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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION — Page 186
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and it gives me the option of "finding a web service for appropriate program", "Select the program from a list."
I think it's my download security, but I don't know how to turn it off. Can anyone Help? Please and thank you.
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Originally posted by: DGC General X
I need help! (total nub) I keep getting a "Windows can't open this file" window when I try to open up the ADYWAN.MD5
and it gives me the option of "finding a web service for appropriate program", "Select the program from a list."
I think it's my download security, but I don't know how to turn it off. Can anyone Help? Please and thank you.
I need help! (total nub) I keep getting a "Windows can't open this file" window when I try to open up the ADYWAN.MD5
and it gives me the option of "finding a web service for appropriate program", "Select the program from a list."
I think it's my download security, but I don't know how to turn it off. Can anyone Help? Please and thank you.
I'm pretty sure that the MD5 file is just to check that there are no errors with the rar files you have downloaded. You could try to extract the rars and if it extracts fine then you don't need the MD5
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Originally posted by: Kurgan
I was able to get the whole thing in 12 hours flat
I was able to get the whole thing in 12 hours flat
It is kind of like debating whether automobiles or bicycles are the better form of transportation. Sure, a bike is easy to learn to use, its faster than walking, and you don't have to constantly pump gas into it, but it'll take you a lot longer to get to your destination. It takes a lot more work to learn to drive a car and get your license, but once you do it you'll be getting around a lot more sufficently. There is a reason why very few of us know anybody over the age of 16 who still rides their bike to work.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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EDIT: Ady already answered.....sorry
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Bicycles vs. cars? A better comparison would be using public transportation vs. buying your own car. There's a big investment in buying your own car, but once you've got it, and you learn how to drive it and maintain it, you can go wherever, whenever. The bus is cheap (perhaps even free in some areas), and goes most places, but it's on a schedule so you have to wait for it. You don't have to do anything, just wait and hop on when it arrives. Many people would agree that owning your own car is a good idea, but in some areas, it may be more convenient and economical to just walk+public transportation, even if occasionally the person will wish they had a car to get to some specific appointment a little ahead of schedule, or if they have a job where owning their own car is a necessity.
My point was you said "Somebody with usenet could get SW Revisited in maybe a little over an hour, while you have some people here who have been downloading it off the torrent since the beginning of this week and still are only about halfway done."
So it took you 60 minutes to get the entire DVD from usenet, it took me 12 hours (with only one person seeding). But what you said implied people can expect it to take 14 DAYS. That's a very misleading statement. Unless they're using dialup (in which case usenet is going to be slow as well) or their computer is shut off most of the time, they'll actually be getting it faster than I did, with more people seeding now.
The torrents weren't available for the first two days the release was out (though without the PAR files, the pal wasn't really useful, and the NTSC came out later anyhow). Plenty of people trying to use USENET to get the pal version had lots of other problems that meant they weren't getting to watch the movie right away anyhow. By the time the torrent was ready, those problems were ironed out.
If a person's goal was to be the first one on their block to see the video at all costs, then it may have mattered.
Me, I got what I wanted and didn't have to pay a dime extra, or jump through any hoops, just wait for it to become available, fire and forget.
If people would rather try USENET (for those who don't use it religiously already), they can, but why the added hassle?
Anyway, good luck to you HD-DVD guys. Maybe a new firmware will come out to help you? Can people hack their own firmware?
I'm also curious, has anyone tried it with an "upconvert" player yet? How does it look?
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If you could, after you've had a chance to watch the entire DVD please let us know if the whole thing worked on your HD-DVD player. If so, I'll try DVD Movie Factory and strip it down for use on my XA2. I'll still have the full version with menus for use on my other players, but I'd really like to watch it upconverted on the XA2.
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Originally posted by: adywan
Has anyone had a chance to test the new NTSC version on their HD-DVD players yet? I have my fingers crossed that the new encode works. Also is the new audio mix better than the other version now i have lowered the left & right channels or have i lowered it too much & does it need to be more in between the 2 versions?
Has anyone had a chance to test the new NTSC version on their HD-DVD players yet? I have my fingers crossed that the new encode works. Also is the new audio mix better than the other version now i have lowered the left & right channels or have i lowered it too much & does it need to be more in between the 2 versions?
Sorry Ady, bad news.
Exactly the same problems with this one as with the original.
Same hitches at the *logo* screen, same timer freeze at 2:13 and same picture freeze when scene shifts to reverse view.
Skipping chapter lets it play again for a few seconds (minute or two) and then freezes again.
Plays perfectly on standard DVD, but my HD-DVD won;t do it. (Toshiba HD-EP30KB)
UK player.
Sorry.
(That said, the PAL version plays perfectly!! ;' ) )
A Man With Far Too Much Time On His Hands
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Originally posted by: Covenant
Sorry Ady, bad news.
Exactly the same problems with this one as with the original.
Same hitches at the *logo* screen, same timer freeze at 2:13 and same picture freeze when scene shifts to reverse view.
Skipping chapter lets it play again for a few seconds (minute or two) and then freezes again.
Plays perfectly on standard DVD, but my HD-DVD won;t do it. (Toshiba HD-EP30KB)
Sorry.
Originally posted by: adywan
Has anyone had a chance to test the new NTSC version on their HD-DVD players yet? I have my fingers crossed that the new encode works. Also is the new audio mix better than the other version now i have lowered the left & right channels or have i lowered it too much & does it need to be more in between the 2 versions?
Has anyone had a chance to test the new NTSC version on their HD-DVD players yet? I have my fingers crossed that the new encode works. Also is the new audio mix better than the other version now i have lowered the left & right channels or have i lowered it too much & does it need to be more in between the 2 versions?
Sorry Ady, bad news.
Exactly the same problems with this one as with the original.
Same hitches at the *logo* screen, same timer freeze at 2:13 and same picture freeze when scene shifts to reverse view.
Skipping chapter lets it play again for a few seconds (minute or two) and then freezes again.
Plays perfectly on standard DVD, but my HD-DVD won;t do it. (Toshiba HD-EP30KB)
Sorry.
Well i guess we can definitely say that its the Toshiba HD-DVDs that have a major problem. you said that the PAL worked fine though didn't you? This would rule out any authoring and encoding problems. And it plays fine in 1080i on the Ventura HD-DVD player so it does seem limited to Toshiba too. does anyone know anyone with a different make of HD-DVD they could try it on?
I guess you NTSC Toshiba HD-DVD owners are out of luck even for the DVD-9 NTSC. Now don't you wish you went with Bluray?
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LOL
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Thanks for your attempts to help everyone, Ady. It's obvious that you care about your fans a lot more than some people do.
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It imported the settings from the original DVD, I removed the chapters, did the default chapters just like before (Every 2 min), and it took about 15 minutes to write out a new VIDEO_TS folder (After about 6 or 7 tries).
The whole 15 minutes was spent re-muxing the audio since the video did not get re-encoded.
Just got done watching the whole thing from begining to end it it was nice!!
Unfortunately DVD Movie Factory does not understand any of the menu structures and such so it is a bare bones presentation....I put the disclaimer video, the Adywan Productions Video, and then it jumps straight into the movie. Looks better upconverted with the HD-DVD player than it does with the PS3. The black levels are smooth and with the color correction that has been done it was superb. Ady's work is pure genius. I even check the bitrates on specific scenes and they match exactly to the original. So this is a pretty decent work around if you have one of these players. It took all day....but not bad compared to the work Ady has put in
Hell I did not really do anything but change settings, wait, and try it.So I guess I just have two versions in the case now.....one full blown masterpiece and one version that works on the Toshiba HD-DVD players
The audio change I think is a good one. Because you told us what you changed I think I noticed a couple of times where the center channel may have a little over bearing during some of the action scenes (every where else center sounded perfect).....but it still sounded tons better than I have ever heard Star Wars before. Because I was focused on the sound so much I bet it has always been that way with the center channel unless it was not noticable until you turned down the L&R.
Thank you again Ady for the hard work, dedication, and a version of Star Wars that will be in all of our history books!!!
hempler
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Could you PM me with the exact steps necessary to get this to work? I'm going to download the DVD Movie Factory program and I'd really appreciate it if you could give me a brief walkthrough on what you did(especially the remuxing of audio part which I have no clue about). Thanks, man.
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What tweaking, if any, did you do to the 'deleted scene'?
"What's the matter Colonel Sanders, chicken?" - Darth Helmet
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Originally posted by: BMadden
Hempler,
Could you PM me with the exact steps necessary to get this to work? I'm going to download the DVD Movie Factory program and I'd really appreciate it if you could give me a brief walkthrough on what you did(especially the remuxing of audio part which I have no clue about). Thanks, man.
Hempler,
Could you PM me with the exact steps necessary to get this to work? I'm going to download the DVD Movie Factory program and I'd really appreciate it if you could give me a brief walkthrough on what you did(especially the remuxing of audio part which I have no clue about). Thanks, man.
PM Sent
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Thanks!
-MOS
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I'm trying to burn the TS video folder which is loaded with files and the empty TS audio folder via simple drag and drop onto a dvdr on my new Mac...is this the correct method?
When it's done will the disc simply function as a working DVD? I get the feeling it's simply going to burn the files onto the disc and that's it.
I apologize but I've never done this before...lol. Is there another program I should be using?
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Originally posted by: Matt_Kenobi
Ady,
What tweaking, if any, did you do to the 'deleted scene'?
Only slight colour correction & a slight colour tweak to Jabba ( apart from the 3D scene of course)
I don't think that it would be worth it really. the repack was a last attempt at a fix for the Toshiba HD-DVD owners and nothing more. Apart from a very minor couple of tweaks, if you have the original & it plays fine, it wouldn't be worth having this one.
Originally posted by: DF Shadow
Complete NooB question...
I'm trying to burn the TS video folder which is loaded with files and the empty TS audio folder via simple drag and drop onto a dvdr on my new Mac...is this the correct method?
When it's done will the disc simply function as a working DVD? I get the feeling it's simply going to burn the files onto the disc and that's it.
I apologize but I've never done this before...lol. Is there another program I should be using?
Ady,
What tweaking, if any, did you do to the 'deleted scene'?
Only slight colour correction & a slight colour tweak to Jabba ( apart from the 3D scene of course)
Originally posted by: Jaxon's Dad
Will the repack be uploaded to rapidshare?
Will the repack be uploaded to rapidshare?
I don't think that it would be worth it really. the repack was a last attempt at a fix for the Toshiba HD-DVD owners and nothing more. Apart from a very minor couple of tweaks, if you have the original & it plays fine, it wouldn't be worth having this one.
Originally posted by: DF Shadow
Complete NooB question...
I'm trying to burn the TS video folder which is loaded with files and the empty TS audio folder via simple drag and drop onto a dvdr on my new Mac...is this the correct method?
When it's done will the disc simply function as a working DVD? I get the feeling it's simply going to burn the files onto the disc and that's it.
I apologize but I've never done this before...lol. Is there another program I should be using?
I'm afraid i know nothing about Macs so i can't help you here. Hopefully someone with knowledge of burning DVD's on a Mac here can help you soon.
I think i will be going back to my original mix for the DVD-9's. Dropping the L & R levels wasn't the right thing to do. The problem is with the original 2004 mix in that the sound FX have been boosted so much that they drown everything else out (Never let a sound Fx editor do the movie sound mix). Even the laserdisc 5.1 suffered with this problem in places so i just did the best i could with the mix. If only i could get hold of the original surround mix from the 70's i could have done hell of a lot better with the audio.
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I just doubted it would be as easy as simply dragging and dropping...lol.
Looks and sounds awesome so far ADYWAN.
THANKS A LOT BRO.
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Originally posted by: adywan
I think i will be going back to my original mix for the DVD-9's. Dropping the L & R levels wasn't the right thing to do. The problem is with the original 2004 mix in that the sound FX have been boosted so much that they drown everything else out (Never let a sound Fx editor do the movie sound mix). Even the laserdisc 5.1 suffered with this problem in places so i just did the best i could with the mix. If only i could get hold of the original surround mix from the 70's i could have done hell of a lot better with the audio.
I think i will be going back to my original mix for the DVD-9's. Dropping the L & R levels wasn't the right thing to do. The problem is with the original 2004 mix in that the sound FX have been boosted so much that they drown everything else out (Never let a sound Fx editor do the movie sound mix). Even the laserdisc 5.1 suffered with this problem in places so i just did the best i could with the mix. If only i could get hold of the original surround mix from the 70's i could have done hell of a lot better with the audio.
I really like both mixes......I do think your first mix had the sound FX a little more even through the L,C, & R. Each time I watch....I really notice the how you have made so the FX coming from the right side actually are in the right channel for example. It seemed....especially in the 2004 DVD that the sounds really bled over into other channels.
How did you break the sound up like that without having the multiple master audio tracks?
Is your tweaks just frequency based?
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