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New version of the script is on the first page. Now with support for ESB and ROTJ.
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Thanks G-force,my new PC is finally built and up and running,I will like to touch base with you soon and start encoding all 3 of these.
I am doing a HD2DVD project right now and have a few PAL conversions to do first.
thanks again for all your hard work.
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Thank you for the update, g-force. I will start new encodings as soon as I can!
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Thanks G-force. Does this script offer any improvements for a New Hope, or is it just Empire and Jedi that have improvement through the script.
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Thanks, again, G-Force. Looks like it is the fflt filter. Tried the new script, but am getting a fairly unhelpful response from AVISynth ("The Script's Return Value Was Not a Video Clip"), so I'm going to try and cut-and-paste the various bits needed for each movie into my copy of the 3_17 script. Thanks again!
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gltaylor74 said:Thanks G-force. Does this script offer any improvements for a New Hope, or is it just Empire and Jedi that have improvement through the script.
aside from a slight increase in top cropping for ANH, it should be the same. There seems to be some bad lines at the top and bottom of the film that I have always debated on cutting off or not. These are even worse on Empire and ROTJ, so I decided that they should all go.
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INv8r_ZIM said:Tried the new script, but am getting a fairly unhelpful response from AVISynth ("The Script's Return Value Was Not a Video Clip")
Anyone else having this problem? Might be a problem when you copied it out of the page and into your text file.
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I tried this script yesterday and had no problems.
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Too weird. I maybe need to uninstall AVISynth and all the plugins and start clean, as it's still giving the same error after re-copying it and repalcing the source line (copied from the working 3_17).
<EDIT> GAH...something about the subtitles...deleted the whole subtitle section, and it runs fine now.
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INv8r_ZIM said:GAH...something about the subtitles...deleted the whole subtitle section, and it runs fine now.
Are you sure, that you have the latest version of Avisynth installed? I recommend to uninstall Avisynth and install the latest version from here.
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Yikes. Okay, downgraded AVISynth to 2.5, re-upgraded, uninstalled all plugins, reinstalled plugins, uninstalled FFT from the system directory, reinstalled to the system directory and....it all seems to work now. Wow, that was a bit of an ordeal. Incidentally, has anyone tried EMPIRE with the subtitle lines intact in the script? That still is causing trouble, so I've just removed the section and the script runs fine now.
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g-force said:aside from a slight increase in top cropping for ANH, it should be the same. There seems to be some bad lines at the top and bottom of the film that I have always debated on cutting off or not. These are even worse on Empire and ROTJ, so I decided that they should all go.
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Could you show us an example of these lines. The laserdisc transfers I obtained had a line at the top and bottom that looked halfway faded compared to the rest of the picture. I think it might have something to do with the laserdisc and video master originally being interlaced. If I went frame by frame by constantly hitting the pause button, I noticed the frame seemed to shift up and down a line every frame. So maybe the end lines of resolution are combined with the black letterbox part so they look half visible at normal speed. I don't see this viewing the Gout on my tv so I assumed it was cropped out already by Lucasfilm for the dvd release.
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Knightmessenger said:Could you show us an example of these lines.
check out the pics that INv8r_ZIM posted on the last page. If you look near the borders you will see what I'm talking about.
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I tried out this script a few months ago (V.3,17) on STAR WARS and I must say that you have done an absolutely incredible job with this g-force! But I was dissapointed (or happy) when I saw that the diagonal streaking on the pictures INv8r_ZIM posted wasn't part of the "GOUT" because my encoding have the same problem. Did you manage to solve this issue INv8r_ZIM? If you did, can you please explain how. I would really appreciate it.
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I did finally loose the streaks, but I'm not sure what did it. I'm leaning toward replacing the DLL which goes into a system folder (I can't recall, but I think it's part of the FFT package?). As I mentioned above, I downgraded AVISYNTH, re-upgraded without any success. I went back and completely wiped out my plugins and re-downloaded all of them from the links G-Force put in this thread, and something there solved it. I've re-rendered the lagarith version, but have been busy doing a quick downconvert of Adywan's corrected ESB to DVD, and haven't done the mpeg encode yet to the v4 ESB. Good luck!
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Thank you INv8r_ZIM! I've solved it. I reinstalled every dll's G-force had posted earlier in this thread, just like you said and suddenly the ugly streaks were gone. Thanks for the kind reply.
Can someone please recommend a gop structure setting for the NTSC Version.
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edit.
I found the answer myself about the "Pwnage Edition":
Moth3r said:
I imagine that many people have made their own anamorphic DVDs from the OT "bonus" discs. For example, I made my own version of ANH which included the mono mix and original Dolby mix as alternative soundtracks. This was in 2007, before g-force had come up with the image stabilization script.
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Anyone suggest a decent way of doing the 3:2 pulldown? I've been chugging along fine with ESB GOUT and a number of other projects in CCE and HC, but for some reason when it comes to ANH GOUT the mpeg always ends up terribly jerky, even though the uncompressed avi is fine. Turning off pulldown from a run through HC fixed it, but obviously it'll have to be done at some point to be DVD compliant.
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Hi, found this thread yesterday, was playing with this script all last night. Really well done, excellent project.
I was posting for a little help though. I'm going to run my NTSC ANH DVD through this script, but instead of re-compressing it back to MPEG2, I was going to output it as a 4.7GB x264. I figured out all of the x264 compression things I need to do using MeGUI last night, but I just need a little help on cropping/re-sizing ANH so it will output properly.
Basically, after processing the d2v through this avs script, I am left with an image that isn't anamorphic and has the black borders around the image. What do I need to add to the foot of the script so that I can feed the avs straight to MeGUI and have that output an x264 in the correct anamorphic aspect ratio and with no black around the edges? I've messed with cropping it and figured if I use this at the end of the script:
crop( 6, 60, -6, -62)
it gets rid of all of the black borders perfectly, but how do I then make it anamorphic? Also, do I need to worry about mod16 or anything like that? I'll just be playing this on my PC so does it matter? I'm mainly doing this so I can avoid adding 3:2 pulldown to the video and can play it at 23.97fps on my PC - I hate 3:2 pulldown!
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INv8r_ZIM said:Anyone suggest a decent way of doing the 3:2 pulldown? I've been chugging along fine with ESB GOUT and a number of other projects in CCE and HC, but for some reason when it comes to ANH GOUT the mpeg always ends up terribly jerky, even though the uncompressed avi is fine. Turning off pulldown from a run through HC fixed it, but obviously it'll have to be done at some point to be DVD compliant.
Hmm... I don't have any experience with encoding from an avi, due to my increasingly limited hard drive space. When I encode directly from the avisynth script, and choose "NTSC" and "Make DVD Compliant" in HCencoder, everything turns out fine. I wonder if avisynth is sending more information to HCencoder than the avi does? Just a thought. Hopefully someone more knowledgable will chime in.
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pupil said:Basically, after processing the d2v through this avs script, I am left with an image that isn't anamorphic and has the black borders around the image.
The output of the script is truely anamorphic (that's why everyone looks thin and streched if your player plays it back as a 4x3 image and doesn't apply the anamorphic filter). The black bars are due to the fact that SW is not in 16x9 aspect ratio, it's actually even "wider", so some black bars are required on the top and bottom to fill the rest of a 16x9 field. Probably your best bet would be to add another resize at the end of the script instead of your crop to do what a DVD player does when is sees the anamorphic flag.
Spline16Resize(960,480) #for NTSC
Spline16Resize(960,576) #for PAL
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g-force said:Spline16Resize(960,480) #for NTSC
Spline16Resize(960,576) #for PAL
Wouldn't it be something like 854x480 & 1024x576??
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Thanks g-force, I worked out a better method though:
I first altered the line which adds a black box around the film near the end of the script to:
PAL==false ? Spline16Resize(720,384).Crop(8,12,-4,-14,align=true).AddBorders(6,5,6,5)
This cuts out the maximum amount of the black border (to aid compression) while still keeping it mod16 (I've understood the importance of keeping things mod16 now) without over-cropping the image.
It's now encoding via MeGUI (46 hours in, another 45 to go!) to x264. When this is done I will use mkvmerge to add an aspcect ratio flag to the mkv container to make it 853x368 (I think this is the horizontal res you meant, satanika) and then it will display perfectly.
From my understanding, this method will keep compressability at a maxiumum by removing the black borders as much as possible, but negates an extra "resize" step, which would degrade the image quality slightly while hindering compressability slightly by increasing the film's image size.
It worked on the 20 second clips I tried it on, anyway :)
Also, I've obviously cut out the subtitle code from the script and will be adding an srt into the mkv container when it's done.
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satanika said:g-force said:Spline16Resize(960,480) #for NTSC
Spline16Resize(960,576) #for PAL
Wouldn't it be something like 854x480 & 1024x576??
That would be the case for square pixels, but the pixels aren't square.
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g-force said:satanika said:g-force said:Spline16Resize(960,480) #for NTSC
Spline16Resize(960,576) #for PAL
Wouldn't it be something like 854x480 & 1024x576??
That would be the case for square pixels, but the pixels aren't square.
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But for my purposes, I want square pixels as I will be playing this on my PC monitor. I've finished compressing the video, added the flag to make it 853x368 (56 pixels from the top and bottom of the image cropping the black bars as much as possible) in the mkv and it has come out at exactly the same resolution as the original DVD.