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frank678 said:

Asaki said:

It's a little less colorful than I was expecting, but looks pretty awesome.

I think it would be possible to make things 'pop' a bit more with some adjustments - I had tried a quick and nasty boost https://vimeo.com/72009834 but I would be worried of doing too much in case of ruining the nice texture the original has

Thanks, Nice colours, impossible to judge the detail loss as Vimeo compression will be obliterating the fine detail anyway.

I'm hoping more people will have a play with it and see what they can bring out of it.

The scan is in 16bit per pixel colour so there will be a lot more latitude for colour adjustments than the compressed file I posted.

Sounds like a great idea Silverwook.

DragoonClawNZ said:

Wow, that was better than I expected. Looked pretty clean too (if that was how good the print was). Even if there was no 35mm release, I'd even settle for a Blu-ray release of that.

Yeah, that is how the print looks. There has been no digital cleanup, just a scan and resize and compression to make it uploadable.

I did physically clean the film over a light-table, that takes a while :) but gets you a result that is more true to the print rather than relying on digital tools.

Unfortunately some of the 'hairs' and dust are on the negative, so are 'baked in' to this print and digital removal of them would be the only way.

I'll be leaving it as is though, that way people can clean or not clean as their heart desires.

So I've ordered another $800 of HDDs all up (1 faster SSD, 3x2TB HDDs to RAID0) to get this thing transferred, they should arrive next week and I can get on with it.

Hopefully it will be worth it in the end and someone will polish it up.

It means I will be better setup for future film scanning projects too.

The other reels are much the same, there is a green emulsion line through about 1/3rd of one of the reels, but that can be repaired without too much effort.

Scanning it is a bloody big task though, I needed to purchase an extra SSD to keep up with the scanner, it was dropping the occasional frame, which on film is a nightmare as if you miss the frame you have to get the film back into position, capture that frame, align and insert it etc.

The capture is about 18GB per minute in its raw form, so it is quite unwieldy.

Just transferring the files off the SSD to the HDDs each time the SSD fills up can take hours. I've ordered another couple of HDDs to stripe them. A RAID0 setup should stop me having to wait so long between each scanning session for the SSD to be cleared.

That footage is straight out of the scanner, no colour correction or anything yet. I'd love it if someone had a go at correcting it.

It is the UK Derann release, it was taken from the international negative master, so there are no greedo subtitles, but it has the English Crawl and end credits.

A quick look at the trench sequence from the last reel of the Derann Super 8mm print.

http://we.tl/O0sZuv0I7R

The aspect ratio is off, this is just a test to see if the reel needs extra cleaning.

About 2 mins worth, with no sound.

Yum! Freshly baked Memorex, straight from the oven!

That's a shame, I would have liked to have seen some old commercials :)

Stamper said:

Original DVD release was Road Warrior print woldwide. It's sightly cut (actually it's the US theatrical cut).

New version on Blu-ray is Mad Max 2. Longer cut with extended violence, but it lacks some of Papagallo dialogue in the first part of the film.

I would like to get a script which can combine the colors of the DVD to the Blu-ray picture. Fixing the missing parts should be easy, they are only a couple of seconds.

This can be done using Elastix. It is a slow slow process, but it does a perfect job.

I wonder if anyone here won the 35mm reel of the Australian release?

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=548349fbc2e7e680d1f4d6b9580a7ee3

The best demodulator is this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/YAMAHA-APD-1-AC-3-RF-Dolby-Digi-RF-Demodltr-4-LD-NEW-/260798056524?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item3cb8c6884c

On your player, I'd check with Duncan as per the turnaround, some small jobs take a week, other small jobs have taken him months. It depends on what else he has ahead of him.

He does great work, but some people have waited many months for quite simple jobs to be done. I'd try and get an ETA from him.

I've emailed some sub files to you!

Poiita no return it is then...

Well, I would have been *very* surprised if the Ep IV was missing from the crawl, quite interested to see what it is though. Do you think it is a recording of one of the early pay per view broadcasts?

So, it's potentially back on between Luke and Leia then...

Ah, if you have the Blackmagic, then the answer is... Neither!

The BM capture devices are excellent... except for their comb filters which absolutley suck. Unfortunately so does the one on the 925.

I'd strongly recommend getting an outboard comb filter in the shape of a DVD recorder and you will get far better results.

If not, then use the SVideo output. The 925 CF is awful, but the BM one is worse.

davextreme said:

Friday night my wife asked our three-and-a-half-year-old what movie she wanted to watch. She replied, "the robot movie." We assumed she meant Wall-E. then she said, "with Princess Leia!" She's seen little bits of a Star Wars before but I guess her friends at preschool have been talking about it. Her favorite part is when Threepio takes a bath. Anyway, we're watching it and, in the first scene on the blockade runner, she says of Darth Vader, "That's her daddy." Spoilers abound on the playground!

Anyway, I'm delighted every time I watch the DeEd, Harmy. It's a great piece of work and I'm looking forward to 2.5.

Wait...what?

Darth Vader is Princess Leia's father???

I'm reposting what I can remember.

hahahahaahahaaa!

If you can find one in Australia for a decent price, I'll buy it and transfer it. I'd like to see it myself. I don't have the Criterion version.

I might just do a capture of one scene and see how it compares.

Sweet, we can lift The Keep, replace it with my 35mm copy of 'Toys' and maybe no-one will notice until screening night.

Then we scan The Keep, Sneak back in and swap the films back again minutes before screening, with lots of high tension shenanigans in-between.

Oh man, what I would do to get my hands on the 35mm...

So is anyone here going to the convention?

One in the US though, it has that track on it.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pop-Rock-DTV-Walt-Disney-Laserdisc-Discount-Shipping-/130944155659?pt=US_Laserdisc&hash=item1e7ce1400b

If only I had known about this last month?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Laser-Disc-Movie-Disneys-DTV-Pop-Rock-Animated-Classic-/400488400774?nma=true&si=KfwsL%252FzGXUrSObDh9vNWNXOAke4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557