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***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD — Page 27

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Hows it coming along?

Unrelated question, What are your computer specs? (If you dont mind)

"The Empire can't stop us now..now its our turn" -Luke-

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Hows it coming along?

I've encoded the Xvid video, but I found some more info on DVD specs that tells me I should re-encode the PAL MPEG video I did last night. I've been a bit busy lately after being roped in to create a TV ad for work.

Unrelated question, What are your computer specs? (If you dont mind)


At work (which does all the encoding), 3.0GHz and 1Gb of RAM. At home, 1.0GHz and 1Gb of RAM (I like my ultraportable and there's nothing I want to upgrade to right now). All my Star Wars work is stored along with other stuff on a 300Gb external hard drive (with no backup! ).

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DE, could you post a few short clips of some of the new changes? Specifically the lightsabers.

I know we've talked about this a while ago, and there's no problem. I'd be happy to wait. Just inquiring so I know.

My stance on revising fan edits.

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Hal, I will get around to making those clips available - I'm just still not sure what the best way to go about it is, or when I'll get around to it

Sorry once again for the delays - I know you're all looking forward to it, and I really really hope to have it out there next weekend.

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Whatever you do, don't force yourself to turn this into an xmas/pre-xmas release. You owe us nothing (or at the least, very little), so don't put yourself out more than you feel you have to. No promises were made and we won't cry because there are delays.

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Hows it coming?

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First, new to the site and really love it. So if i'm doing wrong apologies. Could someone tell me how i get my hands on the Darth Editous edit of ANH and of ESB & ROTJ if he has done these too.

please.
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Originally posted by: StormTrooper
First, new to the site and really love it. So if i'm doing wrong apologies. Could someone tell me how i get my hands on the Darth Editous edit of ANH and of ESB & ROTJ if he has done these too.

please.



Darth Editious hasnt finished ANH V3 or ESB or started ROTJ yet, if you want to get Darth Editious' ANH version 1 you could start by switching on your pms.
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Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
Originally posted by: StormTrooper
First, new to the site and really love it. So if i'm doing wrong apologies. Could someone tell me how i get my hands on the Darth Editous edit of ANH and of ESB & ROTJ if he has done these too.

please.



Darth Editious hasnt finished ANH V3 or ESB or started ROTJ yet, if you want to get Darth Editious' ANH version 1 you could start by switching on your pms.



Hi Mr Bungle
Thanks for the reply.
so he is doing another version? i must have missed that post could you point me to it please. I have my pm's turned on afaik.
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The first version is the one listed at the front, the other version DE is what he is talking about is on the last few pages and nearing completion.
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Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
The first version is the one listed at the front, the other version DE is what he is talking about is on the last few pages and nearing completion.



Sorry, how dumb am i? so best to wait for the updated version instead of getting V1. mate are my pm's working?

i have been trying to downlod the hybrid version but its going really slowly and according to the numbers it will take 44days. there are only 2 seeders
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Are you still working on some small fixes with this release still ?

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It's finished as far as fixes are concerned, but I had a look at my level-adjusted version on my laptop and the noise in the blacks is horrible - not that this matters on most display devices, but I'm sure it's not doing the encoder any good. So, I think for this and other reasons I'm not going to bother with the global level adjustment - viewers should have the ability to alter the levels on whatever their playback device is. As I think I mentioned before, it's probably also introduced some colour banding.

I've finished re-rendering the PAL video, and the NTSC video is running now - then it's just a case of tweaking the chapter points from my old project files, and I'm done.

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Thats great news. Would you mind giving a small overview on how you convert PAL to NTSC?

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Thats good news DE, cant wait to see how you have improved on V1 which was probably the best fan edit Ive seen so far of the SW films...
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DE, a bit off topic, but I'm trying to figure out how to do a digital character erasure like you did with the annoying robots in Mos Eisley but on a different film. I saved each frame in the shot as a .tga and manually removed the character in Photoshop for about 30 frames, but there was a definite shimmy in the video where the alignment wasn't exact on each frame. What do you suggest?

Here is the shot I'm trying to correct, trying to delete Richard Pryor from it.

Any suggestions?
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Yikes, interlaced video! My Kryptonite!

Well, not really, but it's not a good place to start from. Was this sourced from DVD? If so, that's one badly produced DVD! I'd try and get hold of the PAL disc and work from that. If it's not from the DVD... well, same advice

Interlacing in itself is going to cause you some problems (is the whole project like that?), but your misalignment is probably mostly because you're limited to an accuracy of one pixel. Short of writing programs like I did, you could try scaling everything up by 4, or even 8, aligning your patch and then scaling back down (but then you should probably copy back in the original frame to get rid of any scaling errors, and memory may become an issue).

If it wasn't for that zoom at the end, and the interlacing, I'd happily knock up something to produce a patched version, which you could then mask more precisely around Richard Pryor...

DE

PS PAL to NTSC conversion - scale to 5/6th height, change frame rate to 23.976fps. Resample audio to match.
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I didn't even check to see that the source was interlaced as I figured it must be progressive, but yep, it's from the source. I didnt' notice interlacing when I edited it together. *sigh*
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous

PS PAL to NTSC conversion - scale to 5/6th height, change frame rate to 23.976fps. Resample audio to match.


What programs do you use

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DE, I checked again in VirtualDubMod and am not seeing evidence of interlacing. Am I missing something?
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
... I had a look at my level-adjusted version on my laptop and the noise in the blacks is horrible - not that this matters on most display devices, but I'm sure it's not doing the encoder any good. ...
I remember reading about an AVISynth filter that performed a strong temporal noise filtering on low luma areas only - but I can't for the life of me find it now!

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Thanks for the idea Moth3r, although I think really I'm still better off leaving it as it is - if nothing else, it seems best philosophically

DE, I checked again in VirtualDubMod and am not seeing evidence of interlacing. Am I missing something?


Mystery solved - it's an mpv, as in Program. I only ever work with elementary streams, which (I'm guessing) lose the pulldown flag. I wasn't aware that VirtualDub would honour that pulldown flag and actually introduce interlaced frames.

Next time I'm looking for something to do, I'll take a stab at it.

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Sweet. Let me know if anything works out. I'll keep trying ideas, including cropping and resizing. The camera wasn't held steady on that shot so each frame is different, making this a real pain.
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