Well just to get it out of the way, I need more ram. I'm not asking for contributions (with my history of vapor-ware projects how dare I?), I can afford it just fine--I just need to do some shopping at newegg. I'm going to toss another two gigs into my computer. A dual core processor with three gigs of ram should handle 1080i playback in Premiere Pro just fine. It's awfully disheartening now to wait the whole of about three to four seconds to find out this is not the exact frame I wanted to look at, you know?
The big update. I sort of started over on a completely new time-line. I decided that if the final product was going to be 480p, then I'm really just wasting time working with a slow 1080i file, so I've decided the first and foremost release is a 720p mp4 compressed to DVD-9 size (don't worry it'll look great), and then an approximately two to three gig sized 720p mp4 optimized for playback on the Xbox 360. The h.264 codec is just too pretty to pass up this kind of opportunity to see the original Star Wars in HD. I'll probably also put out a 480p, mpeg2 encoded DVD. But the thing to watch out for is the 720p file.
Other update, I've made sure this time that this edit will be in complete sync with the GOUT. This means that any audio mix that has been or can be synced to the GOUT, can be synced to this edit (with the mp4, you can use media player classic to do the dubbing and watch whatever GOUT synced mix you want in high definition). I ran a test file, and until the video started blinking for no apparent reason, I was having the time of my life watching the original Star Wars color corrected, in high def, with the restored mono mix
Has anyone who's done any fanediting ever run into that problem where you encode a file, only to find an extra frame from a cut shot appear out of nowhere, flashing on screen after the cut you've made? Usually I would just cut back the shot by a couple more frames than the actual end of the shot, but these edits have to be frame accurate, since I'm syncing to the GOUT. Well I'm just trying to find a solution
. I'm sure I can do a lot more experimenting when my comp is running a little faster.Alright that's the size of things right now. For anybody disheartened at all by the slow-mo of this project, there is another member of the forums who recently announced a preservation attempt, one of which he has put more than a year's work into, and evidently is almost done (would be rude to name names). So with my focus shifting to an HD release, I'm hoping he'll come forward more publicly soon with a great 480p preservation.