The PUGGO Edition - Technical Specifications:
Source material: Super-8 film (4 reels), 24fps with mono sound.
Reels 1/2 - Star Wars
Reels 3/4 - Empire Strikes Back
Video capture:
- Workprinter-XP frame-by-frame telecine
- Sony TRV-900 video camera, NTSC
- Sony Vegas video capture
- each reel assembled from four captures at various light settings
- edit/trimming in Sony Vegas - all frames retained as-is
- no additional video post-processing
Audio capture:
- GAF Super-8 sound projector, mono capture
- DAT passthrough SPDIF into Cool-Edit (Windows)
- reel #1 required 5 captures at different levels.
- reels #2-4 required only 1 capture each.
- assembly in Cool-Edit
Audio processing:
- light hum and noise removal in Cool-Edit
- deClick in Cool-Edit to ameliorate distortion
Sound sync:
- temporary video pulldown done using CineCap, for sync purposes only
- assembly in Sony Vegas, audio with temporary video.
- minor audio stretch with pitch preservation, sync done by hand.
- rendered only resulting .wav file - video pulldown discarded.
Video encoding:
- TMPGE to .m2v, 2-pass encoding
- bitrate = min:3000 avg:6000 max:8000
- highest motion quality, 10 bits
- 3:2 pulldown settings
- progressive input, interlace output
Audio encoding: Sonic Foundry SoftEncode (AC3)
DVD Authoring and menu: DVD-Lab
Burning: Nero
Note -
ESB has 4 seconds of silence while Luke waits (hanging) to be rescued, and another 1 second gap earlier in the same reel. I plan to patch in those two gaps using audio from a DVD and try to match sound quality. It's just too jarring with the gap, as is. But don't worry, I plan to also keep a copy of the original audio without the patch. Heck, I might even make an alternate audio track without the patch. Depends on how creative I feel
Any questions?