TV's Frink said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Is it just me or has Adywan sculpted a c*ck and B*lls into the lower left rock face?
Sojourn said:
That looks awesome! Also, it's huge! Thanks, as always, for all your hard work.
lol!
darklordoftech said:
AntcuFaalb said:
darklordoftech said:
Here's something on TFN that's sure to make us all laugh: a popular theory there is that "The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise" is forshadowing that Darth Plagueis will be the villain of the sequel trilogy.
Who is Darth Plagueis?
According to a "Sith legend" that Palpatine tells Anakin in Episode 3, Darth Plagueis was a Sith Lord who could have saved Padme, but ultimately was murdered by his own apprentice.
Thanks! I barely remember Episode III.
darklordoftech said:
Here's something on TFN that's sure to make us all laugh: a popular theory there is that "The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise" is forshadowing that Darth Plagueis will be the villain of the sequel trilogy.
Who is Darth Plagueis?
Joel said:
re: "In conclusion" No one said anything about "pushing buttons and waiting for progress bars to finish" and I certainly didn't mean to suggest that any of this was easy work.
That came out a bit nastier than I intended. I'm sorry about that.
Joel said:
team_negative1 said:
A couple of weeks will clean a few seconds of film.
Team Negative1
Argh - forgive my frustration here, but this vague, grammatically-challenged proclamation doesn't even address my question, it just re-states what I already said - in essence, "This is taking a long time."My question is: WHY does it take a couple of weeks? I'm curious as to why it's taking so long, that's all.
Since physically cleaning a few frames takes less than 1 second, we must be talking about digital cleanup.
I'm a digital media guy, so I'm having a hard time understanding why it would take someone with a modern computer *weeks* to do anything. Photoshop, After Effects - is the "team" using these? If not, why not?
Am I grossly oversimplifying?! Probably!
The team is using a program that I've worked with quite a bit. (PM me for the name.)
The reason it takes weeks is that:
(1) Despite the fact that this particular program has an incredible state-of-the-art automatic dirt/dust fix tool, you have to examine each frame individually to guarantee that the tool didn't produce any unwanted artifacts (e.g., "cleaning" someone's pupil). Furthermore, you have to modify the settings to work best with each and every shot.
(2) If you're careful and the automatic dirt/dust fix tool doesn't produce any unwanted artifacts, then you're most likely left with dirt/dust that you need to clean manually. This takes a long time.
(3) Other kinds of damage (e.g., scratches and tears) are much harder to fix.
(4) Each member of the team has a life outside of OT.com. They're only working in their free time.
In conclusion, it's not just about pushing buttons and waiting for progress bars to finish. The team has to painstakingly examine and restore each and every one of the ~175,000 frames in Star Wars.
If you want to better understand what's involved in digital film restoration, then please PM me and I'll hook you up with everything you need to try it out first-hand.
Now on a MySpleen near you...
skyjedi2005 said:
The review is extremely junevile and unprofessional. Calls the book by John Phillip Peecher a whitewash but spells his name Peeler.
What more can you expect from TFN? :-(
Ryan McAvoy said:
Is it just me or has Adywan sculpted a c*ck and B*lls into the lower left rock face?
Probably just me...
lol!
You might want to bring this up in Doctor M's Disney thread.
poita said:
I think he meant $490 still to raise, not that $490 had already been pledged.
Damn!
timdiggerm said:
AntcuFaalb said:
TV's Frink said:
At the risk of sounding more stupid than usual...what's a linefeed?
US-ASCII (and character-sets derived from it, including Latin-1 and UTF-8) have two character-codes that signify "move to the next line":
10: Line Feed, a.k.a., New Line
13: Carriage Return
http://www.asciitable.com/index/asciifull.gif
*n*x systems (e.g., GNU/Linux) use a single Line Feed to represent newlines. Classic pre-OSX Mac systems used a single Carriage Return to represent newlines. Microsoft systems (e.g., MS-DOS and Windows) use a Carriage Return followed by a Line Feed to represent newlines.
These terms come from the typewriter days of old...
Carriage Return -> return the carriage to the start position
Line Feed -> move to the next line on the paper
And, I would think, carried over because dot-matrix printers are just like that.
Yes, and teletype machines (UNIX was developed on one).
ww12345 said:
Cool! Now we're at $490...
Really?!
TV's Frink said:
At the risk of sounding more stupid than usual...what's a linefeed?
US-ASCII (and character-sets derived from it, including Latin-1 and UTF-8) has two character-codes that signify "move to the next line":
10: Line Feed, a.k.a., New Line
13: Carriage Return
http://www.asciitable.com/index/asciifull.gif
*n*x systems (e.g., GNU/Linux) use a single Line Feed to represent newlines. Classic pre-OSX Mac systems used a single Carriage Return to represent newlines. Microsoft systems (e.g., MS-DOS and Windows) use a Carriage Return followed by a Line Feed to represent newlines.
These terms come from the typewriter days of old...
Carriage Return -> return the carriage to the start position
Line Feed -> move to the next line on the paper
frank678 said:
"limited edition/frank edition"
lol :-)
_,,,^..^,,,_ said:
If you are talking about flickering, or halos around the "Village Roadshow" logo, they are also on DVD...
Yes, the Village Roadshow logo looks like crap.
Leonardo said:
I'm fucking pissed off and filled with murderous rage... my main computer's hard drive bit the dust!!!!
E v e r y t h i n g was in there!!!
I just wanna punch a wall now.
Have you tried the freezer trick?
coltonlolz said:
Has this project ever gone forward from this state?
You might be interested in: http://originaltrilogy.com/FORUM/topic.cfm/Looking-for-a-good-transfer-of-the-first-issue-Pan-And-Scan-Laserdisc-for-Star-Wars/post/633848/#TopicPost633848
coltonlolz said:
A lot, and more on the way!
I'd be a bit more careful if I were you... http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Troll-Speculation-Thread/post/670496/#TopicPost670496
coltonlolz said:
Has this project ever gone forward from this state?
More Necromantics!
Oh, oh, try to find an older thread! How about one from 2003?
Which PAL LD players do you have, Andrea?
coltonlolz said:
Anyone got this? I would really love to see it! And bumped the thread.
You win the Necromancer of the Year Award! Congratulations and thanks for playing.
SilverWook said:
The auction ended over a year ago.
lol!
Will you keep the theatrical cropping or will you open it up a bit?
I've received the new cables I've been waiting on from svideo.com: (1) composite[male]->BNC[male] and (2) s-video Y-cable. I'm sick of using adapters.
I'll be able to switch rooms and start capturing soon.
poita said:
$500 is only 50 people donating $10 each. That seems like a good deal to preserve a piece of animation history.
Agreed. Count me in.