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#265045
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Superman II - The Booshman Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265045/action/topic#265045
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Originally posted by: Batman Beyond
Now, I say this is a good re-edit. Only thing that remains, is for one guy to take the best stuff from SIII and IV and make the ultimate re-edit of III, marking a TRILOGY of Chistopher Reeve's Superman films. The Paris hostage takeout and the amnesia kiss can very well be used in that ultimate III.

What do you say?

I say I'm muxing this today. Have you been looking over my shoulder?
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#264893
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***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264893/action/topic#264893
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Good heavens! How'd you do it so quickly? I must've spent an hour on one second worth of film which turned out to be garbage.

It looks astounding too! Just beautiful! As with any time I ask for your help, I can't thank you enough in the end. Folks following this thread should compare those two clips and note the timeframe in which Editous pulled this off.
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#264887
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***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264887/action/topic#264887
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We thought it was the bitrate at the time, but it turned out it was the pulldown flag. The new segment had been encoded as 23.xxx w/o the pulldown flag, while the surrounding clips had the flag, which Womble interprets as 29.xxx. I've mixed bitrates for some time since with no problem, so long as the maximum doesn't exceed the maximum allowed.

SW had 9800 bitrates on the video and the most I could get in TMPGEnc was 8000 anyway, so I couldn't break the ceiling if I wanted to. All the Supermans have their video at 7500, incidentally. Any clips I've done for the purposes of FX have been at 7999 or 8000 which has worked fine.
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#264707
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The personal hygiene thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264707/action/topic#264707
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I'm well now. Swallowing feels different and it still pulls when I yawn, but otherwise I'm 100%. Looking back, the only thing I wish that had been done differently was somebody (like, ya know, my frappin' DOCTOR) letting me know in advance just how bad the pain would be. He said I'd have a really bad sore throat. I've had really bad sore throats before so I wasn't really prepared. What he should have said was "It will feel like you have been shot in the throat" as that is the best analogy I could think of.

Knowing a thing going into it can help you prepare for it. The procedure was definitely necessary, as in my post-op the doctor noted how bad my tonsils actually were when he got them out. In his words, they were "very enlarged and particularly nasty." I probably should've gotten them out about six years ago when the problem started getting out of hand.

That said, here's what to expect if you go through the procedure:

* Don't underestimate the pain.

* Percocet (Oxycodone) is the doctors' pain reliever of choice, but those really screwed with my mind. Plus, they're loaded with acetaminophen, so you can only take so much without damaging your liver. I wish they would have prescribed oxycontin instead so I could have just been doped up on a 12-hour opiate instead of a 4-hour one. Because I had problems, they switched me to Tylenol 3. Great, more acetaminophen and less opiates. They were about as effective as M&M's, hence all my bitching. T3s did keep me calmer than the Percs, but the pain itself was pretty damned bad on them.

* Invest in a good blender that will puree anything. You'll be blending all your meals, even soup, for about 2 weeks. I lost only about five pounds, whereas the norm is 10-20. Because I blended meals and kept eating throughout all the pain, I did keep my energy from totally bombing out. I was able early on to eat scrambled eggs mixed with very soupy grits, and this was VERY good for boosting my energy in the day. Say goodbye to cereals and toast for at least two weeks. Say goodbye to crispy stuff like tortillas and baguettes for a good month.

* Contrary to popular belief, stay away from ice cream and dairy. In the beginning, I was living on Ensure and yogurt for the nutrient value. Unfortunately, dairy causes your phegm to overproduce. I had to quit dairy cold turkey around day 4, and then reintroduced about 1/2 can of an Ensure in the morning around day 8 to get some quick nutrients into my system, but that was it. If you can handle cold foods, try popsicles and chocolate sorbet. The latter is like ice cream without any of the dairy. Jello is also very easy to eat or drink and coats the stomach prior to a dosage of pain meds.

* Push fluids like there's no tomorrow. I couldn't stand the taste of just about anything, including Gatorade, which I forced down routinely to keep my electrolytes in balance. Because I couldn't stand hot or cold very well, I mostly drank lukewarm water, about 16 oz. per hour all day. I kept a large sports bottle full of it while I sat around watching movies in my drug-induced haze.

* Don't spit, swallow. In addition to being great advice for your wife/girlfriend, it's important advice for recovering. When my phlegm was in overdrive, I got into the habit of spitting constantly, because it didn't like swallowing did. Unfortunately, this will not retrain your throat, it will cause you to dehydrate, and it will also stink up your entire living area.

* You'll be sleep deprived. Most of the time I couldn't sleep because of the pain. When I did get to sleep, I would awake within an hour soaked in some foul drool that tasted and smelled like bile. I burned through 2-3 pajama tops a night before realizing I could get decent rest by sleeping upright with a towel wrapped around my neck and torso to catch this mess.

* Plan to be off work two weeks, not just one. You'll be sleep deprived, foul-breathed, and generally miserable, so there is no purpose in bringing that into the workplace or any other public place for that matter.

* Communicate this to everybody who you live with. It is major surgery and you'll be an invalid for two weeks (longer if you're over 40). People need to understand that and help you through it. You shouldn't be driving, lifting, exercising, doing chores, watching the kids, working, going out, or anything like until the scabs slough off your throat. Then you'll suddenly be just fine. Some healing continues afterwards, but you'll largely be able to resume normal life when the scabs come off, which kinda happens in waves. Oh, and the smell gets worse when that happens. Then it goes away. No amount of oral hygiene will change that.

Expect all this going into it, and your surprises will be few. I only wish somebody had set these expectations for me going in.
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#264692
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***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264692/action/topic#264692
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DE, a bit off topic, but I'm trying to figure out how to do a digital character erasure like you did with the annoying robots in Mos Eisley but on a different film. I saved each frame in the shot as a .tga and manually removed the character in Photoshop for about 30 frames, but there was a definite shimmy in the video where the alignment wasn't exact on each frame. What do you suggest?

Here is the shot I'm trying to correct, trying to delete Richard Pryor from it.

Any suggestions?
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#264121
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ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264121/action/topic#264121
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The audio has to be calculated, since you're overlapping frames. Fortunately if you clip the audio right after a crossfade you can see it.

I'm just now getting into using Vegas for this. For the first time a couple of days ago I came up with a process for this:

1) Export just the two shots you want to crossfade to an M2V file.
2) Load the clip into VirtualDubMod and save as an uncompressed AVI.
3) Open the AVI in Vegas and do what you want with it. Save as another AVI.
4) Encode back to M2V using TMPGEnc.
5) Load the new M2V into your Womble project.

The results are GORGEOUS. I'll likely do this from now on, and will use this method to do the wipes in SW whenever they eventually happen in Hi-Def.
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#263933
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why does vader say obi wan has trained u well ?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/263933/action/topic#263933
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Back before those prequels and EU books screwed everything up in the continuity, I always saw Yoda as being a native of Dagobah, not an exile there. Like a Buddhist monk or something that a fledgling warrior had to track down in order to be worthy of training, he trained Jedi like you'd teach Zen -- not via some stupid "code." If you look at the OOT without the filter of the EU or the Prequels, Vader never even met Yoda, let alone knew where he was, because Obi-Wan discovered and trained him instead, thinking he could do just as good a job as Yoda. According to the ROTJ novelization, only the Emperor had heard of Yoda, and was the one who figured out that he completed Luke's training after Ben's death.

The O-OT universe is a sensible place, where 12-year-olds aren't elected as rulers of a planet, where Zen warriors don't have a rulebook, where small children aren't trained in the art of battle, and where you don't die in childbirth from a broken heart.