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Hello zion, I saw subtitles in your Empire menu. Are these only for alien languages, or for all dialogues in the movie?
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Selecting "none" will show subtitles for the alien languages only, just like the theatrical presentantion. Selecting English will show English subtitles for all dialogue. I am also open to adding any other language anyone is willing to make and send me the file. I know some of you guys are German, so if you want German subtitles on these, get someone to create them and I'll throw them on.

My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]

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Viper made a good set of Spanish subtitles. He has a download link in the ISOMIX thread. At this time he has only done ANH but he just finished on a more user-friendly and accurate English version for ESB and is working to translate those to Spanish as well. I am sure Viper will have ROTJ as well later.
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I thought about Swedish subtitles (since i'm Swedish). But i don't know how to make them?!
And i should say i use a Mac if anyone out there has any tips on programs.

BTW, how much space does a subtitle for one language take up?

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mikemccool: I think it´s about 10MB for one DVD subtitle file (sup).
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Originally posted by: mikemccool
I thought about Swedish subtitles (since i'm Swedish). But i don't know how to make them?!
And i should say i use a Mac if anyone out there has any tips on programs.

BTW, how much space does a subtitle for one language take up?


For all your Mac subtitling needs Here

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Peter "i'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing"

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Great, thanx!

I'll try to make a Swedish Subtitle "with a little help from my friends" (na nana nananana nana naa).
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Hmm, i noticed that there isn't any program to download on the corresponding page?

I'll search the web for a programme, tip's are welcome.
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oops!..sorry try this instead Titlelab download here
Egon "Don't Cross the streams it would be very bad"

Peter "i'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing"

Egon "lmagine the 97 Star Wars Special Editions"
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Originally posted by: norinradd
oops!..sorry try this instead Titlelab download here


Well thats all good... but that program is for creating subtitle tracks for Quicktime movies
not DVDs. I think he wants a program that creates subtitles for dvds.

And I asume, mikemccool you would be using DVD Studio Pro... to build your dvd (pretty much the only DVD creation
software for the mac since iDVD doesn't support subs), this has a built in subtitle editor.
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Ok, but the point is TitleLAB is capable of importing .ssa, .srt and .sub files and exporting to Qt or DVD studio pro and if he hasn't got DVD studio pro then he may use Sizzle which is free to author the dvd.

Also if you go Here you will find swedish subrip for the ANH which you can open in Titlelab and make a custom edit, may save you alot of typing
Egon "Don't Cross the streams it would be very bad"

Peter "i'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing"

Egon "lmagine the 97 Star Wars Special Editions"
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Much more choice on the PC front.
Egon "Don't Cross the streams it would be very bad"

Peter "i'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing"

Egon "lmagine the 97 Star Wars Special Editions"
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Originally posted by: norinradd
Ok, but the point is TitleLAB is capable of importing .ssa, .srt and .sub files and exporting to Qt or DVD studio pro and if he hasn't got DVD studio pro then he may use Sizzle which is free to author the dvd.

Also if you go Here you will find swedish subrip for the ANH which you can open in Titlelab and make a custom edit, may save you alot of typing



My bad I didn't realize it had an export feature to DVD studio pro, since its not stated on the page...
Course reading the forums on it, seems that even that has issues.

Hmm Sizzle have to check that out...
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Once again I've been playing around with my capture settings. I'm taking MeBeJedi's advice and capturing at a more "neutral" brightness/contrast level so I don't lose any of the details. It's working out pretty well, although now I have to do separate color correction settings for each scene/shot. That's not so bad though, since I'll get much better results this way. I came to another startling conclusion tonight as well. I figured out why I'm getting that nasty ghosting effect.

It's my LD player.

I'm rather dissapointed at this news. After switching between composite and s-video on my capture software with the brightness hiked way up, I can see clearly that there is no ghosting when I use s-video. Unfortunately I don't want to use s-video for capturing because the comb filter on the LD player isn't very good and introduces way too much dot crawl. So Laserschwert, I guess you can stop trying to fix the problem with filters.

I have no choice now but to try a new LD player. Right now I'm looking at some Pioneer Elite players on Ebay, and I'm also going around to some pawn shops here in town to see if I can find anything. My top three players at this point (based on realistic priceing and availability) are the Elite CLD-97, CLD-99, CLD-79 and the CLD-D704. As far as I can tell, the only difference between these that will make any difference when I capture via composite is the video noise level, in which the 97 and 99 have the edge.

Anyone out there have one of these players and would be willing to let be borrow it for a while?

Hopefully I can get ahold of a new player soon. I've already ordered a new capture card and new Monster THX video cables today.

My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]

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"I have no choice now but to try a new LD player."

Wow! I didn't mean for my advice to push you over the edge!

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Oh, this has been on my mind for a while now. Only now has it really hit me that I need to do something about it. Ever since I started using this player to capture, the composite video jack on the back has been loose. I have no doubt that is the problem and there is no way to fix it unless I can find a new connector and re-solder it onto the circuit board.

My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]

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I've soldered a paper clip onto a hard drive as a connector pin for the cable. I've also had to resolder a loose board on my receiver (the broken ground loop gives a hum at high volumes, and it's recently come loose again. )

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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As an electronics technician by day, the soldering isn't the problem here. It's finding the part. Besides that, I'd rather just get a new player with a better video SNR than hassle with this one.

On a side note, I'm re-doing the first 10 minutes of ANH using the last de-ghost filters Laserschwert posted, along with manual Vdub IVTC, and the resize/sharpen/resize trick. Only this time I'm using the MSU noise reduction and sharpen filters. Only 3 hours to process, so I'll check it in the morning.

My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]

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As an electronics technician, you might want to look at some other video repair shops, rather than E-Bay. You save on shipping, and can test the player before you buy it. My first LD player from E-Bay was DOA, and cost a lot to fix. Months later, I ended up buying my latest CLD-701 from the repairman at the shop, who enjoyed rejuvenating LD players.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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I think the best way would be to try to capture at a quality, where ghost removal isn't necessary... so, I guess it's a good idea to try some better equipment.
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I'll have to agree there. I'm considering a VCR upgrade at some point because this old Sony just isn't cutting it for some of my tapes. I may even have to go back to my mom's old Quazar for tracking reasons (it was used quite heavily for some of these recordings back in the 80s, plus has manual tracking control.)
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zion,

regarding a replacement laserdisc player, bit of advice as I had to do some reading when I bought mine to make a more informed choice. whatever you buy, make sure you buy a Pioneer, period. anything eles unless it was a very top of the line model ever really measured up to pioneer players for the visual quality.

I had a Pioneer 515 that was quite respectable, this had similar electronics etc to the better 925. the pioneer elite 90 and 91 series players are considered to be pretty much the best but of course then you pay more.

benefits for you is that you are in the states, there are more available to choose from for a fair price from ebay. UK OTOH had a more restricted choice on ebay to buy.

get as good as you can as this will make your picture quality much better and leave less processing work to eliminate mosquito noise from the source capture. this is particularly important where ESB is concerned as the LD of this film has much more mosquito grain than the other two, particularly in the early Hoth scenes.

I found the avisynth dust filter particularly good for empire to help eliminate the noise although I daresay the new MSU filter would do equally well.
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Wow, I just read all 14 pages of this thread in hopes to get myself up to speed and my hopes are once again renewed that it could be possible to have the original trilogy on DVD. I hate coming in so late because I don’t want to seem like another “me to” sort, but I’ve spent a lot of time researching and doing my own transfer that I’d love to help in any way I can.

Question though… I couldn't find (or perhaps missed) which LDs (DC, faces, NTSC or PAL) you are using to accomplish this transfer.

I used the NTSC Definitive Collection LDs in my transfer and the one thing I was able to accomplish that no other group seems to have bothered with was PERFECT deinterlacing back to the 24FPS source. After fiddling with filter after filter that attempted to perform IVTC, I finally spent the time to MANUALLY determined the PATTERN of the interlacing and exactly WHERE it reset/errored.

After mapping out the 3:2 errors and accounting for them mathematically I made an avisynth script that actually disassembled the fields into 24fps frames rather than artificially (via filter AI.) Now, I am not positive about the “faces” LDs, but the DC LDs are EXTREEMLY close to being a perfect 3:2 pull down. Buy that I mean, except for one or two changes in the pattern you can actually apply a mathematic deinterlacing and get all the actual frames back flawlessly.

I’d love to know what you are doing for IVTC and if my frame counts could be put to use to allow your work to be perfectly deinterlaced I’d LOVE to participate!

Zottig