Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal — Page 36

The color correction makes quite the difference but I can see how you're going to use the spliced in English crawl on your Spanish print.

I am curious, what frames do you plan on using from the faded English print?

Mavimao said:

I am curious, what frames do you plan on using from the faded English print?

depends on what cinch and mr e decide

to fix. we're still analyzing them. wherever

we see scenes with too much grain or lots

of dirt. we'll replace it with the clearer ones,

or merge them. i only have 1 reel 3, and 

2 1/2 reel 4's....so some have a lot of sources

and others only one.

i could put up some more shots from the 1/2

test reel 4.

later

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here's our trailer in 720p (avi):

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/0izfsr

and a 1080p (wmv):

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/7c06v5

password is :  ot.com

enjoy, 

later

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Oh my goodness!

That happens to be my favorite SW trailer too. :)

Brooks said:

I'm really intrigued by the glimpses of the projector.  I haven't read all the pages of this thread yet, do you discuss your set up?  Is that a DSLR hooked up to the front of the projector??

it's a custom telecine, made from a projector,

with a DIY gear/pulley setup, from a used VHS deck,

and a 8 megapixel cheap canon digital camera,

with the custom software hack to do timed pictures.

we are using 4 megapixels for the pictures, and

keeping those for archive, as we downscale to 1080p.

not exactly state-of-the-art, far from it, but the results

speak for themselves.

slow and steady wins the race. right?

later

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Holy moly, that is awesome!

negative1 said:

Brooks said:

I'm really intrigued by the glimpses of the projector.  I haven't read all the pages of this thread yet, do you discuss your set up?  Is that a DSLR hooked up to the front of the projector??

it's a custom telecine, made from a projector,

with a DIY gear/pulley setup, from a used VHS deck,

and a 8 megapixel cheap canon digital camera,

with the custom software hack to do timed pictures.

we are using 4 megapixels for the pictures, and

keeping those for archive, as we downscale to 1080p.

not exactly state-of-the-art, far from it, but the results

speak for themselves.

 

slow and steady wins the race. right?

 

later

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First of all, whoah...this is starting to look really serious. And you said that you captured it at higher than 1080p, correct?  So you captured this at higher than Blu-Ray resolution.  Star Wars is saved!

Great job on the trailer.  I love the very stark contrast, for ex. in the dianoga scene and in the tie fighter attack- that is how Star Wars is supposed to look.

I am still confused about the workflow....you projected the print very very slowly using a pulley system on a VHS deck, and then you hacked a digital camera to take timed pictures at the same rate.  Did you just point the projector lens straight at the camera lens?  I am confused about how that part of it works. 

EDIT: When this is done, I want to watch it in HD on a big screen TV with the uncompressed 1993 laserdisc PCM blasting through two HUGE speakers.  I can see it now...

Oh, this is just the same trailer from before =(

But it looks like it's not interlaced anymore =)

It was interlaced for me. But otherwise I loved it.

Must be from the actual trailer, because it has colourless lightsabres :-)

1990osu said:

First of all, whoah...this is starting to look really serious. And you said that you captured it at higher than 1080p, correct?  So you captured this at higher than Blu-Ray resolution.  Star Wars is saved!

Great job on the trailer.  I love the very stark contrast, for ex. in the dianoga scene and in the tie fighter attack- that is how Star Wars is supposed to look.

I am still confused about the workflow....you projected the print very very slowly using a pulley system on a VHS deck, and then you hacked a digital camera to take timed pictures at the same rate.  Did you just point the projector lens straight at the camera lens?  I am confused about how that part of it works. 

 

EDIT: When this is done, I want to watch it in HD on a big screen TV with the uncompressed 1993 laserdisc PCM blasting through two HUGE speakers.  I can see it now...

i'll post a video of the setup. the film projector did not have an advance

on it.. it only showed 35mm strips or slides manually..

we added a pulley that has a motor/gear from a vhs deck..

and yes, the camera is pointing through

a lens directly at the projected source.

there is no need to go to higher sizes, because nothing supports those

dimensions yet. we needed manual exposure, and turned off auto-focus.

the key thing is being able to get the raw picture files, and work with

those. (i don't think they're 10bit, but i could be wrong).

so only older cameras had that option. newer ones are all auto focus.

the sound will be a combination of stereo sources including film and

laserdisc along with a recreated mono mix.

file sizes are not an issue. the 16g card fills up slowly, and we only

need to do a reel at a time at the most. 20 minutes isn't much.

but we're only getting 1 or 2 frames per second. so it takes quite

a long time to do even one. we've been at it for several months

now.

this trailer is made out of several parts:

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1 the actual trailer, with some cleanup

2 footage from our 2 prints, including the lpp print..

   which has some color, and the corrections on it

3 footage from red faded test reel 

4 sound is from the original trailer

the name isn't final yet either.. i'm pushing for

the 35mm theatrical version..

no time frame yet, but aiming for this year.

we've got about 70% done, and

the color correction is slight, so that part won't 

take too long. but after that we have to do a

first pass at the cleanup.

later

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