'Legacy' by X0-1138 - a fake and trolling 'project' — Page 6

Getting the materials together is the hardest part, once I'm in amongst the video, I focus in very intensely and I always, ALWAYS go to reference material and never say... ok, how would I like to see it?

I intend for this to be a homage to the opening nights of each film and I'm gonna use reference frames from the technicolor print and most accurate laserdiscs to achieve never before seen colour accuracy.

As for the sound, well, if Hairy Hen has faithful '77, '80 and '83 reproductions of the stereo and surround mixes, then I'll go for those.

Hell, if Adywan wants to use my Star Wars HD master for his ANH:HD work then I'd be happy to send him a hard drive with the uncompressed files in 1080p. Just imagine an Adywan '77 revisited...

As for ongoing work, once I've got the transfers ready, I'll show off each capture and some work in progress material. Shouldn't take more than a month to get it all delivered and transferred.

The X0 is sitting patiently...

You can use this one, if you want to:

(Damn, I shouldn't have used the thumbtack... now my X0 has a hole!)

Interesting that we're still talkin' about LD transfers after all this time...

The X0 Project screen cap wasn't a hoax. It was a proof-of-concept, using some borrowed proprietary equipment. Sadly, only Laserman knew the details of exactly what was done, and how.

Even just making a good LD cap is *hard*. I've got three copies of the JSC, plus a very competent player (a Pioneer LD-V4300D), plus Laserman's personal cap card, and still it's tricky. (Of course, I haven't tried it for a while. Now that the Blu-Ray is even further off-track in some areas, it might be time to pull out my stuff and give it another whirl....)

Once the caps are done, then lining everything up to use TooT is a bit tricky, too (and keep in mind I created the concept, if not the programming, so I know what I'm doing).

What's needed thereafter is some custom processing -- but that's also tough as hell, because all the sources would probably have to be lined up manually.

And, at the same time you're working on a good LD-cap project, things like Mike Verta's 'Legacy Edition' and other good work get done, and make all your hard work look sorta futile.

Which is where the X0 Project got to, and then ran out of steam. Which, personally, I'm really sorry and bummed about.

So I'll sort of quietly be looking forward to -- and yet skeptical about -- this new project. My take thus far is that it's got more than enough enthusiasm from X0-1138, but is lacking in technical chops. I would be delighted to be proven wrong!

BTW on german ebay you can get a Pioneer HLD-1000 Muse and a HLD X9 Player right now. Just in case someone has money to spent :-)

Apparently these are not quite as good as a X0 but pretty close.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Pioneer-HLD-1000-Muse-Hi-Vision-Laserdisc-LD-Player-/280731154794

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Pioneer-HLD-X-9-Laserdisc-Player-Hi-Vision-Muse-NTSC-X9-/180716731340

Damn, laserdisc players are loud as fu... HEY! I never saw you there!

Welcome to Tatooine...

Rrrright...

The last two posts make no sense to me. -_-

LMAO! seriously?

For fu...

Of course it's gonna come up on Tineye.

I remember searching for the Abbey Road album cover on there and it threw up a cartoon reproduction of it.

I guess this project is over then :-)

Damn, and I was hoping for a 1080p laserdisc playable sample.

The JSC raw dump is done and I've already synced it visually with the '04 DVD so I can test the additive experiment I'm working on.

Expect JSC direct samples tomorrow in MP4 and a raw avi sample for the nerds.

The picture is from the JSC.

althor1138 has stated it is impossible.

X0-1138 has stated it is possible.

The matching frames are synced, there's alot of SE shit I've had to work around, crop and zoom in and out of.

I can work in real-time for both editing and rendering using my rig.

I'm not using a consumer PC for this.

JSC has been synced to the '04 purely for test purposes.

Monday - 9pm GMT.

This is a strange thread.

I'd better not get my hopes up - no pix, no pruf, no truf!

This thread is certainly entertaining!  We've been promised mp4s and raw avi tomorrow, so it looks set to remain so.  :)