ADigitalMan

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Post: #120715
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120715/action/topic#120715
Time: 4-Jul-2005 1:43 AM

Having no LD player, I actually just scored the King Kong and Son of Kong double feature on LD. Sending it, along with the Canopus, to my good laserphile buddy who can hopefully get me watching these long-awaited films once and for all.

Post: #120714
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120714/action/topic#120714
Time: 4-Jul-2005 1:34 AM

Originally posted by: Doctor M
Maybe it's been said but what is the name of the Ep 2 edit?

"Path To The Dark Side."

Details on each edit are in the first post in the thread, by the way. Thought I'd remind all y'all of that.

Post: #120713
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120713/action/topic#120713
Time: 4-Jul-2005 1:33 AM

Originally posted by: Darth Editous
ADM, did you have to do any resyncing (by eye/ear) during your edit? Or did you just make sure you took out the same amount of audio as video when you made a cut?

A little of both. What I did first was make straight cuts in the audio where the video was made. Then, I would slide the audio cut point to something a little more palettable. Weird thing about Womble, it treats everything as 29.97, even if it's 23.976, repeating the 6th frame for you when you work with it. The end export would lose frames occasionally that I don't think were dropped frames, but were simply where cuts were made on a "repeated" frame. That's my guess anyway.

So, I generated a reference copy of the mix and noted how many frames it was off from the final video. I loaded this reference copy into vegas and squeezed it the appropriate amount of frames to match where it should have fallen with the video.

I then went back to the source AC3 files and used Hypercube Transcoder to rip the streams to individual mono wavs, then loaded those wav's into vegas, grouped them by source, and set up the surround panning to match where it should be.

I then started the painstaking process in Vegas (I only use the Audio part of it) of listening to the squeezed stereo reference mix and the original WAV files at the same time. Whenever a cut was detected in the reference copy, I rebuilt the cut in the surround mix, crossfading the audio so it would sound seamless. Often, I'd try different envelope shapes to find just the right fade shape for the particular cut. On Ep I and II this was a total nightmare because there were so many little cuts here and there.

Eventually I got through it all. I then removed the stereo reference WAV and generated the resulting 5.1 AC3. I muxed it, watched it, and every time something was noticed (in video, audio, or subtitles), I would return to the source, tweak, re-export, re-mux, burn, re-watch. I probably did a dozen rounds of fine-tuning in this manner on each movie.

Sometimes the sync appeared a little off so I'd tweak something there visually. "There it is R4, our missing planet, Kamino" sticks out in my mind as a line that was out of sync. It's actually a bad ADR job, as it's still out of sync, even thought part of the line now matches Ewan's lips.

Anyway, the goal was to eventually get through the movie without finding anything. Every time I thought I was there, I'd find another little something misbehaving. Clearly I even missed one that's prompted this "recall" I'm doing on Ep I.

I once had a boss that called this kind of meticulous, anal-retentive attention to detail "the endless pursuit of needless perfection."

My wife calls it "spending too much time on the damn computer doing Star Wars bulls#!t."

I don't sleep much. B-{

Post: #120524
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120524/action/topic#120524
Time: 3-Jul-2005 2:34 AM

Anybody else who has this set noticing the same sync problem? I had a problem with the sync being out here that I thought was fixed for the final mux. I just whipped the copy out and didn't notice anything. Of course, players can drift in-and-out of sync in my experience.

Post: #120373
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120373/action/topic#120373
Time: 2-Jul-2005 12:36 AM

Really? Throughout or just in a particular spot?

*hangs head in shame*

Post: #120290
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120290/action/topic#120290
Time: 1-Jul-2005 5:08 PM

Right after Nute Gunray gets off his ship and says "Ahhh ... Victory!" where the shot wipes to the Gungan sub just prior to its surfacing.

The dropout is due to my cutting the audio too short when the transition is made to the Waterfall sequence.

On a tangent, I originally thought this scene had little merit and considered not restoring it. But then I realized it's about as plot-integral as the giant rolling ball at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. i.e. It's just an added bit of danger, tension and action to an otherwise dull part of the movie. Clip out Jar Jar's nonsense (given the fact he could swim against a waterfall current effortlessly, what was all the panicking for?) and it plays out pretty well.

Post: #120218
Topic: Idea: Editing out helmet-less clones in AOTC and ROTS
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120218/action/topic#120218
Time: 1-Jul-2005 11:17 AM

I figured that Jango was the original source for the clones. When he was killed, it became necessary to find other sources for genetic material.

If you wish to believe that, or if you wish to believe the OT stormtroopers were a copy of a copy, then both would support why the OT stormtroopers are pretty inefficient fighters while the PT stormtroopers were pretty bad-ass.

Or, the third option is to go with what Lucas has actually stated: That the OT stormtroopers were a mixture of clones and regular folk. This supports the vision created in "TROOPS" that people would just go down to the local recruitment center and sign up.

If you're into the EU, then you definitely know that clones came from sources other than Kamino, and could be grown in months, not years.

Post: #120232
Topic: Capturing Live 8?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120232/action/topic#120232
Time: 1-Jul-2005 6:13 AM

I've been surprised to find nothing about the Live 8 concerts being broadcast on PPV or anything like that here in the US. Will any of you gents in the UK be capturing the broadcast on BBC?

Post: #120008
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120008/action/topic#120008
Time: 30-Jun-2005 8:45 PM

about 415 MB

Post: #120000
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120000/action/topic#120000
Time: 30-Jun-2005 8:04 PM

Alas, after some extensive testing, it's not going to be easy at all. The change takes place in the first vob in the titleset. I took the first vob in the new version and overwrote the first vob in the old titleset and played. It's almost perfect, but you can see a frame jump where the first vob transitions to the second, so this would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Two solutions (both of which could be used):
Re-upload the entire torrent and send fresh copies into the pyramid.
Send the AC3, chapter stops, subtitle file, and DVD-Lab Pro files to rebuilt it yourself.

Thoughts?

Post: #119919
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119919/action/topic#119919
Time: 30-Jun-2005 5:43 PM

ISO's arent' compressed. They are in essence packaged data, but there is no file compression that takes place because of the ISO process.

Post: #119905
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119905/action/topic#119905
Time: 30-Jun-2005 5:22 PM

Interesting information. Very promising. The info is not ISO but VIDEO_TS, so I don't know if it would work or not. It would it require everybody to create the ISO in the same manner. However, if a similar technology could be applied to any type of file(s) then it would work beautifully.

Post: #119879
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119879/action/topic#119879
Time: 30-Jun-2005 4:28 PM

There are other ways to accomplish that. I could make available the subtitle file, the chapter stops file, and the corrected AC3 file, but the menu would be loss (not a big loss, but it does note version, which can be helpful).

Modifying the t0w-rent is probably the best way to go, if it can be pulled off.

Moth3r ... what's a PPF patch?

Post: #120011
Topic: Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120011/action/topic#120011
Time: 30-Jun-2005 2:57 PM

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Why is it that I'm the only person on the planet Earth who didn't like Batman Begins?

Ric, if you don't like this film, you may be in an extreme minority, but you're entitled to like and dislike absolutely anything you want. Never to be one to throw stones in my house of glass, I hated "Training Day" and I love "Hudson Hawk." So my opinions on any film are to be taken with the appropriate measure of salt.

Post: #119854
Topic: Superman II and Superman III extended (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119854/action/topic#119854
Time: 30-Jun-2005 2:54 PM

There is a LOT more footage to Supes I than even was released in the Director's Cut. I remember it used to be a four-hour movie on TV. I remember staying up until something crazy like 3 a.m. catching it on the late show with my folks back when I was in college. If you know how old and fuddy my parents are, you'd be amazed.

Anyway, a LOT of stuff was in there. I'd love to see it again.

Post: #119853
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119853/action/topic#119853
Time: 30-Jun-2005 2:51 PM

I just checked and sho'nuf, the R1 versions are as well. Thanks for pointing that out. Rules out one issue.

I've completed the fix to my foul-up, and need to figure out how best to get it circulated. I've PM'ed Xavier in hopes we can try a little experiment. In short, I'm hoping that by replacing the existing t0rrent, only the changed packages would be downloaded. Depends if the change in the AC3 file resulted in an overall change in file size, video recompression, and VOB split points. If only a few bytes of a file changed, then a client should be smart enough to only download the changed packets.

If uploading works that way, the fix could theoretically be in circulation shortly. We'll see.

Post: #119822
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119822/action/topic#119822
Time: 30-Jun-2005 11:27 AM

Hmmm ... I don't think I've used that function in Womble. Are you using the export tool (in demultiplexed mode) to generate your AC3 and MPV files? Also, double check the "audio" tab in export to be sure that AC3 is checked. If you cannot check it, it means either the audio has been manipulated in some way other than a straight cut, or that two different types of AC3 are being mixed.

It is possible that my AC3 will not mix with an "official" AC3 as Vegas exports 5.1 AC3 files at 448 instead of the standard 384. I tried to change this but the software wouldn't let me. There are very long ways around this if this is your problem. Or, you can just downmix to a stereo WAV or Layer II file. You'll save the hassle, but lose true surround.

Post: #119765
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119765/action/topic#119765
Time: 30-Jun-2005 3:39 AM

I've been thinking about this.

Assuming all my archived project settings load in as they were, then if I correct and re-export the AC3 file, it should only have a few changed bytes in it. If I then re-mux the movie according to its original settings, again only a few bytes should be different. The big "if" is if the recompression down to single layer will go exactly the same. If it does, then I'd have a set of VOB files that are almost identical, except by a few bytes.

From there, if the tracker will allow Rik to re-upload only the fixed portions (much how it handles resumed downloads), then the fix could be up quickly.

Assuming all those ifs are true, then it would be quite quick and easy for everybody to jump on, seed their copies, and download the fixed bytes in the process.

I know t0rrent!ng allows this, as I've been able to seed a copy that didn't have Riks .nfo files, for example. Just the missing data gets downloaded and the seeding begins.

I'm already restoring all of my WAV data in hopes I can rebuild the project from my project files. The WAVs were entirely too much to archive, so I merely kept the project files, knowing I could go back to the original source for the audio. Makes restoring a b-otch but then again I didn't actually think I'd be doing this. *sigh*

Stay tuned.

Post: #119763
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119763/action/topic#119763
Time: 30-Jun-2005 2:41 AM

Doctor M, send it my way.

As for fixing the audio, all of my stuff is backed up, but would take some very significant time to reconstruct. Not as significant as reediting everything, of course, so it could be worth it.

But with the file snatched 400 times, I wonder if I'd get crucified for saying "here it is again."

If only the remuxed vob could be assured to have only a few bytes different, it would be a quick fix for everybody. Ack!

Post: #119624
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119624/action/topic#119624
Time: 29-Jun-2005 5:20 PM

Anybody out there with a set who wants to post screen shots, please post in Andy's thread. Meanwhile, for those who haven't seen it, my menus are absolutely nothing to crow about. Two still-frame screens per disc. The idea was to take up as little room as possible so the space could be devoted to the movies themselves. My DL versions don't have the same excuse as the SL versions, but it made version control that much easier.

Post: #119556
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119556/action/topic#119556
Time: 29-Jun-2005 12:14 PM

I'm still kicking myself for the audio dropout. I reviewed these things so many times before they went out, and at one time that glitch wasn't present. *sigh*

Well, if I re-do these edits one day in HD I'll try to have better QC. It's still a thousand times more entertaining than the original, I suppose. ;-)

Post: #119572
Topic: Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119572/action/topic#119572
Time: 29-Jun-2005 8:29 AM

I don't think that was actually in his script, but that was stuff Jon Peters was trying to get him to do.

Jon Peters. Producer/Hairdresser. That tells you everything.

Post: #119557
Topic: Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119557/action/topic#119557
Time: 29-Jun-2005 6:27 AM

I assume ricarleite is referring to the Death of Superman comics, as opposed to the movie that was going to be based on it. I know little about the comics and more about the movie.

The movie was penned by Kevin Smith and the script can be found online via a Google search pretty quickly. I've read it, and it didn't totally float my boat. Braniac reminded me too much of the little alien inside the old man's head in Men In Black. Pardon the pun, but it seemed too comical.

Anyway, Tim Burton was attached to direct. Then, if memory serves me correctly, he had the premise re-written by Andrew Kevin Walker and Kevin Smith's script was chucked. Then, to everybody's horror, Nicholas Cage was signed to play the part for $17 million in a pay-or-play deal. The budget came in at $140 million and Warner shut down production before it started. Burton went on to do Sleepy Hollow from there, but was publicly very upset about this. I think Cage, in a moment of true magnanimity, decided not to make Warner's pay him the $17 million they were on the hook for, realizing that it would buy him some really good Karma in Hollywood (which, frankly, it did).

The rest of the world sighed in relief. Aside from old issues of Entertainment Weekly that attest to this part of the soap opera, Patton Oswalt has a stand up routine in which he talks about Nicholas Cage as Superman. He embellishes by having Nick Nolte join as Batman. If you've never heard this, it's hysterical. Nolte as Han Solo too.

But I digress. This early chapter in the "Let's make another Superman Movie" soap opera was followed by the McG/Ratner/Bay/McG debacle.

There is a wonderful fest of production ideas from Jon Peters, who wanted to have Superman have a robot sidekick, get his powers from the suit, and fighting giant polar bears and robot spiders in the Arctic. This is the best development in the screwed-up era of this film.

Here are some links to amuse you all:
http://www.bluetights.net/theplanet/showthread.php?t=724
http://williamgibsonboard.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/2866012481/m/5311047921
http://www.thenakedcritic.com/20040905paparazzi.htm
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/movies.php?topic=regarding-jon-peters

Post: #119407
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119407/action/topic#119407
Time: 28-Jun-2005 11:08 PM

Hal, I've heard other strange things going on with Ep II. I'm unsure if it's a bad burn or something else. Clearly the burns are going through. PM me with the details about where it screws up.

Post: #119405
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119405/action/topic#119405
Time: 28-Jun-2005 11:07 PM

Thing was, there was this one massive explosion shot that faded to white with Jar Jar flying in the air, then another shot much later of him flying and rolling on the ground. It made sense to edit out everything in between as the result is quite seamless.

I thought earlier today that a really bold move in Ep II would have been to go from the first scene in Palp's office straight to the Jedi Council ordering Anakin to take Amidala to Naboo. This would almost completely work if you cut short the line that says "Perhaps and old friend [like Master Kenobi]." The only problem then would be why Obi-Wan is chasing Jango, as the dart wouldn't enter the storyline.

I didn't go nearly this extreme with Ep II.