Something like this might be worth a try?
http://mf.creations.nl/avs/functions/soulhunter/SSubAA.avs
There WILL be a v2 using the French release, and though it's not a perfect release at all, there will be a pretty big increase in quality over my previous version.
Hmm, they put a new release date on some of those DVDs, but I doubt they changed anything, the covers look exactly the same as ever...
Did you order the Taiwan editions because you wanted NTSC versions?
Assuming they are the same as before, the Taiwan Uproar In Heaven DVD is absolutely horrible... It's basically the Chinese DVD converted to NTSC very badly, with the wrong aspect ratio to boot.. Quite frankly it's unwatchable..
Some Taiwan DVDs are completely different transfers though.
Is there something of interest on the Blade Runner laserdisc vs. the dvd? I may have 1 or 2 different ld rips on dvd somewhere.
Thanks omdal, that's interesting.. And good news of course!
Would be very nice if someone could cap the transport stream, I don't have the equipment for it myself unfortunately. It might have slightly better audio than my vhs source of course, I doubt the image will be better than the French DVD, but would be nice to see..
Video Collector said:
I'm using a consumer DVD/Harddisc recorder that captures realtime MPEG2 to harddisk. Not an ideal solution, granted (even at the highest quality setting there is some compression-related blocking).
In my experience you can eliminate a lot of the recorder induced noise/blocking by recording for example 3 times and then averaging the captures in avisynth.
Do you have some kind of hi quality scaling available to you? You could try something like doubling the resolution (maybe just the vertical) and resize back, or double and then run your filter and then resize back..
Also of interest to this project might be the 1977/8 in-theater audio recordings of star wars by brianm and morgands1.
There were also some Clone Wars telesyncs in 2008, for example -
Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.2008.TELESYNC.XviD-TRADINGSTANDARDS
Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.TS.MD.German.XViD-CPG
Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.TS.mVCD-DCvCD
Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.READ.NFO.TS.XviD-COALiTiON
Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.FRENCH.TS.MD.XviD-WaTeRMaRK
dark_jedi said:
this crawl looks no where near as good as the V3, big difference.
Did you run it through the avisynth script?
Oh and of course the aAF ep3 digital projection rip or whatever it was..
Edit: Ep2 centropy telesync - 05.22.02.Star.Wars.Episode.II.Attack.of.the.Clones.SVCD-Centropy
none said:
From the VIDEO_TS files is it possible to determine source? The other oddity is it's resolution, about half typical DVD res. Could that have been done to hide the VHS source or was this a common practice to save time?
It sounds like VCD res to me, is it MPEG1 or MPEG2? Source could be VCD or 'VCD-on-DVD'.
Well the ep3 WP was never in theaters? But it's still interesting of course..
There was a Russian ep3 telecine though - Star.Wars.Episode.III.Revenge.of.the.Sith.TC.XviD-MoF
I just bought a 1976 hardcover edition, it doesn't have forewords etc. as such but it does have several color pages with pictures/publicity shots and notes about the movie and characters and interview snippets.
Are these in the paperbacks?
Here is the front cover/dust jacket and the first page of inserts ('view image' to view full size).
Darth Editous said:
This is probably unlikely to be a concern with your setup, but I've seen real life cases where noise was reduced by recording on a laptop running on battery power, rather than plugged in to the mains.
DE
But that would probably 'just' be a lack of grounding, and not interference from other components.
JediTray said:
Looks like most of the external USB sound cards only have a 3/5mm input, and are 16 bit.
6.3mm jacks are basically the music industry standard, so many of the more expensive soundcards will favor these connectors, cause they're mostly used by musicians...
But you can indeed get soundcards (USB also, or firewire) with any resolution, it's just a matter of money..
So I'd just be spinning my wheels that way too. Instead of turntable-mixer-internal sound card, it would be turntable-mixer-external sound card-computer.
The sound is digitized in the soundcard, so any external soundcard->computer connection is purely digital. The idea with an external soundcard (or one with a breakout box) is simply to eliminate any noise/interference that might come from the computer itself. But to be honest I don't know if this is really a problem or is more academic? Has anyone measured this supposed interference on their soundcard? In any case most semi-pro soundcards are internal with external breakout box.
I don't know your budget, but here is one USB and one PCI soundcard that are (relatively) cheap and should be able to do what you want: M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 & Roland UA-1G.
Babyhum version of Feel the Force is still in a.b.sw it seems.
It seems roosters are generally cheaper than 42000.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fine-Rare-17thC-Kangxi-Figural-Rooster-Pouring-Vessel-/390247285092?pt=Asian_Antiques&hash=item5adc8d0164
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ceramics-rooster-Fritzi-Low-Wiener-Werkstatte-/270641215917?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item3f037939ad
Mielr said:
You are correct, sir! It was ME!!!!
Meow! (Achoo!)
And there goes another death star...
Nerfherder said:
digital processing (if any) LAST! Not the other way around. Digital trickery cannot be a substitute for the original sound with a decent turntable...
Hehe..
I know what you mean but I can't help but smile at this since the whole point is to digitize the LPs... Which is definitely digital processing.. ;)
Jetrell Fo said:
I find it best to record no higher than maybe somewhere between -6 to -3 decibels....it's far simpler to give it a boost then try to bring it down and still have it sound pleasing.
This
Nerfherder said:
It's FAR better to get a very good deck and cartridge, into an average soundcard and do little to no digital tweaking to get the purest sound.
and this..
Though if you're doing 24bit you can't skimp too much on the soundcard either.. ;)
Also, any software that can't handle 24 or maybe 32bit these days, I personally would consider outdated.
And don't worry too much about digital cleaning/noise removal/depopping.. It will not/should not make or break the capture.
I listened to your samples just now (never got a chance to listen to your other stuff being extremely busy the last few weeks), I'm not familiar with the source material, but they sound very good to me, just the occasional pop/crackle as might be expected. 'Poor' LP transfers usually have this 'sibilant hiss', but it sounds natural here and not harsh to me.
skyjedi2005 said:
This and monkey king have beautiful hand drawn cel animation. With all that is known of anime in the west i am surprised Chinese animation remains unknown, or Korean. Today Singapore animation is used in a great deal of japan animation and the US but the quality is so poor to compare it to this would be criminal.
I blame the cultural revolution. Nezha was probably the height of Chinese animation unfortunately, it was all downhill afterwards.
Early Chinese animation was actually the inspiration for Japanese anime as I understand it.
At least we have Uproar In Heaven and this to give us a glimpse of what might have been..
Yes I will get it done at some point.. in the near future hopefully.. ;)
Not sure what you mean with 'clean version' though, as I said before the official DVD is very good and will be superior to these versions in almost every way, this is basically for completionists or those who have some special attachment to the other language dubs - of which (only) the English, French and Japanese has found their way into my hands.
..but in short - yes. ;)
No clearly I was remembering correctly all along, and finally I found photographic evidence of the original cut of Star Wars where a sneezing cat destroys the Death Star. I understand people are upset that there is no high quality version of the pre-SE Star Wars, but few to none are worrying about the almost complete supression of the original Sneezing Cat version.. Why all the silence? Am I the only one to want this Original Original Original Version properly restored??
Animal cruelty is fun right?
And Frink, you object to the 'r.... my childhood' phrase, but it's ok to make a joke of implied rape with Justin Bieber?