Asaki

SWE is smear free, yes.

poita said:

...there is plenty of gate weave in the film even with the sprockets totally stabilised, that is just how it was.

Oh, okay. I thought it looked worse in the wet gate footage, but I didn't do a side-by-side comparison, so I'm probably just imagining it.

poita said:

I can get a brand-spanking never been projected ESB print for about a grand, just have to rustle up the funds.

Derann didn't do Empire though, did they?

Oh no, I feel stupid now for not getting the hint =|

Are you going to be able to do a sprocket hole stabilization?

yotsuya said:

But I really think that to avoid a total shutdown from legal action that the raw film scans needs to be shared as widely as possible. If it is everywhere, they can't stop it.

I don't think that's going to be a problem. I'm sure 24 hours of one single torrent would be enough to keep it alive for many years (though I suppose it might take longer to download than a typical DVD-shrink).

Idunno, I've watched quite a few crappy 600 MB AVI files in my day. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that some weirdos hold nostalgia for that kind of thing.

Heck, the first time I watched Star Wars since I was a kid, was some crappy AVIs of the widescreen VHSes of the Special Editions. It was absolutely terrifying.

I don't know why you would want to watch the movie without the PSB video, but cool effort anyway =) I guess it could be useful for future projects.

It's amazing what a little science can do.

I've noticed orangey reds in DVDs before, but cooincidentally, I only noticed them in movies we had watched on Sony products, so I figured it was just their video decoder or something.

Call me when this is on VCD.

poita said:

If you have any frames with smearing I'd like to check them against mine.

 Here's a bunch: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-V8-A-Final-Attempt/post/335898/#TopicPost335898

To save you some time, out of that batch, these three are the most noticable. Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology, but all of the colors "bleed" to the right:

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/8128/190pe9.jpeg

^ note especially the blue and red buttons/lights on the control panel

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7114/130ht0.jpeg

^ the colors on his badge (medals, I guess?)

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2913/50ap9.jpeg

^ almost everything

I know some of you guys have talked about trying to fix it before, but I don't think anyone got too far with it yet.

IMO, ESB and RotJ are better.

They've still got their brightness and color timing tweaked with for home viewing, but they don't have the chroma shift/bleed/smear/whatever that ANH has.

It's near mint!

...or maybe it's like new!

......or maybe it has two splices, four missing frames, and some barely noticable color fading.

.........or maybe the entire reel has faded to pink quite a bit =|

Best auction description ever.

The Ulysses Cut is probably still around. It's fullscreen and about Laserdisc quality, but it's watchable. It's not entirely the Sci-Fi version though, it's has every single "deleted" scene he could get his hands on, from several different sources.

I still find it hard to believe that the official release can look that bad. Has anyone ever uploaded any clips of it in motion?

red5-626 said:

Glad I am not the only one that Noticed that one.

 It's pretty impossible not to notice...it almost makes you seasick >_<

I was working on stabilizing it for a couple of days a while back, but having a job, I don't have much time to devote to that sort of thing anymore.

AntcuFaalb said:

1  crop/resize the shot from althor1138's preservation to match adywan's reconstruction

 I thought Adywan was using an HDTV capture for the theatrical edits?

Sprocket hole stabilization should be "good enough". There's going to be gate weave in the composite scenes, so it will be impossible to fix everything (unless you're Mike Verta and you disassemble and reassemble everything), and by then, everything will be unnaturally still.

As long as it's not the GOUT, or The Brave Little Toaster (ugh), I think you'd just end up spending months of work and frustration on something that's not that noticable.

frank678 said:

@Asaki, did you mean the youtube clip that negative1 posted some stills from here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Colortiming-Cinematography-was-What-changes-was-done-to-STAR-WARS-in-93/post/569016/#TopicPost569016 this might have gone through a different chain perhaps

 Yeah, I think that's the one. Certainly not a very good reference =)

frank678 said:

Asaki said:

It's a little less colorful than I was expecting, but looks pretty awesome.

I think it would be possible to make things 'pop' a bit more with some adjustments - I had tried a quick and nasty boost https://vimeo.com/72009834 but I would be worried of doing too much in case of ruining the nice texture the original has

 I'm not saying the colors are bad, I just remember them being slightly different (a little more greenish?), but that's coming from the memory of a YouTube video of the film being projected onto a wall...so not exactly the best reference =)

It's a little less colorful than I was expecting, but looks pretty awesome.

Great, now I have to wait until I get home from work before I can watch it =(

...or maybe I feel a touch of the flu coming on!

OmegaMattman said:

The 152-minute cut is the '01 Extended Version found on DVD and BD, not the KCOP Cut.

 Ah, okay. The way it was worded, I wasn't sure.

Still could've sworn all of those scenes were in when I saw it, but I guess sometimes the mind can play tricks =|

Probably just didn't pay their bill, like vbangle said. Unfortunately, it happens all the time =|

alex s said:

It was the 2001 152 minute version shown on AMC

 So I'm not imagining things? AMC was showing the KCOP cut?

Or are you saying that AMC showed the director's cut and not the KCOP?

...that's what Lucas wants you to think.

...or is it what Disney wants you to think? Kennedy? I'm not sure anymore =|