jero32

I dunno guys, those blu ray shots looks pretty good to me. Little blown out here and there maybe, but overall good.

Sometimes you guys really do nitpick a little bit about these things.

Damn that looks great, all the color.

The reason it's "squashed" is cause it's anamorphic. Basicly like you said normally the lens would compensate. I'm not entirely sure how you fix it in photoshop though.

I thought decimate was "to reduce TO one tenth"

Heh, a fellow nes programmer. You go on nesdev.com? What's your nick?

Ok back on topic :P

AntcuFaalb said:

jero32 said:

I never did mind a little cropping if the movie wasn't really meant to be shown fully anyway.

I compare it to nes games. Some games "counted" on there being overscan areas so they put garbage in the tiles on the sides, turns out that modern tvs DO display everything, and you get to see it all. It's quite distracting.

Super Mario Bros. 3 is an excellent example of this.

Super mario 3 is actually something slightly different than garbage tiles. (I won't bother you with the technical details unless you really want them)
But they couldn't really prevent it in that case.

edit: well not easily.

I never did mind a little cropping if the movie wasn't really meant to be shown fully anyway.

I compare it to nes games. Some games "counted" on there being overscan areas so they put garbage in the tiles on the sides, turns out that modern tvs DO display everything, and you get to see it all. It's quite distracting.

Almost makes me a little sad that the whole movie isn't being filmguarded. But I realise from a practical standpoint that'd be insane.

Well it looks great regardless, and it's nice that it's been "proven" you can make a really good scan out of 3rd generation prints, so Georgie is full of sh*** about not being able to. (rather he doesn't want to like some people said)

About the dvds and blurays having alot of detail also.

My view on it is that yes of course the blu ray is gonna look better from a detail standpoint. But the colors are kinda fucked and well the cgi changes UUUUUUUGH.
So I'm not so much impressed by seeing star wars with lots of detail as much as that I'm excited a fan project can squeeze so much detail out of a 3rd generation print. (vs the o-negs the blu rays would've used)

I do note that I'm not nearly as hardcore as some of you, and would probably be satisfied enough with the current blu rays if they didn't feature any cgi and/or sound changes. Recomposits don't really bother me that much and I don't mind minor stuff like redone fades. (the "essence" of the movie stays the same with those kind of changes)

That being said I'd vastly prefer a blu-ray with decent looking colors etc. And I definitely wouldn't MIND seeing matte lines or anything, I am rather indifferent to them.

I"m definitely checking them out, I just didn't want to keep posting the same OMG THATS AWESOME over and over again.

I do think some people are forgetting that with a clean up process...there's always gonna be SOME "artistic" liberty. If you don't have the original filmmakers on hand to ask exactly what effect they wanted, you can't really say wether or not something was intended. So unless it affects the movie majorly it would make some sense to make it slightly easier on the eyes.

Note: I am not affiliated with the project so information may be wrong

1.) iirc they said they're doing it at 1080p because it makes rendering take less long.

2.) They're recording the sound from a projector playing back the film.

3.) can't answer this.

Sorry I'm having a hard time following exactly, are you saying you have recording of this show in French? All episodes?

That'd be great...hope I"m not misinterpreting.

Note that the 32mm scan will be cropped slightly. (in the release version, not the raws)

Anyway right now the print is in hands of 3 people. Which is stil isn't enough to prevent Lucas from surpressing it, so as long as we can keep them out of here till its "released" and more than 3 people have it, I'd like to keep stuff low key.

Heh I guess I got a little caught up with the legal implications, that I forgot to think about forum rules. Sorry guys >_<;

Well perhaps he was asking if it'd be LEGAL for him to do.
Let me assure you that it's illegal regardless of wether or not you own all the versions of star wars on any format.

Just download it and enjoy.

Already discussed in another thread. The problem right now is how do you transfer several terrabytes of data?

Of course the way to ensure nothing goes wrong in the period of time to get read for release would be to make sure a number of people have the thing.

I volunteer...for this immense burden and I shall take it quite seriously ;)

Ah my bad...seems like an issue then.

A real theather MIGHT have a setup that allows automatic syncing of the soundtrack to the film. (the projector basicly tells the computer what frame its on and the computer auto syncs it iirc)

Definitely something to enquire about beforehand.

Since most of them hadn't been adjusted its just low rez.

*adventure time* * (can't find the damn clip)

I CAN SEE EVERYTHING.

In that case, picture quality is pretty great. Any chance you could post a png for comparison? (Also personally I always use imgur for pictures, it has less ads)

Detail seems good. White seems a little blown out maybe? (look at Han's chest plate)

The 720p parts, is that a result of the capture resolution being too low? (the raw files) Or did you guys purposely scale it down that much because you felt higher wouldn't have brought out more detail in those shots?

-1 Can I ask how you capture this audio? Are you just recording off a projection set up...or is there some other way? (optical scans?)

Also since I doubt the film doesnt have any sort of stretching, how do you plan on precisely matching it to the film footage?