God's honest truth, this is probably the skeeziest preservation I've ever heard of.
I actually have a bit more respect for Lasseter now. Maybe one day he'll repair the damage Cars did to my opinion of him.
Fair enough. I ask because I wouldn't be doing the printing myself. The kind and patient people at Staples will. :p
Ha! I had no idea Criterion sold their cases in bulk. Remarkably cheap given their quality.
Do you need to adjust the brightness of the image before printing to that stock? I've printed out someone else's custom cover before but I think it came out too dark.
Is there any sort of collaboration between Legacy and Team Negative One? Or are these just separate 35mm restorations?
Mhmm. The grindhouse release of Empire has gotten me super-interested in all things 35mm. Even with the corrected colours and reintroduced grain of Despecialized, it still has a different look from 35mm (not at all to abase what Harmy has done; the Despecialized editions are monumentally important).
Between The Force Awakens, Battlefront and these 35mm preservation releases, 2015 is going to be a fantastic year for Star Wars, perhaps the best since 1997.
That's very kind of you. They look beautiful and I'd love to use them to keep my BDs of Team Negative 1's releases when they finally come out.
Is that custom cover art DVD or Blu Ray-sized, and if it's the latter where could I download it?
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DavidMerrick said:
Properly scanned in 4K and cleaned up, what level of detail to these prints resolve to? DVD? Somewhere between DVD and Blu Ray? You've said that only by scanning from the negative could you get Blu Ray quality, but I figure the detail is still substantial.
EDIT: also, are you still keeping the reel change marks? Please say you're not.
Really good 35mm stock has about a resolution of 6K. I'm not 100% certain what resolution a release print would have, but best guess is much less. Besides an overall softness, however, you can get Blu Ray quality material from a properly scanned and restored release print, assuming it's a good print (see mverta's SW Legacy).
Yeah, I'm looking at the restored 35mm shot of Lando from Harmy's Empire Despecialized 2.0 and it might as well be Blu Ray. Thanks for clearing that up.
Properly scanned in 4K and cleaned up, what level of detail to these prints resolve to? DVD? Somewhere between DVD and Blu Ray? You've said that only by scanning from the negative could you get Blu Ray quality, but I figure the detail is still substantial.
EDIT: also, are you still keeping the reel change marks? Please say you're not.
I was going to say I've been watching the Grindhouse of Empire a lot recently, and for all of the red and dirt/scratches (which will eventually be remedied anyway) it's an incredibly authentic experience.
I'm really pumped for this. I love Harmy's Despecialized to death--it helped get me back into Star Wars--but I yearn to see all the original compositing and the proper grain. I never thought I'd prefer the old, translucent and kind of flat compositing but it's kind of endearing now.
I believe you said the grindhouse-first release was only for Empire, correct? So your version of Star Wars will be more conventionally restored?
Whoa, I had no idea there was another 35mm preservation going on besides Team Negative 1's. Goodness there's a lot to look forward to.
The 1.0 versions of all three movies, which draw primarily from the DVDs and laserdisc footage, are all released. Harms has put out HD versions of Star Wars and Empire (2.5 and 2.0, respectively) that use the Blu Rays as their basis and use more 35mm footage. He's working on 2.0 of Jedi currently.
Hmm, not sure I have the tools to apply his work, but how would you personally adjust it in VLC?
Oh! I'm going to have to do some more digging for the colour-corrected ones.
The guy is basically doing a one-man special edition--in fact he's arguably putting in even more work and care than the official SEs--so he can take as long as he likes as far as I'm concerned.
Please forgive me if you answered this, but will you be brightening and cleaning the image for a future release, or are you leaving that to whoever wants to use the footage for their preservations?
Yes, the majority of home media users do.
Oh! That's weird. I've never watched the official BDs so I assumed they had gone full Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition on them. Well that's more of a relief. Thanks!
Harmy, how do you deal with digital noise reduction? You said you had to contend with it for the first two, but how would your process be with, say, plastic-faced Luke in the following link?
At this point in my life, I don't care bout "better." Empire may be the definitive Star Wars film but the sense of catharsis and wonder I get from Jedi is incomparable. I can't wait to see the "Lapti Nek," sarlacc and celebration sequences restored to their original simplistic glory.
EDIT: HD, glory, I mean. I already have the 1.0 version of Jedi Despecialized.
I'm super looking forward to this edition of Jedi. It's my favourite of the original trilogy and the one that suffered the most from its alterations.
Wow, this looks and sounds great. I can't wait for the cleaned up and colour-corrected version.
Wait, so the re-zoomed out cockpit shots are a mixture of Blu footage and something else--the slideshow says '97SE, so I assume laserdisc transfer/TV scan. And it's just the colour palette that makes them look different than the bookending shots?