Highlander 2 - 35mm Scan

[Bigrob]

Since it's an open forum, perhaps not talk about donations to be honest.

might be worth asking an admin for some assistance to get this project going.

I could maybe message spoRv and ask his opinion. In his rules for the forum he does mention that donations are ok.

Yeah message Sporv and ask him just in case. Just concerned that if details of donations are made here and someone links to this thread online elsewhere

[HippieDalek]

Yeah message Sporv and ask him just in case. Just concerned that if details of donations are made here and someone links to this thread online elsewhere

Done.

[HippieDalek]

Did he give any indication as to what file format it will be and the size? I presume he’ll have to deliver it on an external hard drive?

I'm talking to him again now so I've got a few more details. He will deliver the video in DNG format and a separate sound track recorded through the Dolby processor. Apparently this comes to a maximum of 300 GB per reel. H2 is a 5 reel film so the final size should be somewhere around 1.5 TB.

[HippieDalek]

I think I've now got all the information I need from both the seller and the scanner, so once we've cleared up the whole donations issue we should be set to go! Exciting times!

[Hitcher]

so the final size should be somewhere around 1.5 TB.

Ouch!

[HippieDalek]

Ha ha, yeah it's pretty beefy, I'll have to get a new external HDD to send him, but at least I know we'll be getting the footage in the best quality to work with. Obviously finished restorations won't be that size.

[deleted user]

Those 1.5 TB are the uncompressed size. You can actually reduce it to less than a half of that by compressing the raw files, without losing functionality. But yeah you'll need to send him a drive either way, or provide him money to buy one if he agrees.

[HippieDalek]

Those 1.5 TB are the uncompressed size. You can actually reduce it to less than a half of that by compressing the raw files, without losing functionality. But yeah you'll need to send him a drive either way, or provide him money to buy one if he agrees.

Yeah, it'll be good to have the uncompressed versions for backup for any future versions, but it'll compress right down for an actual release.

I'll try and do the restoration work on the uncompressed files before rendering them to something more manageable for assembly.

[deleted user]

Oh, I phrased myself poorly. That's lossless compression. Nothing gets lost in terms of quality.

[Hitcher]

@HippieDalek do you live in the UK? I've been upgrading my NAS and have a spare 2TB HDD I could send you.