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And no, ? is not 182000, because that would take 500 years (or days if 365 are posted each day).

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4 of ?

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Stay tuned for some longer flicker removal samples. These will really show off the flicker reduction plugin.

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Note the date today.

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We have had several different types of equipment to scan with. Mostly homemade, all of them resulted in similar flicker in the captures.

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1,2,3 of ?

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We aren't positive as to what causes it. But when we projected it, the flicker was not noticeable. It is probably dependent on the bulb. I don't see a lot or as much flicker in the other prints of ESB or Jedi.

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Here is a very early and short test of deflickering the footage.

The original is on the bottom:

The processed version is on the top:

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k5sQN3r7ACKdJx9t4GQ

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It's not clothing. Not a release date (Still way too soon for that). Not another print. Not more screenshots. It's from an idea one of the original member of the group had.

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According to previous members of the team, there was a faded 70mm print of ESB out there. Not sure what happened to it, and there are some locked away in some schools Film library.

Just to clarify, that's not the news. This will be something you will be able to enjoy for quite awhile.

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Here is one more final test clip from Reel 4:

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6HhRNbihD9AOW9sv35

http://i.imgur.com/f9GGoGL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HLN9WEp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Cf2ZI1h.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cqgZ2fe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zphEfsL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hNdXn2A.jpg

NOTES : No audio. Some slight color correction, although there is a red tint, and yellow tint near the end.

Slight cropping.

We have some more samples from Reel 3 coming up,

along with some impressive Deflickering done to previous scenes.

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We will say, although not completed yet. You will have something to enjoy over the holidays.

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We hope to have some interesting news related to this soon. Stay tuned for details. We are currently in discussion and planning right now. 

Update: We will know more over the weekend. Happy holidays.

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Here is another sample scene from Reel 4, continuing from the previous one:

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1cvXpkzA6GPje9pNdz

NOTE : Slight color correction applied. No audio. 

http://i.imgur.com/cNrX5Zd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UTOV16o.png

http://i.imgur.com/wz0618Q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WuYorbJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/f47VRVA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1S4Yj26.png

UPDATE : Fixed video link

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Thanks for all the comments everyone. Glad you are enjoying the previews, there will be a couple more.

We actually have higher quality hardware now than when we started, so some clips might benefit from this in the future. This was scanned at about 2k and scaled down.

There is some slight color correction done to the clip, but we have noticed different scenes that have red, blue and yellow tints to them.

I don't have any of the 4k scans as a reference. But in general, these were scanned at the sharpest resolution we had. Of course, the high bitrate versions of the clips might be slightly different, compared to these scaled down, and converted clips.

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Here is a sample from Reel 4, from the scene where Ben, Luke, Han and the robots hide in the room from the other stormtroopers:

NOTE : There is still flicker on the walls, we are testing ways of reducing it.

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1ZZ2nHaqlEVTR9nKon

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Just to clarify. This is from the 16mm version, right? And not from the 35mm.

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Great job on the interview Harmy, and thanks for the mentions. Although one of the original team members bought the prints off of Ebay, which is what I was told. Also, you seemed unsure, but there are multiple prints which are complete, not just parts of certain scenes.

It's ok to tell people that, since they can just check on our projects also.

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Thanks Harmy, we will look at the other prints, but the 2nd one should be about the same quality, its just a color shift possibly.

You haven't asked for any scenes that are at the beginning or tails of the reels, because those need work in cleaning them. The rest of the film is relatively clean. You shouldn't have to much trouble in integrating them, although the grain needs to be matched, and the colors corrected.

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The latest update I got on this for Reel 3 was:

"In other news, Reel 3 just past the 80% done mark. Approx. 6300 frames left."

Hopefully, we will have some previews of it.

That still leaves Parts of Reels 1, 6 to do along with some of Reel 4.

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We're still working on the 3rd print scan. However Harmy should be getting some previews to get an idea of what scenes will look like. After that we should be making some progress.

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Update :  Just to let you know, we have discovered some issues with our version. We are working on a superior version, and will keep you posted once we have more information.

Thanks for your interest.

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We are checking out the mix now. Will be up shortly.

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These will be somewhat useful, ultimately when we start comparing 35mm prints.

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Agreed, 25G is arbitrary, but it is a more common standard.

The next level up would be a private 2k DCP that we make for our own internal use. Which is a few hundred Gigs, and on Hard Drives only.

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Refer to :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package

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