Brooks

AntcuFaalb said:

Molly said:

Well, it looks like it was DVD-sourced in the beginning, and then he got film?

Yep!

 How can it be dvd sourced if he's been doing it for 15 years?  Laserdisc maybe?

SilverWook said:

Brooks said:

Thanks!  I've made it to the part where you say you've spent 200k on this... WOW!  That alone means no one here has the right to criticize your efforts, that's a serious sacrifice for the love of film and SW.  I hope the powers that be recognize that when the time comes...

 Other people around here have spent their own money to obtain film prints and the like. They simply choose not to discuss it.

I'm sure many have, I've admired Poita's recent equipment acquisition.  I wasn't trying to say no one else has sacrificed.  I respect all of the members here who have sacrificed so much time and money for the love of SW.

mverta said:

I do not, however, own my own house. You know, priorities.

 Well, you own a pretty bitchin' R2D2, so that's something  :)

Thanks!  I've made it to the part where you say you've spent 200k on this... WOW!  That alone means no one here has the right to criticize your efforts, that's a serious sacrifice for the love of film and SW.  I hope the powers that be recognize that when the time comes...

I'm having a hard time streaming the video.  Maybe too many people are watching at once?  Seems good so far though, w hat little I've managed to see :)

I'm sure most all of us would LOVE to help on this project if there was something we could help with!  Just let us know!  Otherwise we'll just enjoy and appreciate your updates -B

Personally I love M Verta's videos! I haven't looked at the legacy forum for a long time because there was rarely new content there the last time I checked, so I appreciate a heads up here when there's something new over there. Even if we never get to see a finished product I really like seeing the process, I think it's fascinating personally.  Just my 2 cents...

These look great!  Thanks for sharing, I love looking at these, please keep them coming! :)

poita said:

If they are using a homemade scanner then the most likely reason is that their light source is not spectrally matched to their sensor (camera).

 I believe that they said they changed/improved their capture process, but at some point I remember they were using a point and shoot camera, I'm sure it has auto white balance and color correction on it.  I know there's a huge difference in my dslr when I shoot raw vs jpg, the jpg has lots of adjustments pre-applied to it before I export from the camera.

Hope you don't mind if I add -1 for those that can't download the tiff

poita said:

Yep, film is grainy. You can see how much detail the noise removal, well, removed, in the GOUT image. Look at Obi-Wan's face.

 I was just about to say that!  It's surprising to see how blurry his face looks in that gout shot.  Did you do this with your new scanner?  Can you post a pic in full resolution somewhere?

Awesome!  Except for the red tint it looks great!

Wow, color wise the difference is dramatic, much less fading in the fuji!

poita said:

They are 120MB per frame...

Wow!  I scan my still photo negs at 4800dpi and they come out around 90mb (and they are HUGE).  I bet you get amazing quality at that resolution.  I can't wait to see a sample frame (even though you'll surely have to compress it mightily to get it online).

team_negative1 said:

 

...- Raw LPP capture with deleted scenes.

 

Deleted scenes?  What scenes are those, did you guys find film of deleted scenes?

My understanding of their set up is that they are using a point-and-shoot digital camera.  I'm not sure what kind of chip it has (I'm guessing cmos?).  What kind of lighting can you produce to cater to that?

I'm not very knowledgeable on this kind of thing, but would a brighter bulb on your projector set up improve the darkness?

Asaki said:

team_negative1 said:

The starfields will be replaced with a higher quality source.

Huh?

What are you, George Lucas?

I'm sure they mean one of their other prints... :)

thanks again for all the recent video uploads, it's really fun to see what you guys have done!

I'm surprised that there aren't more of these promo discs out there.  Maybe the attention this is getting will turn up some more that have been hiding in the back of some office somewhere.  As popular as Jedi was it seems reasonable that someone else would have hung on to it.  Were they given to different potential clients or just shown at a convention?

looking awesome!

I liked vimeo, why did you switch?  This new site made me watch a full 30 sec commercial. 

The video itself looks great!  I'm so psyched!

The change is really evident in 3P0, there's much more color there.  But the whole picture seems darker somehow.  Is it just more saturation?

Oh, and the video looks great!

imperialscum said:

TV's Frink said:

...Not everyone has a blu ray player.

When making that statement, I was under the assumption that there isn't a sane person who would prefer a few new stupid changes to 2004 version (which is already on DVD).

The 2004 dvd's are out of print, right?  So this is I guess the only way you can buy a dvd if you need one.

that cleaned up speeder in mos eisley screenshot looks great!  Lots of detail in there for a laser disc!