negative1 said:

Brooks said:

I'm really intrigued by the glimpses of the projector. I haven't read all the pages of this thread yet, do you discuss your set up? Is that a DSLR hooked up to the front of the projector??

it's a custom telecine, made from a projector,

with a DIY gear/pulley setup, from a used VHS deck,

and a 8 megapixel cheap canon digital camera,

with the custom software hack to do timed pictures.

we are using 4 megapixels for the pictures, and

keeping those for archive, as we downscale to 1080p.

not exactly state-of-the-art, far from it, but the results

speak for themselves.

slow and steady wins the race. right?

later

-1

First of all, whoah...this is starting to look really serious. And you said that you captured it at higher than 1080p, correct? So you captured this at higher than Blu-Ray resolution. Star Wars is saved!

Great job on the trailer. I love the very stark contrast, for ex. in the dianoga scene and in the tie fighter attack- that is how Star Wars is supposed to look.

I am still confused about the workflow....you projected the print very very slowly using a pulley system on a VHS deck, and then you hacked a digital camera to take timed pictures at the same rate. Did you just point the projector lens straight at the camera lens? I am confused about how that part of it works.

EDIT: When this is done, I want to watch it in HD on a big screen TV with the uncompressed 1993 laserdisc PCM blasting through two HUGE speakers. I can see it now...