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Star Wars Trilogy 7" 33 1/3 book and record set (Released) — Page 2

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Jetrell Fo said:

TK421138 said:

OK, the books have been purchased, it was a big investment but in the end I think it will prove to be the best option for quality sake. I should receive them all no later than the end of the month.

The next part will be scanning the images in, granted I don't have a super high quality scanner, I think it should do the trick. Perhaps I can lean on some of you to help me out in restoring them to their best look possible! I'm so excited I can't wait!

I checked out Adobe's rather expensive software and I just don't have the dough for it. The next step for me to do is scan in the pages and try to record high quality lossless audio. Any suggestions as to the best way to do this would be much appreciated. Again I use a program called Spin It Again which is pretty darn good but the output is still MP3.

Onwards and upwards!

Cheers,

For audio processing, Audacity is free and would be able to do the recording and output to .wav format.

:)

 

Also... Premiere, AfterEffects, Audition etc have free trials you can download.  I'm pretty sure they're the full versions with a 30 day time limit, which might well be enough for this project.

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thank you both for the input, I'll have to check it out. I have no idea how to use the adobe products you mentioned but I am sure there are walk thrus out there plus I can pick the collective brains here for info.

Never used audacity but it should be pretty easy to figure out, similar I'd say to Spin It Again. So which file format is best to output to? wav. MP3. flac.?

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Wav or Aif (if you're using Apple). 

I dug up my old record books from the basement today too.  They're also in pretty rough shape.  I have the records for Star Wars and Empire but not for Jedi.  The records are actually in decent shape.  I also have two unopened Ewok "Planet of the Hoojibs" record books.  Don't remember where I got those, but if you want we can work that into your project.

I found one problem already when I was messing around with mine.  The pages are square and the pictures are sometimes overlayed by text (like when the death star explodes in the Star Wars one).  So you need to think about if you want the text on the video or just the pictures and audio.  If you do want the text you will need to stretch it to fit the widescreen HD aspect ratio.  Something to think about... 

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fishmanlee said:

FLAC, Its the same as WAV, but smaller.

 

I don't know how well video editors (premiere, FC, etc) play with FLAC. It's smaller because it's zipped and it takes extra processing to unzip and play it in real time.  These aren't going to be large files, they're like 10 minutes long or something.  

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So I thought now might be a good time to tell everyone what the layout for the DVD is going to be. This is a rough sketch and may change as far as special features go but the core contents will be as follows:

Star Wars #150DC 1979

The Empire Strikes Back #151DC 1980

Return Of The Jedi #152DC 1983

Droid World #153DC 1983

Planet Of The Hoojibs # 154DC 1983

The Ewoks Join The Fight #160DC 1983

Adventures In Colors and Shapes # 180DC 1984

Adventures In ABC #181DC 1984

 

Special features to include:

High quality scans of each page

Individual sound files for each book

Rebel Mission To Ord Mantell radio drama

The Ewok Adveture #467 1984

Ewoks: Battle For Endor #470 1985

More details to come....

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I transfered the Star Wars 12" and 7" books on record.

 

I cleaned them all up.

 

Do you want a copy and see if it's better than yours?

 

Shawn

 

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The 12" Story of LPs have already been captured and released at 24bit and 16bit.

 

I concur that the audio files should be WAV or FLAC. Both are uncompressed file formats, the latter being smaller in size.

 

It's better to work with WAV while you're working because this format will work more easily with audacity, audition, etc

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

Audacity is free open-source software and might be good enough for this project. Don't go anywhere near MP3

 

Likewise, with the graphics, don't go anywhere near compressed formats such as JPG - only work with uncompressed formats: BMP, TIF, PNG, etc

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raphael said:

The 12" Story of LPs have already been captured and released at 24bit and 16bit.

 

I concur that the audio files should be WAV or FLAC. Both are uncompressed file formats, the latter being smaller in size.

 

It's better to work with WAV while you're working because this format will work more easily with audacity, audition, etc

Including ROTJ in 24-bit?

I thought that 7FN's was the first 24-bit capture and his set didn't include ROTJ...

A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more.

I’m late to the party, but I think this is the best song. Enjoy!

—Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3

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AntcuFaalb said:

raphael said:

The 12" Story of LPs have already been captured and released at 24bit and 16bit.

 

I concur that the audio files should be WAV or FLAC. Both are uncompressed file formats, the latter being smaller in size.

 

It's better to work with WAV while you're working because this format will work more easily with audacity, audition, etc

Including ROTJ in 24-bit?

I thought that 7FN's was the first 24-bit capture and his set didn't include ROTJ...

The 'story of' set I have from 7FN certainly has the 24bit ROTJ capture. His release was only missing the ROTJ music soundtrack.

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raphael said:

AntcuFaalb said:

raphael said:

The 12" Story of LPs have already been captured and released at 24bit and 16bit.

 

I concur that the audio files should be WAV or FLAC. Both are uncompressed file formats, the latter being smaller in size.

 

It's better to work with WAV while you're working because this format will work more easily with audacity, audition, etc

Including ROTJ in 24-bit?

I thought that 7FN's was the first 24-bit capture and his set didn't include ROTJ...

The 'story of' set I have from 7FN certainly has the 24bit ROTJ capture. His release was only missing the ROTJ music soundtrack.

Doh! You're right.

I should know this considering that I uploaded it... silly me.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more.

I’m late to the party, but I think this is the best song. Enjoy!

—Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3

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AntcuFaalb said:

raphael said:

AntcuFaalb said:

raphael said:

The 12" Story of LPs have already been captured and released at 24bit and 16bit.

 

I concur that the audio files should be WAV or FLAC. Both are uncompressed file formats, the latter being smaller in size.

 

It's better to work with WAV while you're working because this format will work more easily with audacity, audition, etc

Including ROTJ in 24-bit?

I thought that 7FN's was the first 24-bit capture and his set didn't include ROTJ...

The 'story of' set I have from 7FN certainly has the 24bit ROTJ capture. His release was only missing the ROTJ music soundtrack.

Doh! You're right.

I should know this considering that I uploaded it... silly me.

LOL. I know the feeling - all the uploads blur into one, right? :)

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raphael said:

AntcuFaalb said:

raphael said:

AntcuFaalb said:

raphael said:

The 12" Story of LPs have already been captured and released at 24bit and 16bit.

 

I concur that the audio files should be WAV or FLAC. Both are uncompressed file formats, the latter being smaller in size.

 

It's better to work with WAV while you're working because this format will work more easily with audacity, audition, etc

Including ROTJ in 24-bit?

I thought that 7FN's was the first 24-bit capture and his set didn't include ROTJ...

The 'story of' set I have from 7FN certainly has the 24bit ROTJ capture. His release was only missing the ROTJ music soundtrack.

Doh! You're right.

I should know this considering that I uploaded it... silly me.

LOL. I know the feeling - all the uploads blur into one, right? :)

A little, yeah.

It's a real bummer that 7FN won't be releasing his ROTJ soundtrack capture :-(

A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more.

I’m late to the party, but I think this is the best song. Enjoy!

—Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3

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I think I know someone with a mint copy. Maybe he could do a hi-res transfer. Haven't spoken to him for some time, but we'll see.

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I thought about the special features alot and I was thinking of adding the excellent Story of Albums to that section. My question is which version to include. I have editdroid's rips of the albums and they sound pretty great to my ears. how does 7FN's version stack up. I hear from alot of you that it is the best out there, but then there is also MoveAlong's version with video for for the first two albums. What shall I do?

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Movealong's versions are only mp3s. From what I recall they were ripped by Scotty Balls.

 

I don't know editdroid's versions, but as far as I am aware, 7FNs are the highest resolution rips that we have so far

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By chance does anyone know where I can pick up the artwork for the Story Of Albums. I'm attempting to do my own artwork with what's available on the web but it's not going that well. The size of the images are too small and not of good quality.

 

 

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As someone that enjoys preserving old vinyl and tape, consider this thread bookmarked.  :)

It’s really sad when the “creative minds” behind something we hold dear are also guilty of its destruction.

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TK421138 said:

By chance does anyone know where I can pick up the artwork for the Story Of Albums. I'm attempting to do my own artwork with what's available on the web but it's not going that well. The size of the images are too small and not of good quality.

 

 

 

There are clean artwork scans included in the movealong releases. Unfortunately, they're not hi-res.

If I can get my scanner working I might re-scan them myself (I have all th albums on vinyl. In fact I was quite lucky with my 'story of Star Wars'. I got it for  1$ and it had never been played!. I also have the cassette version)

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raphael said:

TK421138 said:

By chance does anyone know where I can pick up the artwork for the Story Of Albums. I'm attempting to do my own artwork with what's available on the web but it's not going that well. The size of the images are too small and not of good quality.

 

 

 

There are clean artwork scans included in the movealong releases. Unfortunately, they're not hi-res.

If I can get my scanner working I might re-scan them myself (I have all th albums on vinyl. In fact I was quite lucky with my 'story of Star Wars'. I got it for  1$ and it had never been played!. I also have the cassette version)

 

Raphael,

That would be really tops if you were able to take scans of them for me. I messed around some more with the stuff I got off the net and it is simply unusable. Just looks like crap. Soon as I get those books in the mail and can scan them you'll have some real work to do here. Should have some starting the 15th or so, all of them by the end of the month.

Cheers,

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Nearsighted Scrappile said:

As someone that enjoys preserving old vinyl and tape, consider this thread bookmarked.  :)

Well thank you Nearsighted, I too share a huge love of preserving Vinyl records, in fact that is my main hobby, before Star Wars took over. I am hoping I can present a quality project here. I can feel the enthusiasm building here.

    Stay on target!!!

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Exciting news today. I recieved 4 of the 8 books in the mail today. Let the work begin! This is what I have so far;

Droid World #153DC 1983

Planet Of The Hoojibs # 154DC 1983

The Ewoks Join The Fight #160DC 1983

Adventures In Colors and Shapes # 180DC 1984

This afternoon I will begin scanning the books in and ripping the audio using audacity. Pictures to come soon! 

Fandamntastic!

Cheers,

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Anyone here really good with Audacity? I have my raw unprocessed .wav of the audio I recorded, but for the life of me I can't get rid of the hiss and noise the way I should be able to. Any help would be appreciated.

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TK421138 said:

Anyone here really good with Audacity? I have my raw unprocessed .wav of the audio I recorded, but for the life of me I can't get rid of the hiss and noise the way I should be able to. Any help would be appreciated.

A low-pass filter, perhaps?

Edit: If you go this route, be sure to cut off as little as possible. That is, try to eliminate the hiss and nothing else.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more.

I’m late to the party, but I think this is the best song. Enjoy!

—Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3

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Would anyone like to take a listen to my work I've done in audacity to the droid World recording? I think I've removed about as much hiss and noise as I possibly can without affecting the quality of the recording. I would welcome some fresh ears to tell me what I can do better to make it sound great. Still a newbie to Audacity, and the sliders are driving me batty. PM if interested.

Cheers,