MonkeyLizard10

OK, so I’ve sent out links to the initial version of the full film.
If anyone who donated didn’t get it, PM me.

mrsupporte said:

Project is not finished yet. TGR97 is not on this forum a lot, and discord links are expired, so we are kind of in the dark here. If anyone on the discord can send private invites to donors that be great 😃 (you can PM me for donation proof)

From what I see on the Discord the scan of JP is now complete and final processing is being done. Not sure but sounds like JP release open matte version should be ready pretty soon now. Within weeks it sounds like.

It’s rendering out now. Hopefully all the settings set correctly for the render out…
This is the full movie in Flat 1.85 format and the 4K wide gamut color SDR in HDR REC2100 PQ wrapper version with Cinema DTS and Optical Analog audio. HD REC709 gamut SDR version next. Later on the open matte versions.

Once that is rendered out then have to match up the timing between Cinema DTS and the analog audio (a bit tedious manual process) for each reel (already done for reel 1). Then splice the reels together. Then patch in missing bits at splices (not sure how many splices, reel 1 has one small splice, not sure about the others yet). Then render it all out to movie file.

I PM’ed the last two above. It’ll likely be closed for main donations after that. Might open up in a little bit for a tiny bit once find out cost for final step and then fully funded. (Perhaps many many months off it could open up again a tiny bit again if I add more trailers and snipes to the start of it.)

final reel - 10%

reel 5 - 8%

original.paddle991 said:

Is this project still active? I do not mind helping fund this project so we can get the footage.

Yes, been posting progress updates above.

Now reel 4 - 2%.

reel 3 - 55%

reel 3 - 8%

reel 2 - 85%

reel 2 - 53%

thanks

Update:
Reel 1 - 100% rendered (minus a few seconds of patch frames for a splice)
Reel 2- 38% and continuing as I type (it takes about 45 minutes for a 2% increase)
Reels 3+ - 0%

That guy with no name said:

Y2KMan said:

Let’s be real, Magenta was THE color of the 90’s, and with Jurassic Park being a 90’s icon, I genuinely thought that is how it was supposed to look.

Thanks for this regrade! The preservation section of this website has been a rabbit hole.

No, not really. Magenta is the color of 90’s blu-ray masters. not the films themselves. Spiegelberg specifically wanted a warm, high contrast feel for Jurassic Park, so that it would feel nostalgic. And the opposite for the lost world: cooler, darker but with less contrast:

True, and don’t worry, you didn’t go too warm.
Here is the 35mm and it’s even warmer than what you did (it’s in ProPhotoRGB so will look weird unless properly color-managed though):

AOTC Reel 1 rendering test started to verify black levels. If the black levels are good then it’ll have outright started rendering. Just gotta verify them on OLED and in motion and see if that needs to be tweaked so just about there.

Looks like Reel 1 has Kodak 2383 stock for the attached trailer spliced to Kodak 2393 stock for the main feature and seems they each need a slightly different calibration. Also the main feature on reel 1 needs a different calibration than the other reels for one reason or another (maybe since only that had the proxy .mp4 created along with the DNGs during the scan and that changed how it did the colors; the 2383 trailer stock made it do some under the hood base calibration different than when fed 2393 during that step; something set or read in during initializing step differently; etc.?).

Reel1 also will need some insanely intense aqua/turquoise/mint colors brought back by hand so will be a pain, especially for the second half of it. For one reason or another the scanner wasn’t able to capture their true intensity and if calibration is set to make them look correct then the rest of the movie picks up way too much teal saturation and if the rest of the movie looks correct then those look muted.

skywalker89 said:

Hello!
Is this project already ready and able to be downloaded somewhere? If yes, where? Is that BD ISO file of it on Myspleen the same as this, just downscaled to 1080p or just a preview version or a complete other scan?

Hey! Great to hear from you!
Sorry, not just yet.

Reel 1 would have been out already some weeks ago though if not for the recent goings on which ended up with the side effect of delaying something that had been just about ready to go, another couple months, a sad useless shame, but whatever. I had been giving slews of updates and samples.

Anyway, I know nothing about some supposed other version other than someone claimed it exists a couple months ago. Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with me but it sounds like they have their full ultra grindhouse which is all they seemed to care about. And it sounds like TN1’s TSWTF own fully funded original project never did even the scan done after over 5 years and then they seemed to declare it abandoned…

My version is still coming and will have been directly graded side by side to an actual print and one of the (seemingly few for this title) printed on the highest quality Kodak 2393 stock. It turns out each stock seems to need a different calibration and creating the calibrations was an unbelievably time consuming and manor labor job (and even before it could be scanned I first had to work out all sorts of new findings with the scanner that alone took a couple months). With this stock seeming to need one with some of the most extensive side tweaks. And will custom by hand bring back some of the ultra intense aqua/teal/turquoise that was beyond even what the scanner seemed able to capture. I have TPM main trailer already out. And will in time have all the prequel trailers out as well as original 1976 SW trailer (have a temp version already out from a lightly faded Fuji print) and ESB US and German versions (German one is even unfaded Fuji print) and all the special editions trailers.

HD version now as well.

Demo of the first 18 minutes or so of reel 1 has been sent out to donors.

Update: JP scan now has over 24,000 frames processed since I hit a couple long consistent stretches that could be batched out.

Hopefully everything is set properly now. Assuming nothing turns up JP Reel 1 has started rendering out intermediate PNGs for 1.0 release version 1.85:1 framing version! It’ll be done in piecemeal batches of frames since some have no green emulsion lines and some have them in one of a few different spots. And later on in the reel some need custom calibration tweaks for certain scenes. But finally I think JP has begun the process of getting 1.0 rendered out!
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So that’ll be going on overnights and now back to finishing off (got it started for a few days a few days ago once the split reel that fit the cores arrived and before had to get a few unexpected issues with JP solved so could make best use of this time window I have before busy with other stuff and try to get stuff going before then) getting AOTC finalized and when ready that’ll take over for rendering out first part of reel 1.0 version.

Removing green lines is proving to be tricky. As while the above works well for some scenes it kinda fails badly for select scenes.

After a lot more testing I think I found something that may work though across most scenes it seems so far at least.

Have to use ACR Early Access Content Aware Remover and paint the line with a fine brush and then go to refine and carefully way narrow down the target area and then go to surrounding frames and add back in any new removals that the first thing didn’t cover. Also you have to paint it in bit by bit since it seems you have to work at very zoomed in view and it doesn’t autoscroll. Anyway with custom tuning it for lines showing in various sequences this method I think will finally do it with solid enough results… I hope.

Photo someone took of JP being played in 1993:

My framing (based on setting 1.85:1 crop and putting top and bottom edges to align with just about the top and bottom of the Universal logo intro starfield and then centering the image left and right within the cropping area so that same space chopped off the left and right sides and with left side area measurement including the whole purple bleed over mess onto the left side of the image as happens with seemingly all prints) basically ends up exactly the same, just a touch more image on L,R,B and the tiniest hair less on the top since a theater can’t be quite so spot on to maximizing without running into issues with accidentally going over (although it seems they were flirting with their top edge going over top of some CGI frames, maybe just barely made it or maybe a hair over). Anyway it seems like that theater probably had it framed super precisely then since it matches what seemed a reasonable way to do it. At first I figured you shouldn’t count the purple area but then you get things like the DTS disc not quite centered. This way pretty much centers it so with everything all cross-checking I believe this is how it should be. And also makes that theater seem to have been doing things very spot on and getting pretty close to maximizing area too.:

Not sure likely quite large.