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#1659731
Topic
Star Wars for 10,000 Years
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CatBus said:

In earlier days, I hypothesized that fan preservations vs studio preservations followed the r/K selection theory.

While studios invest a huge amount of effort in preserving a small number of archival sources (like elephants having a small number of young, but investing a large amount of resources in raising and protecting them – K-strategy), fans simply try to distribute their preservations to the widest possible audience, in the hopes that some small percentage surviving through the years is sufficient to keep the preservation going (like rabbits having a large number of relatively vulnerable young, hoping that some of them live long enough to reproduce – r-strategy).

Basically, wide enough distribution, if sustained, is in itself a form of long-term archival. In this case, wide enough to cross national and legal boundaries to a degree that any of the current campaigns to legally suppress historical cultural artifacts like the Star Wars Trilogy can’t ever entirely succeed in completely wiping them out (predators can’t eat them all). That is, in part, why I do what I do – making fan preservations appealing outside the English-speaking world. And one advantage of the r-strategy is that adaptations can more easily be made on the fly (rapid evolution from fast generational turnover, like bacteria). If FLAC and DTS-MA fall into disuse, replaced by FutureTech audio, for example, we just transcode to the new format and the strategy continues. No need to document how to decode an obsolete audio format, we just stop using it.

And like r/K theory, nothing maps perfectly onto one strategy or the other. Plenty of stories exist about how a movie’s negatives were lost or destroyed in a fire, but the film was rescued for posterity due to a private collector’s personal copy of the film. So the studios occasionally supplement their K-strategy with a little r-strategy themselves. And in fact, they should do more of it – K-strategy is not as resilient to catastrophic events like vault fires (and asteroid strikes, to continue the biological parallel). That’s why disaster recovery leans hard on concepts like off-site backup infrastructure.

Similarly, I think a K-strategy like M-discs, etc, could work to supplement an existing r-strategy. But it’s not our only hope.

All of that’s a very long way of saying that I don’t have much to suggest, other than whatever bulletproof technological solution you come up with, make backups, and store them in multiple geographically diverse locations.

That’s an interesting thought, and I think you’re right to say that simply having as many copies as possible means more will survive, but I suppose what I was musing was more of a “Golden Records” idea; What if something happens and we stop updating the film to modern formats as the old formats fade? How would future archeologists recover the film from mediums only designed to last a few hundred years — the data will be long gone.

So even if just a thought experiment, what if the approach was more time-capsule-esque? I.e we bury or store copy/s of the film, complete with cultural context on the significance of the work and necessary instructions for how to properly display/decode/etc the film? In this case, what would be the best, most long-term way to ensure (with correct storage practice) that this medium would allow our future descendants to get a glimpse of us?

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#1659676
Topic
Star Wars for 10,000 Years
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I have been thinking about the future of humanity and the cultural importance of films. My goal is to attempt to preserve the original theatrical cut of Star Wars for the next 10,000 years.

Possible methods could be:

  • M-Discs containing a RAW copy of the movie, complete with instructions for decoding binary, or in a compressed codec with additional instructions on how to decode the specific codec.

  • Physically printed frames on archival paper, film, or other long-lasting formats, including instructions to simulate motion. Sound waveforms and instructions on how to interpret them would also be necessary.

Are there any better, more efficient, or more future-proof methods (considering change in technology, understanding, etc) that would help to ensure that our descendants get to see the art that shaped who we were? I am very invested in making this project a reality, and would love dedicated members here to pitch in their ideas and practical advice.

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#1475322
Topic
Restoration Of The Star Wars Deleted Scenes (a WIP)
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I have majorly lost my motivation for this project, as other interests, commitments and jobs leave me without time. Because of this, I am unsure as to whether there will ever be a “Part 4.” I have sat on this Part 3 for 2 months, with the bulk of it complete, and I decided to just finish the video comparison and upload it as to not waste the previous work that went into it: https://youtu.be/GTfucMZkhqQ

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#1462536
Topic
Restoration Of The Star Wars Deleted Scenes (a WIP)
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ifjg said:

yellow05maze said:

I’ve cleaned another snippet of these deleted scenes, and I have to say I really enjoy working on them. I’ve got a decent amount of spare time at the moment, so I will hopefully make a fair bit of progress on these scenes.

Thanks for the note by the way ifjg. I remember watching his restoration a few years ago and being pretty amazed, but from what I’ve seen, he is changing backgrounds and adding new graphics to the scenes, which is not what I’m doing, so I’m not sure if the vision aligns there.

I’ve published a quick comparison of a fairly simple scene that I have done: https://youtu.be/XL4qsva6l9s

Looking good. I smiled at the comparison to the AI restoration. I tried running the scenes through a film restoration script to reinsert in the film before, but something looked really off and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was.

I’m fine with some imperfections in the shots if it means getting these finished in a timely fashion. I feel like it’s way overdue for this restored footage to get out there.

After rewatching, the shaking doesn’t bother me too much but I’m in agreement that there’s a little too much pink in the color graded. Since there’s a lot of subjectivity in what colors people prefer in the main film to begin with, I think it’d be most efficient to release these without color grading.

Thanks for the feedback.
I think I will still include color grading in my videos, but I will release several different versions once full scenes are complete, which will include non-color graded versions.

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#1462310
Topic
Restoration Of The Star Wars Deleted Scenes (a WIP)
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benduwan said:

yellow05maze said:

I’ve cleaned another snippet of these deleted scenes, and I have to say I really enjoy working on them. I’ve got a decent amount of spare time at the moment, so I will hopefully make a fair bit of progress on these scenes.

Thanks for the note by the way ifjg. I remember watching his restoration a few years ago and being pretty amazed, but from what I’ve seen, he is changing backgrounds and adding new graphics to the scenes, which is not what I’m doing, so I’m not sure if the vision aligns there.

I’ve published a quick comparison of a fairly simple scene that I have done: https://youtu.be/XL4qsva6l9s

god job.the red should more reduced…and luke less shaking 😉

Yeah, colour grading isn’t really my specialty… the shaking has been reduced significantly compared to the original film, and I’m moving on from this shot now, but I may come back and touch that up a bit in the future.

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#1462232
Topic
Restoration Of The Star Wars Deleted Scenes (a WIP)
Time

I’ve cleaned another snippet of these deleted scenes, and I have to say I really enjoy working on them. I’ve got a decent amount of spare time at the moment, so I will hopefully make a fair bit of progress on these scenes.

Thanks for the note by the way ifjg. I remember watching his restoration a few years ago and being pretty amazed, but from what I’ve seen, he is changing backgrounds and adding new graphics to the scenes, which is not what I’m doing, so I’m not sure if the vision aligns there.

I’ve published a quick comparison of a fairly simple scene that I have done: https://youtu.be/XL4qsva6l9s

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#1462161
Topic
Clean-up and restoration of deleted scenes (* unfinished project *)
Time

benduwan said:

hello there.
need help for restoration with trailors from empire and jedi.
williarob (thanks again) has send me his trailor collection but they need a color correction and a clean up.
is someone willing to help me with this?
these trailors have many unused scenes i´d like to use.
thanks

I’d be willing to help friend

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#1417236
Topic
Help: looking for... Star Wars (1977) Deleted Scenes in 4K/HD?
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I’m looking for high quality versions of the original Star Wars Deleted Scenes (and any of the other Original Trilogy films if possible), like the Disney Plus versions, but available to download as mp4s or mkvs or what-have-you.

So far I haven’t really found any high quality versions, the Disney Plus ones are the best I can find, but you can’t download/record those.

So if anyone knows how, or has these scenes in High Definition or 4K, that would be appreciated

Thanks

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#1199486
Topic
The lost song from Jabba's palace
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Are one of these the song you’re looking for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VacG9L2Zkq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMGaVT6BCI

The first one’s called Galactic Dance Blast.
The second is called Sail Barge Dance or Jabba’s Sail Barge.
The music for this was lost, but this is a remastered version from the movie, and it’s the best edit of the song I’ve found on Youtube. You can download either of them here: http://convert2mp3.net/en/
(Just paste the Youtube link in)