Wow, Zion, this sounds great! I’m excitedly looking forward to the completion of this project!
FWIW, I second Video Collector’s suggestion.
I know it’s been a while but i finally captured the Vudu versions, FWIW.
Wow, thanks! Do you plan on putting them on Usenet?
FWIW, the Jabba interior shots are very dark on all the 35mm LPP prints we’ve scanned.
Who has poita designated to work on them?
I’ve put a team together. We’re still working out the details.
Any board members here keep in touch with the former members of Team Negative1? Before their disbanding they had acquired Fuji prints of ESB and were going to start working on them. It would be nice if through those connections you could retrieve the prints and restore them, plus the Technicolor print of SW but from what I read that one will be a lot harder to come by.
Here’s what we have: http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/794933
Sounds like a very good plan. Is there intention to do this kind of annotation for only the raw scan, or for intermediate stages of dirt cleaning?
We’ll start with a lossy encode (e.g., max JPEG of all frames rendered at something like 2K) of the raw scan and see where things go from there. An intermediate instance would make sense, but we might not even get enough people involved in the first place, so we should feel it out first.
So the collaboration tool I’m working with Blue_Harvest on is pretty simple and not a QC nightmare.
Our restoration will only have skilled hands involved.
The tool gives people the ability to: load a frame, draw a rectangle around a region of the frame, and (optionally) write a note to associate with that rectangle. This information will be stored in a database: loaded at the time the frame is viewed and stored with changes back in when the next frame is requested. This gives people the ability to see the notes everyone else has taken in order to aid in collaboration and not duplicate work.
The idea is that the skilled hands working on the restoration will be able to access these rectangles and notes while working to see if they missed something or if they removed something they shouldn’t have, such as compositing anomalies that were present on all '77 prints.
Additionally, by getting more eyes on the scan, we hope that people skilled in Photoshop will be able to pick up some terrible frames with very heavy amounts of damage (e.g., a huge tear, etc.), request the raw frame and the few around it from me, and work on doing the hard work that PFClean simply can’t handle.
One other thing to note is that this tool will help people researching the film. It gets the community together to take a look and help out, if they can.
FWIW, I’m in talks with Blue_Harvest on an idea I had that will help get even non-technical people involved in the restoration, but in a way that won’t impact the quality of the end product. I’ll give more details when we’re done working them out.
What a pickle.
It’s actually a chair.
We know more than we did earlier, and we wouldn’t have without conversation and questioning.
True, but I think it’s diminishing returns at this point.
Guys, with all due respect, figuring this mess out doesn’t help anyone.
What’s done is done. The team account isn’t coming back. No wording is being revised. No reputations will be untarnished by the words here alone.
If the team decides to officially regroup and resume work on the IB Technicolor scan they have, then they’re going to do that regardless of what is said here.
All of this poking and prodding is a waste of time and will have no impact whatsoever.
I just want to remind everyone that the Pete in this case isn’t poita.
For all interested (especially Stinky) I will say this: scans of other 35mm IB Technicolor prints exist and at least one non-TN1 team is in the process of booting up to start restoration work. It will likely be worked on last (since it’s the least endangered of the three from a preservation POV), but it will get worked on.
No names; no threads; no team accounts; no updates; no credits; no interviews; no deadlines; no guarantees except that the scans will get passed on if the team falls apart or loses interest or spontaneously combusts.
Made the mistake of being curious about what post 102 was
It caused an incredible amount of drama in Off Topic way-back-when. Ah, the memories…
Despite being someone who should know better, and was probably involved…I’m completely lost.
It started here: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Share-your-good-news/id/16448/page/5
And then it spread into other threads.
Made the mistake of being curious about what post 102 was
It caused an incredible amount of drama in Off Topic way-back-when. Ah, the memories…
Person#2 could be a chair for all I know.
The reality of this whole situation is, strangely, that Person #2 is a chair.
I heard he was a table.
His 'spleen handle is neither table nor chair
Yes, but perhaps it would be best for everyone involved if we just treat them as nonexistent from now on. No good can come from it at all.
Person#2 could be a chair for all I know.
The reality of this whole situation is, strangely, that Person #2 is a chair.
I heard he was a table.
Nope, a chair. Here’s a recent image of him:
Person#2 could be a chair for all I know.
The reality of this whole situation is, strangely, that Person #2 is a chair.
How about instead of V2 you call this one "Team Negative One Legacy Edition"?
FWIW, the Jabba interior shots are very dark in all of our LPP scans.
How about digging this classic thread out. Lol
YES!!! He’s back!
A random Reddit post by an anonymous internet user? Hardly confirmation.
His Reddit username is his real name and the value of his post (the confirmation) is in the image he links to: http://i.imgur.com/zD1S8y6.jpg
Everyone at the premiere wore these. The staff had yellow-bordered badges and the guests had red-bordered ones.
I suppose he could have forged it, but then he would have had to do it in a very short amount of time and he would have had to have access to a real one.
This Pastebin description is making the rounds, and it hasn’t exactly been entirely confirmed yet, but if it’s real, it’s worse than I could have imagined. Better than the prequels, sure. But doesn’t sound anywhere as good as the originals.
Confirmation is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/3wx3s5/kylo_ren_is_the_son_of_han_and_leia_was_trained/cxzlqbb
A leak from the upcoming Visual Dictionary: http://imgur.com/a/8oBYM
Are the Action Channel Green Hornet caps the ones used for the bootleg 9 DVD "Criterion" Deluxe Edition DVD set sold for the past few years?
I’d like to get my hands on the episodes in the best quality possible, but I can only find compressed-as-hell encodes being passed around.
