crampedmisfit1990 said:
poita, I wish you well on the surgery. That really sucks.
I've been waiting a long time for the surgery, so I am pretty happy to be finally having it.
Not looking forward to the recovery/rehab period, but glad it is getting done.
About a 12-18 month wait, if they decide it is 'urgent'.
Actually, that brings up another point, I will be absent from the forums starting next week for about 8 weeks, I am undergoing surgery for an ongoing condition, and will be pretty much out of action for that time. So you won't see much, if anything from me here during that period.
Assuming all goes well, I will be back on deck after that.
Unfortunately, will still have a sore shoulder!
Seeing that we are straying off topic, I might as well join the fray.
I finally got an answer on why my damn shoulder has been in so much pain over the last year.
That circled part shouldn't be there.
Haha!
Nice.
C'mon guys, he asked a reasonable question.
If he posts a screenshot we will get a better idea of the issue.
The sabre is particularly droopy in that shot.
What source are you using for the Theatrical Versions?
Dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you.
Probably best to ask on Fanres itself.
clutchins said:
poita said:
Actually, I have decided to do Jedi first for my restorations, as it has definitely been the most neglected, and has arguably the most objectional changes with that horrible dance number (replacing the slightly less horrible original one) and the Hayden ghost mess at the end. I don't like Jedi as much, apart from the space scenes which are incredible, but it needs a proper restoration done.
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly are you doing with your restorations that is different from Team -1? I follow most of the big threads and yours is one of them but I'm confused as to what makes yours unique from theirs.
Just a different take on the same thing really. I'm scanning from multiple 35mm prints and restoring them, I do it for a living and think I do reasonable work, and am using very high grade scanners.
Both will end up looking very different, you may prefer one over the other, or not like either. I think -1 will end up getting their's done first, I am not in any hurry, but I am changing my focus to work on Jedi first, it has issues I already have developed tools to tackle, and the sources are in better shape than for the other two films.
jedimasterobiwan said:
poita said:
Can you post a frame from it?
how do i do that?
There are many ways to do it, but the easiest if you have DVD playback software on your windows computer, pause an image, you can just hit the printscreen button and then open up Paint, and paste the image into it.
Or on the mac you have a mulitude of screen capture options, such as Command (?)-Shift-3 which will save then entire screen to the desktop, or Command (?)-Shift-4 which will let you rubberband an area of the screen to be saved to the desktop.
The you can upload the image to a service like http://imgur.com/ and put the image up on the internet and post the link here.
clutchins said:
Handman said:
clutchins said:
May as well ask this here.
What's the best way to watch ROTJ OOT? Harmy's DeEd 1.0 is awfully spartan and obviously incomplete, so I'm wondering what's the next best thing.
TeamBlu did some nice upscales of the GOUT, which is a bit more consistent in image quality than the DeEds, though it's sub-HD. Puggo has a 16mm scan of the film coming out soon enough, and Harmy's 2.0 ROTJ is currently being worked on, along with Team Negative1's 35mm scans. However, this film is probably the most neglected of the three when it comes to preservation efforts.
I'm following all of those closely. And yeah it seems to take back seat to SW and ESB with every major effort to preserve the trilogy unless it's something like a Laserdisc preservation, which are subpar to a videophile like me. (Not to say they have no worth - they do, but I'm looking for something that won't make my picky eyes bleed.)
I guess the GOUT upscale will have to do for the moment. I've got all the various audio selections for it so I don't have to limit myself to the stereo mix.
Actually, I have decided to do Jedi first for my restorations, as it has definitely been the most neglected, and has arguably the most objectional changes with that horrible dance number (replacing the slightly less horrible original one) and the Hayden ghost mess at the end. I don't like Jedi as much, apart from the space scenes which are incredible, but it needs a proper restoration done.
Can you post a frame from it?
What HDD is inside those?
team_negative1 said:
Thanks for the samples Poita, we took a quick take on some cleanup, and besides stabilization, the shot in Ben's hut came out pretty good.
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Man, I don't know how you guys find the time, I don't have enough to work on my own projects as much as I'd like, let alone finding time to play in other ones.
Yeah, there are some weird roto issues throughout the 1977 releases, I did initially do some cleanup on that sequence, e.g.
I can't remember any more which was the later revision...
but as mentioned, it isn't worth the effort, there are better sources that warrant the time.
Check to see if there is a PAL release of the DVD, it might not have the same issues.
And sill doesn't look happy.
Yeah, it certainly was never green on film before 1997.
It was such a shame that IB had the mould problem, it was in good shape otherwise. I never had it scanned properly, which is why there is so much noise in the shadow areas, the scan was mostly for assessing the print, to see if any scenes were still viable.
They are usually for usage in the USA and then wind their way back to me.
Whomever is cheapest on the day.
Officeworks, Amazon, Newegg, Harvey Norman...
Here is the whole segment from the mouldy Tech.
https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/93a4c70a26c03793a82ceff88a1bac2120150627022341/1b8fc6f8e6947194e144942834229aed20150627022341/a209c6
And the sabre in Ben's shack, also from the mouldy Tech.
https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/787dde9d2eb31dffa80f6dda704563c520150627053120/7a6ea764ce924430ebd7700678b6f41520150627053120/51fb26
Yes.
Basically the grain is effectively smaller when you print to 35mm rather than 16mm as the image size is larger. So you will still have the 16mm neg grain either way, but the print grain will look less on the 35mm vs the 16mm print from the same 16mm neg.
TServo2049 said:
Hey, do you happen to have any screens of another training shot, one of the ones where the lightsaber always looks white on the video transfers? Mike Verta has confirmed that it was clearly blue in every shot on theatrical prints in '77, and the bootleg videos from the original release seem to confirm this. But I'd love to see another screen from this "inferior" print if you have one.
I can upload a clip from yet another rejected IB Tech, it wasn't scanned on the good scanner, but I have a proxy of it handy, so will compress it and upload that whole sequence.
Keep in mind that this is a poor quality scan from a rough print. I will not be using this one.
(The print was rejected as it had mould in the emulsion, so was too much work to clean up. This is one of the pitfalls, you can spend nearly a grand finding a print, having it cleaned, shipping it and shipping it back, only to find out it is relatively unusable)
If you are wondering why I just don't upload the clip from a better scan, it is simply that I have these older ones in proxy format and can recompress and upload them more quickly (it will still take me a few hours of dicking around). The current prints are across tens of drives, currently being backed up - moving 100s of TBs around literally takes days as they are in higher than 4K format with damage mattes etc. It takes forever to load them, find the section, set the black and white points, resize and render out and upload. I'm pretty time poor at the moment with 4 kids and trying to earn a buck, so even these 'quick' uploads eat a lot of my currently limited time.
As mentioned before, I am about a year away from completion assuming I can purchase another 50-80TB of HDDs, I will post progress along the way, but at the moment I am in acquisition and backup/file transfer mode, so you won't see a lot from me over the next month or so, after that if I have all the scans I need you should see regular updates.
My internet is slow, so the upload of the previously mentioned clip is going to take around 3 hours, I'll post it once it is up.
frank678 said:
Here's a tech strip example from ebay where the lightsabres are whiter for whatever reason
I downloaded that sample image and pumped up the colour, and you can see that the colour is in fact there. It is probably just an overexposed photo from a poor camera blowing out the light areas.
That was a first pass with cleanup and stabilisation and a rough colour pass. The blacks ended up crushed a little.
That was actually from the same print, but it was about 100 hours work just for that short piece as the print was in such bad shape.
