alright,

i ran my first test, using the first 5 minutes of episode 4, HC enc 0.23 (there's about 1 million options for this, anyone know some good settings??????), and a few hours later got a result..

i think i may need to tweak some settings in the script, or the changes might be very subtle...

i tried to write a script to compare the two videos, vertically,

but couldn't get it to work.......(i actually put a reduceBy2 in front, and that didn't work either)..

#StackVertical("M:\data\movie\dvd\star wars ep #\4-gout\VTS_03_1.VOB","M:\data\movie\dvd\star wars ep 4-gout\gout.mpg" )

then i tried to overlay the clips, and i kept getting an error back from loading the .VOB

#clip1 = DirectShowSource("M:\data\movie\dvd\star wars ep 4-gout\VTS_03_1.VOB")
#clip2 = DirectShowSource("M:\data\movie\dvd\star wars ep 4-gout\gout.mpg")
# Overlay(clip1, clip2, mode="blend", opacity=0.5)

awhile ago, i loaded the Haali media splitter, but i think i'm going to uninstall it, as it is causing a lot

of problems..

anyways, its cool fiddling around with this stuff......................................

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i started working on a frame reference guide for the scene changes, here's a part of the spreadsheet (not done yet)

beginning frame end frame description type of frame (i,b,p) end time

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0	108	Blank	P	00:00:04.505
109	275	fox intro	B	00:00:11.470
276	281	Blank	B	00:00:11.720
282	469	lucasfilm limited	B	00:00:19.561
470	525	Blank	B	00:00:21.897
526	656	a long time ago	b	00:00:27.361
657	703	Blank	p	00:00:29.321
704	890	star wars	P	00:00:37.120
891	2655	star wars crawl	b	00:01:50.736
2656	2890	stars	p	00:02:00.537
2891	2941	planet 1	b	00:02:02.664
2942	2997	planet 2	p	00:02:05.000
2998	3126	horizon of large planet	b	00:02:10.380
3127	3219	blockade runner	b	00:02:14.259
3220	3537	giant Imperial Stardestroyer (underneath/back)	p	00:02:27.522
3538	3686	imperial stardestroyer (front)	p	00:02:33.737
3687	3734	blockade runner (rear hit)	p	00:02:35.739
3735	3858	c3po r2d2 interior	p	00:02:40.911
3859	3904	Rebel troopers rush past the robots (panning right to left)	b	00:02:42.829
3905	3948	Rebel troopers rush past the robots (front)	p	00:02.44.665
3949	4031	c3po r2d2 talking	p	00:02:48.126
4032	4057	c3po closeup	p	00:02:49.211
4058	4099	r2d2 closeup	p	00:02:50.962
4100	4189	c3po closeup (2)	p	00:02:54.716
4190	4237	r2d2 closeup (2) in corridor	p	00:02:56.718
4238	4301	c3po and r2d2 walking down corridor	p	00:02:59.388
4302	4329	Rebel troopers rush past the robots (2) front	p	00:03:03.555
4330	4384	rebel troopers crouch and aim at door	p	00:03:02.849
4385	4428	rebel troopers crouch (closeup)	p	00:03:04.685
4429	4487	c3po we're doomed	p	00:03:07.145
4488	4520	r2d2 beeps	p	00:03:08.522
4521	4576	c3po they’ll be no escape for the princess this time	p	00:03:10.857
4577	4635	r2d2 beeps (3)	p	00:03:13.318
4636	4713	c3po whats that	p	00:03:16.571
4714	4755	The nervous Rebel troopers aim their weapons (back)	p	00:03:18.323
4756	4797	The nervous Rebel troopers aim their weapons (front)	p	00:03:20.075
4798	4974	The Imperial craft has easily overtaken the Rebel Blockade	p	00:03:27.457
4975	5013	r2d2 and c3po standing	p	00:03:29.084
5014	5046	The nervous Rebel troopers aim their weapons (front)	p	00:03:30.460
5047	5145	closeup of face of rebel trooper	p	00:03:34.589
5147	5186	door	p	00:03:36.299

etc..

i'm sure you could 'tweak' different scenes with different settings...

i'll post a link if i finish it..........................its very time consuming watching for each scene change..

(by the way, this is the NTSC version)....

more fun coming up...............

later

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