drngr

jerryshadoe said:

By request, I can make an NTSC DVD5 available, as I already have it encoded and authored, but it sounds a little funny (slow) due to the fact that I just slowed down the entire thing from 25fps to 23.976fps to avoid compromising the integrity of the video any more.

Instead, you can use DGPulldown on a 720x480 25fps encode with original audio.

The screenshots look very impressive. Unfortunately I'm not sure I'd be able to stomach the scum the documentary is about long enough to watch it.

People on the LDDB forum already compared "The Matrix" LD's color timing to the first DVD; it's the same. Sorry you missed the news.

Reliance MediaWorks (the former Lowry) has clips in their demo reel of their True Lies remaster. Tealed to death, naturally. All of the clips from Super35 films are 16:9, as well.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/95919913

*anticipates*

:)

^ XP-only though.

Bit-perfect is easy to do on XP if you're only capturing sources like LD that don't use copy protection, but I've never figured out a solution in Win7 as it seems the default mixer always gets in the way.

The sharpened version still has no texture. The character cells may end up just "cleaned", but the painted backgrounds get smeared away by DNR. The brushstrokes on the brick walls are gone.

titanic said:

while grainless animation films remind me of cheap TV or direct to video animations.

Irony: Hunchback of Notre Dame vs DTV sequel.

I received a PM asking me about capture cards which I will answer publicly.

I have been researching and have considered the following:

Avermedia ExtremeCap U3 External (1080p 60 fps got my attention)

Avermedia Livegamer HD or HD Lite Internal cards

Blackmagic Intensity Pro Internal Card

Blackmagic Intensity Extreme (claims to connect to Windows PC via Thunderbolt)

Elgato Game capture HD

Do you have a preference on any particular one?

The ExtremeCap U3 has a ridiculous bug where 1080p59.94 is captured as 1080p60.00 with duplicate frames added. I guess it's a bug across all of AVerMedia's hardware, as the C127 card I have is supposed to capture "1080p60 as 1080p30" but instead of just dropping half the frames from 1080p59.94 it creates a 1080p30.00 video. The problem may be unnoticeable to most in direct viewing, but for example if you have a PS3 playing back 23.976 -> 59.940 -> 30.000 it's impossible to recover the original 23.976 frame rate. (I mention this because my own reason for buying the card was recording Vudu. I can just record 1080p23.976 Vudu direct from my WD TV, but I can't download my purchases to hard drive prior to capturing like I can on PS3. So I have to rely on my internet connection to keep up with streaming.)

Live Gamer HD [Lite] and Elgato Game Capture HD are hardware encoders, which don't interest me. You may have different goals.

Intensity Pro is well-reviewed. Intensity Extreme looks okay but I don't see any advantage for the much higher price. It's marketed to people who can't install a PCIe card, for whatever reason.

I'm itching to watch this movie again and I don't want to suffer the new FX on my UK Blu-ray... Hurry up please! :D

BTW: "[COMPLETE] custom isolated music and score track (in progress)" ;)

If the problem is memory consumption, you should be able to just encode a lossless intermediate file.

That poster talked about jagged edges and some dropped frames with CaptureX, but I don't see a mention of stuttering.

In my Note at the top of the OP, I was referring to "cards" in the literal sense. You can use the regular Hauppauge HD PVR 2 as well as the GE Plus. Only the regular Gaming Edition dropped support for 5.1.

The 14Mbps recordings do show noticeable artifacts though. (As do 20Mbps Colossus captures -- there is a reason the AVerMedia hardware encoder device supports up to 60Mbps.)

All of Blackmagic's products are designed to be used in production, so they have no need for supporting compressed audio capture. Unless your STB can decompress the audio to 5.1 PCM over HDMI, their products won't help you.

Hmm. Looks like it would be extremely easy to combine the DVD with the semi-HD German Blu-ray, and nearly impossible to combine it with the remastered Criterion Blu-ray due to regrading and shot-by-shot framing differences.

http://someimage.com/YQTg

Shame that Criterion's scratch removal process removed that blue lens flare...

I think if you're going to spend any time on this movie now, it may as well be on the open matte version since some feel that one has its own merits besides color. Meanwhile OAR can wait until there is 35mm footage to use.

9.4Mbps MPEG-2 for the HBO wouldn't hold up against the European broadcasts.

Quoting myself, April 16/13:

I watched a 35mm print of the 2003 restored Extended cut last night in Vancouver. It varied a bit by the reel, but at the start the clouds were yellowish and skies cyan. Skin tones looked more ordinary than the Italian screencaps though. Sunbaked but not yellowed. "The End" didn't look white. The print started with a BBFC rating card, but I was too busy reading it to note the white balance there. It was pretty blurry; not sure if that's down to the print or the optics at the Pacific Cinematheque.

All of the opticals looked godawfully dirty. Wow.

Take from that what you will (if anything). I'm not sure what to think but if they show it again I'll definitely keep the new release in mind.

It's possible that the TV airing was sped up slightly to fit its timeslot, and that the On Demand version was just copied from the broadcast version.

In that case the only realistic "solution" would be to timestretch the audio, which causes some artifacts or a pitch shift.

rnranimal said:

Shame there isn't a filter. Seems like it could be a pretty simple one. It would just need to examine where the picture edge of each line is and then nudge them into alignment. I'm not talking large amounts of adjustment. Much less than is needed for stabilization filters and such.

There is one but it turns out to not be so simple: just think of what happens any time there isn't a significant brightness difference between the edges of the image and the wavy black edges. The whole theory falls apart and you just get a jumbled mess worse than the original image. If you want to try it: Software TBC.

And if you really, really want to avoid an analog step when you buy a PAL Panasonic recorder you can get one with an HDMI output, and tack on the extra expense of an HDMI capture card.

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/363480-1st-time-capture-of-Hi-8-and-miniDV-Need-a-gameplan!?p=2317970&viewfull=1#post2317970
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/319420-Who-uses-a-DVD-recorder-as-a-line-TBC-and-what-do-you-use/page7

But aside from cost, HDMI capturing has its own issues. One is that you're stuck with whatever brightness range the DVD recorder gives you: if the levels are clipped you can't recover anything like you might be able to with an analog capture card's controls.

Jetrell Fo said:

I'm trying to use VDub64 in Windows 7 64Bit.

Use the 32-bit VirtualDub (which is what I meant before). And make sure you're on the correct input of course. A blue screen is better than a black screen or no screen...

Re: Frozen, IMDB claims that the DI was 2K. Most movies and most cinema projectors are (last I checked -- it's one argument the anti-4K crowd like to use in their favor).

It's tough to offer any advice when you don't specifically say what you've tried or what's happening.

If you aren't already, use the 32-bit version.

Doctor M said:

Why must they do this?

Taking a completed 2K file and creating a 1080p file, they can:

1. Crop only horizontally.
Maintains: 1:1 pixels, vertical image info.
Alters: aspect ratio by 6%, 128 pixel columns lost.

2. Crop horizontally and vertically.
Maintains: 1:1 pixels, aspect ratio.
Alters: 128 pixel columns and 54 rows lost.

3. Downsize by 15/16, generating artifacts that are especially visible for something with pin-point pixels (ex: ringing) The entire image is negatively altered.
Maintains: aspect ratio, horizontal & vertical image info.
Alters: all pixels malformed.

As nickdiba noted, #2 is common practice for Blu-ray releases, though I think "always" is overstating things. And overcropping for the sake of maintaining AR goes back to the LaserDisc days.

I've used QuickPar in Win7 x64 for years. Wonder where your problem lies.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-capture-HDCP-encrypted-HDMI-sources-Vudu-Netflix-Directv-Virgin-Media-etc/topic/15179/

zeropc said:

a little update on the so called dcp release

it's all a lie. this is a release from 2011 and seams not been shared outside a certain forum until now. i compared the nfo files and they are exactly the same.

Doesn't the NFO state DCP? http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Back-to-the-Future-without-DNR-EE-Help-Wanted/post/683575/#TopicPost683575

How do you explain the images on AVS from the "DCP" source that are in 2K 1.85 resolution (1996x1080) rather than HD (1920x1040)?

Do you think this technique could be used to combine the open matte DVD of Koyaanisqatsi with the matted Blu-ray?

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare2/koyaanisqatsi.htm

I'd be comparing it to the DeckLink Mini Recorder PCIe since they have the same frame rate limitation.

The Intensity Shuttle for Thunderbolt costs $90 more but you do get the analog capture capability.