Resilio sync seems like an option. Especially if you are behind a vpn. Once a couple people snag the file, bandwidth shouldn’t be too big of a problem even in our small crowd.

Luke threw twice…maybe.

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althor1138 said:

Resilio sync seems like an option. Especially if you are behind a vpn. Once a couple people snag the file, bandwidth shouldn’t be too big of a problem even in our small crowd.

Resilio sync doesn’t work for me behind a double NAT (I can’t port forward), so for that reason I am not a fan.

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Poita you are a hero.

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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(It hasn’t happened yet)

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Is the latest preview file available? If not, thanks anyway for your work poita.

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Ahead of May the fourth, here is a sample of Ree1, some of you have already seen this sample, but I’ve had a lot of requests to re-post some footage, so here it is. Approx 2.5GB in total.

It is in two parts, download both and use WinRar or similar to decompress to a single file.
https://we.tl/KTFi9G8t9B
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/53e6c1141a27d2891c9bb2a15bffe3dd20180503053533/8258e5aa2b976c5a31ddeb3fac69704820180503053533/ce0e7c

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Hey thanks Poita, but the second link is from reel 6 of the Special Edition 😉

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Oops!

Fixed.

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i think someone mentioned it in another thread but the crawl from one of poita’s scans looks better than the blu-ray release and i am floored to actually see it

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That looks great! thanks for sharing.

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poita said:
It is in two parts, download both and use WinRar or similar to decompress to a single file.
https://we.tl/KTFi9G8t9B
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/53e6c1141a27d2891c9bb2a15bffe3dd20180503053533/8258e5aa2b976c5a31ddeb3fac69704820180503053533/ce0e7c

I’m on a mac and I’m having a bear of a time trying to get these open. I generally get “incomplete” or “file damaged” error notices. Is anyone on a Mac able to watch these, and if so, what did you use to unwrap?

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Joel said:

poita said:
It is in two parts, download both and use WinRar or similar to decompress to a single file.
https://we.tl/KTFi9G8t9B
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/53e6c1141a27d2891c9bb2a15bffe3dd20180503053533/8258e5aa2b976c5a31ddeb3fac69704820180503053533/ce0e7c

I’m on a mac and I’m having a bear of a time trying to get these open. I generally get “incomplete” or “file damaged” error notices. Is anyone on a Mac able to watch these, and if so, what did you use to unwrap?

I used the unrar CLI tool (“unrar e esb-uk-r1-sound.part1.rar”), because I was unable to unwrap it with GUI tools (same error messages)

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I’m having a lot of trouble too. I know it sounds lame, but is anyone able to stick the unRARed file on mega.nz?

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For MacOS, install "The Unarchiver:
https://theunarchiver.com

Then right click on the last part of the archive file (e.g. in this case, the second file of the download from wetransfer) and choose “Open With” and then choose “The Unarchiver”

Depending on the folder the RAR files are in, it might warn you that it doesn’t have access to the folder. Just click on the “SEARCH” button at the bottom right, and it should then work.
It might ask you for the folder to extract them to.

I have just tried this now on my old 2009 macbook, running El Capitan and The Unarchiver V3, and it works perfectly.

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Many thanks for your help, but I’m just getting a notice that the archive file is incomplete.
No worries, I’ll wait for future previews 😃
Wishing you all the best, poita!

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Unfortunately, none of the GUI solutions have worked on my 2017 mac, but as per GZK8000’s suggestion, I googled “Unrar” for command line (Terminal) and got the following two links that will walk you through it:

To get and install UNRAR:
http://best-mac-tips.com/2013/02/01/install-free-command-line-unrar-mac/

To unwrap the RAR files after installing UNRAR:
http://best-mac-tips.com/2013/02/02/extract-rar-archive-command-line-mac-terminal/

Meanwhile, this is beautiful! The reds are pretty intense (as was alluded to earlier in the thread), but it does kind of help Leia look healthier while visiting Luke in the sick bay.

The opening crawl looks a little soft to me. Is that just what it looks like? …And there is obviously some flicker.

Beyond that, what kind of things should I be looking for in order to actually be helpful in this process?

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What are the file sizes of the two pieces you downloaded?

AllAboutThatSpace said:

Many thanks for your help, but I’m just getting a notice that the archive file is incomplete.
No worries, I’ll wait for future previews 😃
Wishing you all the best, poita!

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