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Post #604990

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Max_Rebo
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The 1997 OT Special Edition Trilogy Preservation Standards Thread (* unfinished *)
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Date created
2-Nov-2012, 8:36 PM

Hello all , long time away with real life stuff but got drawn back to the site due to the disney news.

Great to see loads of interest again in the 97 SE, can I help out at all?? I still have all my project files from the 'superset' and I still intend to finish it one day but real life does have a habit of getting in the way.

My intention was always to merge the various DVB sources and combining them with whichever stereo track was best (probably the TB / GKAR) and also syncing up an 5.1 laserdisc rip.

I think ESB is practically done except for some colour correction on ~13 frames, but things got tricky on ROTJ when I tried to get something good out of the blurry TB and heavily filtered GKAR, I'm just looking at some of my avisynth scripts which were intended to automagically fix this but they need a bit more work.

Something I've not seen mentioned is the various cropping and stretching issues in the DVB sources, from memory FLUNK has the largest frame, TB and GKAR are cropped at the sides and REIVAX also has a few lines cropped from the bottom, but all 4 sources line up nearly pixel for pixel (one of them has a sub-pixel shift to the side but I forget which. Also they don't have the correct aspect ratio (even when taking into account the incorrect encoding).

Maybe, I'll post a more comprehensive review of what I know about these sources when I get my main machine running (currently boxed up due to house renovations)

If there is a standard frame count to work to then I might have a look at finishing up the video and let others worry about audio stuff.

But maybe this has already been done or superior audio sources have been found?? I think there's a lot of stuff I'm not following in this thread due to several years away.