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Post #632319

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the ugnaught
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Droids Series Complete Set. Reconstruction from multiple sources. V1.0 is out! (Released)
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Date created
7-Apr-2013, 8:01 PM

Video Collector said:

I'd love to hear some specifics about the work you did. What were the sources for each episode, and what processes did you employ for clean-up etc. What did you use for The Great Heep in the end?

  • Episodes 1-8, 10-13 video is sourced exclusively from the Japanese tapes.  The audio is primarily the UK PAL tapes, with occasional snippets from the SciFi airings and Japanese tapes for audio that was cut from the UK tapes.  Mostly around commercial breaks.
  • Episode 9 is obviously a home video recording of the original ABC airing.
  • Great Heep is from the UK PAL tape.  I used SRestore for the scenes that were animated on 2's and a regular deinterlace for scenes animated on 1's.  Pain in the ass if you ask me.  Then it was just a simple 25fps->23.976fps conversion by slowing down.
  • Each episode follows the lineage that I posted in my first comment in this thread.  JVC S-VHS deck-> Hauppauge capture card-> raw avi-> Avisynth (animeivtc) and then into Virtualdub where I did very very slight level and color adjustments. And very minimal noise reduction.  Hardly any really.
  • Regarding a DVD release, I don't plan on doing one until I can get some better sources for Coby and Heep.  Hopefully that is within the next couple of years.  Those tapes aren't getting any younger.  Would really love it if some of those people trying to track down the tapes would give me a chance to get a crack at them.  I feel like I should have never mentioned their existence because now people are talking about the Mexican tapes all over the place.  There is even a blurb about them now on the Star Wars wikia page for Droids.

 

darth_ender said:

So to be clear for the slower readers (me, myself, and I), each episode is complete, unlike the DVD releases?  I know you had sources you didn't prefer as much, but these episodes lack nothing, correct?

Yes, every episode as they originally aired.  Minus the recaps (mentioned just a few posts above) as those haven't been released on any commercial tape that I am aware of.  The only copies are from television airings to include the SciFi channel ones.