.: LeeThorogood's Original Trilogy Replica Technicolor Project :. (Released) — Page 6

Rockin no offence taken ;)

CA, I used the following settings in Handbrake:

Chewtobacca thanks for the feedback. :)

ChainsawAsh many thanks for the advice. :)

None I used the scenes / shots found here: http://petergaultney.smugmug.com/Movies/historic/Star-Wars-at-The-Senator/13089279_nXePV#948662138_wuqj9 The problems you describe are a result of colour fluctuations in the GOUT source. :(

Yeah, I guess it just goes to show that the only way to get it really close to the film colors without causing problems is to adjust the color correction scene-by-scene. And I realize that would take a lot of time. But perhaps you can make some adjustment for the duel between Obi-Wan and Vader, to make sure the light saber colors are correct (while still keeping the flesh tones fair), since that's such an important epic battle in Star Wars. :)

Once again my thanks go out to all those who took the time to watch the work print and give feedback. Based on what you've said I have decided not to make any changes, as the issues raised could only be effectively fixed with scene by scene correction which I as I have said before I am not doing. ;)

I will let you all know when I start uploading the final DVD to the newsgroup. :)

Update on Star Wars (ANH) The NTSC DVD9 image should have finished uploading by now. That's right I have done an NTSC version as well :D I hope to begin uploading the PAL DVD9 image in the next day or two. :)

I am currently rendering out the lossless AVIs for Empire Strikes Back, should be ready to start colour grading by the weekend :D

downloading now.  Can't wait to see it!

I hope you enjoy it!

Just a quickie to say that the PAL DVD9 image has now finished uploading as well. :)

alt.binaries.starwars

Sorry Pittrek I have no plans to upload a torrent or to rapidshare etc, although if someone else with newsgroup access wants to up them elsewhere I have no objections. ;)

The site that is easiest to download large files from is Megaupload. As long as each part of the file is under 1 gigabyte in size, anyone can download them for free. The download speeds are often very fast (over 1 megabyte per second is common), and you can download 1 file right after the other with no waiting in between (until you surpass the total download limit, which varies from day to day, but is often 3-5 gigabytes at one time, then you have to wait a few hours and can start downloading again).

So, for example, let's say you have a restored dual-layer DVD version of Star Wars that is 8.2 Gigabytes in size. That could be uploaded in a 9 part .rar file, Star Wars.part1.rar, Star Wars.part2.rar, etc. The first 8 parts would be 950 megabytes each (this size can be easily set in winrar when making a multi-part .rar archive) and the last 9th part of the file would be whatever size was left over, in this case, about 600 megabytes. The first 3-7 files could be downloaded one after the other at very high speeds (download limits vary day to day, probably based on how heavy the load on the servers is that day), then you'd get a message that you've download X amount and you need to wait roughly 2 or 3 hours. So, you just wait a few hours, then download the other files. If you have a fast connection, you could download the whole thing in not many hours at all, and it's all free even at those high speeds. :) It's much much faster than Rapidshare.

By the way, never put Star Wars or ANH in the file name, so the files won't be taken down, just use some non-obvious acronym. Like LTREP4V1.part1.rar (LeeThorogood's Restored Episode 4 Version 1). :)

I have way to many versions of these movies...but I'll gladly take one more please.

Not sure if I said this before but if anyone wants to post these to somewhere other than the newsgroup that's fine by me. ;)

The Empire Strikes Back in Technicolor is basically finished however I'm currently on holiday in NYC for a week so I wont be able to upload until I get home. :)

I got the chance to scan through your SW disc the other day.

While you've made some very interesting choices wrt the colour grading, personally I wouldn't choose to watch SW this way. My main issue is the brightness; it's almost as though you've attempted to match the photos taken of the screening exactly, even those that are obviously overexposed.

Also, I was grabbing some screenshots to put up on my Custom DVD comparison page, and DGIndex complained about detecting a bad field order transition. You mentioned that you used different settings for the binary sunset scene - how did you go about encoding the different elements? I'm wondering if you used some sort of MPEG2 editor to combine the shots, and that caused this. I don't know, however, if this would cause any real issue with playback.

Moth3r said:
I got the chance to scan through your SW disc the other day.

While you've made some very interesting choices wrt the colour grading, personally I wouldn't choose to watch SW this way. My main issue is the brightness; it's almost as though you've attempted to match the photos taken of the screening exactly, even those that are obviously overexposed.

Also, I was grabbing some screenshots to put up on my Custom DVD comparison page, and DGIndex complained about detecting a bad field order transition. You mentioned that you used different settings for the binary sunset scene - how did you go about encoding the different elements? I'm wondering if you used some sort of MPEG2 editor to combine the shots, and that caused this. I don't know, however, if this would cause any real issue with playback.

Moth3r, do you have any screenshots you can share?

I ran a little experiment with regards to the frame count mismatching and here is what I got

PgcDemux read the NTSC GOUT DVD of Star Wars as 174262 frames
DGIndex read the m2v file PgcDemux created as 174261 frames
VirtualDub via AviSynth read the d2v file DGIndex created as 174258 frames

PgcDemux read the NTSC GOUT DVD of The Empire Strikes Back as 179669 frames
DGIndex read the m2v file PgcDemux created as 179671 frames
VirtualDub via AviSynth read the d2v file DGIndex created as 179668 frames

PgcDemux read the PAL GOUT DVD of Return of the Jedi as 189451 frames
DGIndex read the m2v file PgcDemux created as 189451 frames
I have yet to open the d2v file DGIndex created using VirtualDub / AviSynth.

Is the small variation in frame count normal when working with NTSC material or have I missed something?

My settings for PgcDemux are:

Input IFO: VTS_03_0.IFO from NTSC GOUT DVD Rip
Mode - by PGC
Options - Demux video stream CHECKED
Demux audio streams CHECKED
Demux subpic streams CHECKED
Create CellTimes.txt CHECKED
Include end time UNCHECKED
Create Logfile UNCHECKED
Create a PGC VOB UNCHECKED
PGC Selection: Titles
PGC # 01 --> 02:01:00:22 SELECTED

In DGIndex the only setting I have changed from the default is:

Video -> Field Operation -> Forced Film CHECKED (For the two NTSC DVDs)

In VirtualDub the only settings I have changed from the default is:

Video -> Fast Recompress CHECKED
Video -> Compression -> Huffyuv