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Fullmetaled said:

I just saw the uk blu ray caps a holic shot of this shot is the blown out highlights and it being out of focus on the print the fault of the print or it need to just be adjusted a bit?

Any detail difference is probably OCN scan (would have a lot more detail) for official releases vs release print scan differences.
The bright canyon edge stuff, not sure yet, have not checked back to the print itself yet. Possibly it is like that on the print, not 100% sure.

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Interesting that a lot of scenes are somewhat closer to the original blu-ray release colors (but still fairly different) than to the 3D or UHD, but then the colors of the cars on that goat shot are much closer to the UHD…
although again keep in mind this is just early beta color calibration and may change somewhat

As with most such projects, this project gotta be available to contributors only and no general release.

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Titanic?

CatBus said:

Forgot to include one bit of coping that I’d dreamed up, because it’s already been thoroughly dashed. I too was thinking about a Buffy revival, some sort of reboot or franchise-ification™ of the property. Not because I was excited about what they’d do with the Buffyverse (meh), but because it would improve the odds of a studio cash-in on the originals.

The thinking was Veronica Mars. That has got the be the g****mned easiest show on Earth for such a cash-in. It’s already available in HD, so just have an intern mock up some disc art, press some discs and bam. Minimal effort going in, and it’s like printing money at that point. And then something actually happened, they made the movie! That was the surest, easiest, product tie-in possible… except they didn’t. The movie came, the movie went, and you’re still stuck with DVDs for the series. And Buffy is a considerably harder property to do an HD remaster for than that.

Yeah that was a shame. I know some of those involved with the show wanted it done too and also hoped that that time might make it ripe, but those with the power at the time at WB were just simply not interested at all and fed similar kind of nonsense reasons even to those deeply involved in the show itself. Now I do believe there has been some good deal of turn over at WB, so who knows now… but back at the time you mentioned, those with the power were almost bizarrely not into putting it out in HD.

That would be awesome!
But I think such things exist in quantities of zero and the OCN, without effects, would be obviously exist in a quantity of one and be in a studio vault.

roffels said:

It’s been ages, but I recall a VCD of Attack of the Clones getting released before the movie hit theaters in the US.

I don’t remember too much from this version, only that at the end, Anakin had a completely different prosthetic hand at the end than what was show in the theatrical version - it was much more bulky. Is this the same as that version?

That sounds like the 35mm version.
The digital version had a different looking robit hand with different lighting (none of the rich, golden evening lighting sparkle).

The scans are all complete!

Project funding has just barely gotten started though and there is still plenty of time to get in on it.

"35mm Theatrical
-Anakin and Padme do not hold hands.

Digital Theatrical
-Anakin and Padme hold hands."

I can add that that doesn’t actually quite cover all the changes to that wedding scene.

It is not just that she doesn’t hold his hand in the 35mm but does so in the digital, but that it’s a totally different take used even starting a few seconds earlier when his robot hand is still down by his side in both versions. That whole sequence from a few seconds before through when the hand raises up and she holds it got replaced by a later drop in replacement take. When the robit hand is still down by his side it is in a different pose, looks a bit different and has totally different lighting on it (beautiful sparkly golden) compared to the digital.

The project is fully funded!

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbaWruIWt84

(and in higher quality compression at the other SW site)

Great movie.

Project final total is now known to be $1432 and is close to fully funded, now at 94% collected.
Just $83 short of being fully funded now.

First general public sampler of the feature itself is up now on the other forums in one of the most recent posts in the main public project thread.

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I found that my second copy of the original 1976 teaser trailer for Star Wars actually still has good enough color that I could get something decent looking out of it in full color in just 2 minutes (!) of time spent of re-calibration! All I did is took my current test trial at scanner and then tweaked the color temp a bit and then way tweaked the tint slider and then way tweaked the black levels (way down to compensate for loss of some of the cyan and yellow dye which then makes the blacks too gray and faded out). That is probably not the ideal method to deal with film turning magenta, but found that it still produced something usable, almost instantly since, relatively speaking!, there was such a remarkably low amount of magenta fade for a 1976 Eastman print. I remember almost falling over when I first got since in the mail some years ago and seeing that it actually had some real color still in it. I’d only ever heard of stuff as far back as 1976 (that was Eastman) not being just about totally ultra magenta turned. I’m not sure at all I really have the color temp and tint adjusted to the most ideal settings even for that quick and dirty method, but it seemed the first quick adjust test of a few I quickly tried that seemed to look sort of reasonable across a few different frames.

Most frames are cropped to flat and some are left open matte when they had more image.

I haven’t rendered out any video yet. But a few stills samples:

What the title says.

Fruit672 said:

still no response. He’s also asked other people about it but it seems like Brandon is the only one and doesn’t check emails very often. If it takes another month I think I’ll send Brandon an email myself in case he missed Howards email, if I can find it… This started in October, crazy…

Thanks for keeping after it! Would be cool to see this.

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link to pre-grindhouse for the trailer at the other forums in the regular project thread now…