Jump to content



Welcome to KnowledgeSutra - Dear Guest , Please Register here to get Your own website. - Ask a Question / Express Opinion / Reply w/o Sign-Up!
- - - - -

Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work

Started by serverph, Oct 24 2004 10:19 PM

5 replies to this topic

#1 serverph

    Ancient Enigma

  • [MODERATOR]
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 1,952 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:under the stars
  • Interests:http://kapamilyatalk.com<br />http://scq.serverph.uni.cc<br />http://reseller.premium.ws<br /><br />trap17 IP to access cpanel: https://64.69.46.210:2083/<br />alternative to access cpanel: gamma.xisto.com/~cpanelusername<br />Get your T17 banners here: http://www.trap17.com/banners/<br />TRAP17 Forum Search plugin: http://plugins.astahost.com/<br /><br />[url=http://reseller.premium.ws][img]http://img40.echo.cx/img40/2713/resellerfree4rd.png[/img][/url] |
  • myCENT:67.66

Posted 24 October 2004 - 10:19 PM

Behind the scenes, painstaking effort and computing power has gone into cleaning up George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy for its DVD release.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/clic...ine/3945149.stm

-- "600 Apple G5s, each a dual processor 2GHz machine." WOW! imagine if you can have that processing power in your hands. <_<

#2 triplebtalk

    Super Member

  • Kontributors
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 210 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Australia
  • Interests:Forums, Blogs, Web Design, Graphic Design, Radio
  • myCENT:0.76

Posted 04 January 2009 - 01:12 AM

Haha, it reminds me of the time at school were I was learning to develop film and also how to clean it :P . Cleaning film is so hard, I only had to do 24 photos, they have to do millions :P

#3 Tramposch

    Kyle_vdk

  • KS GFX Crew
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 921 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Richmond, Virginia, United States
  • myCENT:93.1
  • T17 GFX Crew

Posted 04 January 2009 - 01:19 AM

That sounds really awesome. Incredibly, painstakingly long. But awesome. I would like to see how all of that works. Especially upconverting the film to HD.

#4 rpgsearcherz

    Trap Grand Marshal Member

  • Kontributors
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 1,967 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:Working on my Rift fansite
  • myCENT:13.49
  • Spam Patrol

Posted 04 January 2009 - 08:15 AM

Another real old post brought back to life, lol.

Man, reading up on that...That is a lot of hardware... I was trying to imagine it and wow...How can they even network all of that together? I can understand the HDD, but all the cpu's?

And keep them from crashing every 3 minutes?lol..

#5 k_nitin_r

    Grand Imperial Poobah

  • Kontributors
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 1,039 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • myCENT:91.1

Posted 19 May 2009 - 05:37 AM

View Postserverph, on Oct 25 2004, 02:19 AM, said:

Behind the scenes, painstaking effort and computing power has gone into cleaning up George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy for its DVD release.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/clic...ine/3945149.stm

-- "600 Apple G5s, each a dual processor 2GHz machine." WOW! imagine if you can have that processing power in your hands. :lol:

That's simply amazing. I wonder what they use to distribute the load across the server farm. I can imagine removing a piece of dirt from the film, but turning the grainy images into high definition goodness sounds like it's got to take a lot of work - take a new picture under the same lighting and get it into the film to look like it was a part of the original shot.

Adobe Photoshop is quite stable on the Mac. You can work with really high resolution images without crashing. On the PC, Adobe Photoshop usually tosses an error dialog onto the screen and goes bye-bye.

Regards,
Nitin Reddy

#6 cryticfarm

    Newbie

  • Kontributors
  • Pip
  • 9 posts

Posted 24 May 2009 - 09:02 PM

View Postk_nitin_r, on May 19 2009, 06:37 AM, said:

Adobe Photoshop is quite stable on the Mac. You can work with really high resolution images without crashing. On the PC, Adobe Photoshop usually tosses an error dialog onto the screen and goes bye-bye.

Regards,
Nitin Reddy

I don't really agree with that statement, main due to the fact that my PC is not very high end and I work on pieces with 2.7 gig psds at 8000x6000 without crashing.
Back to Science & Technology · Next Unread Topic →

Reply to this topic


This post will need approval from a moderator before this post is shown.

  


1 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users

  1. Discuss Anything
  2. → SCIENCE
  3. → Science & Technology
  4. Welcome - Start here! - Free Web Hosting