Harmy- The new footage looks dang good! It's a bit late in the game to mention this, and I forget if you've mentioned how you're dealing with scratches and dust and whatnot, but you should check out Pixel Farm's PFClean. Maybee you can score a demo version somewhere?
So pumped!!
So pumped for ROTP! Glad someone is taking the time to preserve these gems!
Glad to hear your "year from hell" is winding down.
Whenever somebody comes over to my house to watch a movie who hasn't seen my collection before, my SW preservations are always the shining jewels. Namely your editions and Harmy's Despecialized. I'm pumped for Return of the Pug. It will be nice to have the complete set.
thanks
I'd love to hop on the myspleen bandwagon if someone would like to hook me up.
Just took a look at the comparison shots. Everything looks fantastic!
Laserschwert said:
That'll work too.
Because now with a freshly installed system, you should make a backup image of your drive. You'll be thankful to have it when something goes very wrong. Not having to install all the drivers, browser, e-mail, video stuff (like Avisynth, Virtualdub and the likes) and especially all the Adobe stuff yet again saves a lot of nerves.
Like for Seagate and Maxtor drives, there's a special free edition of the great Acronis True Image backup software, which only works for WD drives (actually it works with any drive, as long as it finds a WD drive attached to your system): http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
Make a compressed image of your system and software drive(s) and put it some place safe.
+1 on the backup image. I cloned my hard drive after a fresh install, so any time I have to reinstall the system, I can just clone the disk back with all of my programs and prefs intact. Saves a lot of time.
FANTASTIC!
I promise I won't beat a dead horse here :)
The Green drives use "Intelipower" technology to adjust RPM as needed, so the drive doesn't spin at speeds unnecessary to the task. That's why while I'm editing off of them, they perform at full speed (forgive me I don't actually know the max RPM) and then spin down when not needed. As I say, we use them all the time, and I trust their reliability, but that's me. I do have a couple of Black drives, and my experience with editing off of them is that because they run at a much higher RPM whenever they're in use, they get quite hot. I did a 5 hour render of a feature length film on a Black drive and it was uncomfortably hot to touch by the time it finished. I haven't noticed any speed differences using the Green drives, that is to say that they perform just as well as far as I can tell with read/write times. I do long renders on them too, but they do stay a lot cooler and as I say I haven't found any reliability issues whatsoever.
As far as the Red drives go, I have no personal experience with them, I've always heard that they're somehow optimized for NAS use, so I just stuck with Green and Black drives.
I'd say if you can afford it and want the absolute best performance, absolutely go with the Black. However, if price point is indeed a worry, I wouldn't dismiss the Green drives due to the fact that they are "low power" because they are indeed reliable for video editing.
Harmy, just throwing my 2cents in here. I'm an video editor by trade and we exclusively use Western Digital Green drives at work. I edit off of them daily and they've never let me down. We have 50 or so of them in regular use at the office.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236404
Don't get me wrong, WD Caviar black drives are fantastic, high performance drives, I have a couple of those too, but for work we edit and archive with the green drives and they perform fantastically. We use the 2TB models (link above) and have found them to be very reliable and reasonably fast. There's also a 3TB version on sale for $114.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136874
I agree about staying away from the Red NAS drives. The Green's are a great low cost, reliable alternative.
In the amount of time I've been following this thread, which is fairly short compared to the overall life of the project, I never cease to be amazed at the commitment that Harmy has showed. What you're doing gives nerds everywhere something to look forward to, installment after installment. keep up the fantastic work and good luck with the academics!
Could somebody point me to a working link to the Disc/Jacket art?
I call it "inter-release cabin fever" : )
@ray_afraid: I'll give that a go. I thought the expanse of stars made it look more 80s t-shirt-esque which to some may look cool and some ugly.
@CatBus: I was actually thinking of putting something like that on the back but wanted to keep away from referencing any of Harmy's work to keep its purpose purely to promote Harmy as opposed to any one specific project he is working on, but I'm open to the fact that there are people far more advanced in the art of subtlety than myself. Also thanks for the anal-retention. I'll fix that.
Of course. This is all contingent on Harmy's thoughts. My only involvement would be to hand over a t-shirt design for Harmy to use should he have any inkling to do any of this.
Yeah I'm not entirely sure either. I'm fairly certain that as long as the contents of the text "Harmy Film" don't have any connection with Lucas/Disney and the typestyle is free or properly licensed (The one I used is "sf distant galaxy") and the stars element is royalty free, it should be clear. I've seen heaps of coca-cola themed t-shirts available and surely they're not all officially licensed. I suppose it would more so be an issue of calling attention to this lovely forum. Ultimately It's Harmy's call. Perhaps others could weigh in on the legal side of things?
yoda-sama said:
Maybe a Harmy Film is a lens filter or extra movie film layer that covers up special edition changes...
Haha. Just like the blue filter glasses used for display calibration tests.
Here's another version:
I came across this site Which apparently lets people create t-shirts and if they get 30 orders within the first 30 days, they'll print them and the creator will get $5 from each $20 shirt. Perhaps the easiest method would be for harmy to set this up so the proceeds go to him directly and if there are enough takers, he'll at least get $150 USD and we'll all get cool t-shirts.
@yoda-sama: I believe harmy has spelled it "Harmy Film" in the closing credits as well as the disc art. Maybee he'd consider changing it for the t-shirt.
@Harmy: If you're game, let me know and I can do a serious design for the shirt.
For instance: 
Hey all, I know that several people have wanted to support Harmy financially for all of his hard work, but the certainty of legal ramifications has prevented the creation of crowdfunding efforts etc. How about making a contribution via the sale of fan gear, the profits of which would be given to Harmy for the purchase of a new mac, or blu-ray media, or whatever his favourite late night snack is or whatever.
For instance, I know I would purchase in a heart-beat, a T-shirt that said "HarmyFilm" in a star wars-esque font
Now I'm no lawyer, but selling a t-shirt with the man's name on it that has no connection with Lucas/Disney's intellectual property must be in the clear, no? Of course this is provided that the font used is properly licensed. Heck, I'm sure someone could hand-draw it and it would be fine.
Anyway, I don't have the capacity to undertake the production of the t-shirts, but I could easily mock up the t-shirt design if harmy doesn't already have some useable graphics kicking around on his HD.
Thoughts?
(Similar to the above post)
This guy made a pile of mods to a Pioneer CLD-99 LD player, including a video output bypass that circumvents the circuits that (in their heyday) cleaned up the video signal before piping it out via RCA or S-Video. His mods apparently produce about the best video signal you can get out of a laserdisc player. I can't thoroughly explain it, but for all the tech-junkies, it might be worth a visit to his youtube page. If anyone could produce the best copy transfer off of the CAV GOUT discs, I'm sure he could. He's also on AVSForum here, if anyone wanted to petition him.
I've been scouting for a set of the SW LD's for awhile now.
that being said...
CAN'T Wait for 2.5! The blu-ray burner is hooked up and ready to go!
Bravo sir, bravo.
Harmy said:
Fireproof710 said:
Harmy said:
Just for fun, here's a v2.5 version of the Despecialized Edition logo sequence for the BD extras:
http://uloz.to/xeQQCjb/deed-v2-5-logo-ac3-m2ts
Bravo! It's fun.
Question: "The poster art" if you will as seen here: Is there any chance of getting a PSD of those? Or knowing where the sources came from? I've been thinking of adapting that artwork (with your permission of course) and mocking up a physical box to house the BD cases and really show them off. I would obviously share them with everyone here...
It was from SW lunchbox the someone turned into a cover. Here are all the file I could find on my disc; the original luchbox scans and the PSDs for my title pics :-)
http://uloz.to/xpHPivA/luchbox-rar
THanks! I'll let y'all know if I come up with anything good...
Harmy said:
Just for fun, here's a v2.5 version of the Despecialized Edition logo sequence for the BD extras:
http://uloz.to/xeQQCjb/deed-v2-5-logo-ac3-m2ts
Bravo! It's fun.
Question: "The poster art" if you will as seen here: Is there any chance of getting a PSD of those? Or knowing where the sources came from? I've been thinking of adapting that artwork (with your permission of course) and mocking up a physical box to house the BD cases and really show them off. I would obviously share them with everyone here...
