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That price is fine. Are you able to get an estimate on the postage? I can e-mail you my address, if needed.

I'm hoping to get about "80% of what's possible" with this restoration. I'm a perfectionist too, so I need to be careful not to set my goal to 100% if I ever want this to get released.

I know that's an incredibly-loosely-defined goal, but I think keeping it around as a mantra of sorts will go a long way in helping me make some difficult choices for the sake of getting this thing done in a reasonable amount of time.

Aaannnnddddd... here's difficult choice #1: We're going to have to settle on 8bpp rather than 10bpp.

Now, I understand the benefits of working in 10bpp. Trust me, I do. Unfortunately, neither myself nor my color-grading guy are equipped to do anything in 10bpp, so my question is: Can you do something on your end to lessen the impact?

Man, threads like these make me wish I had joined OT earlier.

This ESWN? http://eswnonline.org/

:-D

DavidMerrick said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Finished baking the second tape.

Welcome to OriginalTrilogy.com, one of the few places in the world where the above sentence makes any kind of sense!

lol

A remake of ROBOCOP is in production. IMO, it looks terrible.

WTF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmtQXUXez8

WTF?! He's ignoring me now, too!

poita said:

I'm more than happy to supply you with the files, and scan it/convert it to whatever formats are most useful.

Excellent! How much would it be to purchase a large-enough hard drive there and have it shipped to Columbia, MD USA? I can send you the money via PayPal.

The stabilization function available in a certain post-processing tool with a seven-letter-long name is excellent.

With all the resources available at OT (e.g., Darth Mallwalker's reel change frame numbers, none's shot list spreadsheet, etc.) a proper restoration is very possible to do in a reasonable period of time.

I suppose that this is where I come in. :-)

I'd like to get a small team together if anyone's interested.

timdiggerm said:

CatBus said:

Will we finally have Lapti Nek in HD?  Could it be?

I knew you had a thing for Sy.

I know I do! ;-)

Ab queck zenick fesi, baby.

timdiggerm said:

The easiest way to do this is continuous distribution, so that the files are stored in many places, and are continually being stored in new places.

If your preservation isn't freely available, it's probably not very well preserved.

Finally! I finally have someone who agrees with me that distribution is necessary for preservation.

Ooooh! Return of the Jedi! My favorite!

I'm excited!!!

poita said:

Hoping to have the Derann print completed with wetgate by the end of next week.

That's amazing!

What's the next step?

Usenet all the way, baby.

After being uploaded once to a single Usenet server the files will be propagated to thousands of other binary-accepting Usenet servers, many of which don't comply with US Law Enforcement.

It's a real-deal global decentralized redundant backup.

... and it's cheap, too!

Thanks for doing this, Mavimao! Now I don't need to do it!

Now all we need is for belbucus to come around and work his magic.

Yay! Thanks for the update, -1!

benduwan said:

so,near 3 months later...

nothing new here...:-(

is there any news?

Unfortunately, no.

To make matters worse, the hard drive I had the deleted scene files on is officially dead, so I'll need to "acquire" those again.

DavidMerrick said:

Mavimao said:

All versions of Star Wars DE are 720p. This resolution was chosen because it's easier on Harmy's computer (takes less time to render, less space on the HD, etc), better matches the upscaled GOUT sources, and in any case, the loss of detail from downrezing the bluray from 1080 to 720 was negligible anyway. 

Negligible with a capital "N." You could have fooled me.

Dude, read the thread. Harmy covered this not too long ago.

Left: Original 1080p from the 2011 BD release.

Right: 2011 BD release downscaled to 720p and then upscaled to 1080p.

The fact of the matter is that the master Lowry used for the 2004 DVDs and 2011 BDs is crap. This is probably due to the fact that Lowry is crap as well.

Harmy said:

maybe using a still from it of one of the small SDs in the background.

That's what I was thinking!

Let me know if you need an uncompressed frame from it.

Harmy said:

Yeah, I tried that before but it really doesn't work. I will however definitely try to improve the quality of those shots for the final release. It was the last thing I did for the WP and I didn't have time to give it a proper treatment.

I don't know if it applies to these shots, as I haven't seen the WP yet, but keep in mind that the P&S LDs are likely to have higher quality models due to the extra scanlines and lack of DVNR.

If you need a model (e.g., a Star Destroyer) and it's fully-intact in one of the P&S copies, then this might be the best way to go.

I can always grab an uncompressed frame from my P&S TESB CAV LD, if needed.

Bingowings said:

I love my vacuum cleaner but not in a gay way.

Of this are you sure? </yoda>

Thanks for your input, Bingo.

What do you think about dropping 5 entirely and merging 3 and 4 instead?

I'd like to end it with a bang; e.g., Caesar saying "... and that day is upon you... NOW!" and then fade to black when the apes start cheering.

I'd like to cut as much from 3 as possible; only leaving in what's necessary to setup the baby-Caesar plot.

The problem, of course, is coming up with a good way to transition from baby-Caesar to adult-Caesar.

darth_ender said:

Star Trek: The Captain's Log

Sister project to SW:POO, of course.

I think the Planet of the Apes would work better a trilogy than a pentalogy.

IMO, the last three films are simply too weak and contain too much filter. The core story (the rise of Caesar, the downfall of man, etc.) is valuable, however, and I believe it would work better if they were somehow combined into one film.

I’m open to ideas. If you’re interested, then please contribute some!

adywan said:

I have a very strong suspicion after his last few posts that we have been visited by father Skywalker once again

The last posts seems to have been made by a "pat man 2"-esque sock. I don't think it's Father Skywalker.