Help Wanted: with Star Wars Episode II 1080p TV rip synced to Blu-Ray DTS HD MA

Is this a thing? I know about KK650’s version but he graded the video more yellow to match his preferences. I think he did a V1 that was more true to the DVD/theatrical colors but I can’t find it anywhere. What I would really like is for someone to sync schorman’s HDTV preservation video to the Blu-Ray audio without re-encoding. I’ve tried to do it myself with programs like avidemux but I can’t figure it out, the program just crashes when I try to load up either the BD rip or Schorman’s video.

Tsmuxer works great purely for muxing but this will require some minor editing since two sequences were rearranged on the blu-ray. I don’t think tsmuxer has that functionality. I may need to bite the bullet and convert the video into DnxHD or Prores, edit the video and then re-encode but I’d really prefer not to.

I think you’re going to need to re-encode. I see no reason to convert it to lossless (or visually lossless for Prores) before editing. It’s two tiny video edits that you can just do to the 264 streams in Premiere/whatever. However, your export process might include a lossless step if you want to avoid the poor quality adobe h264 encoder.

Hmm is the Adobe h.264 encoder that bad? Good to know since I used it for my own fan edits, I should probably avoid it in the future. What software would you recommend for encoding blu-ray compliant video?

If all they did was flip a couple shots could you not remux the stream into an avi and use virtualdub to rearrange the shots (using the copy and paste, possibly cloning or deleting a few frames to make it sync) and import the audio into VD as well as a secondary track to check sync then export it as a direct stream copy? You could then use tsmuxer to remux into whatever container you wish.

Possessed said:

If all they did was flip a couple shots could you not remux the stream into an avi and use virtualdub to rearrange the shots (using the copy and paste, possibly cloning or deleting a few frames to make it sync) and import the audio into VD as well as a secondary track to check sync then export it as a direct stream copy? You could then use tsmuxer to remux into whatever container you wish.

I would think so, but I can’t seem to find software that will remux into avi successfully for me. I’m also confused as to how to use the “paste” function in virtualdub…it doesn’t seem to be working.

So I decided to edit it in premiere (just by changing the container to mp4) and export as lagarith lossless. What program would people recommend for the best quality re-encode to a blu-ray complaint file?

Octorox said:

Possessed said:

If all they did was flip a couple shots could you not remux the stream into an avi and use virtualdub to rearrange the shots (using the copy and paste, possibly cloning or deleting a few frames to make it sync) and import the audio into VD as well as a secondary track to check sync then export it as a direct stream copy? You could then use tsmuxer to remux into whatever container you wish.

I would think so, but I can’t seem to find software that will remux into avi successfully for me. I’m also confused as to how to use the “paste” function in virtualdub…it doesn’t seem to be working.

I thinking it default pastes at the end. Which sucks associated but can still be worked around. Just delete everything after where you need to paste, paste it, then “append” import it again and delete everything in between.

Pain in the ass but might be worth it to avoid reencoding.

So I just bit the bullet and re-encoded but I can’t notice any quality difference which is good. I’ll make it available somewhere shortly in mkv form. It will be large file, probably about 40gb. I can also make a BD25-sized version if there’s interest.