gulducati said:
One day, Lucas will pass away. And then miraculously, prints will be found.
35mm Kodak and IB Technicolor prints are already in good hands and are being digitally restored. Owners of the former plan to distribute once they're done.
althor1138 said:
Is it something like this?
Possibly. I'd have to see it in motion.
Can you post a 1-2 second clip containing that frame?
TheBoost said:
Best work day ever. It's standardized testing day, and all my students are done so I'm watching Star Wars Revisted with my class.
Nice!!!
Are they enjoying it?
althor1138 said:
I'm convinced that the settings for the comb filter don't do anything. If you figure out how to make it work please let me know. Can you explain the jump that you are talking about? Do you mean like a single frame jumping up or down once in awhile or a series of frames? Have you posted any screenshots yet?
No screenshots yet, but I will post some when I get home tonight.
The jump is weird. It looks like the odd field moves up several lines for 1 frame.
Boter said:
I signed up on OT.com specifically to ask about these. With Megaupload not being around anymore, I can't get to the full-resolution DVD covers based on my favorite Star Wars cover art. Does someone around here have these?
I second this request. I'd like to see these available as well.
I played with my Diamond ATI Theater HD 750 USB capture card earlier. I connected my Panasonic DVD-S29 (an excellent DVD player that outputs full chroma resolution via its analog outputs) and captured some patterns from my Digital Video Essentials DVD over composite.
I captured the pluge pattern, so I'll be able to determine if the AGC issue is indeed present sometime tomorrow evening.
I also captured the Snell & Wilcox Zone Plate to examine the 3D comb filter. It's not anywhere near as good as the 3D comb filter in the Panasonic DMR-ES10, but unlike the DMR-ES10, it switches from 3D to 2D smoothly, so that's a plus.
Unfortunately, the 5-line 2D comb filter cuts a lot of diagonal resolution from the "/" square, but manages to retain the diagonal resolution of the "\" square, which I find weird. What's also odd is that there's almost no rainbowing in the "\" square, but a lot of rainbowing in the "/" square and that manages to hide visibility of the loss of diagonal resolution from that square.
I was unable to see any difference resulting from modifying the comb filter settings. Do these even do anything? Have any of you managed to see a difference?
I also noticed an irregular "jump" happen every once in a while. In fact, it happened too often to not notice. Have any of you noticed something similar?
Ya'll are lucky. ROTJ is my favorite and I wasn't born until ~5 years after it was released theatrically. :-(
FanFiltration said:
"Ghostbusters II" was secretly all about making more money for the stars and producers.
Oh, man! I enjoyed that one!
AntcuFaalb said:
Did Panasonic produce Gamecube-playing-post#3-replying bots? I want one!
Introducing Panasonic Bots: Ideas for Strife.
ww12345 said:
dlvh said:
I like it, except for the words "Episode IV A New Hope"
+1. :)
Is "A New Hope" something new? I thought this movie was called "Star Wars"...
WTF.
Did Panasonic produce Gamecube-playing-post#3-replying bots? I want one!
This type of analysis certainly has merit, but it's not enough.
It's one thing to say that a major underlying influence of movie X is Y, but it's another thing to reduce X to an advertisement for or against Y.
A film critic needs to be able to recognize these major underlying influences without being blinded by them.
Star Wars was certainly influenced by young George Lucas' (Luke) struggle against the studios (The Empire), but one would be hard-pressed to claim that that's what Star Wars is "really about".
So, I think it's important to recognize these major underlying influences, but one's analysis shouldn't stop there.
KoolGuy7 said:
Please do it Harmy Phantom Menace may not be liked but it deserves to have a theatrical release too. Why is PT sooo pink seriously Lucasfilm? I kinda wish you'd do AOTC too.
Adywan did a TPM theatrical reconstruction a while back. It's not in HD, but it looks awesome. I'd suggest looking into that.
KoolGuy7 said:
I kinda like the Phantom Menace more than Return of the Jedi. ROTJ to me wasn't a satisfying ending to the Star Wars saga. I'm about to get killed aren't I?
Only by those members who consider ROTJ to be their favorite, myself included.
:-P
You_Too said:
poita said:
It will take about 2-3 weeks for the print to get to me in Australia, and then about a month to do a proper capture.
Because I capture in mono, I get 3 images per frame, a Red, Blue and Green image. These then have to be combined to make a single colour image.
I also do 3 captures and average them to remove CCD noise etc. and then an extra capture underexposed and another overexposed in case it is required. That all takes a while.
But yes, I will be selling the print when I have squeezed everything I can out of it.
This is so exciting, and deserves its own thread in my opinion!
I agree. I'll shoot poita an e-mail regarding this.
bkev said:
I really should have figured out by now that Fridays frozen dinner/snack things are horrible. They give me the absolute worst indigestion... and only having coffee this morning so far isn't helping haha.
But seriously though, cheese nuggets. Not worth the trouble for me anymore.
White Castle makes me forget that I get sick from eating White Castle food every time.
I just remembered now. Let's see how long it lasts this time.
Happy (belated) Birthday, OT.com!
I'm still a "new" guy here, but it feels like I've been around for ages. Maybe.
I've made some close friends here (You_Too, in particular) and I've managed to start a bunch of preservation projects that will probably take me ages to complete. Needless to say, I love it here.
My favorite memory of OT.com is when TV's Frink called me his hero. :-)
Good times. Stay calibrated, my friends.
lpd said:
^I suppose,what Im saying is if he gets the raw capture done he can get it back up for sale, he has to feed his kids! I believe celluloid isnt that great for eating.
Oh, I agree 100%.
I was just trying to point out that it's possible to get the raw capture done crappily and poita has said something to that effect to me outside of the forum in the past.
lpd said:
SShhh dont tell the other half.
Poita why not digitise it asap and then throw it back on fleabay, because of the price it went for it should defo get to that price again to get your money back, so long as you do a quick turnaround as it were, strike while the irons hot!
Digitization is still time-consuming. You have to get the exposure right, etc.
poita said:
I went way over what I could afford, but I nabbed it in the end. Hopefully it will be worth it - feeding your kids is over-rated anyway.
Silverwook, I know the seller that print originally came from, so at least I had some idea of its quality and heritage so to speak, but yeah, I went way over budget.
This is awesome! I'm glad to know it's in good hands.
Brooks said:
team_negative1 said:
We are looking into some more references. There is a derann 8mm possibility.
Team Negative1
Maybe this is a dumb question, but what are you hoping to use this print for? A color reference?
My reply is, for some reason, above this one! WTF?!
Brooks said:
team_negative1 said:
We are looking into some more references. There is a derann 8mm possibility.
Team Negative1
Maybe this is a dumb question, but what are you hoping to use this print for? A color reference?
The Derann Super8 prints use a very low-fade stock. Furthermore, they're "new", as they were made in the late 80s/early 90s.
Moth3r said:
My DMR-ES10 is atrocious at capturing (or passing through) fine detail from a composite input (image). I wonder if that's just an issue with PAL sources? I'll have to try feeding it an NTSC disc.
Yes, it seems to be just an issue with PAL sources.
Look at my (NTSC) results here: http://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?p=33347#p33347
Baronlando said:
It feels like people are optimistic that it won't be necessary under the new regime. But nobody wants to say it out loud, like it's a timid deer that could get scared off.
I agree. Well said.
Now what can we do about it?
I just donated. It's not much, but I hope it helps!
