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"that have been converted from the XVIDS that I made and put up on myspleen.net...The colors are WAY screwed and the contrast is to bright."

Now that sounds more like the culprit.


Hi, Rik.

<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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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
The cheapest price I've found is $5 bucks apiece.

"Most common was reports of people getting a noticeable pause during playback on the layer break, rather than the seamless playback of factory pressed DL DVD's."

This is also a function of the player. My old Toshiba does this on all commercial DVDs.

It would probably just be a matter of the DVD player manufacturers optimizing their firmware to work seamlessly with DL DVDr's; or maybe it isn't even a problem still. It has been quite a while since I read anything about it. People seemed to be getting the best results (in regard to backing up commercial DL DVD's onto DL DVDr's) by creating an ISO with DVD Decrypter and then using DVD Decrypter to burn from the MD5 file. Of course, more variables are introduced when you author your own DVD, such as how the authoring software sets the layer break and how the burning software implements it (Nero for example has a unique way of doing this I believe); as well as the everpresent variable of the media and burner and burn routine coded in the burner's firmware for specific media.

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The cheapest price I've found is $5 bucks apiece.
(referring to dual-layer media)

I can't stand that. I have a dual-layer burner, but I'm not going to use 8.5 GB discs until the prices come significantly down.

Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side

Emperor Jar-Jar
“Back when we made Star Wars, we just couldn’t make Palpatine as evil as we intended. Now, thanks to the miracles of technology, it is finally possible. Finally, I’ve created the movies that I originally imagined.” -George Lucas on the 2007 Extra Extra Special HD-DVD Edition

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Well, I bought a 5-pack just to try out at some point. I have a very long family trip from California to Kentucky that may have to be put on a DL disc. At this point, I need to just burn one to see if it is compatible with my player.

<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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Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: Hardcore Legend
I've got a bad burn of MF's Balance of the Force, in which the blue is pushed and the contrast is waay off. I talked to him about it in another thread and he says this was just a bad burn. So, I figured I'd just put it in Adobe Premiere Pro and adjust the levels and such. Well, got everything the way it should look and now I can't get the file out of the program. Whenever I go to burn it directly to a DVD from Adobe Premiere, I can't find settings to get the same file sizes he originally had. I just want to adjust the contrast and the blue (black) input levels and then put it back on his dvd (fresh burn). Can anyone help?


I do know that there is now a few DVD's of the MagnoliaFan Edits floating around that have been converted from the XVIDS that I made and put up on myspleen.net; another fan mailed me a copy of one of them and it had (I tossed it already) no menu and random chapter stops + NON-anamorphic with 2.0 audio - The colors are WAY screwed and the contrast is to bright.

Sound like yours?

RiK


I dunno, were you distributing them? You sent these to me about a year ago. They've always been like this, bleached out to the point I have to turn the brightness all the way down. They have menus and 5.1 sound. So, if you sent out some bum copies like this, then yes.

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I too am a firm believer in bit-setting to DVD-ROM, and I've read many good comments about RICOHJPN/R01's.

I'm about halfway through a spindle of them I picked up at BestBuy wearing a FujiFilm 4x label,
but these days FujiFilm at my local BestBuy are 8x YUDEN000/T02 media.
I once ordered a spindle of RiData from an online dealer whose website claimed they were RICOHJPN/R01
but when they arrived they were RITEK/R03.

MaximRecoil, where do you buy your RICOHJPN/R01's ?

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
I too am a firm believer in bit-setting to DVD-ROM, and I've read many good comments about RICOHJPN/R01's.

I'm about halfway through a spindle of them I picked up at BestBuy wearing a FujiFilm 4x label,
but these days FujiFilm at my local BestBuy are 8x YUDEN000/T02 media.
I once ordered a spindle of RiData from an online dealer whose website claimed they were RICOHJPN/R01
but when they arrived they were RITEK/R03.

MaximRecoil, where do you buy your RICOHJPN/R01's ?
I got some as a spool of 100 from NewEgg.com some time around last November. They were like these. One of the customer reviews states that those are RICOHJPNR01's and another review states that they are Ritek R03's. It is always a hit or miss of course.

This site guarantees the media code:
Products in DVD+R 4X
DVD+R 4X RIDATA SILVER MATTE (RICOHJPN01 CODE)

10 in stock. Rated the best quality media available on many forums, these RICOHJPN coded Ritek Ridata disks are silver matte and come in 50 pc spindles

Well, there were 10 in stock, but I just bought them; so it says "temporarily out of stock" right now. They are getting harder to find because they are officially 4x media and everything is going to 8x and 16x these days. The funny thing is, most people have better results burning the 4x RICOHJPNR01's at 8x than they do burning the official 8x RICOHJPNR02's at 8x.
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Originally posted by: Hardcore Legend
Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: Hardcore Legend
I've got a bad burn of MF's Balance of the Force, in which the blue is pushed and the contrast is waay off. I talked to him about it in another thread and he says this was just a bad burn. So, I figured I'd just put it in Adobe Premiere Pro and adjust the levels and such. Well, got everything the way it should look and now I can't get the file out of the program. Whenever I go to burn it directly to a DVD from Adobe Premiere, I can't find settings to get the same file sizes he originally had. I just want to adjust the contrast and the blue (black) input levels and then put it back on his dvd (fresh burn). Can anyone help?


I do know that there is now a few DVD's of the MagnoliaFan Edits floating around that have been converted from the XVIDS that I made and put up on myspleen.net; another fan mailed me a copy of one of them and it had (I tossed it already) no menu and random chapter stops + NON-anamorphic with 2.0 audio - The colors are WAY screwed and the contrast is to bright.

Sound like yours?

RiK


I dunno, were you distributing them? You sent these to me about a year ago. They've always been like this, bleached out to the point I have to turn the brightness all the way down. They have menus and 5.1 sound. So, if you sent out some bum copies like this, then yes.


No, I've heard about the XVID to DVD conversions but I don't see a need for them as I have the DVD - but I've not heard of this before on any of the DVD's I've sent out and being digital there is no way for them to degrade in a way that would affect color...

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: Hardcore Legend
Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: Hardcore Legend
I've got a bad burn of MF's Balance of the Force, in which the blue is pushed and the contrast is waay off. I talked to him about it in another thread and he says this was just a bad burn. So, I figured I'd just put it in Adobe Premiere Pro and adjust the levels and such. Well, got everything the way it should look and now I can't get the file out of the program. Whenever I go to burn it directly to a DVD from Adobe Premiere, I can't find settings to get the same file sizes he originally had. I just want to adjust the contrast and the blue (black) input levels and then put it back on his dvd (fresh burn). Can anyone help?


I do know that there is now a few DVD's of the MagnoliaFan Edits floating around that have been converted from the XVIDS that I made and put up on myspleen.net; another fan mailed me a copy of one of them and it had (I tossed it already) no menu and random chapter stops + NON-anamorphic with 2.0 audio - The colors are WAY screwed and the contrast is to bright.

Sound like yours?

RiK


I dunno, were you distributing them? You sent these to me about a year ago. They've always been like this, bleached out to the point I have to turn the brightness all the way down. They have menus and 5.1 sound. So, if you sent out some bum copies like this, then yes.


No, I've heard about the XVID to DVD conversions but I don't see a need for them as I have the DVD - but I've not heard of this before on any of the DVD's I've sent out and being digital there is no way for them to degrade in a way that would affect color...


I can send you a copy back if you don't believe me. I still have the emails you sent me before I got them off of you.
The Jedi are all but extinct.......
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I am new here and I would like some advices.

I will install Adobe Premiere Pro on my PC. And I want to reedit some video from DVD. How can I convert vob files to have separate audio, video and sub files.

thanks