Dunedain said:
The opening to Star Wars looks excellent, great job to all on the project! =) Imagine the whole movie in 1080p once fully restored... :) :)
we're getting there..
i've watched parts of it like that..
did another review of the preview 0 version
yesterday night/morning..
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so far have seen parts on 3 different monitors,
and now on a 56" samsung 1080p tv..
it looked different on each on them.. some seemed
bright, others seemed dark..
the tv viewing seemed to be the best, i'd have
to check what settings my parents use.. i only
have a 40" samsung 720p. which is actually
pretty decent also.
the colors looked a lot more vivid, and the sharpness
and detail were good too..
i've seen it on LG 24" widescreen 1080p monitor also.
but i guess i have to mess with the color settings
and temperatures on that also...
a lot of the difference is that when you watch it
up close on a monitor, you see a lot more of the
noise, dirt, scratches etc..
of course all of those disappear when you are watching
from far away on a large tv screen..
i do 95% of my movie/show/video watching on
computer monitors, and rarely do i turn on a television
(i don't watch tv shows unless they're downloads or dvd's)..
i own a bluray player on my computer, but not a hardware one.
my parents have a samsung one, so i'll use that for testing
the disc.. i might try to burn a test one later on to see how
it works out..
snicker: I agree with the general concern, but bear in mind that repairing scratches, nicks and other sorts of damage is standard when restoring a film. It's simply putting it back the way it was before it became damaged, restoring it to it's original appearance when the print was new (which is what we want, within the limits of the sources and tools available).
yeah, we're leaving whatever is on the print that's originally there,
so you will see how it looks.. again, the trailer is the best thing to
use as a measure of what it's going to be like.
It's totally different than applying digital noise reduction, which causes a loss in detail. It's quite possible to fix the scratches and various other forms of print damage and avoid DNR, and thus retain the very fine detail from the print, and keep the natural film-like quality in the final 1080p video. If you look at some of the best professional Blu-ray movies you can buy (Saving Private Ryan is a great example), this is exactly what they have done. They've taken scans from top-quality prints and transferred it to optical disk while leaving the picture alone, and not interfering with the wonderful natural detail of the 35mm film. And I'm sure negative1 and all those involved have that same goal, restore it back to new as best they can (within reasonable time limits for working on it), while retaining the excellent natural detail of the film. :)
since the version i'm watching is a lot more unpolished,
it's actually a LOT closer to film, if it was being projected
it would seem even moreso...although the preview i'm watching
has compression, a lot of it is not noticeable when i previewed it.
it will get a lot better in the final version..
i hit the maximum of 10 videos per day on vimeo.
i'll be posting most of the 11 minutes from our early
red test reel, and should have another clip up in awhile.
it takes about 1 hour per each one, due to their conversion
process for free users. good things come to those that wait.
later
-1
(ps: more clips:
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