Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-05 Thread rob switzer
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 00:36 +0200, Raffaella Traniello wrote: > Rob, > > Wow! > That is very interesting! > > It would be nice if you could put a link to the movie on the > List Of Cinelerra Productions page at > http://lab.dyne.org/cinelerra/ListOfCinelerraProductions > Thanks! I'll do that

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-05 Thread flavio
It would be nice if you could put a link to the movie on the List Of Cinelerra Productions page at http://lab.dyne.org/cinelerra/ListOfCinelerraProductions I updated it. It seems a bit empty though =( Would be nice to take a look at people's works. Not even valentina is there!

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-04 Thread Raffaella Traniello
Rob, Wow! That is very interesting! It would be nice if you could put a link to the movie on the List Of Cinelerra Productions page at http://lab.dyne.org/cinelerra/ListOfCinelerraProductions Thanks Raffaella ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-02 Thread Jan Luo
hi edouard, could you give some more details how the "fast conversion in quicktime" of the single frames works? thanks jan Edouard Chalaron wrote: > For those interested in movies (opposed to video) under Cinelerra > For about 18 months I have been back to super 8 mm. > Cinelerra has proved ext

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread Edouard Chalaron
For those interested in movies (opposed to video) under Cinelerra For about 18 months I have been back to super 8 mm. Cinelerra has proved extremely good for this purpose. I do transfer the frames one at a time with a 422 8 bits industrial camera. I am getting my frames in 1400x1200 pixels progres

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Rob, rob switzer schreef: > I posted about it here to show that yes, real work of value *can* be > done with Cinelerra. I think that never has been the question. Cinelerra was as stable as Adobe InDesign 1. Literally, as long as you can find the

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread rob switzer
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 18:10 +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > "Time is always against us" ;) > Absolutely. Caligari contains about 11 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 si

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Gordon JC Pearce schreef: > I think they did a pretty good job as it is. That *is not* the issue. If anyone claims to do professional restoration by using miniDV as intermediate I laugh :) Introducing any lossy compression instead of RAW frame-by-fr

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread rob switzer
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 16:30 +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > They could have done a better job scan/shoot every image per frame. That > results in a 3 to 10MP image per frame :) Then normalize frames, and > produce an image. > > In this way you would have 16bit Analog to Digital material, then ed

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 16:30 +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > rob switzer schreef: > > Source footage for the project came from the public domain 16mm > > reduction print of the film ==> 2" video tape ==> MiniDV. > > > They could have do

Re: [CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 rob switzer schreef: > Source footage for the project came from the public domain 16mm > reduction print of the film ==> 2" video tape ==> MiniDV. They could have done a better job scan/shoot every image per frame. That results in a 3 to 10

[CinCVS] Classic silent film restored with Cinelerra

2007-07-01 Thread rob switzer
The Chain Tape Collective recently completed a restoration/re-scoring of the German Expressionist classic The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari. The restoration portion of the project was completed using an early build of Cinelerra-cvs 2.0 running on Fedora Core 4. Source footage for