Star Wars Laserdisc Preservations. See 1st Post for Updates. — Page 23

I’m coming across these on the French pre-THX transfers:

[(http://s25.postimg.cc/3uqgcyibz/94fr_cuemark1.png)]

Does this mean they are from theatrical prints?

Are you using a regular average of the 5 captures or a median?

It is an average of 5 captures using temporalsoften. I use a function that motion compensates the captures to help with alignment issues. The pass3 clip will be the center/output clip. This uses avisynth 2.6 and the latest MVTools2 which has support for multi-threading, etc.

Function FPA(clip pass1,clip pass2,clip pass3, clip pass4, clip pass5)
{
interleave=interleave(pass1,pass2,pass3,pass4,pass5)
super=msuper(interleave,pel=2,mt=true)
multivectors=manalyse(super,multi=true,delta=2,mt=true)
multiclip=mcompensate(interleave,super,multivectors,mt=true,tr=2,center=true)
average=temporalsoften(multiclip,2,255,255,50,2).selectevery(25,12)
return(average)
}

These 2 frames are missing from the ntsc gout as far as I can tell:

(http://s25.postimg.cc/c1eba5zyn/esb_missingframe_1.png)
(http://s25.postimg.cc/l7wlxg573/esb_missingframe_2.png)

Taken from French THX pressing.

Yes.
Red5 showed them from his PAL GOUT there:
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/457551#TopicPost457551
before imageshack went all pinko
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See also:
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/422103#TopicPost422103
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Nevertheless, thanks for showing yours. Corroborating evidence is good

Hi Althor,

I just wanted to say thank you so much for all you’ve done, I downloaded and watched your JSC trilogy at the weekend and was blown away for an NTSC LaserDisc transfer! I almost cried at the absence of DVNR smearing! The strong colours, visible film grain and slight film flicker also put a big smile on my face! The only down side is, thanks to you I now know I must add the JSC to my LaserDisc collection!

I know you have subsequently done a five capture average of the JSC, unfortunately this isn’t available on myspleen that I could see. The results you have been getting with LD-Decode are incredible (for LaserDisc) HappyCube has done an amazing job on the software! I see you mentioned you wouldn’t want to do a five capture average using LD-Decode due to the size of the files and decoding time, have you considered doing a three or even two capture average instead?

Once again thanks for all you’ve done!

Thanks for the praise! Happycube is still updating his software and has begun to implement gpu acceleration which should provide real-time decoding. This will bring the 5 capture average into the realm of the feasible once I get a card that supports his gpu stuff.

Atm, I’m trying to finish the 2001 criterion LD so that I can upload it to the spleen. I basically decided to take a break from SW LD’s by doing this “little” project. It’s turned out to be a nightmare to sync to the blu-ray lol. It has what I can only describe as rolling cadence changes that are custom for each scene. I’ve no idea why they’ve done this but it’s insane to try and sort it out. I’m on side 5 of 6 and hopefully it’ll be finished around christmas time. After this, I’ll be back to the SW stuff 😃.

I am finished with the US97SE trilogy though. I’m just trying to sort out some of the audio stuff before making it available.

Just hearing about reverse telecine / pulldown removal gives me a headache! In this respect I am very glad I live in a PAL/50Hz/25fps country, so much easier!

You and HappyCube are doing amazing work I can’t wait to see what you guys will produce/achieve in the future!

I see the French set is propagating on usenet recently.
You’ve shown cue dots in the first film; do the French sequels have cue dots too?

The French set that I just posted this weekend is the THX pressing which doesn’t seem to be from a theatrical print. I probably don’t know what I’m talking about but I’ve heard it’s from the same master as the DC/gout with less severe DVNR. The next french sets I post will be from the pre-THX era and those should all be theatrical prints because I’ve seen cue marks on all three sets that I have. That includes SW,ESB, and ROTJ.

I believe that all of Harmy’s projects are gout synced so it should be fine to mux audio from his projects with my laserdisc preservations.

The US97SE trilogy boxset is going up now. I was going to mux everything into one single mkv but it was way complicated to make everything work right and in the end it still wouldn’t work the way I wanted it to so…single MKV’s. They include the cinema DTS and Laserdisc 5.1 audio files thanks to Capablemetal and his project. This and all other special edition laserdiscs will be synced to his material as reference.

Thanks! The latest 720p jsc posts should be good. I know that at least a few people have nabbed it successfully. Are you using the par files to repair missing chunks? If you use sabnzbd it will pretty much do all of that automatically for you.

Weird. Sounds like you are doing everything right. I’ll consider reposting it someday if you don’t have any success.

I’ve downloaded ESB 97SE from a.b.starwars three times now and part025.rar never seems to finish.

JEDIT: It’s all good now.