The young lad is Star Wars mad at the moment, so these should please him well. Time to fire up my long unused Myspleen account.
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Thanks a ton, I don’t know what the mixup was.
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I can’t say enough good things about these edits. Are you Marcia Lucas? They have literally saved the Prequels for me. My only comments would be to remove the trivial, flightly music from several of the action scenes in Ep II and maybe shorten the Coruscant speeder chase scene which felt overlong. I’m not sure what can be done with the Geonosis Arena/Jedi/Clones material, it may just not be possible to save that, they seemed fine in 2002, but they are unwatchable in 2016 sadly.
However, they trilogy really really does a great job with Anakin, his wishiwashi unlikableness is gone and replaced with a firm character with a genuine arc. Anakin’s turn to the darkside was tangible and real. Even the romance was handled with care, believable and touching. Great great job. In addition, I think it ties into the Clone Wars material very well.
It makes me want to go pick up a bluray burner!
Happy to see your work progressing. I recall when you purchased the 4k scanner from Korea. I wish you best of luck with your health, and perhaps the Brexit may have a elevating effect to the overall economies of the Commonwealth.
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Sorry, I was not more specific. The vimeo full files seem to be gone. The previews are still there.
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Links dead 😦
Disney needs to make a significant large donation in the name of Marcia Lucas to the charity of her choice, hook her up with an editing crew and gear and all the footage they have from the PTs. Give here a few months to monkey around and see what can be done. The result can be called the Reunion Edition. Something interesting could come out of what they have I am sure. If anything a refresh of the fx would be helpful, although after a recent viewing of ROTS I did enjoy how the “offset” backgrounds suggested earlier Serials and Epic film in their stageiness.
It took awhile on TPB, but I finally finished the DVD9 DL. Great job Harmy and sources! It is mindblowingly awesome on 1080p upscale via a Sony BD player.
If infact the negatives of these films (and others for example Disney cartoons) are really all that worn out and faded, why wont the studios scan well preserved IB Technicolor prints? These would seem to be pretty much ideal- early generation and mostly true colors?
Many thanks to all who have contributed to this thread, it is most enlightening. Based on the recommendations, I have started picking up some of the purist/recommended releases. One thing that has come to my attention is that that there are pretty good counterfeit Disney DVDs on the market, but they are often compressed down a bit to cost down (as they say in China). I currently live in Asia and am picking up the releases on Fleabay and Amazon, but I am worried that I will be getting bad goods.
I don't really mind a full counterfeit, but a lower quality bootleg defeats the purpose of buying the disc. Are there any sites that have info on the the original disc data size of the Disney retail DVDs? If not, could they possibly be added to the first posts in this thread?
Buying 15 year old DVDs marked as New or Good is a bit sketchy online. But I can get my folks to check the disc easily enough.
Every couple on months I get a box of goodies from stateside via seamail. In a recent one I got the Friendship Pooh release. It is pretty awesome, I love the pencil lines, and am looking to see more in other releases!
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Sounds great, I watched the regular DVD the other day and couldn't get much into it. The 90s were an odd time.
I hope your edit can make it more enjoyable! I noticed that the TLJ performance seemed to have informed the Joker in TDK.
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I DL'd the remastered 2006 BBC version off TPB and it is pretty good. Many thanks to whoever did the PAL to NTSC conversion and titles. I will be giving it to several folks who live near Eatonton, GA so they will be thrilled.
A 1080p version from film would be even better, so cheers to Poita and all the other folks involved!
My Myspleen account is on the fritz, so I am sharing these on TPB. I live abroad so it is taking a literal dogs age (1 seeder), but I am darn excited.
In the meantime, I am watching The Clone Wars which has been surprisingly good.
I picked these up in Taiwan circa 2004. They are a nice little package in a cool box with the Faces gimmick on the VCDs. Alas after several moves they seemed to have slipped into the ether.
Thanks for posting them!
<blockquote><p><strong>cain spaans</strong> said:</p><p>It would kinda suck if Disney took this away from Harmy to release officially but even though it is official and all it is Harmy's work so they would have to get his permission to do that.</p></blockquote><p> </p>
Technically they could release it without his permission, as the material is all officially theirs. Hell, I bet Harmy would be thrilled! It would be great publicity for him and all others on this project and validate their diligence.
I though Lucas has always had a very open policy on these type of projects (other than 35mm film being shown). Have they every gone after such a project before?
I can confirm there were SE VCDs produced in Asia. I owned a set that unfortunately has been lost in the sands of time...
I really enjoyed Q2s TPM (or most of it), he did a very nice bit of cleaning up. Qui Gon did not seem as sagely as in the TPE though. I did enjoy the pod race, which was an odd feeling!
Wow, it really looks great! Kind of like a painting. Looking forward to more for sure. I just dl'ed and watched Q2s set, and I bet your work as a base would make his edits that much better!
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<p>At 4K you are looking at about 20TB per film, minimum, the storage alone, even at the end of 1995 when prices dropped to $300 per GB it would have cost around 6 million dollars to store a single 4K scan of the film, and the computers of the time would really not been able to handle it.</p>
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<p>Snow White was <a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DISNEY+CLASSIC+%27SNOW+WHITE%27+UNDERGOES+COMPLETE+DIGITAL+RESTORATION+AT...-a013176723">restored in 4K in 1993</a>. I believe the Cineon system relied heavily on tape storage.</p></blockquote><p> </p>
40 MB per frame, pretty heavy at that time.
Sorry for your loss. Keep you chin up!
Samples would be keen!
I can wait patiently! Hamry is keeping me very happy in the meantime.
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Well, it sounds like you have a full lab now. Super8 machine all the way up to a 10k machine. Can the 10k machine also handle 70mm?
If something was originally shot as a true high chroma intense red on film, when it is transferred to NTSC format, the red (and yellows) it seems get compressed down to another color. Or that is what seems to be what my professor was talking about.
If something was originally shot as a true high chroma intense red on film, when it is transferred to NTSC format, the red (and yellows) it seems get compressed down to another color. Or that is what seems to be what my professor was talking about.