Moth3r said:
Sample video looks pretty good. OK it's not going to match the GOUT DVD, but it looks like it will far surpass the quality of previous fan-made telecines. In that respect, this will be a fantastic reference to have for things like Greedo's subtitles, canyon sunset colouring, etc...

Couple of questions about the sample: Motion was a little jerky; I assume you will be removing the dupe frames to revert back to 24fps? Also, it looks a little over-exposed to me, can you do anything about that during the capture (or would you adjust it in post)? The black level looks about 10% higher than it should be (space is a sort of dark grey instead of black).

I was planning to go to NTSC, so I'll have to do some sort of pulldown. If there's an appropriate pulldown flag I can set (as I did in the 8mm version), of course I'd rather do that than use duplicate frames.

I'll try to get the coloring [sic] as close as possible to what was probably originally on the film, but it is still likely to have some imperfections in that regard.

Yes I can lower the exposure during capture. The contrast isn't all that great on the film... I was basing my aperature setting more on the whites than the blacks - raising/lowering until the whites were white while still retaining detail. That seemed to bring out more color. Although the 8mm Puggo had a few crushed whites, I don't think this one did. I also don't want to lose the stars. It might be that simply upping the contrast a little bit in post would help, or perhaps upping the contrast while fiddling with the contrast center. I have to admit to tending to capture a tad bright - I probably should strive to be careful about that.

Were previous fan-made telecines taken off of 35mm, 16mm, or 8mm films?

I'll send the gates off the Texas tomorrow.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, the film is preceded by an SE trailer. I'll probably grab that too while I'm at it... although I'm guessing it will be of far less interest.