Bingowings said:
I wouldn't be surprised if it had crashed a few times but Ady hopefully backs up everything (please back up everything) :-D
I wouldn't be surprised if Ady had crashed a few times :D
Yeah, that's why the painting itself should also be preserved independently of the movie, maybe as an extra on the BD, like the SW mattes.
Plus I don't really see anything wrong with the way it looks in the original movie - I've seen far worse matte-painting composites.
Plus it's not a great matte-painting to begin with - the background has a bit of a pencil-sketch feel to it - a bit of blur actually help it look more realistic.
Well, I think it's simple: a preservation of the matte-painting is a high resolution scan of the matte-painting itself, a preservation of the scene where the matte-painting was used is a high resolution scan of the earliest possible generation of the final composite of the scene.
Any sort of digital recompositing is revision and not preservation.
The Blu-Ray has the original 1981 composite (as it should), whereas the DVD and some of the HDTV rips have a re-composited version. And clearly, in the history-revisionist tradition, the fake re-comped version was also used wherever that mattepainting-vs.-final-shot comparison came from.
8K for very large screens (100" and more) is not over-kill, at such sizes, the pixels become pretty large even at 4K - but even on such a screen it would be pretty much impossible to see the difference between 4K and 8K content.
It really seems to need shot by shot unfortunately - look at the pink lights in the first shot for example - the BD is full of horrible stuff like that.
DrDre said:
...will allow you to export a LUT for use in programs like Nuke and Resolve.
That is just brilliant!
This tool could actually be very useful in production too - to keep the colors consistent between shots!
^Agreed!
I like it!
I really doubt we'll be getting 8K content at all - 8K TVs will simply be upscaling 4K content.
Well, my screenshot looks exactly the same on tinypic as it does on my computer.
No - it is definitely the same take shifted by a few frames.
DrDre said:
Bluray:
Bluray matched to Senator screening:
I will update the video sample, based on this color correction model.
Here's a quick adjustment of the BD image I did in PS:
I'm now convinced both the Senetor pictures and the IB scans I used were pretty green shifted and this is probably the way I'd go if I did another version.
For an effect shot, the original negative is the first generation copy of the finished shot, which would be in the assembled negative cut, not the individual elements - those are the original negative of the individual elements but not of the shot.
Yes. The scans I got were definitely crushed. Very little detail in the dark areas.
Is it formated as FAT32?
I just said this in the ROTJ thread:
Until there's an actual official announcement, I'm not stopping this project (though it has been on pause for a while now, because I'm super busy in real life, plus I'm waiting for some behind the scenes stuff) and then if there is an announcement, we'd still have to wait and see what the quality is like before abandoning these fan projects - remember the GOUT?
TheHutt:
Yes to the Rancor - I've always wanted to fix that but never had good enough source material.
As to Palapatine, v1.0 of ROTJ is based on HDTV, which had this, so it definitelly hasn't been removed in Despecialized.
Dr. Nick:
Where have I ever implied that? Until there's an actual official announcement, I'm not stopping this project (though it has been on pause for a while now, because I'm super busy in real life, plus I'm waiting for some behind the scenes stuff) and then if there is an announcement, we'd still have to wait and see what the quality is like before abandoning these fan projects - remember the GOUT?
Yeah, thanks!
Can someone please give me a link to the color-matching thread? I don't want to spam this one.
"By Ben Kuchera on Aug 18, 2014 at 1:00p"
Interesting! I like it! I always prefer having a UI :-)
I know very little about this stuff but would it be possible to connect it to some cut detecting algorithm, so that it references one frame in each shot (or by setting the cut detection to much lower sensitivity possibly just each scene) and then apply that to the corresponding shot/scene in the file you want to correct?
I'm amazed by this color matching algorithm you've created. Is it very CPU intensive? In other words, how long would it take to color match and render a whole movie this way at 1080p on a 3.5GHz 4 core?
Even if it was an upscale, it could be from a source better than a LD transfer.
