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Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *) — Page 74
Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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The Star Wars trilogy. There can be only one.
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Dunedain said:
Any update, guys ? :) I hope Laserman is feeling better.
Any update, guys ? :) I hope Laserman is feeling better.
Sure seems like this project is no more....it was fun to follow the progress when there was...
Here's hoping Laserman is feeling well.....
I love everybody. Lets all smoke some reefer and chill. Hug and kisses for everybody.
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The Star Wars trilogy. There can be only one.
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Arnie.d said:
Can anyone provide a link to info about "black magic"? I would like to know more about what it is and what it does? I'm not even sure if it's a piece of hardware or software. I tried searching for it but I end up at sites for colorising b&w film/photo or something with little puppets and needles.
Can anyone provide a link to info about "black magic"? I would like to know more about what it is and what it does? I'm not even sure if it's a piece of hardware or software. I tried searching for it but I end up at sites for colorising b&w film/photo or something with little puppets and needles.
'Blackmagic' is the nickname for a process Laserman developed; it uses Shake and some custom scripts to combine multiple sources.
Info was posted here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Auto-correction-from-SE-colours-to-GOUT-colours/post/250082/#post250082
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That thread mentions some very interesting and highly exciting details of the Black Magic process. Do you know if anyone apart from the X0 team has perfected the technique for other s/w or if there is any further info on how to go about doing this?
Laserman mentioned that a webdoc was going to be posted on the X0 site, but it looks like the tutorial didn't quite make it there unfortunately. I would soooo love to learn more about this process.
If television is chewing gum for the mind, then the prequels are the worlds first visual laxative.
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"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
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The XØ Team restored the Original Trilogy and all I got was a stupid LOLCat.
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Molly said:
The Star Wars movies ain't the only ones Lowry's screwed up the colors on.
Yeah, I hear some of the James Bond films aren't quite right.The Star Wars movies ain't the only ones Lowry's screwed up the colors on.
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A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
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Without wanting to sound negative or put words into anyone’s mouth, I'm sure that the X0 team are probably reluctant to release anything publicly though for fear of GL and litigation. I know I would be if I were in their shoes.
I'd love to see their final version and I'd also be interested in finding out a lot more on how they achieved it. It'd be fantastic to get some of their techniques, scripts and ideas that they use out in the public domain for others to work with. Hell, I'd buy a legal copy of shake myself if I could have a go with LMs' scripts to see what can be done with some of my own video restoration projects.
A long time ago Laserman made this quote: "There are also some other interesting discoveries we made re the particular noise signature of some of the laserdiscs"
Does anybody know what these interesting discoveries were and how they could be utilised to improve LD footage?
If television is chewing gum for the mind, then the prequels are the worlds first visual laxative.
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I love how Zion and the others have yet to comment agains the people calling the project "dead".
+1
<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>
<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>
<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>
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What I do think is beneficial, however, is the OOT shots corrected with the Black Magic process that cannot be drawn out of the HD SE souces. For instance, shots of the starfields, shots where some detail has been lost in the crushed blacks, shots that were deleted from the SE like the original Mos Eisley entrance. Currently, our efforts to integrate the existing Laserdisk footage into the clean-up/O-neg sourced SE have been a little lacking--see OCP's Classic Edition, and the upcoming Vintage Edit is having similar problems; Adywan's Revisited resolved some problems through meticulous compositing, but it avoided some of the biggest OOT shots. The biggest contribution X0 can make is provided us with the elements to finally rescue these OOT-exclusive shots, and thats why I want to see it released, or at the very least concentrate on just these elements. X0 is sort of unnecessary now, color-correcting the HD SE is a much better option for about 90% of the film, but X0's gift could be providing some working elements to better fill in that missing 10%.
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You guys might want to hold off on doing so until someone who is actually involved in the project actually says as much, ya know?
<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>
<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>
<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>
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