Thorr's 35 mm Star Wars Trilogy SE Trailer WQHD Restoration (Part-Finished) — Page 4

edit - nevermind, I think I am starting to figure it out

Hey, did anybody read about my memory of a really early SE teaser with no actual footage, possibly in late '95? Am I just imagining it, or did it really happen? (I even seem to remember it using the "One last time" moniker from the Faces campaign...)

Great work so far Thorr, the sample clips look brilliant. I love that trailer.

How long does it take for you to scan, say, one second of film? Is it a seriously lengthy process? I don't mean to sound impatient, I am genuinely interested.

TServo2049, I don't remember that but you could be right.  You might want to ask in your own thread so more people can see it.  Not sure which forum is the correct one though - probably general discussion.

Judge, thanks!  It is less than a minute per frame, so about 24 minutes for 1 second of video.  I also have to spend probably about the same amount of time per frame in post processing work.  So lets say about 1 hour for 1 second of video give or take a bit.  It's time consuming, but fun (at least for now :-) ).  If I do the post processing at the same time, it would probably be more like 30 minutes total work for 1 second, but it gets a bit crazy multitasking back and forth and it's easier to make mistakes.  Eventually I will try doing that though so I can work faster.  The whole trailer would be about 70 hours of work.  If I can spend an hour a day, then in 70 days, it will be done :-).

Wow, Thorr, that's actually a lot less time consuming than I was expecting. Good luck with the rest of the project, I will check in from time to time.

Here is a new clip!  This includes my original Death Star clip and everything else I have scanned so far with my new method.  The motion tracking in After Effects works perfectly, but takes a long time.  You have to set it and leave it to do its thing.  In the future, I will do one scene at a time so it should be easier to handle.  Enjoy...

Here is the 2560x1090 version (MP4): http://www.mediafire.com/?yzy9z1d35h4zco9

Here is the 1920x1080 version (MPEG2 because I had problems with MP4): http://www.mediafire.com/?a4utebjs2lszt3l

Sweet. Looks great on my laptop, can't wait to get home and try it out on my HDTV!

Thanks!  I tried them on my work computer and the MPEG2 version plays fine, but not the MP4 version.  I will release in both formats for compatibility on more systems until I figure out why MP4 doesn't work right.

Wow, awesome job!  Love the custom modified scanner setup!

Thanks! :-)

Just looked at the 1080p MPEG-2 version and I'm rather impressed.  I truly hope you can keep this kind of consistency over the entire 2-minute length. 

Another new clip!  I am striving for as close to perfection as possible, so this is a lot of work!  If all I had to do was scan, this would be done much faster.  I have been and continue to hand fix all of the blemishes on each frame, and some frames take longer than others.  The rest of the steps of the process are automated, but they are multiple steps that I have to manually kick off (cropping and level adjustments change for each scene).  I think I greatly improved the level adjustments of the final Death Star explosion - I remembered that I originally adjusted the levels in a hurry when I had to catch a flight.  I still may decide to rescan and redo that scene with the new rig after the rest of the trailer is done, but it is pretty good now so we'll see.

Here are the files:

2560x1090 MP4: http://www.mediafire.com/?hfbxz780tb52ynj

1920x1080 MP4: http://www.mediafire.com/?vzt8t1i2m2qhlos

1920x1080 MPEG2: http://www.mediafire.com/?8e0cr6khqz6mw8c

I also wanted to mention that the WQHD (2560x1090) resolution does make a noticeable difference on my 30" monitor and I am glad I decided to include it.  It's kind of like the difference between 1280x720 and 1920x1080.  Neither is bad, but 1080p is better.  Same goes for WQHD.

I also made an AVCHD (Bluray) disc with the MPEG2 version and it looks great on my 163" movie screen!  :-)

Holy shit, Thorr! Those clips look fantastic. I'm blown away by what you've been able to accomplish. This is definitely a project I'll be following!

Very cool.

Thanks for the positive reinforcement!  It helps to keep me going by making me feel that all the time I put into this is somehow worth it. :-)

Harmy, it is fine by me if you want to use some shots.  I am curious, which shots are helpful to you?

Regarding the new clips, I used After Effects instead of Xvid4PSP to create them (except maybe the MPEG2 version - can't remember now because it was late).  I also used a muxer included with Haali Media Splitter to mux the AC3 audio.  I have been having problems with TSMuxer.  All of the videos now work correctly on my buggy work computer if I use VLC.  The 1920x1080 MPEG2 version works fine with Windows Media Player.  The 1920x1080 MP4 version has correct video without dropouts, but no sound using WMP.  The 2560x1090 MP4 version doesn't have video or sound in WMP, but the progress scrollbar moves.  At least VLC should work for everyone now.  Also, I figured out why my levels were wrong in VLC.  After I disabled using my video card for acceleration of the video in VLC, it looked correct.  At home WMP works fine for all of the clips.

Also, I noticed some white frames somehow showed up in between the scenes on the 1920x1080 versions.  I caught one of them last night, but noticed more today. One of my new automation steps that changed the older already done frames from 1920x818 to 1920x1080 caused that.  I will delete the white frames and upload some replacement clips.  In the meantime, viewing the 2560x1090 version works fine.

LOL, that clip is awesome!  One bug though... the word "Fox" in the text at the bottom catches one of the stars and hangs onto it.

Also, LexX mentioned "the original Wedge's save in the beginning" on the first page, but I am not sure if it is of any use.

I looked at both versions of the SE trailer on youtube and that scene is different!  Here are the two on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRwG9xyQmIE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10kdekzIYUM&feature=related

I am not sure which one I have on film yet, but I think i have the first one because of the purple copyright text under the Star Wars Trilogy logo.  If that is the case, then that will have to be my source of the audio due to the different Jabba scene and who knows how many other scenes. 

After listening to the Jabba scene in both, it seems like I might be able to splice that in from the Youtube audio source if I can match the volume.  I want to have the cleanest audio possible.

Update: Here are the latest clips with the fixed 1920x1080 versions

2560x1090 MP4: http://www.mediafire.com/?hfbxz780tb52ynj

1920x1080 MP4: http://www.mediafire.com/?1luyqjri8cn8t11

1920x1080 MPEG2: http://www.mediafire.com/?w8v1t7d1c6mfmob