AntcuFaalb

poita said:

You know about this, right?

http://www.modernsoundpictures.com/rental/THX-1138.html

Now all we need to do is figure out a way to get it to you in less than 1 day. :-P

I still think a vile gangster like Jabba The Hutt would be the best "main villain" for Episode VII.

Let's reestablish the Jedi by having them do what they do best: act as guardians of peace and justice.

I don't want to see another PreventTheJediFromGoingExtinct tale. I want to see our new heroes traipsing through dark underground corridors; fending off evil henchmen with cleverness, resorting to lightsabers only when necessary.

Most importantly, I don't want the movie to "take itself too seriously". I want the kind of lightheartedness that songs like Lapti Nek brought to RotJ. I want puppets and monsters and aliens and weirdos.

I want to laugh when the little robot is being a smart-ass, but I only find out through the responses of the tall robot.

I want Warwick Davis.

I want Star Wars.

<3

someperson said:

 

AntcuFaalb said:

My LX-900s (I own two) are both still being serviced by Duncan of laserdiscservice.com.

I'll be able to start capturing when I get 'em back.

I'm planning to TooT.

Any updates?

 

 They're both still with Duncan.

fmalover said:

hey Harmy, I read an article a few years ago about ultra high definition, which is set to replace HD in a few years time. This being the case, i was wondering if you would be willing to go back to the editing room and work on a UHD version of the despecialized editions (versions 3.0, I guess). This would obviously render the GOUT obsolete, as the resolution of those is well below UHD, and the lost footage will have to use the 35mm film prints exclusively as source, and teamnegative1 would have to use 8K scanners. I hope those are affordable by then. I'm not demanding anything, just thinking you should plan ahead and hopefully be ready if the time comes, you can do it.

There's no point since the official blu-ray release (Harmy's primary source), despite being released at 1080p, has been demonstrated to resolve no better than 720p.

That is, when the official blu-ray is downscaled to 720p and then upscaled back to 1080p, very little detail is lost.

Harmy's test is shown here (scroll down a bit): http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/why-720p-for-revisited-is-enough/

pittrek said:

Hey, -1, is anything wrong ?

I don't speak for the team, but I'm close enough to them to know that everyone and everything is fine.

The blog mysteriously disappeared. I can't say much more, so try to glean from that what you can.

Keep calm. The march of progress carries on!

My apologies to Andrea for jumping-the-gun, but here's information on the new preservation-centric forum: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/New-Preservation-Forum-AMPS-Analog-Media-Preservation-Society/post/646523/#TopicPost646523

I recently started a new preservation-centric forum called AMPS: Analog Media Preservation Society.

It's unaffiliated with OT.com and meant to serve as a supplement rather than a replacement. At the risk of being redundant, I must state that AMPS is not intended to compete with OT.com or steal its members. I do know that OT.com has had some issues with members starting independent forums in the past, so I'm trying to do this as carefully as possible.

AMPS has special access controls in place that prevent bots and indexers from accessing the meat of the forum. Among other things, members are required to post a thread in the "Welcome Board" in order to even access any of the other categories or boards.

Thanks to these special access controls, AMPS allows members to post hyperlinks to downloads. Other goodies are planned for the future, but I won't discuss them here.

Check us out! http://amps.boards.net/

penguinofgreatness: I'm not saying it wasn't digitally changed. I'm saying that the gate wave suggests that it wasn't entirely-reanimated like Sleeping Beauty.

I just took a look at my Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs laserdisc.

There's a ton of gate weave. Would they have left that in (or put it back in) if they used that crazy reanimating process?

I know that it was "scanned into a computer" in 1993-94, but after taking a another look at it, I'm having trouble believing that it was reanimated like that Sleeping Beauty release.

msycamore: Good point(s). I will reconsider my position.

Molly said:

>mfw

I thought even 16mm didn't resolve well at 1080.

16mm stock is typically shitty. It's often much worse than the stock Derann used for their Super8 prints.

Puggo's 16mm transfers, as much as I love them, are not at all representative of what you can get from a good 16mm print, or even a good Super8 one.

Also, FWIW, it's not Puggo's fault. The problems are inherent to his sources.

Molly said:

So you can actually get good results at 480p from a Derann Super 8?

The Ken Super 8s are the only Super 8s, admittedly, that I've seen.  I wonder if there's any clips out there?

You can get excellent results at 720p.

You can get good results at 1080p if you average two scans of two Super8 prints of the same movie.

I've seen how well Super8 can resolve. Don't let the few Super8 preservations that are floating around influence you.

OK, poita. So how do we get this going?

I'm going with 100% pre-digital-restoration LDs all the way.

IDK what to do about Snow White though. The only LD version that exists was scanned into a computer. Can we trust it?

Puggo: lol @ George Lucas spying on you two!

DuracellEnergizer said:

So that's means you're the first person in the world to think Shades of Gray was a decent episode?

 

I really enjoyed Shades of Gray.

I usually like those "looking back" filler-episodes.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Until recently I thought Who Watches the Watchers? was the worst TNG episode ever made. When I watched The Chase today, however, I realized that wasn't so.

I don't see what's wrong with either of them.

In fact, I can't think of a single bad TNG episode...

I guess I'm just not critical enough. I watch TV shows for the characters and the relationships between them. The rest, to me, is just "necessary" to provide context and drama; to move things along.

I consider an episode "bad" if it makes me want to turn off the television and do something else. I rarely experience that with TV shows I enjoy and never once experienced it with TNG.

I keep coming back to Burn Notice because I like Michael, Sam, and Fiona. I'm much less interested in the spy shit.

Spaced Ranger: You can definitely get better results by working in the "YRGB" color-space used by DaVinci Resolve.

I wish I knew the formulas and/or algorithms used to decode an image into YRGB, but it seems to be Blackmagic-proprietary.

poita said:

AntcuFaalb said:

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AntcuFaalb said:

A cleaning can't hurt (see below), but LDs aren't anywhere near as sensitive as CDs and DVDs are when it comes to surface cleanliness.

If you do choose to clean 'em, I suggest using Novus #1 Plastic Polish and a good microfiber cloth. Also, consider using Novus #2 to buff-out scratches.

I agree! Consider that laserdisc has analog video, and no error correction like CD/DVD/BD, so even a really tiny dust particle (<1μm) inside the layers could show up as black dots or lines.

Yes, unfortunately occlusion defects are impossible to avoid. :-(

Just crank up the laser power and burn them out of the way!

lol

darth_ender said:

Yes, but how many people have signed the petition? :(

We'll never know.

Fucking pat man...

Darth Solo said:

EDITED my privious post to expand, but can you edit out my quote about the HD-DVD I re-encodeded from my past post for legal reasons. Although i DO own the original title anyhowz.

Thanks. Done.

Darth Solo said:

Erm, stickle point now.

Huh?

Darth Solo said:

Mind you, that is a little laboured AntcuFaalb. What are you running?

~2007-2008 PC...

A hand-me-down AMD Phenom II X4 925 with 4GB of RAM.

GPU: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT

The primary issue I'm running into now is that my computer isn't sufficiently powerful and I don't have the funds to build a better one.

It runs PFClean fine when I feed it SD material, but stepping up to HD material makes each and every little operation take that much longer.

Restoration is an experimental process, so most of the work involves applying a transformation, stepping through many frames to see if it was an acceptable one (e.g., no artifacts), and then repeating the process over again when you realize that it wasn't (this is usually the case).

When it takes ~1 minute to preview a frame... well, you get the idea.

nightstalkerpoet said:

Ok, my last piece on the laserdisc piece. in relation to software fm signal conversion, would this be helpful? im not a programmer or anything, but this guy seemed to be on the right path, if im understanding correctly.  

arachnoid.com/phase_locked_loop

Someone is already working on this: https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode

Unfortunately, the FM signal isn't "what's on the LD", so-to-speak. It's generated by the player, so you can think of the code above as a means to capture from an LD without using a comb filter and without all of the processing done by a capture card and its drivers.