This site is devoted to Puggo's Stjärnornas Krig 16mm telecine.

What is the "Stjärnornas Krig"? It is my telecine transfer and restoration of an old 16mm print of Star Wars with Swedish subtitles. The film was borrowed from a source who wishes to remain anonymous, and who for now will go by the name Jaxxon. Actually, Jaxxon provided me with two prints, both of which have the original crawl. One of the prints has Swedish subtitles and the mono mix. This project is the telecine and DVD mastering of that print.

For the video capture, I used a 16mm Workprinter manufactured by Roger Evans of Moviestuff. The Workpriter was further modified to capture more of the frame, to more effectively capture the scope print. It also needed additional adjustment of the positioning of the lens to avoid chopping the corners. For the optical audio tracks, I used an EIKI Slimline 16mm projector. I used CoolEdit to clean the audio, and Vegas Video to sync the tracks.

For additional post-processing, I used the following:

  • Virtualdub - CMYK filter (RocketJet4 Tools) for color correction,
  • Vegas Video - various masking and corrections to reduce edge effects,
  • PhotoStudio - to build a curved border
  • Vegas Video - chroma keying the border, resize, and very light sharpening,
  • TMPGEnc for encoding, and
  • DVD Lab for authoring.


    Note - this project is archival only, and I don't distribute my projects.

    PROJECT NOTES

  • Jan 11, 2011 - final corrections made, disc complete.
  • Dec 29, 2010 - finished menu.
  • Sep 28, 2010 - finished short "making of" documentary.
  • Sep 22, 2010 - finished bonus feature.
  • Sep 16, 2010 - finished framing, color, sound sync, and encoding of reel 3.
  • Sep 15, 2010 - finished encoding of reel 2.
  • Sep 11, 2010 - finished framing and color balance of reel 2.
  • Sep 10, 2010 - synched sound of reel 2
  • Sep 09, 2010 - finished framing and color balance of reel 1, re-encoded.
  • Sep 06, 2010 - recaptured reel 1 to reveal complete subtitles
  • Sep 03, 2010 - resized reels 2 and 3
  • Sep 01, 2010 - encoded reel 1 (.ac3) and video (.m2v)
  • Aug 29, 2010 - resized reel 1 and applied curved letterbox
  • Sep 27, 2010 - synched sound on reel 1
  • Sep 25, 2010 - finished red reduction
  • Mar 01, 2010 - finished transfer of video, same manner as for PG
  • Sep 15, 2008 - Transferred mono mix from Swedish print.
  • Sep 14, 2008 - Reviewed Swedish print. Red shift and many scratches.
  • Sep 03, 2008 - Received 16mm print.

    SELECTED FRAMES

    Selected frames.


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