Superman by Taolar (Formally: Son of Jorel) WORKPRINT AVAILABLE — Page 10

Doctor M said:

Have you give thought to a 'making of' featurette?

I'd love to see some before and afters strung together so we can marvel at your genius.

Ha!  I'm far from a genius.  If anyone here deserves that title, it's Adywan.  SoJ has nowhere near the level of detail as Star Wars Revisited, nor did it take the same level of talent.

I can't even think about a making of or anything like that right now.  But thanks for the interest.  Lets see if you're still interested after actually watching SoJ! 

-T

Ok, so it's official.  I completed a releasable version of Son of Jorel about 5 minutes ago, which is (at least in my time zone!) on the 30th anniversary of the American wide release of Superman: the Motion Picture.  I almost didn't make it.  Lots of snags over the past couple weeks, not to mention the last couple years. But it all worked out.  I didn't get everything done that I had planned over the years, but it is in a state that I'm happy with, and that hopefully people will find entertaining.

I still need to render it to Divx/Xvid format before posting a torrent for you all to snag.  I'm going to tell premiere to render to file while I go to bed.  And I'm sleeping with my fingers crossed...

Thanks for the support of everyone at OriginalTrilogy.com.  I hope it was worth the wait...

-Taolar/Marcus

This initial "pre-release" was meant to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Superman the Movie, and is Divx only.  Sometime next year, I will release a DVD, with polished FX, main titles, and an overhauled audio mix.

Unfortunately, the render failed last night.  Gotta love Premiere.

I'm starting a new render before I go to work.

-T

Premiere is the most frustrating "professional" program ever I've ever worked with.  I'm still trying to iron out render issues.

-T

I've noticed that in Japan DivX is more common than XviD for some reason.

Will it be a high bitrate encoding at full resolution XviD/DivX since you aren't releasing a DVD version right away?

Well, Part 2 seemed to render fine last night.  Part 1 is still rendering with these brief flashes of weird color.  I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing differently with the two.  But I need to work today.

DJ, you're right, Xvid is the codec of choice.  I incorrectly use Divx as a generic term, kind of like some people use the words Coke and Bandaid.  Any Divx decoder will be able to view it, but I am definitely using Xvid as the encoder.

Dr M- yes, this will be high-bitrate, full rez.  The first half is 1 hour 45 mins, and I will use whatever bitrate will get me to the standard CD-R size (720mb), and the second half is 1 hour 15 mins, and I'll probably size that to a CD-R too, so it should have a higher bitrate, which is good because most of the action scenes take place in part 2.

-T

Taolar said:

I incorrectly use Divx as a generic term, kind of like some people use the words Coke and Bandaid.

While you might use them as generic terms, I wouldn't try to use them interchangeably. :)

Please, I still say Walkman. My wife makes fun of me for it.

Sony does build mp3 players under the brand name Walkman... so it's not completely wrong.

yeah I noticed that. But I have already given Steve Jobs my money and soul so there will be no chance of me getting one of those.

I just call my mp3 player a "brick"

The Xvid video looks pretty good, but the audio is out of sync.  I have time today to work on this.

-T

What are you using to create the Xvid?

Premiere won't do it, so I had to output from Premiere to a lossless codec.  So I've tried Huffyuv and Lagarith, which a bunch of different setting.  Everything, at best, produced weird noise every once in a while, even though it looks perfect within Premiere.  I finally found a setting that rarely produced noise and only did it in the letterbox section.  But the audio had a strange error, where the center channel ran at a higher speed than the rest.  So throughout the movie you'd hear high pitched dialog from future scenes.  I was able to export a good uncompressed WAV, separately from the movie.

So I tried AGK, which would never keep the audio in sync, and would cut off the first few seconds of black video, further putting the audio out of sync.

I tried Gordian Knott, which would not load the complete AVI.  I'm assuming because the file size was too large (37bg for part 1, 27gb for part 2).

Last night I had success with just using VirtualDub to encode Xvid video, and Audacity to convert the audio.  When I checked this morning part 1 looked and sounded good.  I'm encoding part 2 right now.

The toughest part of all of this is that it takes between 2 and 3 hours to render each part of the movie, and I had to work this week, and had little time in the evening.  So I was limited to two or three attempts per day.

-T

It's available on Demonoid...  Enjoy, and please let me know what you think.

-T

I would have probably tried AutoMKV, it's still being developed and is more flexible than AGK.

Is there a reason you didn't output to DVD format instead of lossless before making the XviD?  Not that I'm complaining.

thanks for sharing, taolar and congratulations on finishing the pre-release.