I’m in the mood to design a 4k/Blu-ray cover for this project, and I thought I would start with a logo. So these are the ideas I had, let me know what you think!
Nice!
Looking amazing Williarob. Let’s hope you eventually find a 35mm print of GoldenEye in excellent condition, which is IMO the worst looking of all the James Bond movies.
$300:
If you want to buy it, I can arrange to get it scanned, and clean it up a bit.
Also see this:
a request for some assistance with Despecialized from Harmy…
Guys - I could use some help - I remember some time ago, someone was working on a shotlist for the SW movies and I can’t find it. But what I’d really need is someone helping me catalogue all the shots that need despecializing and making a system that will make it easier for me to keep track of the shots and what they need done.
My idea is this table, where I could keep track of the progress on all the shots:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NwFnvrRp3CnyDOdr9W1__8PLBGwH8WOKkl8mjke8LQs/edit?usp=sharingSo, would I find volunteers, who would help me by going through Doubleofive’s galleries and putting all the shots down in this table and looking them up in GOUT and BD and putting in the timecodes?
When this is done and I start working on v3.0, the plan is to keep the table public, so you guys can check on my progress and every once in a while, when all shots in a sequence have status Pending Final, I want to post the sequence as a work-print and only after I get positive feedback on it, I will mark the shots as final.
This will make you guys more involved again, like in the old times, and it should help keep me more motivated. 😃
Please send him a PM if you can help…
This might help:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Shot-List-Spreadsheet-v0505-6-films-publicly-editable/id/13403
I used it to generate a shot list based on frame numbers, which allowed me to write scripts to sort each reel into shots, and generate EDL files that could be used instead of automatic scene detection in programs like Resolve…
Here’s another example:
Looking at the print, the SE DVD and the Bluray, I find myself humming that “One of these things is not like the others” song from Sesame Street…
What you are looking at here is a frame from the Living Daylights, Reel 1 - part of the Exercise on Gibraltar. I find it interesting for two reasons:
It looks fantastic! I can’t wait, as it’s one of my favorite Bond films and probably the one boasting the best John Barry score alongside “A View to a Kill”.
Timothy Dalton is very underrated as Bond.
Amazing. Every word of what you just said was right. I agree completely 😃
Just create a second LUT and apply it after the first one. It should not affect the behaviour of the first LUT unless it is modifying the same color, and if that is the case you want it to modify that color anyway. LUTs can be stacked, it’s pretty neat, and really easy in After Effects of Resolve.
FYI: Those who can’t get to the Spleen can also search for
movie_star_wars_episode_iv_a_new_hope_1977_silver
and you’ll find a Mega link via reddit
I like it.
Here’s another idea:
@Willarob, are you guys color grading the film in the Rec. 2020 color space?
Yes, I believe we are.
Great poster!
Here’s a WIP cover. Any suggestions for what to change/add?
Looks great! I don’t have any special features so I’m not sure there’s much more to add…
I like it! Very nice.
Spent a few hours putting this together.
Awesome!
I’m still downloading the nearly 2 TB of frames (it will probably take another 9 days, downloading 24/7 to grab them all) but I now have enough to put together a few samples. Here’s the first, from Reel 2:
This is essentially just the raw scan - the aspect ratio has been corrected and the contrast adjusted, but there’s no digital cleanup or color grading going on here.
Note: The audio is from the laserdisc. The optical audio track for reel 2 hasn’t been downloaded yet - it’s still in the queue!
I’m sorry I don’t know how cause I for some stupid readon can only make private threads
Perhaps you could try going here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/Sites-and-Publications-Supporting-the-Petition/id/3
And then click on the shiny “Start a New Topic” button next to the page numbers:
Yes I like that artwork too. It was on the novel I had as a kid.
Very cool custom artwork you are creating there - I had no idea you were so talented! I wouldn’t want to Hijack it though.
The 4K77 art doesn’t have to be hand painted - Photoshop offers a bunch of filters, techniques and plugins that can take a photo and make it look like more like Drew Struzan painted it, which is really the look I’m hoping for. For example, I really like this arrangement:
all the elements are familiar, it’s just a fresh take on them. I can’t tell if that is Photoshopped or hand painted, or a bit of both.
Another place I’ve been looking for inspiration is the comic books:
Project 4K77 (Formally Silver Screen Edition v2.0) is now almost complete:
http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/page/Project-4K77
If anyone here would like to take a stab at creating some new box art for that project (and I know some of you already have) I’d love to see it. I’d really like to see something a little different - there are already tons of covers featuring recycled box art (VHS, laserdisc, etc) and all of the official posters, and most of these are fantastic. But I think this project is going to give us the best, highest ever resolution version of the original Star Wars to date, and a new and unique poster would really help it stand out from the pack. For example, take elements from A New Hope and rearrange them to look like one of the The Last Jedi posters, or create your own, brand new collages. Here are some examples I found on facebook:
or maybe use/edit some other old artwork that we haven’t seen as a cover yet:
And here’s one I’ve been working on:
The png versions were posted here about 18 months ago:
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/959198
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/953273
A download link to a zip file containing all of this artwork is available here:
http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/FILES%2F2016%2F06%2FArtwork.zip.axdx
Any newbies wondering what project this artwork was for, can learn more about it here:
http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/post/2016/06/13/Star-Wars-Silver-Screen-Edition-Bluray
Here is the cover template I created for the Star Wars Silver Screen Edition covers (in PSD format):
https://mega.nz/#!dIkx3TTA!_am4R-E9RbBdEIPPI5551MC16P4mXciPRZeSTFgjKLk (45 MB)
I was just thinking, “I wish I had a basic Photoshop Blu-ray cover Template I could use as a starting point for some new Project 4K77 cover art…”
Has anybody ever created (and then shared) a basic Photoshop PSD for each film? Such a template might, for example, come in a couple of standard sizes (bluray, DVD, disc label), and have all the standard/official boiler plate text in editable text layers. It might have all the studio logos, ratings and warnings, again, each on their own layer/linked layers making it easy to re-position them, edit or delete them. Maybe have placeholders for a few screenshots (pre-loaded with some of the common ones that you see on the backs of the official boxes, but easy to swap out with your own). Stuff like that.
I imagine that, those of you who regularly produce new covers to share here probably already have a few such templates, that you modify and improve on over time.
Making something like that available would make it really easy for those of us who are not so artistic, to produce some quite professional looking covers of our own, since all we’d really need to do is drop in our own favorite posters, resize and position them, maybe move some logos around a bit, edit some text (e.g. the special features, or audio information specific to this version) and then print it out.
I realize this might seem a little unfair, after all, I’m sure you all spent a lot of time and effort creating your templates and the thought of sharing them with everyone for free is probably not something you considered, but remember - other people on these forums - Poita, Harmy, myself, and many others have spent literally years and thousands of dollars restoring the films and working on the projects that you are now making covers for, using skills that perhaps you don’t have, and we share all of those projects here with you for free…
Anyway, that was my thought.
I tried Elastix and did eventually get it up and running, but I found it to be very hard to use, extremely slow, and I wasn’t impressed with the results. So ultimately I abandoned it in favor of Photoshop’s Edit -> Auto Align Layers. Now I ended up writing a script to manage the process, but I bet if you stored two image sequences in a folder, e.g. version_a_001.tif, version_b_001.tif and you record a new action that opens both files, locks one layer, selects both layers, does an Auto align Layers, saves the result as aligned_001.tif and closes all open files [stop recording] you could then simply run that action as a batch command and it would process the whole folder.
Another thing to try is to layer the two versions of a shot in After Effects, apply your LUT to match the colors and then set the blend mode of the top layer to ‘difference’. When everything is the same color and perfectly aligned the frame will turn black. It’s hard to match the colors perfectly, even with Dre’s tool, so that’s pretty rare, but it will be still be easy to see when the frames are aligned correctly. Manually nudge the top frame up, down, left right, and transform the height, width and rotation if necessary until they line up as well as you can get them. Make a note of the transform data, or save it as an Animation Preset. If you’re lucky, the same transform can be used again on other shots, and if so you can just apply the preset on every clip to match it up. At least making it the same size and shape will be a big help - then all you have to do is nudge it left and right if only the cropping is different.
Here are a couple of videos I created which demonstrate these techniques:
Also check out this thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-GOUT-in-HD-using-super-resolution-algorithm/id/17552
which contains some scripts (very slow ones!) that do a nice job with Video Enhancer’s AviSynth plugin. They also sell a stand alone app that works pretty well (and you get the plugin free when you buy it). http://www.infognition.com/videoenhancer/
Personally, I use Red Giant Shooter Suite’s “Instant 4K” for most of my upscaling in After Effects. It’s real easy - just resize he composition to the size you want, drop the effect on and boom. Instant 720p/1080p/UHD. Just remember to set the quality to “Best” before rendering. https://www.redgiant.com/products/instant-4k/
All 6 reels have now been scanned, and from what I’ve seen, the whole film looks incredible. It will be a couple of weeks before I receive the full raw scan, but I should be able to post some more samples around Christmas time 😃
