SilentxStatik24, I've sent you a PM (link at the top-right of the page) with all the basic info to get you started. :)
You need to PM any of us and we'll give you an invite to the spleen. :)
That is unless you already have one in your PM box that you haven't seen yet.
Congrats Harmy!! I'll wait for the full mkv, but certainly appreciate all the effort you've gone to to restore ESB, easily the best star wars film, to its full glory!
I wonder what video codec he used - avi isn't properly compatible with h.264/mpeg-4 and most software out there used to encode mp4 will automatically mux it to .mp4 or .mkv not .avi... and he says "convert mkv to avi" as if he doesn't even realize that the container format has nothing to do with the video format. As I said before!
TV's Frink said:
Have you ever tried seamless branching before? From what I hear, it usually ain't so seamless.
True for DVD but I think bluray is a different matter as the files are physically different.
ilovewaterslides said:
I think this scanner should work like a charm with 35mm copies but they're not going to tell: "Now you can finally scan all your 35mm theatrical copies for a reasonable price" on their site since it's not completely legal to own one. That was the goal of my initial post.
All I did was quote poita and he said that the scanner won't work for old negatives or for prints and that it is only suited to newly shot material. In any case it doesn't matter since he, team -1 and others have their own film scanners that are much higher quality and that renders this scanner useless at least for preservationists (it might be useful for other uses though).
You're wrong about the legality - at the very least the studios own the prints, and many DVD and BD releases are mastered from prints and not negatives so I would think that given the target consumer they would want to advertise the full potential of their scanner.
Sweet, looking forward to it!
What a dumbass!
I find it interesting everyone keeps focusing on Lucas - as I pointed out a while ago though, the director of Empire (Irvin Kershner) has stated that he does not want to see changes to his film (interview here). This contradicts what Lucas said when he claimed that "I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's to go back and reinvent a movie" -link. With Lucas now out of the picture this should allow for at least Empire to be officially released the way that its director intended.
Yeah, like google doesn't keep logs...
On the other forum Poita pointed out that it's not really designed for print scanning (notice nowhere on the product info page does it ever say it is for scanning prints), it's really just suited for negatives. If the product even gets released that is.
_,,,^..^,,,_ said:
@RU.08: there are a lot of problems that I had to solve, to improve the quality of video, and even so, result isn't 100% perfect, but just a very good compromise; so, it will take a lot of time to find out which filters and settings to use to better the quality, and they will be impaired using a compressed version as source... nevertheless, is someone is still interesting in a compressed version of the raw capture...
The drop in quality won't be very significant. The analogue noise and artifacts are way stronger than any compression artifacts introduced by mpeg4 at that quality setting, and I don't think you'd loose any significant actual detail. In any case it's up to you!
Yep 35 gig sounds right for a "raw" YV12/YUV file. You could encode using x264 on quality 14 and it wouldn't be much larger than 3-4 GB, if that. I'd love to get a chance to look at the unfiltered video too, but my biggest qualm is I don't know how to address the analogue noise (eg the yellowing near the lines).
Okay change of plans. The DVD is field-blended, so I'm putting the DVD's as-is up on the spleen now, as we speak, and a deinterlaced version will follow in a few days on demonoid.
If, however, you want to deinterlace it yourself here is my avisynth script:
mpeg2source("ohmss-abc-part1.d2v")
crop(16,48,-24,-48)
#DeBlock - you'll not lose any quality and it's a fast script.
DeBlock_QED()
#Reduce field chroma-ghosting
#(this makes a big improvement)...
separatefields()
PointResize(width(),height()*2)
interleave(selecteven().crop(0,2,0,0).addborders(0,0,0,2),selectodd())
interleave(repair(selecteven(),selectodd(),0,9,9),repair(selectodd(),selecteven(),0,9,9))
interleave(selecteven().crop(0,0,0,-2).addborders(0,2,0,0),selectodd())
crop(0,4,0,-4)
PointResize(width(),height()/2)
weave()
#Deinterlace
crop(6,10,0,-10)
QTGMC(Preset="Slower")
# Restore from 59.95p to 25p (script is called twice so it doesn't lose sync)
AssumeFPS(60000,1001)
trim(0,183056).FixBlend() ++ trim(183057,0).FixBlend()
Function FixBlend(clip orig){
orig.changefps(25*4,linear=false)
selectevery(4,2)
return last
}
#Convert from 25p (PAL speed) to 23.976p (NTSC speed)
#Note your audio will need to be converted eg:
#eac3to "audio.ac3" audio-23.976p.ac3 -192 -slowdown -25.000
assumefps(23.976)
If anyone has the original PAL release then of course the de-interlacing won't be necessary!
The same script will work for both parts.
I agree - 1080p is 2.25x the size (in pixels) of 720p.
Both Tem Blu's SW and Harmy's Despecialized have the 35mm stereo track as one of the audio tracks. You can get the Despecialized edition from demonoid (which I'm seeding) or myspleen and Team Blu's SW on myspleen. PM me if you need an invite. There is probably some other versions (eg Laserdisc rips) on the spleen with sync'd audio.
Doubt it, they (Team Blu) upscaled the source in Avisynth using QTGMC, apparently on placebo to deinterlace (address the aliasing). QTGMC is very slow - it also has the unfortunate ability to create ghosting and destroy fine movement when used on progressive material so you have to be careful with the progressive settings ... this can be done this way for instance: repair(QTGMC(Preset="Fast",InputType=2),last).
poita said:
Hahaha!
I think I own more legit retail versions of Star Wars than anyone on the planet.
*and non-retail versions. ;)
Sounds great, looking forward to getting it! :)
I've nearly got disc 1 from the share-online files - once I have both discs I'll do an x264 encode (quality will be transparent to the dvd) and up on demonoid - and if anyone asks (best to do this by PM) I am happy to upload the video_ts folders untouched on the spleen. This is one of my favorite Bond films but I've never seen this cut! Looking forward to it.
Can you open the .iso in 7zip?
Well he did say foreign negative so it'd be a distinct possibility!
Nice one Poita good luck, I'm sorry I can't help financially but I hope you get support from others members. Is LPP the same as IB/Technicolor or is it a different stock altogether? I only ask because I was under the impression IB's were discontinued around the time of Star Wars and that it was "fortunate" there were any of SW let alone any movies that came after it?
zombie84 said:
Closer to being done than I thought. If only I could solve this damn interlacing problem. Womble's de-interlacer basically doesn't work, and 50% of the video here is interlaced. Any suggestions? I would hate to have every new shot full of interlacing artifacts, would kind of kill the thrill.
I had no trouble deinterlacing the beta in Avisynth:
mpeg2source("blade-runner-FIXED.d2v")
TFM(d2v="blade-runner-FIXED.d2v")
TDecimate()
I just watched the edit. I saw one problem at 17:50 with a badly interlaced shot. I'd already uploaded a MKV to demonoid (2.3GB and so far I've seeded 13Gigs on it). :) Had I seen it beforehand I would have corrected it, just needs QTGMC in that one shot.
Here's my script as you would use it on the beta with QTGMC used to correct that one shot:
mpeg2source("blade-runner-FIXED.d2v")
TFM(d2v="blade-runner-FIXED.d2v")
TDecimate()
crop(0,48,0,-48)
DeBlock_QED()
crop(0,12,0,-14)
addborders(0,60,0,62)
trim(0,25648 ) ++ \
trim(25649,25798).QTGMC(Preset="Slower").selecteven() ++ \
trim(25799,0)
Very good work on this fanedit - I've not actually watched it since I originally downloaded it (August 2011) - hence why I made the MKV and uploaded it for others to enjoy.
Ford is a fitness freak like Chuck Norris, he'd be up to the challenge (if he had both his legs) -as for Hamill and Fisher though that's another story - I do hope Hamill took some acting lessons this time round...
Mark Hamill Stubs Toe, Delays Star Wars Filming ... well he's no Harrison!
I'm hoping, as I mentioned before, that -1's release encourages Fox/Disney to do a better job on the next bluray release of the OT.