MonkeyLizard10 said:
DeathlySin said:
Scans don’t just magically happen, they take a lot of time and effort.
Yeah this stuff can really take a LOT, and I mean a LOTTTTTTTTTTTT of time. Especially if you want to match 35mm colors, then it can take just more hours than you can even fathom put in over months. Or if something is magenta faded. Or has tons of bad scratches and dirt. Even in the easiest cases and without taking much care for color it still takes quite a while, that simple case takes a long time and trickier or more carefully color matched ones take super extra time longer on top. People can easily put in like ten or even tens of thousands of dollars of man hours into getting these projects done. And nobody gets paid (the funding just covers the cost of the scan and storage, just the raw basic costs and even then, in reality usually not all the actual behind the scenes basic costs are ever really fully covered so most people directly lose money on every project even when funding goals are hit and the best case scenario of breaking exactly even I don’t think actually happens much of the time), they have real jobs or school and other stuff going on. Even getting things to a scanner and back and getting a scan itself can take quite a while (in the case of this project, I don’t know what they are doing for color timing and whether they are going all in to match the 35mm or not or whether it is easier on the scanner they are using to do that, etc. but I know they are using a new custom scanner, apparently quite advanced, but that has apparently had some issues with breakdowns and had a lot of down time which I think has been one of the things most delaying their project here and there isn’t much they can do about that sort of delay but wait for the film to manage to all get scanned by the scanner).
Yup. Far greater priorities compared to a fan project, as it should be. Unless people are rabid and chomping at the bit for this due to the popularity of this trilogy.