TylerDurden389 said:
Been stuck at 89.1% for a few days now :(
Hey, I'll see what I can do to help finish your download. I gotta see what's wrong.
CatBus said:
I feel like a bad person for never noticing this before.
Hahaha a bad person? Whatever for?
The modern intro they slapped on was 1.77:1 and the original that I restored was 1.78:1.
poita said:
crampedmisfit1990 said:
poita, do you have all the material you need for all 3 Star Wars films for a proper theatrical restoration?
No, there are another three prints that I want to scan, cleaning is around $500 per print, and storage (50TB per print) is around $1100 per print if you have a backup, freight is about $180 per print on average, that is neglecting scanning costs and the cost of the prints themselves, so the holdup is funds at the moment.
I have access to all I need as far as materials go, but HDDs and other costs mean I can't scan them at the moment.
Patience is a virtue though, I've been at this a very long time, and good things come to those who wait, so at the moment I am in a wait cycle.
Thanks for the information. I know this work isn't cheap or easy, good luck with your progress and I look forward to all you have to show us in the future.
May I ask if any of your projects are close to completion? I know you mentioned many films that you were working on and most of them had me very interested.
poita, do you have all the material you need for all 3 Star Wars films for a proper theatrical restoration?
kk650 said:
crampedmisfit1990 said:
I gotta ask... why take the time to fix a film's color timing only to create a encode less than full 1080p HD??? Or are the files correctly color timed in full HD and then down converted for easy download?
By full 1080p HD I assume you mean 1920x1080 blu-ray compatible resolution? My regrades have exactly the same resolution except with the top and bottom black bar cropped, as is standard with 1080p mkv releases. They are cropped at the same time as they are regraded so there is no down conversion, no loss of image quailty.
From my experience a cropped mkv encode always has noticably better image quality than a 1920x1080 encode of the same size. There is also the matter that an mkv file has better compression than a m2ts file, a 20gb mkv file converts without image quality loss into a 22gb m2ts blu-ray file to fit on a bd-25. If you write the cropped mkv release to a bd-25, that 2gb lost can instead go towards the bitrate of the mkv release, making it a 22gb mkv encode that you can write onto a bd-25, with once again noticably better image quality.
So the difference in image quality between a cropped mkv regraded encode that fits on a bd-25 and a 1920x1080 regraded encode that fits on a bd-25 is pretty big for those two reasons, at least from my experience. For a guy like me that streams films from his laptop onto his TV, its a nobrainer to create cropped mkv regraded releases where the image quality is much better.
Thanks for the explanation, I understand now. I don't know why I didn't get it at first. haha
I thought since it was no longer 1920 X 1080 that you down converted the films and now I see that you simply removed the black bars. By the way the Alien film's screenshots look awesome! I am snatching them as I write this.
All this work is truly amazing. Bless this man, what a talented individual.
AntcuFaalb said:
crampedmisfit1990 said:
Is there actually someone working on a 35mm print of this film? I've heard many things and would like to finally know the facts.
No AMPS members, at least.
A very compressed encode of a 35mm IB Technicolor scan exists, but the 16mm scan looks much better.
Yeah, I have the 16mm version, looked really good, was just hoping that someone was restoring this in 35mm. Really love this film, one of Disney's best. I am a big old-school Disney fan.
Is there actually someone working on a 35mm print of this film? I've heard many things and would like to finally know the facts.
jedimasterobiwan said:
crampedmisfit1990 said:
I agree. If I were experienced with color timing films, I'd do Ghostbuster I & II, but I'm not. I am still trying to learn these things.
fair enough. also did read the rest of my message about 35mm prints
Yes, and I agree 100%.
I agree. If I were experienced with color timing films, I'd do Ghostbuster I & II, but I'm not. I am still trying to learn these things.
SilverWook said:
You mean this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Feature-Film-The-Smurfs-and-the-Magic-Flute-1976-1983-6-09-15-/301657626078
Yes.
You sure found someone with a print fast! You must really be looking hard for people that own 35mm prints of the BTTF films.
I'd love for the BDs to be over, that crap sucks. When you buy a BD set and later download the movies from the internet and they're in better quality... you know something's wrong.
jedimasterobiwan said:
crampedmisfit1990 said:
jedimasterobiwan said:
crampedmisfit1990 said:
bigrob said:
This auction ended four years ago but wonder if there are 16mm versions floating around
http://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Film-85-BACK-FUTURE-Complete-Trilogy-/310285951059?hash=item483e7be053&pt=US_Film
Damn, it went for $2,600 and it was only 16mm... hate to see the price on a 35mm print.
i did find someone who has the third movie's 35mm print i asked if he has one and two's and if he could help.
Great, that would be amazing if he would help out with it. Did you find him on this site or somewhere else?
twitter he said he was willing to help he only has back to the future 3 but that's better than nothing
Agreed, I heard that BTTF 3 on BD had some stuff digitally removed by accident. Can't remember what at the moment.
There is a good condition 35mm print on ebay at the moment pretty cheap. Check it out.
What ever became of this print???
jedimasterobiwan said:
crampedmisfit1990 said:
bigrob said:
This auction ended four years ago but wonder if there are 16mm versions floating around
http://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Film-85-BACK-FUTURE-Complete-Trilogy-/310285951059?hash=item483e7be053&pt=US_Film
Damn, it went for $2,600 and it was only 16mm... hate to see the price on a 35mm print.
i did find someone who has the third movie's 35mm print i asked if he has one and two's and if he could help.
Great, that would be amazing if he would help out with it. Did you find him on this site or somewhere else?
bigrob said:
This auction ended four years ago but wonder if there are 16mm versions floating around
http://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Film-85-BACK-FUTURE-Complete-Trilogy-/310285951059?hash=item483e7be053&pt=US_Film
Damn, it went for $2,600 and it was only 16mm... hate to see the price on a 35mm print.
I watched the DCP a few weeks ago and it looked great! Way better than the BD release... could use the color correction and such, but pretty nice anyway.
Asaki said:
I've always loved the way Universal does it. They'll start off with their current logo (if it isn't a modern movie), and then right after it will show the original logo (or logos, for their anniversary stuff).
I think it's a pretty cool compromise.
Yeah, I don't mind that too much. Way better than cutting the original out completely.
Another awesome looking release from the great TeamBlu!
UPDATE: Buster D just gave me the video capture of the end of Pee Wee's Big Adventure from the LD and after the Aspen Film Society logo, there is not a WB "Distributed By" outro. There is nothing... Just black for a while. So this project is completely done. Thanks, Buster D!
TServo2049 said:
Couldn't Buster check the end of the Japanese LD and see what's at the end? If it's the regular 70s/80s "Distributed By" logo on the red background, it'd just be a matter of finding a Blu-ray that keeps it. (But if they had it over black with the same color scheme as the end credits, it'd be harder if not impossible.)
I was going to ask him to capture the end as well, but figured it to be quite a bother for him. I will ask if it is ok with him to check it again. I do believe that it is simply a WB "Distributed By" though.
EDIT: I just contacted Buster D again, I should hear back from him later tonight. I do feel I have been bugging him too much lately though... haha
I gotta ask... why take the time to fix a film's color timing only to create a encode less than full 1080p HD??? Or are the files correctly color timed in full HD and then down converted for easy download?