Sintel, the HD version (scaled from 4k)
on February 10th, 2011, by TonSince the previous post we just couldn’t stop trying to fix yet another few errors. 🙂 It’s still not totally flawless, some of the textures & material settings were too complex to easily debug or fix.
The 4k files are being copied to USB drives to be shipped to our sponsors. The 16 bits 4k frames are 650 GB in total… not fun for a mirror, nor for uploading either. Need to solve this still, but maybe xiph.org wants to try to host it. Will keep you updated on it. The 4k film will at least show prominently on NAB Las Vegas this year.
I’ve made myself an HD .avi with H264 and stereo wav sound:
Mirror 1 (NL):Â sintel-hd.avi Mirror 2 (DE): sintel-hd.avi
Mirror 3 (NL): sintel-hd.avi
All the HD PNG files + a lossless 5.1 master of the sound, along with pre-encoded AAC and AC3 tracks ready for muxing, are now available on xiph.org:
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/
Everyone should feel invited to make own awesome compressions available. Post it here, then we’ll update the download page for it.
Update! Uploaded one-out-of-hundred 16 bits per color 4k frames here.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Wow, nice to have that over!
650GB though, think how much a feature film would take. O_O
February 10th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Compare…
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-2k-png/00011322.png
to
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-1080-png/00011332.png
Same frames, rendered at different resolutions – BUT, they don’t look the same. One is a lot darker etc.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Of course, I meant…
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-1080-png/00011322.png
and
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-2k-png/00011322.png
( and not 11322 and 11332 )
There are def slight differences in a lot of the frames.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Just create proper torrents so that everyone can help sharing it!
February 10th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Yes, torrent it!
February 11th, 2011 at 2:16 am
I remember Colin saying something about “imagine how much better we could make it if we kept working on it for another year…” You all have done a great job, and this film will be treasured for years to come. When work on Mango begins, you will start reading a bunch of critical responses saying “Sintel was so much better!” 😉
@ Davis – If I remember correctly, the frames from The Fantastic Mr. Fox took up about 18.5 Terabytes.
February 11th, 2011 at 2:40 am
I’d bet http://www.archive.org will host that, no problem. They host lots of data, many petabytes, on servers around the world. Have you considered uploading there? It’s zero-cost, publicly-accessible, fully-linkable, and you can link to specific files if you wish to.
The only catch that isn’t clear to some users is to pick the “download” URL because that one redirects to where the item is stored. If you link to where the file is currently stored that link will break when archive.org librarians move the item.
February 11th, 2011 at 4:26 am
I need a new harddrive.. a bigger one!
However, I’ve touched some frames that anoyed me a bit. Maybe somebody wants to put them into their version?
Torrent (7zip-archive)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6166118
Original ~5:04min
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-1080-png/00007296.png
good
http://img690.imageshack.us/i/00007296.png/
Original ~5:39min
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-1080-png/00008145.png
OK:
http://img24.imageshack.us/i/00008145.png/
Original ~11:47
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-1080-png/00016983.png
Not quite so good:
http://img696.imageshack.us/f/00016983.png/
P.S.: I’ve made a video with the new renders and upskaled it to 4k ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjAxsGT19i8
Looks fantastic and most the time no playback problems.
February 11th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I’m sorry about the 00008186 Copy I left in the the archive. Please replace it and 00007311 with this image after removing the copyright. Should be a piece of cake.
http://img97.imageshack.us/i/00007311.png/
Thanks!
February 11th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
@Joe. Imho, 1080p frame is better… 2k is too bright
February 11th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
How can I get a copy of the 4k footage. I can send a drive and pay for postage.
February 11th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Finally the lossless 5.1 version! Yeahhh! (but I wish it was there from the first day)
But could you also put up the cinema mix, made at Konken Studios?
For the people who want to make DCPs.
I’m now downloading the AVI version, let’s see!
February 11th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
16 bits tiffs can be found here:
http://download.blender.org/demo/movies/Sintel_4k/tiff16/
Joe: the re-render wasn’t meant to be totally identical, some changes have been made by the artists here. We also had to tackle issues because several composite setups were not scalable. And probably some bugs… I also didn’t understand why some brightness differences happened in renders. Might be even because of rendering in a later svn version…
February 11th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
@Robbie
What the.. Are you serious?? 18 terabytes???
February 11th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Hey everyone,
I’m working on compositing the frames together to make a bluray. All CC rights will be reserved and will remain exactly intact. I’m working on some original cover art for it. But All sponsor info and such will also remain intact.
~Micheal
February 11th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
the HD is great, this is more impressive than the 2k movie, i like.
-Steven
February 11th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
The TIFFs look interesting. Thanks for providing. Is some HDR footage rendered for instance OpenEXR files?
February 12th, 2011 at 3:10 am
Ooh, thanks for posting a sample of the 4k files. I’ve mirrored the 1-every-100 tiff set at http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-4k-tiff16/
We’d like to host a complete copy; just have to figure out how to get all those bits across the Atlantic…
February 12th, 2011 at 10:10 am
And the light fade out…
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-1080-png/00011922.png
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-2k-png/00011922.png
I think this’ a great different example where high res is darker than original…
February 12th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
@Ralph Giles:
Maybe Ton could plug a portable HDD in one of the Blender servers at the datacenter of XS4ALL (which is a bandwith sponsor of Blender)
It’s in Amsterdam, so…
Or Ton could upload it from the Institute itself, which will take about 8 days, I think.
February 13th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
1920×818 x264 2-pass 4000kbits
New improved renders with corrected pngs
432MB Video
180MB Audio
Audio 1: 5.1
Audio 2: 2.0
Audio 3: No Voices
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6171706
February 14th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
Wahooo, having fun downloading the 4k frames. Btw, is frame 00002630.tif of the 8-bit 4k version messed up for anyone else? The bottom 2/3 of the frame has a very strong green tint. I’ve opened it in a bunch of different programs, and it has the same problem in all of them.
February 15th, 2011 at 12:21 am
1280×544 stereo 281MB stream and 1 week the 1920 source is available aswell:
http://vimeo.com/teddl/sintel
(2496kbits)
They did a great job resizing it. For me Lanczos didn’t do well. So I used Spline36resize via Avisynth.
My try almost sam:
1280×544 x264 2400kbits
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6174631
5.1, 2.0, 2.0-no voice, all subs. I tried better audio compression.
February 15th, 2011 at 9:04 am
“I’ve made myself an HD .avi with H264 and stereo wav sound:”
Sorry, but this is just very wrong. Even if many programs can put H.264 in an AVI container, one shouldn’t put H.264 in an AVI container. Period. There’s a reason MKV and MP4 exist.
February 15th, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Hear hear for the container Nazi! 😛
The darkness issue is a concern to me, but good job for finally getting the 4K done! And thanks to all the encoders for the different options.
February 15th, 2011 at 9:02 pm
androvsky:
Thanks for the report. 00002630.tif is fixed now. We’re still working on correcting problems with a few other frames near the end.
February 16th, 2011 at 12:12 am
I also found errors with the 1080 png files – 00021142.png, 00021143.png, 00021139.png, and 00021133.png
February 16th, 2011 at 2:40 am
Hello, I’ve prepared a test DCP of Sintel from the 2K frames.
This is what results in terms of bitrate
http://i56.tinypic.com/zlojde.png
and PSNR
http://i53.tinypic.com/2dha6gg.jpg
Unfortunately, it’s a problem to give bandwidth for downloading. Do you have an FTP for upload?
February 16th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
1024×436, 5.1, 2.0, 2.0-no voice, all subs
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6178503
I always aimed for a SSIM between 0.90 and 0.091 with psychovisual optimations.
I converted the pngs to yv12 with ffdshow and HuffYUV, Median, Adaptive huffman tables. Everything else took too long or added colors and very fuzzy things in the banding areas. Banding is more ofcourse of the conversion from 4:2:2 to 4:2:0.
Against banding but less contrast:
VLC: Preferences – Video – Use hardware YUV->RGB conversion
MPC HC: Render Settings – Output Range – 16-235
Well, I haven’t tried a debanding filter, yet
Sorry, if this was discussed before.
February 16th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
AVI? seriously? :/
February 16th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Thanks for noting all faulty frames, these are being refreshed within a day!
Special thanks to Ralph Giles from xiph.org 🙂
February 16th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
I’ve started work on the blu ray. I don’t have all of the subs inserted, but I do have a basic menu done along with basic audio tracks. Still to come are the extra audio tracks, some cool popup menus, and all the bonus features.
Here is the torrent – http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6179404
~Micheal
February 16th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Also, if you have any comments ideas or criticisms, feel free to let me know.
My email is [email protected]
February 17th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Thanks Micheal, we’ve corrected those png files, as well as 00021131.png which was also truncated.
February 19th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
@Ton
Thanks for publishing a revised sintel-hd.avi. Great to see some of the issues where corrected. But it seemes some new where introduced.
I recognized some strange light-blue spots in one scene on the roof and also on the wall behind the right shoulder of sintel. They are also in different resolution frames – for example:
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-1080-png/00004527.png
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-2k-png/00004527.png
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-4k-tiff16/00004501.tif
Anyway it is a great experience to see these formats.
February 27th, 2011 at 3:58 am
viry good job im lake this animation and me doing design wethe blender thanks for v 2,5 becous its very inderstun than v2,49
April 13th, 2011 at 8:56 am
Super.
June 20th, 2011 at 10:30 am
i make arabic translation it’s better than that on site how can i upload it