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That's awesome! My parents never made me a Star Wars costume... :)

A_New_Hope said:

Right on!  If we could find a fluent Spanish speaker or two willing and able to translate (plus any other language translations that we may still bring forward), I think we'd be looking REALLY solid.  To all involved, GREAT job! ;)

I'm working on it - it will just take a little time (as I'm not a fully fluent speaker, so I'm translating and then checking for accuracy/logical phrasing with a friend).

No problem! It's only SD, and part of the reel, but it's still cool. Glad you enjoyed it!

When the hard drives get here, I'll make an HD version of the full film available, unedited or changed, so that others can play with it. I'll then start work on the actual restoration, and as soon as that is finished, I'll make the complete, finished project available.

By the way, my thanks goes to Poita, for without him, this project would be flat on its back before it even got started. Also, my thanks to Antcufaalb and Spaced Ranger for assisting in tutorials/edit methods and color correcting, respectively.  :)

Awesome!! Thanks Zip Doodah!

Paging Spaced Ranger...  :)  If you wouldn't mind cooking up some color correction numbers, I'll go ahead and apply them to see how it would work...

I figured I'd share this with others, too:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/amrl0a8lrulii98/Reel3.mp4

Totally SD, but still worth it to play with...

Zip Doodah said:

I'm debating on how to make the available work on this. Right now there are 5 1920x1080 prores quicktime files- those are the top quality from the transfer. I had thought of making the same offer here as the fundraiser was to help make the transfer (a DVD plus an HD Mpeg-4 quicktime that fits on a seperate dvd)  but I also like the idea of a few folks here cleaning it up further before making it available. Thoughts?

 

I also like the idea that if there is this much effort put in that it would be much nicer to start with much better material as this transfer has....

 

I would think that two separate releases - one raw and one cleaned up, both on BD-25s would be more than sufficient. I don't think people would be opposed to helping pay for the transfer, either, though I'm not sure what the legality of that is. Maybe they could pay for the materials and the time, and not the movie itself?

Also, I'd like to volunteer myself and my time to helping clean up the transfer.

What do you mean about starting with better material? You mean as far as the 16mm version is concerned vs. the 35mm version?

Definitely - it's like juggling chainsaws. lol

I will finish this and SotS before I start heavy work on a 41 edition of Fantasia. :)

Now that I look at that cel, does it look off model to anyone else? Just curious...

Interesting that you boosted the saturation, as well as correcting the colors. I've never seen Brer Fox's shirt that green, even in promo merchandise and lobby cards/ephemera. 

I don't think that work you do on the coach scene will work because of the fade differences, but you never know. I'd be interested in trying it. 

I plan on doing the 82 soundtrack, which Deems was on. The Corey version wasn't out till much, much later. 

I have considered doing a 41 version as well as the 82 version, but we shall see...

Well, that would work for the narration. However, AFAIK the 82 mix of the music I'm restoring is in stereo. Also, I've been thinking about it and if I get time this summer I may go ahead and do an "original cut" as we'll, with the full pastoral sequence uncut. 

I will use your suggestion about mixing, though. What kind of technical details did you want to hear about?

Thanks for the input. I really appreciate your posts here - they are very helpful, at least for me, because I'm learning as I go. Thanks so much for your information and help!

I was hoping no one would notice that yellow blob. I had some problems with it, and took the lazy way out. That was me correcting in a very sloppy, hasty way - I would not correct the final version like that. One of the problems I was running into was the low resolution of the source. To save space, Poita and I had agreed to save the files as a very high-compression video to run tests on, and for me to familiarize myself with PFClean. I imagine (just a guess) that a higher resolution frame will provide an easier go at correcting that error.

Can you describe/illustrate what you mean by macro-blocking? Also, would you elaborate on why you would do luminance stabilization before frame stabilization? Antcufaalb and I have been doing those steps in reverse order...

I'll do another render tomorrow morning, with no settings at all, to see if it is the render in Virtualdub or in PFClean that is causing the artifacts.

I think a Lut scan would be best. Also, raw PNGs would be easiest on my end, if that's a format you can output to...

how do you change the bit setting? I think Spaced Ranger is right - it seems we're stuck in 8 bit color.

Huh. For whatever reason, the frame rate is set to 10, rather than 24...

OK, 13 whole seconds cleaned up from the cartoon sequence of R3. I wanted to test my deflicker-er, so I did it on a scene with flickering firelight. I first stabilized, then deflickered, then auto followed by manual dust removal, got rid of some of the wear lines, color corrected, then cropped. What does everyone think? Criticisms on workflow, output, etc. appreciated. :)

https://vimeo.com/67764453

I agree - that color is amazing!

Antcufaalb and I  have been working on cleaning up that Reel 3 scene. I hope to have the clip finished (stabilized, dirt+scratches removed, etc.) by tonight, so maybe we can get the clip color corrected at the same time. I know there is a setting in PFClean which will do color grading, so maybe we could do that. PM sent, Spaced Ranger. 

Interesting. I'd like to see what you could do with the scenes in motion, too, if you have that ability.

Flv, I think. I posted all the specs I knew how to change up above. 

Wow, great find!

Ok, so what do you think of the 1-2 min I capped? Any changes in quality I should make?

Ok, I guess I'll start work on the Spanish subtitles...  :)

I think so... Check it out and see - I'm no expert!  :)

OK, HD edit on the way to be uploaded. BTW, I overscanned it so that we would have more than enough info to crop it later...

Here's a test capture I did from Amazon - any settings that look like they need tweaking?

https://vimeo.com/67467335

Here are the specs on it, btw:

The Keep - video: 12000 kbps-29.97fps-MPEG2 - audio: 384kbps-stereo

Is there a need for a Spanish translation? I might be able to help with that, if so.

*rimshot*