Well as I said, I've already finished the one-hour pilot. Having watched the final product myself, I'm very pleased with how it turned out. What's really amazing is rewatching the original DVD and seeing just how much worse it looks now compared to the restored file. Not only is there messy noise all over the place, but the animation really looks worse when embedded in an NTSC 3:2 pulldown format. The problem I'm facing is whether it would be legal to share the restored file. Youtube is out of the question. The file is simply too big for me to upload in that method. I'd perfer sharing it on emule and just have that running in the background while I'm working on other tasks.

 

Getting back to the restoration process, I've decided its not worth doing a frame-by-frame removal of scratches on the film itself. For removing those, I'd want my own access to the direct print transfer files Rhino used such that a master file can be made with each frame manually restored. This master file would then be used for multi-format releases like blu-ray for example. I'd also like to point out that digitally removing scratches by hand normally costs companies quite a lot of money, and for that reason is rarely done. Naturally I would do it for next to nothing if they hired me for the project, but that's in a dream scenario of course.

Well as I said, I've already finished the one-hour pilot. Having watched the final product myself, I'm very pleased with how it turned out. What's really amazing is rewatching the original DVD and seeing just how much worse it looks now compared to the restored file. Not only is there messy noise all over the place, but the animation really looks worse when embedded in an NTSC 3:2 pulldown format. The problem I'm facing is whether it would be legal to share the restored file. Youtube is out of the question. The file is simply too big for me to upload in that method. I'd perfer sharing it on emule and just have that running in the background while I'm working on other tasks.

 

Getting back to the restoration process, I've decided its not worth doing a frame-by-frame removal of scratches on the film itself. For removing those, I'd want my own access to the direct print transfer files Rhino used such that a master file can be made with each frame manually restored. This master file would then be used for multi-format releases like blu-ray for example. I'd also like to point out that digitally removing scratches by hand normally costs companies quite a lot of money, and for that reason is rarely done. Naturally I would do it for next to nothing if they hired me for the project, but that's in a dream scenario of course.

 

Ah, I see. But what is emule?

emule is a filesharing program that uses the edonkey network system. There should be plenty of info on it from doing a google search. I normally use it to share chess endgame databases, which is very legal and encouraged amongst the chess community. Naturally there are people that use the network for sharing not-so-legal files if that's your thing.