You need to use h_h's 2.0/2.1 mix also if you wanna compare like that, could be something caused by upmixing.
Edit: Also, hairy_hen - if you wanna send me that flyby clip I'm happy to take crack at it.
From this gif collection --
Flunk ANH is in a.b.sw, 429 days old.
Also looks like there's the Reivax ANH and of course Lee Thorogoods '97 SE PAL LD rips.
Re: VCDs - http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/1997-SE-VCDs-on-DVD-COMPLETISTS-COLLECTORS-ONLY/topic/10428/
Currently 846 days old on usenet...
I'd be fine with a scan made from an IP or similar..
But if you go back to the negative, then you have to recomposite everything - would that be so bad? Other restorations must have done this surely...
What about something like the Godfather restoration, it's not quite the original either is it?
Verrry nice!
Sorry, didn't read you right. ..
Harmy said:
Those are great, man, thank you. Only is it possible to shift the covers slightly to the left, so that the spine is centred, I noticed the same thing with some other covers done like this with Imandix and I'm quite sure that the spine is centred on the actual covers. If it's too much of a hustle, don't bother thought :-)
Look at it as two cases stacked against each other, and not one open box
Bootlegs can be factory made...
Quick research seems to indicate R5's became available only from autumn 2005.
Anyway, the color artifacts and the switched channels on the initial release indicate an analog step (which would not be there on an R5), my best guess would be from some form of DLP or maybe from someone inside Lucasfilm -> capture card/dvd recorder/camcorder via l/r and composite cables.
Off the top of my head I don't remember any similar releases from that time (ie. 'high quality but mysterious source'), but it's long ago now...
-- Re: ROTS/DLP/aAf
2005.06.04.Star.Wars.Episode.III.Revenge.of.the.Sith.INTERNAL.DVDRip.XviD
2005.06.18.Star.Wars.Episode.III.Revenge.of.the.Sith.DVDSCR.NTSC.DVDR-aAF
Additionally -
Star.Wars.Episode.III.Revenge.of.the.Sith.DVDR-KKi
Star.Wars.Episode.III.Revenge.of.the.Sith.INTERNAL.NTSC.DVDR
All the above should be from the same source. The dates should be correct.
Not sure if it was ever 100% known what the source was? Most likely some form of DLP captured analog with a capture card or a DVD recorder.
Edit:
MoF TC should be this date -- 2005.05.28.Star.Wars.Episode.III.Revenge.of.the.Sith.TC.XviD-MoF
Did I already post the following? Not sure ;)
-- For The Clone Wars:
2008.08.19.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.2008.TELESYNC.XviD-TRADINGSTANDARDS
2008.08.19.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.2008.TS-KingBen
2008.08.20.Star.Wars.Clone.Wars.TS.mVCD-DCvCD
2008.08.20.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.iNTERNAL.CAM.xVID-OEM
2008.08.20.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.TS.MD.German.XViD-CPG
2008.08.21.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.READ.NFO.TS.XviD-COALiTiON
2008.08.23.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.FRENCH.TS.MD.XviD-WaTeRMaRK
2008.08.25.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.CAM.German.READ.NFO.XViD-PFD
2008.08.25.Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.CAM.READ.NFO.German.OneSvcd-2Brothers
2008.08.26.CloneWars.Telesync.Micdubbed.Reencode.Xvid-TSQG
2008.08.27.Star Wars Clone Wars Deutsch German MVCD Saugstube
2008.08.30.Star.Wars.Las.Guerras.Clon.TS-SCREENER.XviD.MP3.2008.ES
This is what I found when I was researching it earlier & these dates are as accurate as I could make them -- they don't always correspond with the dates in the nfo's, but where available I considered the datestamps in the original archives more accurate.
BTW, to let you know, I did manage to get that DVD, I'm completely swamped with work right now though, so haven't really looked at it. Might not be (much) better than the LD rip though. Will analyze more thoroughly later.
If anybody is in or near Salisbury this Sunday -- http://www.salisburyfestival.co.uk/event.aspx?id=485
You're welcome to come and have a serious talk about preservation! Hehe ;)
This will be a special showing of the v2 restoration.
Preorder is about 47USD (without re-shipping).
It's a Scandinavian release, so Region 2, should be available from Finnish, Danish, Swedish or Norwegian webshops, probably some can be found that ship overseas, otherwise I could probably assist if it's still wanted.
I'm not sure exactly what you want to do with the subs, just hardcode them?
You can do this with VobSub and VirtualDub or AviSynth -- look here for example (much more can be found by googling):
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/304260
There are probably some settings in vobsub for tweaking the look of the subs.
For editing I'd ALWAYS render my video (now with subtitles) out in either huffyuv or lagarith lossless codecs -- they take up more space but it's much more fast and accurate than working with some compressed mpeg4/h264 stream. And no quality loss of course.
If space is an issue, there are other options like DV codecs but I don't much about that, or editing the vobs/mpeg2 directly in womble, it should only re-render changed parts, but don't know much about that either.
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
althor, I'm curious, the script in xvid4psp says "directshowsource"... is there a reason that it doesn't say "avisource"? Does it matter?
Generally avisource is considered more frame-accurate, so use directshowsource only as a backup option if avisource is giving problems.
But there is probably very little difference.
Yes the other source I used before (bootleg?) is complete, but also the worst quality of the three. French is not complete as you know, it has many splices with missing frames.
Ok, I just managed to catch Uproar on Danish TV -- it was basically the 40th edition, with a completely new narration also (didn't like the new narration).
So if anyone was hoping for the complete version, they were surely disappointed....
There was one notable difference from the DVD though -- no crushed blacks! So whatever master the TV station received was different from the dvd.. That doesn't really help this restoration though...
Oh and v2 IS IN PROGRESS!
Usenet, search for flunk repack on binsearch.
ChainsawAsh said:
I guess there's little tolerance for altering a retail Doctor Who DVD outside of a freakin' Star Wars forum...
lol...
I'm interested in this, FWIW!
FunkyDays said:
dark_jedi said:
This is a sample I whipped up to show you the problems I am having, look at where the sky meets the ground, watch when Luke runs over to Beru, look over Owens shoulder, and when Owen calls Luke over with him and 3PO, this is a very small clip with no audio.
I still have other setting to try but this is my problem.
Whoa! I see it plain as day even on my computer monitor. In the first shot that shows the entire sky, blocks are dancing around like a "spectrum analyzer". When Luke is running to Beru it kind of looks like he's in a sandstorm, and when he's looking down speaking to her it looks like plagues of locusts are flying around, but seem to fly up and out of the shot. Very weird. I wish I knew what to tell you :-( Adywan's explanation of why the grain is so heavy in these shots makes perfect sense, but what I'm seeing is definitely not normal film grain, or even "heavy" film grain. I would think that it is possible that the heavy handed noise reduction originally used in the GOUT mastering made the "heavy" grain look blocky and upsampling to a higher resolution only makes it more apparent. But it also looks like something going crazy during the encoding.
Without looking at the video, it sounds like DCT blocks?
Read here --
http://kvcd.net/sansgrip/avisynth/Noise_Generators-readme.html
http://kvcd.net/sansgrip/avisynth/Blockbuster-readme.html
Well done.. :) However -- The Mona Lisa is not painted on canvas, but on wood (poplar)..
My versions are not yet released, with luck I'll have time to finish the French sync this month.
The official Nezha DVD is not really restored I guess, it's just from a pretty good source. Worst feature of the transfer is the crushed blacks. Try yesasia or even ebay. Chinese DVDs are usually PAL.
none said:
Anyone got a clue what could cause this?
Instead of holes/burn marks, I think someone just marked the frames with a pen or something.
Compare to this frame for example which has lots of scribbles on it - http://ygg.nu/images/sunwukong/demo/writing_org.jpg (from my own project).
