TServo2049 said:
Hey, do you happen to have any screens of another training shot, one of the ones where the lightsaber always looks white on the video transfers? Mike Verta has confirmed that it was clearly blue in every shot on theatrical prints in '77, and the bootleg videos from the original release seem to confirm this. But I'd love to see another screen from this "inferior" print if you have one.
I can upload a clip from yet another rejected IB Tech, it wasn't scanned on the good scanner, but I have a proxy of it handy, so will compress it and upload that whole sequence.
Keep in mind that this is a poor quality scan from a rough print. I will not be using this one.
(The print was rejected as it had mould in the emulsion, so was too much work to clean up. This is one of the pitfalls, you can spend nearly a grand finding a print, having it cleaned, shipping it and shipping it back, only to find out it is relatively unusable)
If you are wondering why I just don't upload the clip from a better scan, it is simply that I have these older ones in proxy format and can recompress and upload them more quickly (it will still take me a few hours of dicking around). The current prints are across tens of drives, currently being backed up - moving 100s of TBs around literally takes days as they are in higher than 4K format with damage mattes etc. It takes forever to load them, find the section, set the black and white points, resize and render out and upload. I'm pretty time poor at the moment with 4 kids and trying to earn a buck, so even these 'quick' uploads eat a lot of my currently limited time.
As mentioned before, I am about a year away from completion assuming I can purchase another 50-80TB of HDDs, I will post progress along the way, but at the moment I am in acquisition and backup/file transfer mode, so you won't see a lot from me over the next month or so, after that if I have all the scans I need you should see regular updates.
My internet is slow, so the upload of the previously mentioned clip is going to take around 3 hours, I'll post it once it is up.