digitalfreaknyc said:
Neglify said:
Out of curiosity how much he asking for it?
I believe 2k.
Comparison: Nicholas Santini's sale page: http://home.q03.itscom.net/nsa/PioneerHLD-X9.htm
I vote for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's the best Disney film IMO and indisputably groundbreaking.
Plus, it's my favorite, so there's that.
Necromancer time!
I'm working on MATLAB->C'ing this beast in order to make an Avisynth plugin.
Danfun128 said:
Warbler said:
What is an x9?
It's widely considered to be the second best, if not the best, ntsc laserdisc player, arguably only topped by the x0.
And the LD-S2/LD-X1, comb filter excluded.
camroncamera said:
The GOUT image... It's like the original telecine process was transfered at 16:9 anamorphic and was converted to 4:3 letterbox at the mastering stage (and caused all of that awful aliasing) by throwing out every other scanline like yesterday's bagels.
Close, but the process was significantly simpler (and 100% analog) than you describe: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-GOUT-in-HD-using-super-resolution-algorithm/post/771079/#TopicPost771079
poita said:
I think Acu has it.
Yes, I do. I'm still trying to figure out what's best to do with it as it's ~800GB.
I don't have a powerful enough computer at the moment to do an H.264 encode in a reasonable amount of time.
It is, of course, available to anyone who can send me a 1TB HDD or money to purchase a WD10EZEX from Amazon.
I've been studying the avisynth branch of the Bifrost filter. Even though it doesn't use a sophisticated motion estimation algorithm (e.g., optical flow) I've found that it does a better job than pretty much every other software 3DCF* out there currently, TComb included.
I've been torture-testing it too. At reasonable settings it's hard to get it to artifact. It has an altclip parameter which gives you the ability to provide a different clip as an argument for the blocks it classifies as being "in motion". You can use this to process only the motion blocks with a different filter; e.g., the low-pass filter I've mentioned in other threads.
I've been using:
c.Bifrost(altclip=c.Spline16Resize(180, 480).Spline16Resize(720, 480))
This allows me to 3DCF static blocks and LPF motion blocks only. It works really well for the footage I'm working with at the moment.
You can considerably improve its motion detection by getting rid of all dot crawl first since it uses the luma plane to determine if a block is in motion or not and dot crawl screws that up.
I suggest capturing a S&W zone plate with your setup in order to find the best values to provide as arguments for the luma_thresh and variation parameters.
(* Keep in mind that this is for chroma only. You'll have to go elsewhere for dot crawl.)
Jetrell Fo said:
This ld-decode, can anyone test this out? Is it actual software or just a script for AVIsynth which I have NO good clue about using, LOL?
happycube (the author) and althor1138 both have working ld-decode setups. It's a standalone program, not an Avisynth script. It also requires special capturing hardware and an LD player mod at this point in time.
althor1138 said:
I did a pal->ntsc video->film conversion
srestore?
I really like that poster!
No issue here. Can you hold on to the raw if we decide it's good as-is? Also, can you upload 3 consecutive raw shots (preferably ones with high contrast transitions, such as red to white)? I want to see how well the PAL 3DCF in the 750 handles shot changes.
Thanks!
althor1138 said:
I'm currently capturing my pal laserdisc version. Now that I'm looking through it, it seems they sporadically decided to add subtitles here and there. Mostly, they pop up during stock video footage from the movies but occasionally parts of the documentary are also subtitled unfortunately. The quality seems quite good though but I won't know until the capture is finished if there are blended fields or if progressive frames can be restored. In any case, I'll post the raw file (no audio) to usenet probably this weekend for others to analyze.
Thanks! ld-decode or 750?
StarThoughts said:
My copy is an original (it came with the '92 letterbox box set with the hologram), but it isn't sealed. Nevertheless, if it would prove useful, I'd be glad to lend it out provided it was returned.
I have the same copy, but sealed.
StarThoughts said:
_,,,^..^,,,_ said:
- "From Star Wars to Jedi" NTSC US VHS tape?
- No go! I repeat, no go!!!...at least, until Jetrell Fo will provide the latter, to get rid of the Japanese hardsubs... interested? Stay tuned on this thread!
Jetrell Fo is definitely providing the latter?
I have a sealed copy as well as a Panasonic AG-1980. I was planning on capturing it sometime soon.
SilverWook said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
When I enter "brooke shields young" in Google Images, why the hell do photos of her as a prepubescent girl -- naked and in heavy makeup -- show up in the results? God, why do those photos even exist?
It's because of one of her early films, (in which she played a prostitute) which could never get made in Hollywood today.
Yep, the same goes for Taxi Driver. :o(
Iris? I don't know nobody named Iris.
mfastx said:
No posts in here for three days? Is this forum still working? lol
Interesting! 81, 86, 90?, 96, 108?!?!?!
My head is going to explode now too.
I wonder if we've had the WB cut all along; save the SEN-with-kids scene, of course...
Thanks, msycamore!
Weird question: Is it possible that the original GL cut (i.e., pre-WB-hackjob) was 90min rather than 86min?
More mystery: The 35mm IB Technicolor print has the same runtime as our 16mm print.
Maybe WB constructed the 81min cut and George, et al. had a hissy-fit and left everything else up to WB in disgust, but WB decided to release the 85/86min cut in the US to earn money from the growing "Art House"/Indie scene and release their 81min cut elsewhere (e.g., Italy).
My knowledge of this film isn't great. What evidence do we have of the 81min cut being released in the US besides word-of-mouth?
I wouldn't be surprised by American Zoetrope boycotting the US theatrical premiere only to never find out that it was a slightly modified version being shown rather than a butchered one.
msycamore said:
I haven't seen the 16mm scope yet, currently downloading a 720p version, but it seems very likely that this is the same cut of the film as your other 16mm print, SilverWook. Which means that it's not the original 1971 release cut. The runtime and extended SEN scene suggest so.
If the 35mm re-release prints match the 16mm versions, it means that Lucas tinkered with the film for its home video debut in 1982.
I sent a message to poita. I think I remember that he had something that was more-or-less definitive in demonstrating it to be from 1971.
towne32 said:
Thanks AntcuFaalb!
The scene in question for anyone curious but not familiar:
This hyperlink gives me a 403.
Yay!
dvdmike said:
Is there a way to get the colour back from another source?
Our source technically has color. For just one scene we might be able to correct the red fade. I'll ask poita.
ww12345 said:
Now there are two of them?! Is it Team Endor or Team Olie? So confused....
And Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3.
re: FRAPS: I'm hearing really good things about Dxtory nowadays.