Yeah, yesterday was crazy hot:
https://mobile.twitter.com/QPSmedia/status/830322391737720832
It hit 50C/122F in some parts of QLD.
Our house should be okay, it is in a highly defensible area, but the RFS has told anyone to leave that is able to, so we decided to go. All important stuff is with us, or at a secure location, so all should be fine. We will be coming back Tuesday if all has settled down.
We are packing up and leaving for my parents house at the coast for a few days, the bushfires near here are getting out of control.
https://twitter.com/nswrfs?lang=en
I’m back home, but a bit knocked around.
Will update soon.
Yeah I actually have a rip of the VHD on my home theater server in SBS format but it’s not 2.35 so either it’s either panned and scanned or the scope DVD is cropped to 2.35 which I kind of doubt but need to check. The 3D is impressive but the quality is sub par. Having a high definition, scope, full 3D version will be nice.
I have a VHD player here, I’ll keep an eye out for the discs.
I have sent my reels to the same scanner as well, so we should be covered for any frames missing from one print or the other.
Yes.
Sorry if it is in the thread, I read it but was still unsure.
What is the source for the project?
That certainly sucks, but thank god the new mobo was able to reuse the existing raid arrays. i have heard anecdotal horror stories about firmware mismatches causing issues with this. not a fun situation, but it could have been worse i guess.
how is your house cleanup going?
The roof has been sealed up, and the place is nearly back to normal.
Yeah, one RAID was on a hardware card, it came back fine, the mobo RAID didn’t come back, the one HDD failure killed it. It was a 7 drive array, so packing that up and sending it to data recovery, with no guarantees, and unable to use the machine in the meantime, I’m not sure it is worth it. I have the ProRes of that reel, so I think I will just work from it.
The memory is a pain, it drops me back to 32GB which isn’t enough to work in 4K with my restoration software, so I’m looking at that now. So far the total damage from the PC looks like being around $800 or so, which isn’t the end of the world. The lost time and work is frustrating though.
As I can’t render, I’m going to go through and ‘GOUT Sync’ the scans I have, i.e. put a “MISSING FOOTAGE” frame placeholder into all of the frames that are missing from the frames compared to the GOUT. That should make it easier down the track to keep everything synched and far easier to insert footage from other scans etc. where required. It also means timelines will align between multiple scans from different prints, which I think could be handy.
Good news… after messing around pulling RAM sticks, I got the system to boot with the new motherboard.
Bad news, I’m down 32GB of DDR4 and one of the 5TB WD Black HDDs in the array is reporting as failed, so it looks like I have lost all of the WIP on the 2nd RAID. The SSD RAID has come up just fine.
So the carnage was UPS, Power Supply, Motherboard, half the RAM and one HDD, and a few weeks work, and one reel that I don’t have a raw backup for.
It could have been a lot worse.
Thanks for all the crossed fingers, I’m off to bed now, will make a plan in the morning as to where to go from here.
I found one locally, and have picked it up and am installing it tonight.
Fingers crossed.
Thanks, that is the most affordable one so far.
Backups are a problem, to backup the scans I currently have would take roughly another 240TB of HDDs, which in the current market is around US$8,500 worth of drives, which is money I don’t have right now.
Every time a new print turns up, the storage cost alone to store the scan and make a backup is about US$1800 just in hard drives for a single film.
So some of the scans do not have backups, which is frustrating and dangerous, but unless a Simon Pegg-like-mega-fan with deep pockets, or the much wider community crowd funded a lot of HDDs, then having backups is unfeasible.
Making lower resolution ProRes copies of the raw scans is the best I can manage at the moment, but even that is a stretch sometimes due to lack of space.
I’m paranoid about RAID for reasons like this… It may not be as good, but I just rsync what I need backed up… Not that that helps any right now. Good luck on the motherboard hunt, and yotsuya’s suggestion of contacting Gigabyte might actually be a good idea at this point.
The RAID is for speed, working with files that require 2.88GB/s transfer rate to maintain realtime playback is the main issue. In this case it isn’t about redundancy, just about transferring data at decent rates so you aren’t waiting on the I/O constantly.
The annoying thing is apparently I have to get the exact same model motherboard for the RAID to come up without issues.
So if anyone can find a Gigabyte X99-UD4, let me know.
Drives spin up, but don’t know much other than that yet, as they were all in a RAID setup.
Motherboard has copper tracks melted off it, so I’m figuring it is toast. Hopefully CPU and RAM are okay.
It looks like a tree smashed into the power lines, snapping the power pole and taking out the transformer on the pole, we may have gotten however many thousand volts are on the line pre-transformer down the line briefly.
It fried the surge suppressor and the UPS and took out the power supply. I am dreading pulling the mother board to look to see if there is damage, I have to remove all 13 HDDs, and mark the cables so that the two RAIDs don’t get out of whack when I re-assemble.
Hopefully it is just the PSU.
Power is back on, PC won’t boot. No Internet here yet either. Going to open the PC up tonight to see what the trouble is. We rent, so the house damage isn’t our concern at least, and the house has been secured so all is good on that front, but we sustained some water damage inside. It looks like we had a power surge or brownout issue though as the fridge is dead and the PC etc seems to have problems. Will update as I work though it.
We have had a bit of a disaster, we have substantial damage to the house and no power, a mini cyclone ripped through the town.
I don’t know yet what was lost, but the family are all safe.
You can see details of the storm here including a walk around the town:
http://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/4412494/massive-storm-rips-through-mudgee-photos-video/?cs=1233
There is still no power, and the backup power to the cell towers will be out soon, so I will be offline for a while.
I will update when I know more.
This is what a full frame scan looks like.
I cropped the German reel to the projection matte, there is a bit more at the top, bottom and sides, the scans exceed the film width/height in all directions (i.e. each frame has a bit of the previous and next frame in shot) so everything on the frame is scanned.
As mentioned, these are for missing frame detection, nothing more. I really appreciate the help in finding the missing frames, it makes the restoration effort easier.
However, the full frame is never seen in the cinema, which is why you don’t notice the strip at the bottom of each scene change splice in the cinema, or the groaty edges on the left and right sides. Obviously for the archival scan I keep the full frames, sprockets and soundtrack area, but for the restored ‘cinema’ version it will be cropped to the projection mask used during projection, as that is what one is meant to see.
I can post another section with the complete soundtrack area etc. if anyone is interested.
I’m not on my usual monitor, but these look a bit yellow to me?
It could be my screen though.
I had a few emails saying how lucky it was that Reel3 is so clean.
The timecoded version I posted is the result of messing around with cleanup techniques for the past two weeks.
The original isn’t vaguely clean, this is how the end of the reel looks, with the colour balance done to reduce the red, the damaged frame is on the right.
This is a map of the damage a few frames later, the red parts are the pixels that required repairing.
Here are a few frames of playback (12MB) , just looking at the damage overlay (shot from my phone pointing at the screen, sorry for the quality)
German Reel3 for missing frame hunting for everyone playing along at home.
Please ignore the weird texture pulsing at the start and in some scenes. I had a layer turned on in the restoration software that was causing some weirdness.
I want to thank everyone that is doing frame checking, it saves me an enormous amount of time.
Due to disk space limitations for me to do it, it means I first have to offload one of the reels I am working on to external storage, which takes hours, and then load up the GOUT references etc. and then go through them.
The help really lets me just keep working on the restoration itself.
Reel6 will be up soon. Again, not worried about colour or aspect ratio etc. just looking at damage and missing frames.