Lasz

towne32 said:

Lasz said:

ok, now i wanna know what it was.

Nothing crazy. Just something that made me excited and thinking a release would occur last night but obviously that was not the intention.

yeah, I was hoping for a release as well…

oh well, just a matter of time, I guess… 😉

ok, now i wanna know what it was.

So how are you guys getting along with everything? Are you guys till aiming for a December release or maybe next year though? (not trying to push you guys, seriously take all the time you guys need. I’m just happy this is happening at all.)

O, and can somebody please tell me how to change the layout of this new forum to something other then for myopic elderly people? You know, like smaller fonts, smaller everything, a bit more oversight, a bit more like what we had?

Thanks,

Laszlo

that over saturation will probably go away automatically when the image is lightened up with a gamma correction.

I prefer whole grain.

Loving the grain and the detail

They are only going to release a 25GB 1080P version

I can't wait. If I may ask: (and sorry if this has already been answered) what are you guys using for color reference?

Thanks,

Lasz

pittrek said:

The shot of the two suns the white sun is shaking. It's extremely annoying.

I think that's gate weave that was introduced while the shot was being composited. Meaning that it's baked into the shot and to get rid of it you'd basically have to re-composite the shot. I think Mike Verta has a piece on it.

I wonder what's responsible for the disappearing of "craft". Could it be the enormous budgets and endless technical possibilities that are available these days? I mean back when there was less technology and less budget, people had to get creative and take out what wasn't necessary or what was too expensive or just what couldn't physically be done. These days you can do just about anything you can dream up and that seems to have backfired for a lot of movies: think the Matrix sequels, the SW prequels, the Hobbit trilogy and possibly way more. With endless possibilities, directors seem to loose track of what the essence of a movie should be. Before, you were forced to condense your movie to what was it's absolute essence, today you can make up anything, which can result in bloated, superfluous movies. The more possibilities you have, the more careful you have to choose, I think. Maybe the industry will slowly catch up to that.

Or not, I dunno. Maybe I'm just rambling :P

I did the "save target" thing, but when I open it in either winamp or VLC, there's no playback. Ayone else have this issue?

Asaki said:

Hey man, don't count your chickens before they hatch! We don't know how robust Mike's backup system is. I think he'd better send a copy to me, just to make sure it's really safe

 I'm sure all of us are more than willing to serve as a safety backup

are you going to be a creative consultant @ Disney? :P

kk650 said:

Based on those scans I get the impression that fleshtones have been more affected overall by the red fade on the print than anything else.

 The fleshtones might be more affected by the brightness than the color balance. As colors appear darker, they also appear more saturated.

Wow, that's looking exeptionally well. :)

Will you guys ever consider creating a 50 gig/BD50 version? Because all that grain, lovely though it looks, must eat up a TON of space...

Cheers,

Lasz

TV's Frink said:

Lasz said:

already looks amazing, despite it's imperfections

 How dare you say it is imperfections.

Team Olie

 Oh shucks, I have fallen into grammatical incorrectness... mea culpa, mea culpa...

already looks amazing, despite it's imperfections

Poita, may the force be with you and get well soon!

Just to be clear: this is still just a cleaned up version of the ESB grindhouse version, right? because this looks pretty darn good!

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Lasz said:

Nobody cared that Santa Claus wasn't real either, as long as they got the friggin' presents.

 I think you mean Team Santa Claus.

 lol, obviously... :P

I care absolutely nothing about all of this (although I do find TV's Frink's posts about it very funny)

The only thing I care about is seeing the original trilogy restored in a proper format and if the person/people, (whatever) working on it can have a bit more peace of mind by not revealing their identity, (whether the paranoia is valid or not) then give them a friggin' break.

Nobody cared that Santa Claus wasn't real either, as long as they got the friggin' presents.

And I can't wait until it's Christmas.

wow, never seen that before; someone must've really crewed up the rotoscoping

Yeah, there's definitely some type of "soft focus" effect going on. That probably also explains why C-3PO's reflections are so extreme in some the Tatooine shots...

One other thing that could cause ghosting is if they were shooting through a sheet of glass or perspex to protect the lens.

poita said:

Lasz said:

The Shade said:

Lasz said:

It's probably not even really ghosting, but just stuff in the shadow that's behind r2d2 that somewhat looks like ghosting, but isn't.

Here's a clearer picture:

http://www.jedi1.net/images/1600/ANH-Creatures-03176-1600.jpg

 I can still see it in this pic as well. The "ghosting" follows R2's shoulder joints on both sides.

 I see what you mean but to me it looks more like some stuff that's behind R2, in the shadow of the sandcrawler. But it's very faint and hard to distinguish.

 No, it is happening in a lot of scenes from the preview that have bright against dark, I just picked that one as an example, it isn't background stuff.

Not a complaint or anything, just interested as to what is causing it, or if it is in the print due to a lens issue or similar.

Could you show another example? As I don't have access to the preview. Does it show on your scans as well?

Ghosting is of course something that could very well happen in those days as the design and coatings of the lenses from that era probably weren't as  sophisticated as they are nowadays. Ghosting can indeed happen in lenses while photographing bright objects, but from my knowledge, when it does, the "ghost" usually appears mirrored horizontally and vertically from the center of the frame, not laterally from the object in the frame. The only thing I can think of that would be able to cause that kind of ghosting would be if maybe there was a piece of glass in front of the print.