On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 18:10 +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > "Time is always against us" ;) >
Absolutely. Caligari contains about 110000 frames. A single-frame restoration would take, well, a *long* time, a lot of man-hours, and a lot of money! I'm sure you can do the math ... *no* classic silent film that I'm aware of has been subject to a single-frame restoration to date ... restorations to date have been taken directly from 2" video masters. Transit Films/FW Murnau-Stiftung in Germany are working on a definitive single-frame restoration of Caligari for release in 2008. But of course, this is a big-budget production ... We, on the other hand, are a humble collective releasing a Creative Commons licensed version of the film that's a big improvement over most other freely available (and most commercial) versions of the film out there currently ... I posted about it here to show that yes, real work of value *can* be done with Cinelerra. > When I look at the small flash movie it looks it was projected and then > recorded. :( This might be the quickest way to do such thing, but if > anyone really want to put some effort in to digitize it could have much > better quality. > Take a look at the h.264 download instead. The streaming flash version was derived from the original file by the folks at archive.org, and isn't a very good example! Here's a direct link: http://www.archive.org/download/Caligari_AnExquisiteCorpse/Caligari_AnExquisite_Corpse_h264_2.1b.mp4 > Since for example "Elephants Dream" is heavily used to show off HD > material, someone might want to team up to find a sponsor to digitize > these public domain films on HD. > > I'd also love to see some restoration work you've done with Cinelerra, Stefan ... or *any* work, for that matter ... perhaps you'll provide a link to some examples of your work ... and, as Gordon pointed out, Caligari *is* in the public domain ... perhaps you should organize a single-frame restoration project using Cinelerra. --rob > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra -- robertswitzer.org _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
