A 35mm LPP print of ROTJ has come up for sale, checking out the quality now.
A few prints have come to light lately, I'm going to need to invest in more HDDs.
Oh, and if anyone in Australia wants to see Stormtroopers feeding giant crocodiles, today is your lucky day.
pittrek said:
Jesus, it sounds like chemo- or radiotherapy :-( I hope you don't have what I think :-( I really wish you good good health
It's not the first time on the merry-go-round for me, so it isn't as scary, in an odd kind of way.
Still not loads of fun though. Prognosis of success is reasonable at this stage, regular checks meant it was found nice and early, so it is pretty much just a case of do as I'm told, and hope for the best :)
Uh-oh, symptoms are eerily similar.
Bit wonky today, and my eyes have gone a lovely shade of orange, but doing okay.
Guess I won't do any colour-correcting today :)
DuracellEnergizer said:
Max von Sydow's one of my favourite actors, so I'm pleased that he's part of the cast. Everyone else, though (apart from the OT actors), I'm indifferent to (largely because I haven't seen most of them in anything).
I like that I don't know most of them, just like when I saw Star Wars for the first time, I just believed they were the characters, as I didnt know any of them as actors.
Second round of treatment begins this afternoon, so far, so good!
dvdmike said:
This is all rather amazing, will the whole workflow be kept at 4k?
Yes, everything will stay at 4K (well, a bit higher than that , but close enough).
The final result will be kept at the native scanner resolution, then I will look at options for downscaling to UHD (3840x2160) and 1080P (1920 x 1080).
Synnöve said:
Is this going to be regraded in Resolve? Also I'm super jealous that you have an FSI!
You mentioned wanting an OLED panel. Would you be interested in the next best thing? There is a Pioneer Kuro plasma 50 inch in my area going for about 700. These screens can be calibrated to cover Rec709 almost perfectly, and provide motion resolution that exceeds any current oled, as well as blacks that are almost as good (0.001 nits). You'd be limited to HDMI but good SDI cards like the deck link have HDMI ports as well.
If it'd help with the grading (as LCDs are somewhat deficient when it comes to contrast and motion resolution) let me know and I can work out purchasing and shipping it on your behalf.
That would be great as a client monitor, but I am in Australia, so it probably won't work :(
Yet, it will be graded in resolve after repairing the damage on the defect matte.
Plasmas are problematic to use for grading, the ABL screws everything up. The floating white point on plasmas is difficult to deal with, but they do work well on 80% of scenes, and make a great client 'wow!' monitor, and a preview monitor for motion.
For anyone contemplating setting up a grading suite, something like this for example, http://youtu.be/QMcjRZbujYg , with white backgrounds would be impossible to grade on a plasma.
There are definitely some scenes in SW that could cause problems, but it would be fine for the majority of the movie.
msycamore said:
poita said:
I have captured the SWE with my X9 if that is of any help? I don't have fast enough internet to upload it.
That would be awesome to have access to. Is there anything you don't own poita? ;)
A decent car, clothing manufactured in the last 5 years, a social life....
Darth Mallwalker, your PM box is full, so I can't reply to you.
If anyone wants the X9 captures of the SWE, then just send me a HDD and return postage and I'll fill it up.
I have 77 and 78 crawls in multiple film formats here, I can compare it to the GOUT and see if it is 'genuine' I guess.
Troyig88 said:
you can really tell how cropped the GOUT really is.
To be fair, SW would have been cropped at the cinema as well, the film frame holds more information than is meant to be seen.
I have captured the SWE with my X9 if that is of any help? I don't have fast enough internet to upload it.
Thanks guys!
Wedding was very low-key, but was great :)
As for my health, I have started treatment that we all hope will be successful.
Oh believe me, that question has been asked within the family on many an occasion :)
Hey guys, things have been quiet for a while as I have been a bit sick, and also got married on the weekend!
Just a quick note to say that I am working away at the 35mm version when I can, and progress is being made.
Someone asked me just last week why I am doing this, and blowing all my money to get an 'original' version restored to the level of a 1977 release print.
I pointed out that in three years' time, Greedo will have had the first shot for longer than Han did....
So I have a deadline.
They play even my worst discs really well, and I can usually calibrate for a particular disc if need be.
I have a sheetload of LDs to capture, but no way of uploading, so if there are any Aussies, please PM me :)
AntcuFaalb said:
SilverWook said:
You have an X9!? *faints*
And, believe it or not, an X0. :-D
The X1 is actually my favourite machine out of all of them, but I need to recalibrate it.
Okay, so I captured the Japanese laserdisc on my X9.
Now is there anyone in Australia with a fast upload connection that would be willing to up this?
It would take about a month to upload on mine. PM me.
Cheers
-P
They are out, but the archives are password protected :(
Yeah the lack of monster grain particles is a bit of a giveaway ;)
No, that is from the 35mm, I posted in the wrong thread :)
Just an example from the big-arse scanner.
I have a 16mm version at home as well, I'll check it out when I am back and see if it differs at all.
I remember it being painfully grainy.
I'm not home at the moment, but people asked for a sample from the 4K scanner a while back, and I have a frame with me on the laptop.
This is at half the resolution of the actual scan, I dropped the resolution to get the aspect ratio closer to what you would be used to seeing.
The image is overly cropped as well due to using the wrong gate, but it gives you some idea.
Cool, I'm always interested in the differences between encoding solutions, it is a pain to do painstaking restoration only to have it lost in the encode.
I've been unable to keep the detail of the doorframe in my testing at 1080P. Even at 4K resolution, the bands that make up the alternating light-grey/dark-grey inside the doorframe are only about 2-3 pixels in height, (I could be counting wrong) which only leaves around 1 pixel at 1080P.
The lovely thing at 4K uncompressed, is that when the image is moving, because your brain effectively averages the frames and cancels out the grain for you, the detail of that door is much clearer when watching it at 24fps.