Samples from In My Image 4k scan - down to HD
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Samples from In My Image 4k scan - down to HD
So I picked up all of the rolls and the 4K scan of In My Image from Miles yesterday - all 2 terrabytes of it - I think each 400 foot roll took 15 hours or something to transfer
So anyway I've had a quick play - and it's all pretty promising - but wow - what a lot of work - remastering this is a project that's going to take a few years - and then there's the audio of course too.....
Miles has posted about his set up before - it's his GH4 on one of Roger's machines - so what I've got is a lot of still images at 4096 x 2304 and here's a quick clip showing what I've been able to do with it and what the work process is like.
I am completely open to advice - I'll write a lengthier piece detailing each step shortly, but this is a good clip now - it's really pushing the limits of the resolution I think - and I'm keen to get as good as quality as possible at the end result.
Cropping in to 16:9 is something I'm not 100% sold on yet, but I prefer that to 4:3 - although that's what we framed and shot the film in. Cropping in will also remove the vinjetting which we had no idea we were getting when we were filming
Remember this is only a rough pass/first go - it's what happens after the stabilisation before the final render that's critical and I don't want to do anything that degrades the image. I think I'll do the re-edit based on what I've got after the stabilisation stage, and then get really honed up on colour correction etc before I do anything else with it from there.
So anyway I've had a quick play - and it's all pretty promising - but wow - what a lot of work - remastering this is a project that's going to take a few years - and then there's the audio of course too.....
Miles has posted about his set up before - it's his GH4 on one of Roger's machines - so what I've got is a lot of still images at 4096 x 2304 and here's a quick clip showing what I've been able to do with it and what the work process is like.
I am completely open to advice - I'll write a lengthier piece detailing each step shortly, but this is a good clip now - it's really pushing the limits of the resolution I think - and I'm keen to get as good as quality as possible at the end result.
Cropping in to 16:9 is something I'm not 100% sold on yet, but I prefer that to 4:3 - although that's what we framed and shot the film in. Cropping in will also remove the vinjetting which we had no idea we were getting when we were filming
Remember this is only a rough pass/first go - it's what happens after the stabilisation before the final render that's critical and I don't want to do anything that degrades the image. I think I'll do the re-edit based on what I've got after the stabilisation stage, and then get really honed up on colour correction etc before I do anything else with it from there.
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I'm thinking at this stage I might keep it as 4:3 and just crop in (at the same aspect ratio) on the shots that have vinjetting, to get past that. The degreee you have to crop in to make it 16:9 means I'm probably at the same resolution as regular 8 or less?? And it's probably nice keeping it at the same aspect ratio we shot and framed it on --- not sure -- some scenes that require sever stabilistion might be best at 16:9 if the reframing has to zoom in a lot to keep it stable! Sadly we had alot of jitter carts - can't remember how many but it was too many!
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And here's Miles hard at work! I'm not saying all that transferring can get to you, but.....
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Yes, keep it 4:3.
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Great seeing it with the sound sync- Impressed with that warp stabilizer to - i think that first appears in after effects 5.5 or 6-we have to get that i reckon
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I'd definitely vote to keep it in 4:3. Not only is that the aspect ratio you filmed in, it will look the best and there is nothing wrong with 4:3 even for filming today.
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+1David M. Leugers wrote:I'd definitely vote to keep it in 4:3. Not only is that the aspect ratio you filmed in, it will look the best and there is nothing wrong with 4:3 even for filming today.
Your film has been shot for 4:3, so 4:3 is the only possible answer.
Years ago, widescreen films got visually mutilated with Pan-and-scan and other horrors. Don't do those terribles things to your movie!
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avortex wrote:+1David M. Leugers wrote:I'd definitely vote to keep it in 4:3. Not only is that the aspect ratio you filmed in, it will look the best and there is nothing wrong with 4:3 even for filming today.
Your film has been shot for 4:3, so 4:3 is the only possible answer.
Years ago, widescreen films got visually mutilated with Pan-and-scan and other horrors. Don't do those terribles things to your movie!
I completely agree!.. Use as much of that frame as you possibly can! Being that super 8 is slightly wider than 4:3 it wouldn't bother me if you did 1.36 to 1 instead of 1.33
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I hope you made sure to use the electronic shutter on the camera and not the mechanical one, otherwise you are going to kill your mechanism in a hurry doing this.
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I vote for 16x9. ;) You would crop the current image quite a bit, but if you do a detailed job you can really get some nice framing that fits modern screens really well - more work though.
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Oh yeah - Miles did use the electronic one!RyanH wrote:I hope you made sure to use the electronic shutter on the camera and not the mechanical one, otherwise you are going to kill your mechanism in a hurry doing this.
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I agree Andreas that in principal the framing would work, but I reckon based on the example there it just gets a bit too grainly/low res by the time you have cropped all the way in - and for that reason I think I'll keep it at 4:3Andreas Wideroe wrote:I vote for 16x9. ;) You would crop the current image quite a bit, but if you do a detailed job you can really get some nice framing that fits modern screens really well - more work though.
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There's no 16:9 film format what is this a TV show? I vote for 1.85:1.
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Seriously though not letterboxed, use 2k 1998x1080.
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Ha! Yeah I agree 16:9 isn't really film - I'd love to crop it all the way in to 1.85:1 or something but I don't think the resolution will stand up to itmattias wrote:There's no 16:9 film format what is this a TV show? I vote for 1.85:1.
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