Frink's Digital Diorama [was: OT Deleted Scene Restoration Project?] — Page 2

I definitely need a partner for this. I don't need technical help, but I do need someone to assist in planning and review.

My time-management is poor, at best.

Also, it'd be nice to have someone with whom I can discuss the various issues I encounter along the way; a second opinion is always helpful.

Starting Scene #1!

doubleKO said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Starting Scene #1!

Have it finished by tomorrow.

*cracks whip*

I wish!

In fact, I hit a snag early-on: I have to re-install PFClean. The VirtualBox VM I have it running in is totally b0rked. :-/

You_Too said:

AntcuFaalb said:

In fact, I hit a snag early-on: I have to re-install PFClean. The VirtualBox VM I have it running in is totally b0rked. :-/

Why do you have to run it in a VM? Can't you just block the software with your firewall? (Assuming that's the reason)

Anyway, looking forward to see your results!

I'm running a 32-bit OS (Windows XP Home) on a 64-bit CPU, but PFClean requires a 64-bit OS, so I'm using Windows XP Professional x64 in the VM.

I don't want to dual-boot and I can't install any 64-bit OS on my machine because I use certain (older) hardware devices with drivers that explicitly require Windows XP 32-bit, nothing more or less.

benduwan said:

any Deleted Scene finished?

Unfortunately, no. I've had quite a bit going on outside of OT for the past few months, so I really haven't had the time to do much.

I'll continue working as soon as I can.

AntcuFaalb said:

benduwan said:

any Deleted Scene finished?

Unfortunately, no. I've had quite a bit going on outside of OT for the past few months, so I really haven't had the time to do much.

I'll continue working as soon as I can.

Alright, AntcuFaalb:

What do you need (if anything) from us to make this happen? Seeing these deleted scenes restored will put your name in the credits of fanedits for years to come.

For me, it's "Jerjerrod's Conflict" in ROTJ — gives me chills just thinking about how awesome it would be to put that scene back in. I watched it again last night, making the edits in my head. I'm sure there are plenty of others here that think about the same things.

So if there's anything we can do to get this back on track, let us know. I want to see this happen and I think you are our only hope.

ziggyonice: I now have everything setup again, so I should be able to restart my work on this project.

What would be helpful to have are:

1  shot-change frame numbers for each deleted scene

2  frame numbers for clearly destroyed frames in each deleted scene

3  a partner to correct (in, e.g., Photoshop) said destroyed frames

AntcuFaalb said:

ziggyonice: I now have everything setup again, so I should be able to restart my work on this project.

What would be helpful to have are:

1  shot-change frame numbers for each deleted scene

2  frame numbers for clearly destroyed frames in each deleted scene

3  a partner to correct (in, e.g., Photoshop) said destroyed frames

Alright, it's been a couple months, but it's summer now and I have some spare time. If you're interested, then I'm interested. I want to see this project happen.

Getting you the frame numbers shouldn't be too difficult (although I do need to order a new Bluray drive, mine was recently fried).

On the Photoshop side of things, I'm totally in. I can defintely help to get destroyed frames fixed up. I don't have access to PFClean though, so that'll have to be on you. I'm not a professional clean-up artist or anything, but I'm pretty decent.

If you're interested, let me know.

The primary issue I'm running into now is that my computer isn't sufficiently powerful and I don't have the funds to build a better one.

It runs PFClean fine when I feed it SD material, but stepping up to HD material makes each and every little operation take that much longer.

Restoration is an experimental process, so most of the work involves applying a transformation, stepping through many frames to see if it was an acceptable one (e.g., no artifacts), and then repeating the process over again when you realize that it wasn't (this is usually the case).

When it takes ~1 minute to preview a frame... well, you get the idea.

Darth Solo said:

Mind you, that is a little laboured AntcuFaalb. What are you running?

~2007-2008 PC...

A hand-me-down AMD Phenom II X4 925 with 4GB of RAM.

GPU: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT

Darth Solo said:

Erm, stickle point now.

Huh?

Darth Solo said:

EDITED my privious post to expand, but can you edit out my quote about the HD-DVD I re-encodeded from my past post for legal reasons. Although i DO own the original title anyhowz.

Thanks. Done.