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FrankT said:

I seem to have misplaced my copy of the last preview clip - can I have a reupload?

 If you mean the WeTransfers from a few pages ago, then I second that! They sounded awesome!

Not sure if anyone else noted this, but while watching the latest preview for the zillionth time, I came to the conclusion there might be a slight pink shift in the latest preview.

Here’s how it looks now:

Here’s how it looks after a white balance:

Here’s a direct comparison:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/149099

It should be noted that, since we are dealing with prints, the white balance should not be done in the RGB color space, since film uses magenta, yellow and cyan as base colors.

Here is our latest sample, with Luke and Ben talking.

http://we.tl/wZmtF92lh0

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Thanks for sharing. Cleanup looks pretty nice on this one. No tramline scratches to worry about, and most of the remaining damage is very small. Lack of flicker is also very nice. Color is certainly watchable, but not there yet compared to some of your previous samples (as is the case for the end of the exterior scene it starts with). Stabilization needs optimization probably? The image doesn’t look as sharp as previous samples, from what I remember. Not sure if it’s just the sample encoding.

Looking forward to the next one.

This was a mistake post. I can’t delete. so I’ve written this.

The sample looks really good. It looks very authentic. Colors look very vibrant. Thanks very much for posting it!

Great sample! nice colour and contrast. I quickly compared it to the bluray and the improvement in colour space is really impressive. The blu is extremely washed out by comparison. On the topic of the whitebalance done above- the aim of this project is to digitally replicate the integrity of your film sources right? (With a bit of polishing) To my mind if your scan looks like how the print projects with a standard bulb, then you’ve done your job, colour wise. Ie if the pink tint is a genuine artefact of the print then it seems reasonable to leave it as it is. Just one opinion obviously. Very excited! 😃

team_negative1 said:

Here is our latest sample, with Luke and Ben talking.

http://we.tl/wZmtF92lh0

Team Negative1

It appears that you used selective color and replaced some pink with beige? This causes faces to have really odd color combinations. You might consider an alternative color correction tool to deal with the pink in this one.

-G

I’m doing some edit work on this topic:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Need-special-effects-for-your-edit-Request-them-here/id/46109

So in order to properly edit a sequence i would need a cleaned up version of the Luke and Biggs deleted scene!
So could someone send me the shot?

Thanks in advance 😃

This latest preview has a nice film feel, very smooth. I think it needs some gamma correction, because the blacks are overpowering in practically every shot. As far as the color, the skin tones are almost orange, but I think that’s because they are a bit oversaturated. Thanks for posting the update.

that over saturation will probably go away automatically when the image is lightened up with a gamma correction.

Whenever I watch the latest previews of this restoration I grin like an idiot, it just has certain analog quality that almost seem magical.

I only really registered to this site to follow this topic, love the work you guys are putting in to this!

Between your and Mike Verta’s efforts, it seems like the original films will be preserved for future generations no matter what.

We have sent an email, with the link to the private preview for Reel 3 to all blog members, and supporters. Be sure to get it within the next week or so.

Thanks for all the comments, and a special thanks to Dre for his color matching tool.

Happy Holidays and hope Thanksgiving will be a memorable one.

Team Negative1

Wow, the color has come a long way since the last R3 preview.

Thanks Team, but teasing’s not nice. 😉

Reel 3 preview looks fairly good. Colour balance seems good, though the whites are blown out (high contrast in the source material might be the cause of this), it’s undersaturated, and there are colour shifts from shot to shot. Also needs stabilization.

Thanks for a lovely surprise.

The negative things :

• the aspect ratio seems to be slightly off, I think the image is slightly taller
• some of the scenes are much “noisier” than others. I think it’s because of the optical wipes, the scene gets noisy always before and after an optical wipe, after the next cut it gets cleaner. Do you plan to work on this ? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t REALLY think it’s a big problem, I’m just asking 😃

The positive things :

• colours are beautiful
• the detail in the dark areas - I don’t remember seeing some of that stuff since … probably never before
• nice amount of grain, it’s not distracting but at the same time the persons don’t look like wax figures

I love it, great job guys

Where’s your blog?

Amazing preview! Colors and contrast look spot on in my opinion. Thanks for sharing!