1990osu said:
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...
i'll post a video of the setup. the film projector did not have an advance
on it.. it only showed 35mm strips or slides manually..
we added a pulley that has a motor/gear from a vhs deck..
and yes, the camera is pointing through
a lens directly at the projected source.
there is no need to go to higher sizes, because nothing supports those
dimensions yet. we needed manual exposure, and turned off auto-focus.
the key thing is being able to get the raw picture files, and work with
those. (i don't think they're 10bit, but i could be wrong).
so only older cameras had that option. newer ones are all auto focus.
the sound will be a combination of stereo sources including film and
laserdisc along with a recreated mono mix.
file sizes are not an issue. the 16g card fills up slowly, and we only
need to do a reel at a time at the most. 20 minutes isn't much.
but we're only getting 1 or 2 frames per second. so it takes quite
a long time to do even one. we've been at it for several months
now.
this trailer is made out of several parts:
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1 the actual trailer, with some cleanup
2 footage from our 2 prints, including the lpp print..
which has some color, and the corrections on it
3 footage from red faded test reel
4 sound is from the original trailer
the name isn't final yet either.. i'm pushing for
the 35mm theatrical version..
no time frame yet, but aiming for this year.
we've got about 70% done, and
the color correction is slight, so that part won't
take too long. but after that we have to do a
first pass at the cleanup.
later
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