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Post #482420

Author
adywan
Parent topic
Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
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Date created
10-Mar-2011, 2:39 PM

Bad news guys. this isn't going to happen. I received samples of a few reels and this is beyond any form of restoration. The print is just too badly damaged. You have to remember that this isn't a professionally done scan but is just a home made telecine. The print is so warped that there is no way to keep the movie in focus in the centre of the screen because of the warping and this creates a horrible pulsing effect. This can't be fixed with any software as its there in the transfer. It's so bad in places it looks like the whole screen is pumping in and out from the centre out causing a concave effect. There is also a chunk of the beginning missing from reel 2 and i don't know about any of the later reels. Reel 3 is completely unusable. seeing it in pictures is one thing, seeing it in motion is completely different

So that's it guys. ESB is a no go, and there isn't a copy of Jedi, and it looks like EPIV suffers with the same problems, if not worse