Yeah agreed, that’s why I said my comment! Come on people, I can’t count the number of times with my own projects that people show LOTS of interest but no donation. Do it for the late Michael Crichton!
I think there’s interest, just not donations. This movie was WAY better than Jurassic World!!
I got a message from the scanner regarding LATT, he’s found another IB Tech print. It was in a collection of badly VS prints and he said he will bench it soon. If it’s OK for scanning we can save the rental and scan it instead… although to be honest I think we may still need to get the other print and do at least a reel or two, but we’ll see.
Oh right, well we only get half resolution of blue and red due to the bayer mask anyway, which is how Cinderella was scanned, AND you lose resolution to the stuff outside of the picture area. Here’s an example of what resolution you would get if you did it at 2K:
Obviously that’s LATT LPP not one of my scans, but the principle is the same. The picture with is only ~1800 pixels at 2K and then you’re going to lose some more due to cropping, and to make it 1080p you’ll need to stretch it. For Academy films 1 2K scan would be sufficient for 1080p… but detail and grain structure are better preserved by scanning at 4K. 😃
You should consider sending potia a donation if it interests you! 😃 Scanning is very expensive.
This sounds amazing but, how could you be sure you can get all those prints Id love to see some of these in 4K in all honesty but these are the ones I’m looking forward to the most
Lion King
AladdinAlso not sure if it counts but id say Tarzan deserves a 4K treatment its such a beautifully animated film and definitely a classic of the Disney 2D animated films super happy that Hunchback and Hercules are on the list too since those seem to be overlooked sometimes also it’s probably too recent yet but LILO and Stitch would be amazing
I have a print of the Lion King. I personally wouldn’t consider CourtlyHades296’s list as definitive, there are titles on there that I have already passed on, and would only consider if there was strong support from others. I’m going to need donations to get more prints scanned next year, so far I’ve had 4 Disney films scanned (technically scanning is ongoing for all of those but one), and there’s a lot more to go! Did you want to make a donation?
I don’t think there’d be a point to 4K for anything past Little Mermaid (I think the CAPS films were rendered at 2K) but even 2048x1234, which should be close to the native resolution, should be an improvement, since it’d be the original theatrical versions, unlike the official releases.
A lot of people thought that way, however it isn’t the case. Aladdin and Lion King and somewhat closer to the 35mm colours, however BATB is nothing at all like the Bluray. Have a look at the screenshots I posted:
35mm:
Bluray:
We have access to some prints we don’t need to buy to scan, for example there is:
All should be in excellent condition, we just need to pay rental and postage to get them. There is also Die Hard and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade from another source both in excellent to mint condition.
Take THAT ET you weirdo! 😉
On the upside, it will also stop all the alien transmissions affecting my brain whilst I sleep.
The “Grindhouse” ESB release wasn’t made from poita’s scan, it was made from TN1’s. Poita’s scans (from the previews he shared in the thread) showed significant improvement over it.
I have a feeling that Empire:SE will be more useful then ANH:SE from the point of view of restoring the O-OT.
Empire hasn’t been scanned yet, he was talking about the ANH:SE print. But the SE prints should all have similar detail unless they come from different labs around the world or something.
One film at a time Frank, one film at a time. 😉
Yeah I’m not sure what BrightestDayFan2814’s question was regarding either.
The SE scan actually has more detail in the shadows then I was expecting. I wonder how Empire’s detail will compare to the Eastman prints of the 80s?
Not just that, but Lucasfilm paid Lowy Digital to digitally dustbust the DVD scan because it was very dirty. I don’t know what the standards were in 2002 (I think) when they scanned it, but if they did what poita does and get the film professionally cleaned first then they don’t have to do anywhere near the amount of digital work to remove the dirt.
Here’s the R6 preview poita posted here along with the same scene from TN1’s upcoming “4K77” scan and also the SSE for anyone wanting to compare them:
https://mega.nz/#F!ArpT3SqZ!Cg8hlSg5yXWDNvCtYWRBVg
Note of course that the TN1 samples have been colour corrected and digitally cleaned whereas poita’s scan hasn’t.
I think it was more determined by what order they did the films in. From memory most of the Sean Connery films were done well, but then Goldeneye which is by far the most popular Brosnan Bond is a DNR-heavy mess.
Maybe we should look for a GoldenEye print? 😉
I was under the impression Poita was using them specifically because they were easy to sync to the reels.
Not really, as long as the sound-head is connected to the scanner the optical audio will be in sync when scanned (obviously with errors at splices).
I’m not sure the samples have the DTS audio (I doubt it actually), however the cinema DTS is available.
Last public video, its about 1GB in size, above is a shot from it.
You can really see how inconsistent the SE was shot to shot, both in the grade and the image quality. This has not been colour corrected.
It’s obvious why the home releases had a total overhaul.
That preview looks GREAT!
It’s also easy to identify the digital scenes as they have distinctive framing (cropped left and right compared to other scenes). That certainly confirms what we believed that the entire film was not from a digital intermediate.
The issue with the Bonds is a mixed one - some of them look great on Bluray and they have done a good restoration job, others were rushed to meet the deadline and look awful. Really they should have restored them in batches instead of trying to do all 22 Bonds (at the time) at once.
Docsap’s edits aren’t always perfect with this film actually, I’d love to have a crack at it myself sometime if he wants to make the files available.
Any differences for this compared to these three Blu-ray disc releases?
Ray, it’s completely different. Docsap restored all the stuff that was cut or modified at the last minute before the film was theatrically released.
Hi!
How did you get the Swan Archives footage? I can’t find a way to download those low fps flash clips.
Thanks.
I’m guessing Docsap borrowed the 35mm cut footage and had it transferred himself?
Interesting, could you show how the Speeder shot looks projected?
Good luck! I hope people do help you out with this as it’s important we can get good quality LD transfers.
