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The Story of Star Wars
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The Official babyhum Release Thread — Page 23
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So many great releases, in so little time! Fantastic news, babyhum -- I'll look forward to downloading it once it's released next week!
Thanks, and take care,
Sojourn
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Thank you so much babyhum for unearthing some of these treasures for us.
Yancy
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Originally posted by: gallandro
Let me just add that Lucasfilm should hire babyhum as an official media archivist. He has unearthed things from the UK that I never knew existed. As a U.S. citizen I had no clue how big Star Wars was in England until I saw a few of his releases. And honestly, some of these documentaries produced for the BBC and Sky One put anything released by the U.S. news media to shame. "A Long Time Ago... the Story of Star Wars" and "Flying Solo" are two of the finest documentaries I've ever seen on George Lucas or the creation of Star Wars... and the Clapperboard TESB interviews are amazing too!
Thank you so much babyhum for unearthing some of these treasures for us.
Yancy
Let me just add that Lucasfilm should hire babyhum as an official media archivist. He has unearthed things from the UK that I never knew existed. As a U.S. citizen I had no clue how big Star Wars was in England until I saw a few of his releases. And honestly, some of these documentaries produced for the BBC and Sky One put anything released by the U.S. news media to shame. "A Long Time Ago... the Story of Star Wars" and "Flying Solo" are two of the finest documentaries I've ever seen on George Lucas or the creation of Star Wars... and the Clapperboard TESB interviews are amazing too!
Thank you so much babyhum for unearthing some of these treasures for us.
Yancy
My pleasure.
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No offense but why are you wasting all that space on a PCM track for some mono tv programs? I'd re-record using AC-3 and raise the bitrate on the video.
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Babyhum,
No offense but why are you wasting all that space on a PCM track for some mono tv programs? I'd re-record using AC-3 and raise the bitrate on the video.
Babyhum,
No offense but why are you wasting all that space on a PCM track for some mono tv programs? I'd re-record using AC-3 and raise the bitrate on the video.
None taken. These have been captured using DV and i'm using Apple's superior Compressor to encode. I'm going to use the PCM directly from the capture. I've done a test encode and the average is 8.6 and it allows for PCM sound.
It is interesting what comments a mockup DVD cover stirs up.
If I can squeeze any more quality out of the image i will, and use a Dolby soundtrack.
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From the blog:
Well the mock-up of the cover for bh017 certainly caused a bit of controversy.
Dual Layer?
Widescreen?
PCM Audio?
Here's the latest. I'll be authoring bh016 this week. It will definately be dual layer. It will contain the T4 Celebration Day Special, all of the ROTS premiere clips i recorded, POSSIBLY some commercials and an easter egg or two. Did I mention it would be dual layer?
Then I'll start work on bh017.
You should sit down at this point.
No, really, sit down.
bh017 will be a double dual layer disc set.
Aren't you glad you sat down.
It will include all four classic trilogy documentaries transferred from the remastered Japanese laserdiscs. The transfers were done by myself (for you techies out there I used my Pioneer laserdisc player connected to my Canopus AVC110 via S-Video and gold plated audio cables and captured with Final Cut Pro using the NTSC DV codec and encoded with Apple's Compressor software at the highest possible bitrate).
I don't want to split these titles over four discs as they are quite nice as a set.
Now, how do you get hold of a set this big? MoveAlong will kindly handle a.b.starwars and DigitalFreakNYC has offered to seed at myspleen.net. But because of the size of this set I will be offering an extensive PIF scheme. I will be producing approximately 10 sets of bh017. Some will be offered to PIFfers who I deem to be most reliable and ideally geographically located. I'll also offer a set or two as a competition prize.
When the set is complete i'll be taking requests for PIFfers who have access to dual layer burners and media.
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Hope someone can help
Thanks in advance
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Originally posted by: baby hum
(for you techies out there I used my Pioneer laserdisc player connected to my Canopus AVC110 via S-Video and gold plated audio cables and captured with Final Cut Pro using the NTSC DV codec and encoded with Apple's Compressor software at the highest possible bitrate).
(for you techies out there I used my Pioneer laserdisc player connected to my Canopus AVC110 via S-Video and gold plated audio cables and captured with Final Cut Pro using the NTSC DV codec and encoded with Apple's Compressor software at the highest possible bitrate).
Someone please correct me, but I had always heard that NSTC DV should be avoided as an intermediate codec as it is 4.1.1 meaning when you do the DVD encode, which is 4.2.0, you end up with effectively 4.1.0 colour. PAL DV on the other hand is 4.2.0, ie: the same as DVD.
I seriously need to catch up on your DVDs, you making them faster than I can aquire them!
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Fighting the frizzies, at 11.
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Originally posted by: DVD-BOY
Someone please correct me, but I had always heard that NSTC DV should be avoided as an intermediate codec as it is 4.1.1 meaning when you do the DVD encode, which is 4.2.0, you end up with effectively 4.1.0 colour. PAL DV on the other hand is 4.2.0, ie: the same as DVD.
It depends on the DV codec.Someone please correct me, but I had always heard that NSTC DV should be avoided as an intermediate codec as it is 4.1.1 meaning when you do the DVD encode, which is 4.2.0, you end up with effectively 4.1.0 colour. PAL DV on the other hand is 4.2.0, ie: the same as DVD.
The MPEG encoder requests video in RGB (4:4:4) or YUY2 (4:2:2) (that's TMPGEnc & CCE respectively, no idea about Apple's Compressor). If the DV codec is being nice, it should interpolate (upsample) the chroma when it converts from 4:1:1. The problem occurs when non-interpolated NTSC DV is fed into the encoder, which then down converts as you described, resulting in that ugly blockiness in red areas.
If you're using a DV codec that doesn't interpolate, then you should apply a chroma smoothing filter to the video before encoding. CCE has an option for this, as does Final Cut Pro according to This Link (which also mentions that Apple's DV codec is one of the ones that doesn't interpolate.)
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Originally posted by: baby hum
OK. This is where i need help then. I've loaded the captured NTSC DV footage into FCP 5.12. I've applied the 4:1:1 filter to it and am now rendering. Is this correct?
OK. This is where i need help then. I've loaded the captured NTSC DV footage into FCP 5.12. I've applied the 4:1:1 filter to it and am now rendering. Is this correct?
It's at this stage I defer to the infinte knowledge of Moth3r...
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Sounds like the correct procedure. If you want to make sure it's working, find a short section containing lots of strong red, render once without the filter, then again with the filter applied. Close examination of the encoded files should demonstrate the effect that the filter is having.
You can see the 4:1:0 chroma effect in the screenshots from the original TR47 laserdisc transfer.
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Originally posted by: baby hum
OK. This is where i need help then. I've loaded the captured NTSC DV footage into FCP 5.12. I've applied the 4:1:1 filter to it and am now rendering. Is this correct?
OK. This is where i need help then. I've loaded the captured NTSC DV footage into FCP 5.12. I've applied the 4:1:1 filter to it and am now rendering. Is this correct?
I've tried that filter before and the results looked worse...
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The Story of Star Wars
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You can go about your business. Move along, move along.
The Story of Star Wars
The Adventures Of Luke Skywalker
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Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Currently posting bh015 to alt.binaries.starwars...
Currently posting bh015 to alt.binaries.starwars...
Thank you, thank you. thank you.
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Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Currently posting bh015 to alt.binaries.starwars...
Currently posting bh015 to alt.binaries.starwars...
thank you!