AntcuFaalb

msycamore said:

Before I make too many enemies in this thread, I have to say that I love the design of the royal guards, the shuttle and the handiwork behind the biggest puppet ever; Jabba, lovely creation. I also enjoy Ian's Emperor even though I expected something else.

And to bring this back to the threads original question, tell you the truth I have not seen episode II and III in their entirety, only clips and segments here and there, quite hard to avoid. But I'm pretty sure already from what I've seen that Jedi doesn't sink as low as those two in my view. I promised myself that I never was going to watch another after Phantom Mence but now a friend of mine has given me an opportunity to do so and I've sort of mellowed to the idea, and I must admit that I'm actually a bit curious to finally watch them in a morbid way.

I've seen I-III, but I still haven't seen any of the OT SEs besides ANH:R.

Darth Editous said:

Upscaling is, IMO, a bad idea. NNEDI3 is good, but in my experience TV and player upscalers are better, and all you're doing is wasting encoded bytes on pixels that don't contain any real information. Keep it at the original resolution, let the encoder spend all its bytes on real detail, and leave upscaling to the playback device.

DE

FWIW, Andrea, I agree with this.

I understand your drive to want to make these LDs look as good as possible, but I think it would be more useful to the community to have each (or, at least, one) of the captures uncropped/unresized at ~DVD9 sizes.

I'm not saying to upload the raw captures! I just think that unaltered DVD9s of your captures would go a long way and I'm sure they'd be greatly appreciated.

"You must do what you feel is right, of course." -Ben Kenobi

Damn! I didn't realize you were upscaling, Andrea, or I would have recommended nnedi3_rpow2!

Use ResampleHQ to get square PAR and then use NNEDI2 (or NNEDI3) to upscale from there.

Davnes007 said:

EDITED BY ERICA: Please don't be offended by the following reply. It is meant in jest, and was not meant to make anyone feel bad.

 

 

AntcuFaalb said:

Davnes007 said:

Oh, gee. Why didn't I think of that. :P

 

 

Still NOTHING.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=spanish+lpp&_sacat=0&_from=R40

Rage Warning........Don't Take It Personally

Still NOTHING

I'm not a fucking moron.

I know how to do a fucking search!

>:(

=============== Rage Over........Let Happiness resume.

:-)

I know it's not your fault.

Well, that's it. There's only one explanation: You broke the World Wide Web.

Here's what I see: http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1200/spanishlpp.png

Davnes007 said:

Oh, gee. Why didn't I think of that. :P

 

 

Still NOTHING.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=spanish+lpp&_sacat=0&_from=R40

bkev said:

Not for the moment, I don't think. There must be a reason why most of the preservations come from there. More than happy to be wrong, of course. If the subtitles bother you that much you could probably do some work on a VHS copy with your deck. I wouldn't think it could surpass laserdisc just based on resolution, but you seem to have worked wonders on your PB78 so I dunno.

I was actually planning to preserve my sealed VHS copy of it!

Should I IVTC it?

Are there any copies of From Star Wars to Jedi available that are better than the Japanese LDs?

Search for "spanish lpp" and you'll find it. Enjoy!

The question is: Should I try to stabilize the vertical jumping/jitter?

I e-mailed -1 a link to this thread, but I haven't heard back from him... yet.

Is there any interest in a preservation of the "Work in Progress" B&TB LD?

I own a copy and I have a Panasonic LX-900U...

Edit: Granted, I haven't viewed it yet and I hear it's a rotter.

TV's Frink said:

AntcuFaalb said:

1990osu said:

I think what it really comes down to is whether you are looking for the good or the bad when you're watching these movies.  With the prequels, the lameness tends to override the good parts when you are trying to enjoy them, but watching ROTJ, there is so much good here if you are looking for it and not ways to tear it down. More than tolerable IMO.  It has jaw-dropping moments.  That is why so many people have said it was their favorite for so many years.  I  agree that it has become trendy to bash ROTJ, but I think it has a lot to offer and a very cool ending to the trilogy. And in terms of moral lesson it is the very best of the OT, hands down.

My primary reason for ROTJ being my favorite of the three is that it's silly enough to have a sequence like "Yub Nub".

Not sure if serious.

I'm quite serious.

bkev said:

Love Moth3r's new avatar. Good twist on an old favorite.

When Moth3r changes his avatar, it changes the first thing you notice on many (most?) of the subforums. It was somewhat disorienting at first, at least for me.

1990osu said:

I think what it really comes down to is whether you are looking for the good or the bad when you're watching these movies.  With the prequels, the lameness tends to override the good parts when you are trying to enjoy them, but watching ROTJ, there is so much good here if you are looking for it and not ways to tear it down. More than tolerable IMO.  It has jaw-dropping moments.  That is why so many people have said it was their favorite for so many years.  I  agree that it has become trendy to bash ROTJ, but I think it has a lot to offer and a very cool ending to the trilogy. And in terms of moral lesson it is the very best of the OT, hands down.

My primary reason for ROTJ being my favorite of the three is that it's silly enough to have a sequence like "Yub Nub".

none: Why don't we all agree on a "standard" GOUT?

ReJig can demux the video from a DVD if provided with an IFO. It stores the entire video stream in an m2v container. Yes, the entire movie.

I have created an m2v and accompanying d2v using ReJig and DGIndex, respectively.

Would you be interested in working together on this? If so, I can provide you with my m2v and d2v to work with as a base.

My m2v/d2v matches up with Darth Mallwalker's IP reel frame numbers, FWIW.

Treadwell said:

There is no point in using colorbars from another source, even if it is of similar vintage. Colorbars are only meaningful if they were recorded on the same equipment on the same tape using the same dial settings as were used to dub the main program. In theory, all color bars should be the same, but there is a huge equipment and human error factor from dub to dub.

Ah, that makes sense! Thanks!

I'm watching and capturing PS78 right now.

Discovery: Average/Median will destroy the final product. There's simply way too much vertical jitter. Furthermore, the vertical jitter is unpredictable.

I don't want to increase ghosting, so I'm going to shoot for one excellent capture.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

PS78 is getting a reboot. The five raw captures are available on Usenet (a.b.starwars) if anyone needs/wants them.

I'm going to take three new captures using only the Panasonic AG-1980P and the Panasonic DMR-ES10. I think my capture cards are doing something silly with the AGC, so I don't want to use them.

I'm also looking into getting a copy of the 1983 VHS tape of The Octagon because it has colorbars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHIe1oz4Dtg

I plan to use Moth3r's guide to make the colors of the captures as close as possible to the source.

Harmy said:

That's an interesting piece of software but After Effects already generates filmgrain very faithfully. It even has different presets that simulate the most common kinds of film stock.

That's awesome! I didn't know that...

Which version of AE are you using?

SilverWook said:

Is the intent to create an HD film scanner?

Yes, on-the-cheap. It'll be similar to -1's design in that we plan to use the Canon Hack Development Kit with a Canon Powershot digicam.

Also, Harmy, have you considered using the following software? http://grubbasoftware.com/index.html

After more research, I think we can get this to work using an Arduino and a Hall Effect sensor. This would work in a manner similar to the bike odometer, but it's better (read: easier) technology with which to work.

More information: http://garagelab.com/profiles/blogs/tutorial-how-to-use-the-hall-effect-sensor-with-arduino?xg_source=activity

LexX said:

I won't be seeing any 3D movies anymore so can't give this new fps a try, all 2D versions seem to be regular. Too bad.

Yay! Welcome to the 2D-only club.

I'm stereo-blind, so 3D movies look terrible for me. Furthermore, they hurt.

Moth3r: Also, if you have the raw captures lying around, but you're not willing to (or can't) upload them, then would you be willing to upload a version with a much higher bitrate? I'm thinking ~DVD-9 size.