You_Too said:
Was he by any chance holding a hockey stick? :)
doubleKO said:
No.
Ok then it's a football. It's gotta have something to do with sports, right?
doubleKO said:
A man was on his way home. He saw a masked man standing in his path holding something in his hand. He turned and ran back the way he came. What did the masked man have in his hand?
I figured it out now!
Was he by any chance holding a hockey stick? :)
Leonardo said:
Got it.. It's an onion, isn't it?
Correct!
darth_ender said:
You_Too said:
You cut my head without staining me red,
then cry over me when I am dead.Really, it's not flowers? More specifically, rose petals at a funeral? Or something very close to that?
It was a good guess but it's wrong. :)
And the one with the masked man, I know I've heard it before but I just can't remember the answer.
doubleKO said:
You_Too said:
You cut my head without staining me red,
then cry over me when I am dead.Flowers.
Nope, sorry. :)
Ah, finally figured out Leonardo's riddle then! (Or at least very close)
And AntcuFaalb was right, the answer is photograph or picture.
I think my riddles might be too easy...
I have a new one:
You cut my head without staining me red,
then cry over me when I am dead.
Ok, another guess for Leonardo: The written word.
I have a new one too:
As I am, I remain.
If I'm young, I remain young.
If I'm old, I remain old.
What am I?
Leonardo said:
You_Too said:
Who gets paid without working a single day?
A night watchman?
Correct! (Or simply night worker)
Seems mine wasn't nearly as difficult as yours.
Oh damn, that has to be right.
Also take in consideration that I'm very tired right now... haha
But I do have one for you guys:
Who gets paid without working a single day?
Ok, running out of bad guesses.
Is it money?
They say money talks, and it sure does travel a lot. :)
EDIT: Either that, or it's simply soundwaves or something.
Is it the wind?
Leonardo said:
It's got no mouth,
but it talks.
It's got no feet,
but it sure does travel.
A cellphone? :)
_,,,^..^,,,_ said:
Anyway, my japanese Star Wars Trilogy: Collector's Set [PILF-2070] seems, accordigly to LDDB, to use the same master of Star Wars: Coffret Trilogie: Edition Collector [856235] - if this is the case, it is smear-free too! How can I check it, which scenes must I see and what are the proofs I have to find?
If I remember this correct, Moth3r's LD captures are from that French release, and are not completely smear-free but has less smearing than the GOUT.
These are good scenes to check for the smearing:
Stars leaving trails in this shot:
Stormtrooper having 4 eyes:
The guy passing by the speeder gets almost transparent:
Ok, sounds good!
AntcuFaalb said:
Plus, doing a median-of-five requires five captures from each LD side.
Didn't you say the median of five reduced the vertical resolution to half? That wouldn't be wise when trying to preserve a Laserdisc.
Well, like I said before, using an auto color correction plugin is like taking a wild guess on how each frame should look. In the end it would only make the colors very inconsistent. (Which Star Wars apparently already is... haha)
That DVL-90 looks funny: http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_elite_dvl-90/pioneer_elite_dvl-90.htm
Wood on the sides? Reminds me of 70's synthesizers and stuff. :)
Anyway, I've read that the HLD-X0 and HLD-X9 are the very best.
While msycamore have already captured these, (I think he did all three, right?) it would be awesome if there could be a capture done on a really high-end LD player.
While sharpening can sometimes be fun to play around with to see the results and what detail can be dug out, in most examples here it's been applied way too much.
I'm very interested too, since I've never watched this version and the way I got it, it's the earliest widescreen release?
That's not the 1997 SE, it's the 2004 SE.
Anyway, the problem with auto-correction plugins (I bet that's what WhiteMagic is?) is that it doesn't know what's right or wrong, it just analyzes each frame and tries to balance it. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes it doesn't.
In the 3PO/R2 shot it looks good, since that shot has got clean black and white points which the plugin can use for it's balance. In the other two there's more reds, leading the plugin to think it should tint it more towards cyan.
You're right. After layering them on each other in photoshop and comparing, there is no doubt that the X9 has the cleanest luma.
I think there is still some slightly more small sharp detail preserved in the X9, and no horizontal lines like in DJ's, at least not as visible.
Maybe the best would be a 50/50 of the luma of both, using only DJ's chroma? Of course, the brightness of X9 would have to be taken down to the same level.
What you want to do is very difficult. Especially since the background has almost the same color as the text in the first shots there.
Normally, one could use "color range" in Photoshop (I'm on PC) to select only the text's color and then change it.
What happened when I did that was this:
Then I tried an even more difficult method, to darken the image so much that it would leave only the text visible, then color it red, copy it and paste it back on top of the original image, then use a layer filter to make the text slightly thicker:
As you can see this looks very rough too.
Maybe somebody else here knows a better method but this is as far as my knowledge goes on this.