THX on 35mm Tech IB preservation - HELP NEEDED (work in progress) — Page 11

Final scans have arrived and I am working on them now. Unfortunately for the past 48 hours I and most of the rest of the family have been laid up with a particularly violent vomit bug. The kind where you think you are going to die, and then start wishing you would.

The print is very beatup in places, I have been working on some algorithms to help automate the process. I’ll pop out a low rez grindhouse, and a first cleaning pass version soon, so you can all follow along with the process.
Basically I analyse the film, work out some semi-automated routines, run those passes and then look for what didn’t work, and then start finessing it from there.
I’d be appreciative if people could join in and help ID the sections where my routines fail so I can modify them and then finally go through and do a manual pass to clean up any remaining problem areas.
It is particularly tricky due to the CRT flickering screens and fine details in some scenes, but overall it is great to watch a ‘film version’ even if it is in a language I don’t speak. It is a mostly visual film anyway 😃

Yikes! Hope you and your family feel better soon, Poita.

And please check your PM’s. It’s kind of important.

poita said:

Final scans have arrived and I am working on them now. Unfortunately for the past 48 hours I and most of the rest of the family have been laid up with a particularly violent vomit bug. The kind where you think you are going to die, and then start wishing you would.

The print is very beatup in places, I have been working on some algorithms to help automate the process. I’ll pop out a low rez grindhouse, and a first cleaning pass version soon, so you can all follow along with the process.
Basically I analyse the film, work out some semi-automated routines, run those passes and then look for what didn’t work, and then start finessing it from there.
I’d be appreciative if people could join in and help ID the sections where my routines fail so I can modify them and then finally go through and do a manual pass to clean up any remaining problem areas.
It is particularly tricky due to the CRT flickering screens and fine details in some scenes, but overall it is great to watch a ‘film version’ even if it is in a language I don’t speak. It is a mostly visual film anyway 😃

I’d love to help. I speak a bit of Italian, so watching it would actually be good practice for me. What sort of stuff would I be looking for?

poita said:

Final scans have arrived and I am working on them now.

Thanks for the update! I was wondering where this was at 😄.

Unfortunately for the past 48 hours I and most of the rest of the family have been laid up with a particularly violent vomit bug. The kind where you think you are going to die, and then start wishing you would.

That sounds awful, and extremely unpleasant. You’ll have my prayers, and I hope it goes away as soon as possible.

The print is very beatup in places, I have been working on some algorithms to help automate the process. I’ll pop out a low rez grindhouse, and a first cleaning pass version soon, so you can all follow along with the process.
Basically I analyse the film, work out some semi-automated routines, run those passes and then look for what didn’t work, and then start finessing it from there.
I’d be appreciative if people could join in and help ID the sections where my routines fail so I can modify them and then finally go through and do a manual pass to clean up any remaining problem areas.
It is particularly tricky due to the CRT flickering screens and fine details in some scenes, but overall it is great to watch a ‘film version’ even if it is in a language I don’t speak. It is a mostly visual film anyway 😃

I’m not sure how much help I can be on the glitch spotting side, but if the previews are small enough files for a quick short download, I’ll try to help out what all I can.

Keep us posted; I’m sure we all share the same ecstatic excitement for the finished release!

My internet is horribly slow, but a heavily compressed (about 1GB) version of the raw scan is uploading now, I wanted to have something up for May the 4th 😃

Whatever the infection is, it is brutal, I am finally coming out the other side, but now our poor Japanese exchange student staying with us has just come down with it 😦

Upload is done, everyone that has helped out should be receiving a message soon 😃

Yes, I am on a time limitation with my software licenses, and I can’t currently afford to renew them as I am in a, well, let’s call it a work slump.
When they expire I can no longer do much restoration work, so I need to prioritise in case things take longer than planned. That means I will be working on altered scenes first and then the rest of the film, and then if I still have time, back onto the OT.

So yes, if anyone could give me a timecode list from the render so I can start collating a scene priority list, that would be great.

BTW, the file has been graded to match the colour on the print, it looks as close to how that particular print is as you are likely to get.
The file is in the BT.709 colour space and is designed to be watched on a calibrated television, not a computer screen, so keep that in mind.

The colour may not be to everyone’s taste, but that is how it is on this particular print.

“THX ‘prespecialized’ -> THX -> OT ‘prespecialized’ -> OT?”
I’m on a promise.

Deleted. This comment didn’t come across the way I intended. I misunderstood something poita had said.

For what it’s worth, I sent 5 bucks too.

Aren’t all the contributors listed in the first post still? I think he can just check there to see who all gave a little bit.

I accidentally uploaded the file without audio, so had to re-upload it.

I actually don’t have a list of people who offered help, the link has been sent to thxita, he will pass it on once the upload is complete, it shouldn’t be too much longer now.

However, I had to use infinit as the file was larger than 2GB with the audio, and I needed something with resuming as my internet craps out all the time, so you will need to get infinit if you want to take a look at it.

It is free, https://infinit.io/?referral=poita and if you use my referral, we both get an extra half gig of storage which would be very useful going forwards for this project, and for the Original Trilogy restorations, as I need to transfer large files to people who are helping me find glitches in my work as it goes along.
You can of course not use my referral, or not use infinit, it is just what I will be using going forward, so would mean things will appear there more quickly than elsewhere.