imsorrydave2448

https://imgur.com/a/0kcP0GR Here are some screenshots of the preview encodes for Planet of the Apes. Squished and unsquished.

FunkySi said:

I’ll donate $20 towards ‘Escape From The Planet of the Apes’ if you’ll let me?

Unfortunately right now I can’t split them up. I’m still about 350 away from being funded. You can donate at any time though, it’s no rush. This whole thing is going to take a little while to finish. In the future when everything is done and funded I might allow people to donate for specific ones.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes has been scanned! It was in much better shape than I ever thought it would be in. Here are some screenshots from the preview encodes. These are nowhere near the full quality so keep that in mind. Also screenshots from reel 1 and reel 2 had the right part of the film cropped by accident when encoding the previews but you still see 99% of the picture. The full pro res files will not be effected!

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Definitely down to donate to this! PM with info to donate. Also if you need any help at all let me know.

Leatherface said:

Count me in too!

PM’d you!

WXM said:

stwd4nder2 said:

I donated years ago and still don’t have them

Aw, I’m a little bummed to hear you say that. You are such a giving part of these communities and to hear you gave money to something and… :sadface:
Hopefully the OP will re-surface for you and other donators. The plus side is that the starting post of this thread isn’t thaaat old, and this whole project is easily something that can still just be being worked on in the shadows at the moment, so :?

This project is not abandoned. They are doing it with their own scanner and it broke so they have to fix it.

IT’S OFFICIALLY A GO EVERYONE! Going to start messaging everybody. If I missed anyone, PM me.

little-endian said:

rwzmjl said: […]believe it or not, that’s an intended part of the image![…]

I read that argument often lately, but the word “intended” is a crucial premise here as in many cases, it isn’t really but rather a side-effect of technical limitations (which includes our visual system introducing retinal noise as well). Same goes for the stone age low rate of 24 fps only, causing tremendous amounts of temporal aliasing and making a subjectively stutter-free reconstruction difficult.

So while I can understand the sentiment for artistic reasons and preservation, technically, noise isn’t part of the original image which one tried to capture. Noise also limits — or rather defines — measurements such as the SNR.

I’m also entirely up to “preserve” it in terms of not filtering it out, as not only it isn’t possible to do so without losing information from the actual image anyway, but also because it may fit a certain desired look. However, so do noise and crackles on vinyl records which may be preferred emotionally, but shouldn’t be rationally.

One technical advantage of noise in the source shall not go unmentioned though: (self)dithering, enabling a theoretically smooth reconstruction of an unlimited number of shades (and not just 50 of grey) without ugly banding. However, dithering can be artificially added later during the A/D conversion as well in an mathematically optimised way even so even that is a rather far fetched argument.

Some directors have intentionally increased the effect of the film grain during scanning. Stanley Kubrick famously did this with Eyes Wide Shut. And if it’s part of the technology, it’s intended. No one forces you to make a movie to express your artistic feelings. There’s lots of other ways you can do that. And nowadays, you have to intentionally choose to use film. If you’ve seen MaXXXine recently, you’ll notice it has a thick layer of grain. As for 24fps, pretty much every person who’s not Peter Jackson, Ang Lee and James Cameron knows why making every single movie ever into a higher frame rate movie isn’t going to work. At least for a very long time. If you told every visual effects and animation studio that every movie going forward would be 48fps(and therefore double the size of everything), they would probably laugh at you. Either the amount of movies released is going to have to be cut drastically(studios would not be able to do this), or the quality is going to have to drop significantly. And the latter would defeat the purpose of doing a higher frame rate.

CamSMurph said:

I see TN1 was banned from the site. Why is that?

Because the stole a scan of Star Wars A New Hope.

rickstaman05 said:

Count me in for $60.

Awesome! Got you written down man!

ifjg said:

Count me in.

Great man! Got you written down. We are hopefully close to getting this started. The scanner is trying to work something out.

knest04, I sent you a PM.

YellowJaguar said:

Count me in for these.

Awesome! We now have 860 pledged.

DJA1982 said:

$60 is honestly a great price for all that you’d be offering. Though I’m not particularly a fan of the Ape movies, if you end up one or two donors shy of your goal, count me in.

In the end we will probably be short of the total, just like with all of my scans. Any help is appreciated! So far we have 780 pledged. We just need 4 or 5 more people before I start collecting donations and we can start everything.

Thanks everyone! Got everyone written down. We’ve got 10 contributors now. Just need 9 or so more and we can get this thing started.

Got everyone written down! There also might be some extra goodies I can add into the project. Like some rare Planet of the Apes TV spots on 16mm film, including a weird black and white promo that I can’t seem to find anywhere on the internet.

Greg Z said:

I’m in.

Thanks! I have your username written down! Hopefully we get more people.

Now that I’ve finished V2.0 of my other scans, I decided I want to try to do this long awaited big project. But I have to gauge interest in it first. I did an older scan of the first Planet of the Apes movie but the print owner does not want it to be shared anymore. Don’t ask for it, you’ll just be ignored lol. So, what I want to do is the first 3 Planet of the Apes movies. This project is going to work differently than my previous scans. There will have to be a minimum donation. Probably 60 dollars. I know that is a lot, which is worrisome. I’ve also decided to offer a sort of incentive to donate more, if you donate past a certain amount, I’ll send you the full quality prores files of the first movie as a thank you. Only the first movie. You can PM for more information on that.

I can’t pay for this one up front and I won’t be taking any donations until I know there is a certain level of support for it. If this is successful, I will do the last 2 movies plus some extra stuff as well. The blurays for the Apes movies are kind of bad just because they are old, especially the sequels, so this will be a massive upgrade(hopefully) for the sequels I think. Depends on the condition of the prints. Let me know if you’re interested. The total to do all 3 is 2,190. However I might be able to get this down lower.

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AwesomeJ said:

imsorrydave2448 said:

littlejoe416 said:

I think the people behind this are purposely dragging their feet because of the leaks but that’s lame. Imo

nah, Trist is just a very busy dude

Dude’s in college and dealing with personal stuff, I’m sure he’ll be back on the project soon. Also, considering the film reel is in Australia, who knows what’s going on down there?

He’s also got multiple projects going on if I’m not mistaken.

littlejoe416 said:

I think the people behind this are purposely dragging their feet because of the leaks but that’s lame. Imo

nah, Trist is just a very busy dude

Mielr said:

imsorrydave2448 said:

https://archive.org/details/blondie-behind-the-music There’s also a decent amount here.

Thanks! I really appreciate it. I’ve been looking for that episode for a while, hopefully now I’ll have some luck. 😃

Someone will eventually reply to you in the comments. I used to download everything that’s posted there because I was actively helping people find some of the lost ones. I’ve been focusing on other stuff though. A few were found with some questionable means lol.

https://archive.org/details/blondie-behind-the-music There’s also a decent amount here.

Mielr said:

imsorrydave2448 said:

Mielr said:

kopke44x said:

I have some but not all of them.

Do you have the KC & The Sunshine Band episode?

https://lostmediawiki.com/Behind_The_Music_(partially_lost_VH1_documentary_series;_1997-2014) ask in the comments here. There was two working links at one point in the comments.

Thanks, but unfortunately the link for that episode only leads to a trailer for that episode that I uploaded to my YouTube channel a few years ago. 😄 Good site, though.

They don’t update the actual list very often. You have to go down to the comments. You’ll see that the full episode was posted twice in the comment section but the links are dead. That’s why I said ask in the comments for someone to reupload it 😃.

Mielr said:

kopke44x said:

I have some but not all of them.

Do you have the KC & The Sunshine Band episode?

https://lostmediawiki.com/Behind_The_Music_(partially_lost_VH1_documentary_series;_1997-2014) ask in the comments here. There was two working links at one point in the comments.