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That's been my problem. Obviously, that's the first thing I did but it didn't work. Turns out the soundtrack isn't the exact length of the movie. It's a few seconds short. When you start talking about being a couple frames out of synch then it gets kind of tedious. Plus, I don't want to completely remux the soundtrack and video every attempt, so I plug it into Womble to check synch. That finally looks pretty good. I put it back into Encore, and I'm seeing the slight off synch. I'm actually doing the chapters now, then I'm going to render while I'm at work tonight. Hopefully it will be complete in the morning when I get home, then I'll check it out to see if it worked.
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Would it be possible to make the soundtrack as long as the video (i.e. add some noise to the beginning or end, wherever it's missing), sync it up, and then cut off what you had added once it was synchronized?

Take care,
Sojourn
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Originally posted by: boon23
I cannot seed anything forever. But as long as it takes to have it spread to the community. This is all our responsibility to keep these things seeded.


sorry, i didn't mean to seed forever, of course, i meant to email you to have the dl info or is this info avail to the public?

btw, the 1st page of this thread, the little FAQ doesnt have any info on that.
thanks,
HT
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Originally posted by: Sojourn
Would it be possible to make the soundtrack as long as the video (i.e. add some noise to the beginning or end, wherever it's missing), sync it up, and then cut off what you had added once it was synchronized?

Take care,
Sojourn


I'll try that in the morning. Right now it's rendering the actual DVD. I'll take a stab at that in the morning and see if I have better results.
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Jambe, I just wanted to tell you that you've done a great job with Building Empire that I was able to watch yesterday - a real professional job! Addition of an Easter egg was a nice touch. Can you please tell me if that was a segment from a documentary or just a clip from an old newsreport (which one)?
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Originally posted by: tb1971
Jambe, I just wanted to tell you that you've done a great job with Building Empire that I was able to watch yesterday - a real professional job! Addition of an Easter egg was a nice touch. Can you please tell me if that was a segment from a documentary or just a clip from an old newsreport (which one)?


Thanks. Good to hear that people are still enjoying this. The clip was from 'The Making of Star Wars'.

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I'm going on a group holiday to Finse, Norway (staying in the same hotel as cast + crew). The group are asking about this doco. so I'm going to get some copies sent out. LFL must be kicking themselves they didn't do something like this first
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I've put this up for torrent on demonoid after getting requests for it over there. If its a problem in any way, just let me know Jambe and i'll take it down.
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I have big news. Pending approval by Jambe (since it is going to represent his work), I have finished. I'm burning a test disc now and will watch it tonight, then it's going to Jambe and NYDig for distribution.

Thanks ever so much for all of your patience. I had some major glitches with damned near every step but I perservered and got it fixed.
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Congratulations, cal. I am sure you did a great job and I am happy the American people finally get their well deserved NTSC version of this fantastic fan documentary.

Nothing about fanediting is easy.

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Originally posted by: caligulathegod
I have big news. Pending approval by Jambe (since it is going to represent his work), I have finished. I'm burning a test disc now and will watch it tonight, then it's going to Jambe and NYDig for distribution.

Thanks ever so much for all of your patience. I had some major glitches with damned near every step but I perservered and got it fixed.


Most excellent. Can't wait to grab this. I will seed indefinitely, as I plan on doing with Returning to Jedi once that finishes.
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it <cough> is finished.

Nothing about fanediting is easy.

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Hey caligulathegod, firstly, well done on completing the mamoth task of standards conversion! You have done a great service to Star Wars fans all over the USA!

Secondly, I can't reply to your PM, my inbox is full. But if you email me at my jambedotdavdaratgmaildotcom then I will reply with the details you need.

Thanks again
JD

Creator of Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning to Jedi
Follow me on twitter @jamieSWB. Please support me at - http://www.patreon.com/jamiebenning/

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congratulations Caligula, there will be quite a few friends of mine who don't have multi-format players who will sing praises to you for this great service.
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Just want to clear up some confusion. Building Empire is or will be available as an NTSC torrent?

Thanks in advance.
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and will (or is) the NTSC version on the rapidshare?
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cal has finished his NTSC conversion, jambe will testwatch it for approval. If I can get my hands on it, i will also upload it to Rapidshare, or maybe someone else will do it, all depending on how well it will be spread.

Nothing about fanediting is easy.

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I would think the ntsc of BE will be spread as much as the conversion of Jedi was.
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I've been snowed in the last couple days and will be making the post office later today or tomorrow (haven't even made it to work). I took the opportunity to scrub through the audio to ensure better synch throughout (subtracted a frame or two of audio here and there). It was odd, a scene in the beginning would be in perfect synch, as would a scene at the end, but a scene in the middle would be out of synch. Then the scene next to it would be in synch, and so on. I suspect the piecemeal structure of all the multiple sources must have thrown my software off. Anyway, I scrubbed the entire film twice (whereas I had only spot-checked it before) and then I took the newly synched wav and used Audition spectral frequency and scrubbed away imperfections such as gaps and pops and abrupt cuts. There was a short gap in the soundtrack on the recreated scene of Han and Leia in Bespin (just before he says "Sit down") I fixed, and Jeremy Bulloch's comment was sharply abrupt, so I smoothed it. I did them one at a time as i heard them and saw them on the spectral frequency display (an undesired pop would show up as a spike that hit the top of the scale, while a desired pop would not). I also went through and individually pitch-shifted the four or five commentaries that were slowed down (usually Carrie and Mark) that sounded awful. I was using pitch bender and I made it through an hour and a half before I noticed it was lengthening the wav, so i had to start over using pitch shifter, which didn't. I didn't do that for voices I wasn't familiar with, just Carrie and Mark since they sounded the worst.

Despite all the trouble, I'm very glad I did it progressive. On my TV, there's none of those interlacing artifacts such as combing or double images. As big a pain in the ass it was, I think I did it right. It's a true NTSC rather than an IFO trick that may not work on everyone's system. There's also no frame skipping or judder from repeated frames.

The only thing I'm not as happy with is that audition does those nice transitions between menus and they look good on my computer, but there's the ever so slightest pause when I watch it on TV. I don't think you want me to delay it while I teach my self DVDLab Pro, so I'll have to live with it.

Anyway, the slight delay here will help not steal any thunder away from Jambe's Jedi release (which I had pledged not to watch until I finished BE). I hope you guys all like it.
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wow thats alot of work !

thank you for doing this
its much appreciated
its a huge task indeed

have you uploaded it anywhere ?
thanks,
HT
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Not yet. I mailed it out to Jambe on Friday, so it has to get from Ohio to the UK. I was also going to send a copy to DigitalFreak to help with distribution. Hopefully it will spread from there.
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So did you actually correct the audio speed too?

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