STAR WARS V8 - A Final Attempt (Released) — Page 5

Spudz777 said:

 

Yeah, ~$100 isn't much in the long run, but I'm a PhD student, married, with a 2 year-old. That's groceries for a couple of weeks. There's still the talent thing to overcome, as well.

don't worry, i'm sure when you're ready,

you'll find the time/money/inclination..

the talent part, well.. there's plenty of people here that will help you out,

just check out the technical section some time..... it's not too hard, when

people can step you through the process..

later

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s7en said:

Nice looking screenshots Arnie. I have to ask if you've done something the colour though, as it looks very muted compared to other versions of the Special Collection. Your caps look closer to the GOUT colourwise.

Other than that, great to see more examples of the Japanese set, keep up the good work!

I haven't done anything to the color. But these are just raw caps. When I encode it for dvd with CCE SP I convert it to RGB and 0-255 colorspace. The resulting mpeg file has a greater range. The space will be black, the whites will be white and the color is a bit more distinct.

Spudz777 said:

Looks pretty good. Any chance of a short video clip so we can see it in motion? Also, what's your eventual release strategy for this?

I'll post a clip soon. I don't have a release strategy.

Arnie.d said:

When I encode it for dvd with CCE SP I convert it to RGB and 0-255 colorspace. The resulting mpeg file has a greater range. The space will be black, the whites will be white and the color is a bit more distinct.

Something not quite right there. If you are capturing in YUY2, then you should not change the colourspace (unless, for example, you need to use a YV12-only filter in AviSynth). CCE will accept YUY2 input; you only need to convert to RGB if encoding with TMPGEnc.

If the luma range ends up wrong in the final encode, then you may have a wrong setting in CCE.

Moth3r said:

Arnie.d said:

When I encode it for dvd with CCE SP I convert it to RGB and 0-255 colorspace. The resulting mpeg file has a greater range. The space will be black, the whites will be white and the color is a bit more distinct.

Something not quite right there. If you are capturing in YUY2, then you should not change the colourspace (unless, for example, you need to use a YV12-only filter in AviSynth). CCE will accept YUY2 input; you only need to convert to RGB if encoding with TMPGEnc.

If the luma range ends up wrong in the final encode, then you may have a wrong setting in CCE.

 

Somehow CCE doesn't handle my YUY2 files very well (it locks up) so I always convert to RGB. It's not that I convert to 0-255 before encoding, I just select the 0-255 setting in CCE. I don't think it even matter if I select 16-235 or 0-255 in CCE when the input is in RGB. Oh, and I also use an YV12 filter.

s7en said:

Thanks for answering the colour query. Good to know. Cheers Arnie.

Star Wars looks kind of washed out compared to Empire and Jedi.

Preview video:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SAXRYFAU

resonator said:

Well well well, now that doesn't look bad at all! Looking forward to see these encoded to a nice DVD9! ;)

However, I think the aspect ratio is slightly off, heads look a bit squeezed to me. Judging from the screenshot the output size (without borders!) should be about 720*400, maybe 384, and then AddBorders to 480.

 

 Thanks.

The AR is off. The AR changes throughout the LD also. I think 384 is best and I will change it for the final dvd.

wow !!!!

very cool.... nice to see how this project is progressing....

very nice... keep it up !!!!!

later

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I think I'm almost ready for the final encode.

Here's a preview clip of the Death Star approach:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZBE23O98

mmm. mmm. mmmm..

nice.... hang in there!!!!

it's almost here.

what a nice gift for christmas 08..

later

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looks great!!! keep up the good work :)

I finished Star Wars. But... I'm working on something better with 2 other guys.

Arnie.d said:

I finished Star Wars. But... I'm working on something better with 2 other guys.

Wow. Just stumbled across this preservation. Had no idea anyone was working on a transfer of the Japanese LDs. Any plans for a release of SW? It looks soooo good without the DNVR in the test clips!

Arnie.d said:

I finished Star Wars. But... I'm working on something better with 2 other guys.

Something better sounds cool!

Until then, please release your SW for us to enjoy.  I'll help you upload if you want.

yeah, I just looked at some of the screencaps and they look a lot better than the existing ones here that are sourced from the special collection. Good job.

Ditto to what the Slug said.

I can't show anything yet but today I went with Grinder to a friend of him to capture the Special Collection on an X9.

superawesome!!!