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It is a Bezoar Demon freshly hatched from its egg.

Oh, and this arrived today, pretty beaten up but interesting.

http://we.tl/b6ndWrX8Ea

Davinci Lite is free and is great for high bit depth work, and is apparently used by pretty ladies.

It is limited to HD resolutions but otherwise is fully functional. I can supply the files at HD res.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/models

Don't need a 10bit display, that is what a LUT is for.

The only way to lessen the impact would be to colour correct it before dropping it back to 8bpp really. Or at least decide on the gamma curve and apply that before dropping to 8bpp.

I don't know any colour grading software that doesn't work in at least 16bit, what software is he using?

The captures are actually in 16bpp not 10bpp, I capture video in 10bpp, but film is usually 14bit or 16bit.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/310736936057?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

This is open matte, so you get extra information top and bottom on the non-effects scenes.

Yes, it does have a basic wetgate setup.

Well, 3TB HDDs are AUD$145 or so, not sure what postage would come to.

At 4K uncompressed it is about 3TB per reel, I have yet to convert to OpenEXR but it is usually about half that size. If I drop it to 14bpp then it will take up less space.

At 2K, which is really enough for Super8 I can probably get the entire film onto a single 3TB drive at 10bpp.

No, but I can get 70mm scanned should the opportunity ever arise.

The differences between 2K, 4K and 10K are shown on page 20 of this document, which is great reading for anyone wanting an overview of film scanning.

http://c-sideprod.ch/wp-content/medias/2012/10/4K_plus.pdf

I'm more than happy to supply you with the files, and scan it/convert it to whatever formats are most useful.

Nope you are not imagining it, that wet gate footage isn't from the Derann print, it is from a Cineavision print that has more sprocket damage. I was just testing the wetgate as the Cineavision print had more scratches so made a better test.

That print also has more 'baked in' weave, so it would require stabilisation in post.

Derann didn't do empire, this is a print from a German Lab, so it has German audio and the German Crawl, but the print looks gorgeous.

I have finished testing the 10K module and it works fine, but holy crap does it eat up disc space!

Yes, it is a non SE print on Super8. I have seen it with my own eyes and run some of it on an edit desk to take a look. Colour looks great, and the quality is excellent. Can't afford it unless I give up my Star Wars prints though.

Well, the next step after scanning it will be running out a lo-rez workprint as the raw scan is around 3TB. Then I need to capture the audio.

Then it will be picking some key frames and colour correcting them to exactly how they look when viewed on the Super8 editor to have as a reference for correcting the scan to the print.

Then it is up to the community, if anyone wants to supply me a 3TB drive and postage both ways then you are welcome to the scan. I have no way of uploading 3TB+ of data. I can also buy a 3TB drive locally and send it, saving anyone one lot of freight.

I don't have time to colour correct and cleanup the film myself in its entirety, plus I want the raw scan to be available asap, as I learned from my past projects that hanging onto it until I am happy with my results means it stays in my personal galaxy far far away for a long long time. I'm too much of a perfectionist with the post production work, better to get it out there.

Then hopefully I can sell my prints and try to get some funding to pick up the ESB and ROTJ prints. I can get a brand-spanking never been projected ESB print for about a grand, just have to rustle up the funds.

Easy to do, but not really needed, there were only a handful of damaged sprockets and the drive is extremely accurate, so other fluctuations were of a sub-pixel nature,  but there is plenty of gate weave in the film even with the sprockets totally stabilised, that is just how it was.

You could go through and stabilise the footage so it was rock-solid, and anyone should feel free to do so, but it will be a different beast.

Hoping to have the Derann print completed with wetgate by the end of next week.

I would be more than happy to scan anyone's prints, I would be happy to cover the freight costs both ways as well.

As for Puggo's prints, they are not his, I think they were donated by an anonymous owner to be scanned and then returned to the owner, but I have made the offer to scan those as well, I believe Puggo has passed the offer onto the owner, but I haven't heard back.

With all scans, it is up to the owner what happens to them after I have scanned them, I am just providing the scanning service. If they want to keep the scan for their own backup that is up to them. I will not be keeping a copy of the scan unless they wish me to, and of course keep it completely anonymous and confidential. If they want to share it with the world, that is also their choice.

My goal is to ensure that the films are preserved, if the owner wants to start a restoration project using my scanner, that is great. If they just want a private backup for their own use, then I respect that as well and can provide that service.

1) Agree

But perhaps it should also cover where there has been a digital release, but it has been botched.

SilverWook said:

Congrats on getting that behemoth safely to your humble abode. I would have been a nervous wreck waiting for it to show up! You must give it a proper name now. ;)

Now if I can only find a decent scope print of THX 1138...

I'll paint it black and call it TMA-1

Yes, it scans in 4K, and I am testing a 10K module at the moment. Great quality @ 10K but very slow scans.

Do you mean fly over to pick up a film, or that they actually put the item in a seat as if it was a passenger??

Not much lights up actually, mostly just a boring black and white LCD screen.

Maybe I should fit some lights like the PC case guys do ;)

So if anyone has any 35mm film they want preserved, please drop me a line. For the right projects I will be able to cover postage etc. and discretion is guaranteed.

This actually arrived a while ago, I just hadn't been back to post the pictures. It is installed and running.

The horizontal ones look to be damage on the original print that this print was duped from, so nothing we can do about that unfortunately.

The liquid is close to the same refractive index as the film base, the liquid fills in any scratches, so as long as the emulsion is not damaged, then the scratches disappear, as they are now filled with the liquid.

This means that for base scratches, you get the actually data that is on the film, unlike software scratch removal that 'creates' data to fill in the scratches.

It saves a lot of digital cleanup work and means you get the real picture information, so it is a win-win.

You can get a similar result by soaking a film with filmguard, it fills in the base scratches and makes the lines disappear.

Top is wet, bottom is dry.