Originally posted by: Dunedain
Max_Rebo: Will the NTSC version on DVD have the video down-converted to the correct NTSC DVD video standard (which is 480i resolution, I think), so that the DVD's will play on any standard U.S. NTSC DVD set-top stand alone DVD player (not a computer DVD drive) hooked up to a regular NTSC television set?
Hopefully the NTSC version will conform to all the proper NTSC standards and playback fine on NTSC equipment.
Yes that's the idea, the original PAL source should offer a much better picture quality than is possible from a laserdisc transfer, although it will most deffinitely have grain, and probably more than the laserdiscs do, but that's a good thing!
Originally posted by: Dunedain
Thanks for any info., this set sounds very exciting!
Max_Rebo: Will the NTSC version on DVD have the video down-converted to the correct NTSC DVD video standard (which is 480i resolution, I think), so that the DVD's will play on any standard U.S. NTSC DVD set-top stand alone DVD player (not a computer DVD drive) hooked up to a regular NTSC television set?
Hopefully the NTSC version will conform to all the proper NTSC standards and playback fine on NTSC equipment.
Originally posted by: Dunedain
This is a great idea, to put together the best possible Star Wars SE (1997) DVD set. So this will be combination of the highest quality PAL video source, plus the 5.1 soundtrack from the U.S. Star Wars SE laserdisk set, correct?
correct.
Originally posted by: Dunedain
Wouldn't it be easier for the NTSC set to just do the best possible transfer from the U.S. laserdisk set and then put that on a dual-layer DVD for maximum quality? Or is the idea that if you start with a PAL video source that is at a higher native resolution than even the NTSC DVD video specification, and then slow the video down to the correct NTSC 23.976 frames per second, that you will then be able to make an anamorphic NTSC DVD 480i video conversion from this that doesn't have any grain or other resolution problems in the picture quality?
This is a great idea, to put together the best possible Star Wars SE (1997) DVD set.
So this will be combination of the highest quality PAL video source, plus the 5.1 soundtrack from the U.S. Star Wars SE laserdisk set, correct? correct.
Originally posted by: Dunedain
Wouldn't it be easier for the NTSC set to just do the best possible transfer from the U.S. laserdisk set and then put that on a dual-layer DVD for maximum quality? Or is the idea that if you start with a PAL video source that is at a higher native resolution than even the NTSC DVD video specification, and then slow the video down to the correct NTSC 23.976 frames per second, that you will then be able to make an anamorphic NTSC DVD 480i video conversion from this that doesn't have any grain or other resolution problems in the picture quality?
Yes that's the idea, the original PAL source should offer a much better picture quality than is possible from a laserdisc transfer, although it will most deffinitely have grain, and probably more than the laserdiscs do, but that's a good thing!
Originally posted by: Dunedain
Thanks for any info., this set sounds very exciting!
Not a problem.
Now for the promised screenshots and a progress update.
Here is a nice example showing the superior quality of the TB set, just look at that fur, it's much better defined:
Here is an example to show what I meant above about the grain, you can (hopefully) see that the TB is more grainy, but the grain and the quality go hand in hand, and this is real film grain not noise:
and here is an example of one of the problems with the TB set, this is from the opening shot, as the camera pans down from the crawl the starfield just disappears:
The GKAR set doesn't suffer from this problem but obviously I can't use the whole shot from the GKAR as the crawl is in German, also this is the only shot of the film that isn't framed the same in the two versions so I can't simply cut from one to the other, it shouldn't be to difficult to fix I just haven't got around to it yet. All in all the TB set is pretty weak for starfields, but the GKAR set has been excessively filtered so the stars blur on pans (except for this shot) so either way the stars wont look as good as we'd like, but I'll do my best.
So far the video file comprises of only 18 frames from the GKAR (not including the credits) which fill in missing/damaged frames from the TB and only one of those frames is noticable when you watch it and will require some colour correcting.
I think once I've got ESB done ANH should come together really quickly but ROTJ is a whole different story (more on that later).
That's all for now, I'll keep you all posted on any developments.
And I'd like to end by saying AviSynth really is amazing!