ATTENTION: this project is superseded now; please go to the new 2.0 thread!
the following description is retained to show differences between the two versions.
,^…^, presents the [OUT ruLes] project
Original Unaltered Trilogy restored using Laserdisc editions
Project mission: restore the Original Unaltered Trilogy using audio and video from various Laserdisc editions.
Video sources: analog video captured directly from Laserdiscs; other analog sources are admitted (VHS, CED, VHD, Beta etc.) only if the material is not present on the Laserdisc format.
Audio sources: analog audio and uncompressed PCM captured directly from Laserdiscs; other analog sources are admitted (like vynil) only if the material is not present on the Laserdisc format.
Subtitles sources: to be decided; Project Threepio seems the logical way.
Project prohibition: use DVD, BD, HDTV or other audio or video from any digital sources.
Episode IV - Star Wars: A New Hope
Source Material
Video: THX PAL laserdiscs
- Star Wars - Coffret Trilogie - CAV
- Star Wars - La Guerre des Etoiles - CAV
- Star Wars - Krieg der Sterne - CAV
- Star Wars - La Guerra de las Galaxias - CLV
- Star Wars - Guerre Stellari - VHS Italian (only for italian crawl and alignment)
Audio: THX PAL laserdiscs
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Star Wars - Coffret Trilogie - English (with French subtitles OOP)
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Star Wars - La Guerre des Etoiles - French (with English crawl subtitled)
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Star Wars - Krieg der Sterne - German (with German crawl)
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Star Wars - La Guerra de las Galaxias - Spanish (with English crawl narrated)
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Star Wars - Guerre Stellari - VHS Italian
Subtitles: to be decided
Captures and setup info
Hardware:
- Pioneer CLD-D925 PAL/NTSC laserdisc player; S-Video out (composite out tested but the video card own comb filter is not better than the laserdisc player)
- PC Sony Vaio Core 2 Duo e6300 dual core 1.86GHz, 3GB RAM, 1TB external HD only for Star Wars; video card AverMedia A16C with Philips SAA713x chipset
- Panasonic S-VHS recorder NV-FS88B
- Sony MiniDisc recorder MDS-J520E
Software:
- VirtualDub as capture software
- VirtualDub and AviSynth for video manipulation
- Foobar2000 and other for audio manipulation
Settings:
- video captured at video capture card native resolution 720x576, YUV, HuffYUV compression
- digital audio from Laserdisc via S/PDIF bit-to-bit perfect 16bit 44,1KHz stereo
- analog audio from VHS converted with the MiniDisc A/D converter 20bit Sigma-Delta modulation and then via S/PDIF perfect 16bit 44,1KHz stereo to PC
**Project Status: DONE
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Captures: all done
Video treatment: all laserdisc video captures were time and space aligned, then with AviSynth median and average scripts were overlayed to eliminate some noise and put out unwanted video parts (as burned subtitles); little noise reduction and sharpen; NO COLOR CORRECTION at all! Upconverting from PAL 720x576 4:3 to 1280x720 16:9. No “white magic” treatment.
Audio treatment: all digital and analog audio are Dolby Surround encoded; converted to 6 channel WAVs and then to 5.1 Dolby Digital AC3 files.
Subtitles: all done
Conversion from 25p to 23.976p: done
Final formats: .m2ts file@ 720p/23.976fps with five audio tracks and ten subtitles (five forced and five full)
It is available on myspleen.
**To do ASAP
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- <span style=“text-decoration: line-through;”>video enhancement refiniment (particulary better sharpen)</span>
- <span style=“text-decoration: line-through;”>subtitles (both normal and forced)</span>
done!
To do later
- use “Pyramid” capture to improve crushed black and clipped whites scenes
- correct some glitches, film and laserdisc drop-outs
- make the AVCHD and DVD discs (menus, audio and sub tracks etc.)
- do more captures using different players
If someone read until here, he/she must really interested, so here you are some pictures (GOUT Vs. OUT ruLes):
(same pictures, only on two different hosting services).
Self comments: I know there are many better quality projects around, but all are made using digital altered trilogies, “despecialized”… kudos to all the project maker, for their really good job and long hard work!
I’m not so good as they are, and also my spare time is limited; also, the overall video quality of my project is lower than all the HD projects; but there are some positive things: more image quality coherence (because the video sources are all the same); better colors than GOUT - despite the fact I made NO COLOR CORRECTION (and I’d like to leave it as is, to not lose further quality); better audio quality than GOUT; a certain video “analogness” - read: poor quality 😉