DavidMerrick said:
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EDIT: A question for the Team: can you post a clip from one of the reels you've done a first correction/cleanup on? I think two was one of them. Nothing substantial, minute max, just to get an idea of what the finished product may look like?
And like, not a Dailymotion video, but uncompressed 1080p available to download to your hard drive. And yeah, I know you had that bit in the 8mm release, but that was like a few frames of dark, overly-cropped and downscaled footage.
Just think of it as something to tide us over and reassure us.
I guess the team didn't have a 60 second clip ready to go, but they sent me this 30 second clip. Also included is the Before clip so you can see what was removed, and the codec in case you need it. Minor color correction on the After clip (mainly just brightness and contrast tweaks). The aspect ratio is way off, but you can easily correct that, and there is no audio. This clip is from near the end of the third reel, which is considerably dirtier than the middle of the reel. It also contains a really nice effects shot which must have passed through the optical printer a few times, to add the lightsaber roto-scoping, the remote, the holographic game in the background, and the laser blast from the remote. If you brighten the before shot you can really see just how dirty it was. Enjoy!