AntcuFaalb

nickr said:

Sorry my post was meant to be light hearted. You have showed me how inadequate my setup is.

I am just so used to doing without silver discs, that I am surprised these days when people talk about them.

No offence intended.

Hey, it's no problem. I don't think your setup is inadequate. Very few people (relative to the world population) truly need calibrated setups for critical viewing.

I'm sorry for missing that your post was meant to be light-hearted. We get a good number of new users around here who come in and start talking trash about what they perceive as antiquated, etc. and I mistakenly thought you were one of them.

nickr said:

Do people still use DVD/Bluray players do they? How quaint!

Yes, some still do; myself included.

Is your TV calibrated to sRGB then? Did you calibrate it relative to the input signal from the HTPC or did you calibrate it independently? Which probe do you use?

Are you feeding it from a playback unit (e.g., the Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Monitor) or directly from your video card?

Video cards are damn unreliable when it comes to critical viewing on a calibrated setup.

I sure hope you're doing things right considering the amount of dick measuring you have going on in your post.

nightstalkerpoet said:

My personal problem with it being in 3d isn't a lack of 2D options in general, it is the potential for affecting premium showings. I want to see a 7 film marathon opening day. Sadly, chances are that those marathons only include what they feel is the best version- ultimately, probably giving us eps 1, 2, and maybe 3 in 3d, 4-6 in 2d, with 7 in 3d... 

Do you really want to see Jedi Rocks in 3D? O_O

Danfun128 said:

I have doubts that Star Trek TOS and Hartnell/Troughton Doctor Who Serials will be released into the public domain in my lifetime, let alone Star Wars.

So...?

michaeldc said:

Is it the swearing? If so, edited! Don't want to offend!

No, I think it's re: your flight.

Beber said:

so what's the deal with this independent project?

It's archival. Mr. Verta has no plans to ever release his restoration unless it's via an official channel; e.g., Disney purchases it from him.

Long-story-short: It's not for us. It's for our Star-Wars-is-in-the-public-domain-holy-shit!!!1 descendants.

Let's not clog up Team-1's thread any more than we already have.

Beber said:

Sorry if that's already been discussed, but I was reading some comments on Blu-ray.com and came across a link to this:

https://vimeo.com/channels/starwarslegacy/116358396

The guy mentions 4K restoration, so I'd say this isn't you guys, right? Seems to be a parallel project. Is it a former member of Team Negative1?

It's a completely independent project: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/StarWarsLegacy-com-The-Official-Thread/topic/1418/

unamochilla2 said:

Is this an official restoration?

No

1anakin said:

Well it looks like I'm late to the party, again!

Meh, we all are at times.

FWIW, there's at least one other 4K 35mm IB Technicolor scan restoration being worked on currently.

There's also Team-1's project which, IIRC, is based off of a 2K scan of a 35mm Spanish LPP dupe print.

1anakin said:

Mike Verta is doing a 4K restoration of A New Hope! 

http://vimeo.com/channels/starwarslegacy

I found out about it here, scroll to the bottom.

http://millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9418

I really should wait for TV's Frink to reply to this, but oh well...

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/StarWarsLegacy-com-The-Official-Thread/topic/1418/

mverta said:

Well that makes sense, inasmuch as the whole thing is a joke.

Of course :-P

mverta said:

In 25 years as a professional, I've found labeling people "professional" means very little.

There's a bit of amusing circularity here.

Spaced Ranger: Shoot me a PM. It might be more productive to have a realtime chat about this.

Update: I re-captured all three of my THX 1138 LDs with the DPS-575 and, despite my initial praise, have some reservations about the results of the 3D CF in "normal" (of low/normal/high/extreme) mode.

The first frame of every significant shot change (e.g., dark to light; red to blue) has SeriouslyScrewedUp™ chroma; everything else looks fine otherwise.

The question at this point is: Do I accept this result and move forward or should I re-capture with the DPS-575 in 2D adaptive mode instead?

The best solution is, of course, a combination of the two. I can re-capture with the DPS-575 in 2D adaptive mode and then replace the SeriouslyScrewedUp™ frames with ones from it, but I don't really have a shot change detection algorithm I trust at the moment and I'm not willing to go through this entire thing to come up with a shot list.

Thoughts?

In better news: I have found the best denoising algorithm I've ever seen in an extremely expensive (read: thousands of dollars) program I use regularly. It uses some of the best motion estimation algorithms in the biz and I can't force this thing to smear. It's wonderful.

marin888 said:

Godfather Saga AMC in HD is released 3 long years ago,
and looks like no one have intention to make uncensored version.

Use AMC and import scenes from Blu-Ray, or opposite.
And maybe 5.1 track (DTS)
Without GFIII
Release as Blu-Ray.

That can be best chronological version in best quality for a long long time.

An Offer You Shouldn't Refuse

The AMC logo makes this significantly more difficult than it seems to be.

FWIW: The R2J DB DVDs got great custom English subtitles from [] and are available at [].

PM me to fill-in the []s!

RU.08 said:

I think it was the 1997 version. Before that my understanding is they just scanned the o-negs in Telecines to produce the SD outputs for TV/Laserdisc/VHS. The negatives were cleaned for the 1993 transfers, I don't know if that qualifies them as "restorations" though.

In any case, new theatrical prints were struck for the 1997 SE.

I'm pretty sure IPs were used for all pre-97 releases.

SilverWook said:

AntcuFaalb said:

TK-949 said:

Just 15 to 18 days until the official announcement that the OOT will be released.

huh? o_O

 The rumor that it will be announced at Star Wars celebration in a couple weeks. Time will tell...

ah, ty!

TK-949 said:

Just 15 to 18 days until the official announcement that the OOT will be released.

huh? o_O

Asaki said:

Tobar is rabot spelled backwards.

If it were Tobbar instead I would assume that he's a big ATHF fan.

TV's Frink said:

Why is location so important, anyway?  Are you a real estate agent?

No. It just bugs me because it should be a quick/simple fix.

Update: Harmy removed the burned-in South America 1936 Japanese subtitles beautifully, so that's done!

SilverWook said:

AntcuFaalb said:

SilverWook said:

I wonder if the sort of color video voodoo the Dr. Who restoration team has done with episodes  that exist as black and white prints could be possible with this?

Unfortunately, no. IIRC, the BBC team relied heavily on the fact that the video was transferred via a composite medium by using information gleaned from the dot crawl to figure out which color caused the interference in the luma (B&W) channel in the first place.

 Actually, I was thinking of how they took the color signal from a fan's Betamax recordings and combined it with the monochrome 16mm.

Ah, I didn't know about that. Cool!

SilverWook said:

I wonder if the sort of color video voodoo the Dr. Who restoration team has done with episodes  that exist as black and white prints could be possible with this?

Unfortunately, no. IIRC, the BBC team relied heavily on the fact that the video was transferred via a composite medium by using information gleaned from the dot crawl to figure out which color caused the interference in the luma (B&W) channel in the first place.

jedimasterobiwan said:

sorry i guess i doing everything wrong i don't know what you guy want me to do on here. help me i'm obivously too stupid to figure out what i'm doing wrong.

Read this: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/TVs-Frinks-Guide-To-Sensible-Posting-Or-How-Not-To-Be-A-Target/post/467612/#TopicPost467612