The Making of Wing Commander 3: Heart of The Tiger (60p)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2015
- This is the documentary by Adam Foshko that came on a VHS tape with special editions of Wing Commander 3 (the "filmcan" release). While this video is already on TH-cam in various forms, this particular version was run through my videotape restoration process, which performs the following:
- Removes most helical-scan tape head noise while retaining detail (without ringing)
- Converts the original 30i interlaced material to 60p progressive material, enhanced using motion-directed analysis of each field
This process is very CPU-intensive and converts footage at roughly 3 frames per second on a 3GHz 8-core system. Before and after image comparison: imgur.com/gzoAzm1
While no conversion process can add detail where none exists, I am very confident in saying that my process is excellent at retaining the detail present in the original, and that this version is (as of 2015) the very best version available on TH-cam. A good place to compare quality is during interview footage sections, such as at the 10-minute mark.
If you'd like me to convert one of your videotapes, DVDs, or other 30i interlaced video footage with results similar to this video, drop me a line. - เกม
Fantastic conversion of this, thanks for going through the trouble!
I miss this game and WC4 so much. It doesn't feel like anyone managed to make something quite as good and engrossing as this series even with modern tech.
What do you think about Star Citizen?
@@bobbinsthethird Never heard of it. Looking at a few clips now. Looks incredible. Thanks for the reference.
Freespace 1 & 2 were very close. But yeah, they don't make it like this anymore. One day tough, one day.
We have the tech but not the heart in the right place. Only bussiness.
@@RegScheepers If you can go and get them, I think they are available on GoG and in store -for sure- on Steam. Even now there's a small but great moddig Community that has graphics mods to boost the experience. But if you ask me the game it's fine as it Is!
Belive me they are really unique experinces, please don't miss them out.
I live in Argentina and I only got them by chance when I was a youngster and was browsing the game store. I said this cause back then it was really hard to get games in here, now with the digital stuff it's more Easy but you can't beat the old packaging of a manual, a cdrom all inside a big shiny box! Jaja good times!
Whoa! I didn't realize John Rhys-Davies was the voice of Thrakhath!!
Ginger (Lynn) Allen and WC3 were big parts of my youth. Confusing times.
One of my favorite games of all time
Wing Commander 3
The result looks amazing. Despite being a fan of WC3, I'd never actually seen this before - so many thanks for taking the time to process it and upload it.
Loved this, I played Wing Commander 3 on the 3DO and 4 on the PlayStation, I still remember everything about 3, all the missions ( The Behemoth anyone!? ), the characters ( Rachel - Ginger Lynn Allen 🔥), the story, the Kilrathi in particular Prince Thrakhath an enemy I have never forgotten, the ships my favourite being the T-38 Thunderbolt, basically everything, what a fantastic game it was and at 30 years old it's still better than modern crap today in my admittedly nostalgic opinion!
Jim, your restoration process is most impressive.
I have to thank you Chris for Wing Commander 3 and 4! You give me hours and hours of greatfull entertainment. I also have to say that the translaters who translate into german, do a perfect. It is a shame that, after the fantastic WC 3 and 4 games, no other parts came out in this high standard quality. Thank you Chris..., thank you!🤘🙂🤘
they need to remaster this game so bad.
Seeing great quality behind the scenes stuff of something that meant a lot to me many years ago is astonishing
One of the best games of the DOS era.
5:42 bruh sporting the pink popped collar in 1994 was ahead of his time
Thanks for this amazing pice of history!!
Tom Wilson aka Biff Tanner of Back to the Future series as Maniac. ❤
Wow, does this look better than the AVI file on the "Wing Commander III: Behind the Screens" CD-ROM. That thing was... lemme check...
240x180, 847kbps, 14.985fps, with audio in 88.2kbps, 11.025kHz, 8 bits, mono, PCM.
Thanks!
Thank YOU! Every little bit helps!
Great job i would love a streaming series with Mark Hamill
I find it very impressive how they made the cats
14:20 Malcom Mcdowel sure is right about that
how interesting to see malcolm mcdowell hit the nail on the head when he predicts the future of movie making !
Ironically, Gingen (Lynn) Allen delivered the best acting performance. You can tell Mark Hamill didn't really want to be there.
Her acting was very natural; makes you wonder what kind of a career she would have had as a traditionally actress.
So many great memories from this game. Never got around to seeing this back then, as my fam could only afford the used cds XD
Really was quite an achievement back then, wasn't it.
It pains me to see Chris Roberts before the madness of SC took him.
Thanks for uploading and restoring it! :)
Thank you for this, but "60p" means each frame has 60 vertical lines of pixels and is displayed as an entire frame (Progressive scan, as opposed to interlaced). I guess you were looking for "60 fps"
Never knew Rachel is involved in different Media 😆
to think Mark hammle destroyed Thundera and made the thundercats homeless.
I wonder why we don't have such games anymore, now that filming is way easier and cheaper than back in the days.
You might want to check out The Tesla Effect, a new(ish) adventure game from the Tex Murphy people that has modern FMV in it.
5:41 I didn't know Magnus Carlsen worked on Wing Commander III.
Impressed at the quality of this video. Wish more people would give a crap about the quality of old stuff, mainly for the motion fluidity. I have a ratty-ass copy of the Press Your Luck pilot (and two ratty-ass copies of its predecessor Second Chance's third pilot), and I'd rather watch them than the 30fps crap floating around here.
+localhbci Means a lot to me, thanks for the kind words. Hopefully people didn't throw away their tapes once they grabbed them at 30fps.
+localhbci BTW I don't mind converting VHS with rare/uncommon/unreleased material on it. Contact me privately if you'd like me to transfer this material.
+Jim Leonard well, unfortunately the material in question has limited recovery potential as I received it already transferred to DVD, and the source VHS tapes were already very low quality multi-generational copies (as is common in the game show world). I'm the kind of guy who is more interested in the concepts and techniques at play as opposed to having someone else handle it. I'm sure you can appreciate that greatly :)
There are also numerous timebase errors, especially on the PYL pilot. It would almost require an easy way to manually shift scanlines left and right for optimal recovery.
Some tbcs can do that, as can some svhs vcr embedded tbcs. It isn't perfect but it is better than nothing. I keep hearing rumblings of an avisynth plugin but nobody seems to finish writing one.
Did you use QTGMC? I've used that for many of my recent videos, with excellent results. The motion smoothness is startling even when watching this at 30p, because we've become so used to most TV productions using "film look" 24 fps.
+vwestlife QTGMC is indeed what I use for deinterlacing, although only for real-world footage. For synthetic footage like my CGA game captures, it falls over (even with the SourceMatch and Lossless options) so I SeparateFields and do it myself as the footage dictates.
I love all framerates. What bugs me is when people take an obviously 30i/60p source (like video shot on videotape, newscast, live sporting event, etc.) and process/encode/upload at 30p or 24p. It gives me hives.
Jim Leonard Deinterlacing late '90s sitcoms will give you nightmares. Many of them were shot at 24fps and then telecined and edited at 60i, so almost every time there's a scene change, it breaks the 2:3 pulldown cadence!
That does not bother me. What really bothers me is when shows are shot in 24p and then add 30i effects, like outer limits (1995) or even some episodes of sttng. That's why I love the sttng blurays, they were completely remastered from the ground up from the original film elements and had brand new computer graphics generated for them.
+Jim Leonard QTGMC, bringing even the latest CPUs to their knees. Could be a great benchmark test. Makes Crysis look fast in comparison:P
CGA footage is technically 60p to begin with, best to just unweave it, or find a capture card that can do native 240p captures.
Also, you may want to show folks the actual capture setup and explain the hardware used. Who doesn't like some hardware videos?
That's stunning quality.
What kind of quality gains do you think might be possible with the interlaced WCIV DVD files?
redfieldblair Similar to this (I've played the DVD version using a DVD decoder card)
You know Tom Wilson may have played some awful characters but he seems like a fun guy to make a movie with.
Tom is an outstanding, funny, decent guy. You should check out his TH-cam channel.
Cool 😎
very high quality conversion! did you adapt filter settings from scene to scene or could you render the whole thing in one go?
+Robby Rob The noise reduction process can adapt if the media doesn't change, but sometimes I've had to cut the video up into pieces and filter each piece individually.
The rumor is that mark hamill was wasted during the entire production of this game.
I've never heard that. Hamill did do some psychedelics in his youth, but had stopped that even before the Star Wars trilogy was finished shooting.
I would be if my gal got her spine snapped by a giant ass claw through her gut.
footage looks ok. kinda smeary. I'd like to see you re-do it
Not a bad idea. I've improved my processes since then.