I’ve rendered a couple of sample videos. I usually put these sorts of thing on Vimeo but I had to put one of them on YouTube due to size restrictions. Fingers crossed the YouTube one doesn’t disappear.
Both videos show the 35mm footage in it’s raw form with the English audio from the Hong Kong laserdisc synced as best I can for now.
At the moment my computer can’t play the raw files back smoothly so I had to render these before I could watch them properly. As a result I didn’t know if the footage would have splices or not until I rendered them. I’ve started work on rendering the film reel by reel, this will probably take a few days as I can only render during down time (I use my computer for work too), but once they’re all rendered I’ll have a better idea of the overall state of the scan.
The first video is from the very start of reel 1. Sadly reel 1 is a bit of a mess with a lot of splices. Not only does this mean there are a lot of jumps but also a lot of dirt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZgkpDsutBE
The second video is from the middle of reel 2 and shows a much cleaner picture. Sadly we’ve still got a few splices.
I hope you enjoy the clips, and let me know what you think. Please remember that these are just samples and there is still a lot of work to be done.