poita

Yeah, that one has been for sale for a while, the fading is too severe.

I've sent in a request, no luck so far. I guess I could run a GPU rar cracker at it.

Oh, and don't waste your money on the firebox, it really is awful, you could spend that money in better ways to get your print scanned. Drop me a PM.

davros said:

althor1138 said:

I'm getting myself one for christmas.  I have about 2-3 minutes of sw on 35mm that I want to scan.  I have a galaxy s2+ and a program that can take png's.  If it works I'll post some shots.

Sounds good! What film ? Please post any examples

And in response   Feallan . Yeah i did a couple of years back , its owned by a friend in London, but we are hesitant as we are concerned about the legality of it. 

 I have sent prints to and from London and the rest of the UK, it isn't a problem, but there is a preferred way to do it.

I've sent you a PM :)

Cheers

-Poit

Head over to http://www.amps.boards.net/ for some new info on the print.

Head over to http://www.amps.boards.net/ for full details, and post a message in the welcome board.

Yeah, passworded stuff on usenet pisses me off no end.

none said:

a.b.3d : 37d : Description - "Revisited 50% SBS" : requires password

might be it, but probably gotta join Nep's forum to get access.

 It looks like it, anyone know the forum to get the password?

Hi Jerry, if you can post exactly which scenes you mean, I can check it against the scan.

Where is neptune's forum?

All I can find on him is his posts on the BD forum, he sure has a lot of 3D Movies. I thought I was the only one with 3D VHDs!

http://forum.blu-ray.com/member.php?s=6d7f42f7498b776161e18aba20fc4fd5&u=222390

These guys have access to a 35mm print by the sound of it.

http://vimeo.com/3974772

But getting 24P output without tearing or sync problems on a HTPC isn't easy either.

I can wait :)

Turisu said:

poita said:

The print has been reserved for us, I have a bit of a backlog with Star Wars and others, but I will be able to get onto this in the new year.

 

Great news. Any chance you could take a quick peek when you get the print and give us an idea of how the colour timing compares to other sources?

Thanks poita. :)

I can tell you that the 35mm print is green-ish, as it was part of the look the brothers were going for, but nowhere near as green as the DVD.

I haven't seen the BD, so can't say. I have the HD-DVD at home, but haven't looked at that yet.

red5-626 said:

poita said:

Part of the problem here is that a raw scan of a single film is over 20TB, i.e. over $700 worth of HDDs. Not easy to share or distribute.

As for entitlement, nobody *has* to share anything, especially something they may have sunk thousands of hours and thousands of dollars into, but I am glad when people do :)

 

OK
I had a thought.
What if you scaled down the frames so you
could have like 1 TB per real.

I would think that would still be much better than 1080p
Maybe 2 ½ K?
But small enough that you could share it.

I'm not sure many people would want much larger than 1080P anyway, as few have displays capable of higher resolution in their loungerooms.

If you go with .exr as a format, then in 1080P each reel is only about 600GB in 16bpp with an alpha channel. Still hefty, but far easier to manage.

As an archival thing, then 4K is great, but as a delivery system, it is overkill for today's audiences.

Tack said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Yep. He does it for the coltonlolz.

I'd make a joke about the film Smiley, but I doubt how many of you would get it.

It's all fun and games until Smiley gets a gun.

The print has been reserved for us, I have a bit of a backlog with Star Wars and others, but I will be able to get onto this in the new year.

Oh, and if THX ever turns up... definitely!

Nope, all the release prints of the Matrix were scope as far as I know. Have never seen a flat print anywhere.

Paradox295 said:

I'll stick my $10 in.

So that makes $25 left!

 

How do you plan on making this available? Just a h264 encode authored to BluRay, or would it be possible to get a lossless encode, straight from the scan as well.

It is a ways off yet, straight from the scan will mean plenty of scratches, glitches, splices and 16bpp wide gamut, so it won't be of much use to most people.

It would also weigh in somewhere between 10-20TB in size.

Remember, a theatrical print is not a negative, it will be scratched, dirty, potentially have some missing frames, and will be considerably softer than a neg would be, and in many cases, softer than the BD release of any given movie.

Prints are often a bit crushed in the blacks and whites as well.

They are however, the way most people saw the movie at the cinema, so a more accurate representation of the way the movie was first experienced.

Clockwork Orange is 8 effin reels, that thing is expensive to ship.

Matrix is on 6, if you transfer the reels to cores, it saves a little space and weight.

I'd love to hear what DP would do :)

Freight within the US is $50, to Australia, it depends on the weight, but between $200 and $350.

Nope.

I've asked the seller to hold it for another couple of days. Fingers crossed.