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#621556
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Ideas, Info & Help Wanted: a 16mm Telecine-Projector Project
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Your best bet is to use the flash-scan method, then you can run the projector at normal speed.

Basically design an LED pulse circuit, replace the projector light with the LED source.

You 'flash' the LED light source 24 times per second, remove the shutter completely from the projector.

A hall effect sensor on the shaft of the projector will act as the trigger for the light source and the camera.

An enlarger lens reversed is the best quality lens for this sort of work, and is easy to adapt to the task.

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#604048
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Disney Acquires LucasFilm for $4.05 billion, Episode 7 in 2015, 8 and 9 to Follow, New Film Every 2-3 Years
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I think there is a good chance of the OUT coming, well, out on Bluray now.

 

Why?

 

1) Disney is litigous, but it would be difficult to crack down when there is a long history of fan-edits etc. being allowed. But they will still want to protect their property, how could they make it palatable to bring litigation? By...

 

2) Releasing the OUT on BD. Disney hates leaving money on the table, and an OUT release would help fund Ep7/8/9. It would also leave little excuse for 'archiving' Star Wars if they release the OUT. They can say job done, now anyone who is capturing the film has no need to, and if you do we will sue your arses off.

 

So I reckon we have a reasonable shot at an OUT release, or at least a release that just has the SE additions removed but keeps the various cleanups and recomps etc.

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#597059
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Info Wanted: Best "official" color source?
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None of them. If you compare them to a print, they are all off. The SC is in the correct spectrum but the saturation is way too low and the colour is way off in some areas. The THX laserdisc releases are closer to correct saturation, but the tint is off. The bootleg tapes are also not all that close. The PAL THX ones are closer than the NTSC ones.

The only reliable source is a print, anything else and you are only matching to the telecine colourist's choices of the day.