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Puggo GRANDE - 16mm restoration (Released) — Page 34

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First of all, thank you, Puggo. Second, is there any way to clean up the mono track to HD quality? I want to see Star Wars in widescreen with the real soundtrack. Please comme with some tips. Thanks.

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Thanks Boba! Any chance you could reupload your ESB cover?

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Where were you in '77?

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Thank you again! And welcome back. 😃

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Where were you in '77?

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SilverWook said:

Thank you again! And welcome back. 😃

Thanks wookiee. I just came back when I realised I’d lost all my copies of Puggo’s work from a major HD malfunction. 😦

“I love Darth Editous and I’m not ashamed to admit it.” ~ADigitalMan

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Yikes! That seems to be happening to one too many people around here.

And you spelled Wookiee correctly! Yay!

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Where were you in '77?

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Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

I never made covers. Seen some cool-looking ones, though.

Puggo I’m sure you’ve already been asked this, but did you do color corrections to the Puggo Strikes Back or is this pretty much true to the print? Trying to figure out if all that blue hue in the wampa cave was added in or if it was really like that on the film.

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SilverWook said:

Yikes! That seems to be happening to one too many people around here.

And you spelled Wookiee correctly! Yay!

Yeah it’s a bit of a bugger actually, basically I lost all my favourite Puggo’s stuff: The Super8’s, Puggo Grande & Puggo Strikes Back. Hopefully these should be easy enough to replace. As for that other stuff…

“I love Darth Editous and I’m not ashamed to admit it.” ~ADigitalMan

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no i need one for HARMY PROUDLY PRESENTS RETURN OF THE JEDI - GRINDHOUSE 35mm LPP

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kire1976 said:

no i need one for HARMY PROUDLY PRESENTS RETURN OF THE JEDI - GRINDHOUSE 35mm LPP

Maybe try Harmy’s thread?

“I love Darth Editous and I’m not ashamed to admit it.” ~ADigitalMan

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thats fine id rather go to the source directly

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kire1976 said:

thats fine id rather go to the source directly

Did you read his signature? He doesn’t want annoying questions.

If he had a cover, it would have been in the release. There is no cover for the release.

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Dreamaster said:
Puggo I’m sure you’ve already been asked this, but did you do color corrections to the Puggo Strikes Back or is this pretty much true to the print? Trying to figure out if all that blue hue in the wampa cave was added in or if it was really like that on the film.

Color correction was done by Adywan.

With regards your question - “is this pretty much true to the print?”, it is important to understand the issues involved in capturing film. The film image is captured by a digital camera, for which a decision has to be made with respect to white-balance (among others). It’s not just a matter of grabbing what is there verbatim - the media are entirely different. Digital capture involves lighting, and ultimately a color model, and there are always decisions made at every step, and adjustments. It’s the same with printing a film, and projecting it. We will never know the exact, correct color, because there is always variation. I tried to capture it as close as I could based on my own eyes, and then had Ady correct it because I liked his color choices in earlier projects.

As for the Wampa scene - to my eyes it looked that blue on the film. Surprised me too.

(note this discussion really belongs in the PSB thread)

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captainsolo said:

Just re-watched this for my Trilogy watchthrough…but on the xbr960 upscaled to 1080i…
Holy crap!

You all know my complete adoration for the PG, but for the first time I felt like I was actually running the print itself! The PS3 upscaler is pretty good paired with the 960’s 1080i res, and here the PG just shined. Yes, even better than when I projected it. (Used a midmodel Epson IIRC) The colors and densities come across far better due to this magical tube, and even the set’s big issue with phosphor lag wasn’t an issue. And the sound has far more detail to it than I realized…or it may be the fact that I have old Klipsch bookshelfs which can accentuate the highs at times.

Has anything ever come up about actually doing an HD or higher quality file version for PG and PSB without the DVD5 formatting? IIRC Harmy suggested this when going over some untouched PSB shots. And since there were some correction done to PSB…perhaps a Super Puggo Wars might be in order… 😉

Puggo, would you be open to releasing these original scans upressed in an mkv format with better compression ala the H.264 codec for better grain retention?

If so I would love to help with encoding and distribution and maybe new covers and whatnot…

“I love Darth Editous and I’m not ashamed to admit it.” ~ADigitalMan

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That’s excellent news indeed for my favourite SW preservation!

You need a cover for ROTP?

“I love Darth Editous and I’m not ashamed to admit it.” ~ADigitalMan

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We understand. You needed time for the mice to reload.

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