Anyone have a recommendation for a good Mac disc burning program?
There is a free program also called ‘Burn’ you can download.
Anybody fancy helping with some artwork for the DVD?
Screen shots have been added to first post.
Still really stuck on the sound. Is there anybody who could lend a hand in that department?
OK, I am going to just go ahead with the sound I have and release as an AVI. If I get any feedback from anybody that can help, then this can be fixed for the DVD.
I will upload screen shot comparison end of the week.
Release will be on spleen.
Think of it this way, the original negative is the master negative for creating all interpositives and presentation prints. It includes all composited effects, scene changes, and titles. For Star Wars/A New Hope, a 3 color separation master was also created which supposedly would let them create a duplicate of the original negative. For the SE, they went back to the camera negatives, the raw footage, to recomposite most (but not all) of the shots. I’m not sure to what extent they did this with the composited effects shots (which were all done in VistaVision so the final composite would not have increased film grain over non-effects shots) or whether they kept the original composited elements. In some cases the stars are obviously different, but in others they aren’t. The snow speeder sequences in TESB were all redone to correct a flaw with the way it was originally composited (that allowed the background to show through the darker areas of the image).
I often watch TCM in HD (720p) and a lot of the movies they show are from original prints with the cigarette burns intact. One was a restoration where the only complete version was 16 mm so the shots missing from the 35 mm copy were fuzzy. But at 720p, the scans of the original prints looks pretty good. The older technicolor prints often have some obvious misalignment, but a properly calibrated scan and subsequent filtering can separate and realigns the colors (Mike did this in a couple of shots - one scene he found several levels of misalignment and corrected them all because he couldn’t be sure of which were due to Technicolor and which were through some accident of production). Citizen Kane only exists as a high quality presentation print (the negative was lost long ago). For many old movies, the print is all we have and some of them are damaged. But I am often amazed at the quality. And some of the modern restorations are just incredible. About the only way to see the original 1977 Star Wars better than Mike is doing would be a full restoration of that 3 color separation. It has the same problem that a lot of old, pre-color negative technicolor films have, the negatives have shrunk unevenly. A problem in 1996 when GL wanted to use them to restore the faded negative, but not a problem today with digital technology that can realign the colors (this has been used in countless films, such as Gone With The Wind and a lot of early color negative films that were distributed in Technicolor that have the yellow too faded on the negative so they use that piece of the technicolor color separation). The restored ones are so much clearer, but even the unrestored ones scanned form original prints are pretty clear. And even Mike has commented that no all prints are created alike. He has seen one high quality one and one lower quality one (according to his comments). He’s also gone beyond just archiving and cleaning up the technicolor print to using algorithms to see through the grain and recover details, such as on the infamously low quality shot of Luke’s landspeeder passing through Mos Eisley.
Interesting stuff!
Well, thanks to williarob I’ve awoken from my slumber. For a while now I’ve been trying to find a way to salvage the colors of what would appear to be unsalvageable prints. I’ve come up with a procedure, that actually combines both the color restoration, and color matching approaches. This does imply, that you need some kind of reference, but here goes.
I took some example frames that team -1 posted a while ago, to show that it is possible to retrieve a full range of colors from a severely faded film print. You will note, that there are some artifacts in the restored frames. These are due to compression, and lack of color depth (8 bit). Here are two frames from the -1 LPP, that will serve as references:
Here are the same frames, but for a print that has almost gone monochrome:
Here are the results after color balancing, and subsequent matching to the references:
That’s incredible! How long did the tool take to do that?
How does the lit look of you just apply in now to other frames in that scene?
I like it, but how faithful is it to the original intended look?
I believe it’s a massaged version of the 2.5 colour which was based on stills for reference. Either way it would be a good Base to start at.
Still really stuck on the sound. Is there anybody who could lend a hand in that department?
Have you tried using the colour correct tool by Dre, and using the Harmy DE 2.7 as the source?
I imagine it would be but I am not sure… Basically it is in 4:3 and is all footage from 1994. It was made at the same time as the film. It is split in to different sections. As I said it has music to jurassic park when the natives make their uprising against the pyramid. But there are more deleted scenes than this.
I have the UK single disc directors cut done by Kinowelt in Germany.
I have the documentary in 240p but I want to get it in 480p if possible.
I will have a good look at my set for you.
The documentary on the US ultimate edition 2 disc set is not the documentary it is a new one.
Is the US the same as the UK release?
I have the UK special edition and the US special edition 2 disc version so I have bought and checked them.
Unless you have the French DVD it might be on there?
I will double check, however I think I have the UK 2 disc special edition.
So is the documentary you are looking for the one on the 2 disc but with added deleted scenes?
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The edit it all done, having issues with the sound as some of it is from VHS and mp3 source.
Is there anybody who could help with the sound for me?
In the meantime I am going to start to build the disc.
There is a few clips on it you cannot find anywhere else but it is small sized footage. It’s not anything completely significant but it is nice to see all the same and the test will be upsacling it to DVD quality.
The documentary I am looking for though is still evading my search. I bought the blu-ray hoping it would be on there and the documentary is on there but the deleted scenes have been edited out of it.
On the Blu Ray it is listed as “the making of Stargate” and “Original Stargate previews” but I am trying to find the original unedited documentary. Can anyone tell me if this was released on DVD?
I have the special edition DVD with an extended cut, that has the documentary on the second disc.
Is this the one you are talking about?
I can’t remember if it has deleted scenes in but can check once I finish work if you like?
Will the version you upload be 4K, or 1080?
I am not ‘delivering’ it as such in any format, the restoration will be done at 4K Academy resolution for archival purposes, it will probably clock in at around 16TB or so in size for the final work, per movie. From that any other format could be derived I guess.
I do not think he is going to answer your question as it is stated.
I was only asking for clarification. 4K for archival, but I was enquiring if that was also what will be shared.
Will the version you upload be 4K, or 1080?
Always excited to see a restoration taking place!
What format and resolution will this project be delivered in?
DO you have a time scale, or is it done, when it’s done?
I’m with you, ray_afraid, the bunk is a cool addition, but I much prefer that light being out. Chewie just hasn’t gotten around to changing the bulb yet. 😉
How many Wookies does it take to change a light bulb?
How many fan editors does it take to change a light bulb?
