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Macs used to restore original Star Wars film
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Oct 24, 2004, 01:09 PM
 
     
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Oct 24, 2004, 01:17 PM
 
I think there was a story on this earlier about using Macs to restore the original footage for the theatrical release of Special Edition.

Here's a cool QTVR of ILM's render farm:

http://www.apple.com/pro/film/lowry/...lowryqtvr.html

Probably still only get 5fps with Flash animations.
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Oct 24, 2004, 01:37 PM
 
An article about this was posted at Apple.com a few weeks ago.




     
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Oct 24, 2004, 03:43 PM
 
Of course that is why the new "Star Wars" Trilogy on DVD is a superior product.

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Oct 24, 2004, 03:46 PM
 
Yeah it's cool, does anyone know the specs on that super computer?
     
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Originally posted by Komisar:
Yeah it's cool, does anyone know the specs on that super computer?
I guess you didn't bother reading the articles then.
     
   
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