ChainsawAsh

It's up on Myspleen now.

Most DVD transfers have a small amount of black bars on the sides.  It's not a big deal at all, just leave it be, as DJ said.

Cheater.

Well, doing the subs in Vegas means they'll be burned into the movie, not a new subtitle file.  And if you can set the monitors to display the movie in 16:9 correctly (I know this can be done in Avid and Final Cut, but like I've said before, I have never used Vegas, so I don't know about that one), then you'll be watching the movie in the correct aspect ratio and should be able to add the subs properly that way.  When you render it out as 720x480, the subs will be stretched vertically, like they were supposed to.

I don't know, though, I'm definitely not the best person to ask about that.

Also, you could render out the lossless AVI at 854x480 (with square pixels), which is 16:9, and work with it in Vegas that way, so you don't have to worry about the anamorphic issue until you're done and go to make the DVD.  It'll probably make the encoding from MPEG-2 to Lagarith/huffyuv AVI take quite a bit longer, though.

ibleedspeed said:

moth3r if 3:2 is correct i am confused. most dvd,s i watch have a dar of 16:9. i tried using vegas to set the dar to 16:9. all that did was give me a 16:9 dar of the picture i loaded into vegas with black bars on the sides.

Oh, I think I see what's up.

16:9 DVDs aren't actually 16:9.  They're 3:2, stretched vertically (so people look skinnier and taller).  When you put it into a DVD player, there's a flag encoded into the video that tells the player to stretch it out - on a 4:3 TV, it squishes it vertically, adding black bars on the top and bottom that are generated by the player; on a 16:9 TV, they stretch it out horizontally to fit in the 16:9 frame without adding any black bars.  This is what's known as anamorphic widescreen (on video, at least - on film, anamorphic widescreen is a different beast, though the principle is similar).

4:3 DVDs are technically 3:2 (720x480) as well, but the pixels are rectangles instead of squares.  If the pixels were squares, it would be 640x480.

So what you need to do is just work with the stretched 720x480 video (there might be an option in your editing program to change the monitors to 16:9 so you can see it properly, but the file will still be 720x480), and when you've finished and are building the DVD, make sure that you give the video the proper 16:9 anamorphic flag.

There.  That's the only picture I have on my computer of me when I was a kid.  (For the record, I'm inside a dog cage.)

I don't know shit about avisynth, so take this with a heaping mound of salt.

But doesn't this line indicate that you're adding black borders on all sides?

#  BORDERS
#AddBorders(left,top,right,bottom)

Here's the deal with subs:

1. The Volume 1 subs, since it's from a Japanese DVD, will be full-movie English subs, no matter what.  You won't be able to download an SRT, because the running times of the US (with forced subs - also note that they probably have two different subtitle tracks, one with just the "forced" subs, and one with all of them) and Japanese (without forced subs) versions will be different.  You're pretty much gonna have to do the subs manually, yourself, using your US DVD as a reference (since, to my knowledge, there are no additional subtitled lines in the Japanese version).

2. Ripping subtitles from a DVD and applying them to the ripped version of the movie itself is going to be nasty business anyway, as DVD subs are designed to run at 29.97 fps, which means they won't sync well at 23.976 fps.

Also, do not edit at 29.97 fps.  That will cause you no end of headaches.  I don't know why Volume 2 keeps having these framerate issues - maybe that's why QtheGajin's edit has interlacing issues.  But you're definitely gonna need to IVTC Volume 2 down to 23.976fps in order to work with it.

And since the US and Japanese DVDs both have the same issue, I guess you can use whichever one you want, depending on how you like that one scene to be edited.

kaine23 said:

What exactly is the PURIST remix?

Hairy_Hen originally did 5.1 upmixes of Empire and Jedi that included music not present in the original theatrical release (for Empire, it was the scene where Boba Fett takes off with Han - he restored the natural end of the cue as heard in the '97/'04 SE; for Jedi, he added in the never-before-used-in-any-version-of-the-movie cue when Luke talks to Ben's ghost on Dagobah).

In order to use 5.1 upmixes for this and similar preservation projects, HH also made "purist" versions of Empire and Jedi that remove these music changes, so that there's no content in the mixes that wasn't in the original theatrical releases.

The new outfit/sonic screwdriver for McGann was done specifically for a New Zealand(?) fan convention, and isn't authorized by either the BBC or Big Finish (though BF did, finally, release an audio that has a new image of McGann instead of recycling the TV movie promo stills yet again).

I do like the new costume, though.  It's a good bridge between his weird Edwardian thing from the TV movie and Eccleston's "U-Boat Captain" look.

Going from mkv to lossless AVI is very backwards.  You're converting a lossy format to another lossy format to a lossless format - basically, adding a whole unnecessary step in between that will decrease the quality, however small that decrease may be.

Plus, those subs look really awkward (to me), being half in the letterboxing and half in the frame.  And aren't the subtitles in that scene supposed to be yellow?  I thought they were yellow most of the time, and green every once in a while, but never white.

I still think you should render the m2v to lossless AVI, then do the subtitles yourself in Vegas or Premiere or whatever you decide to use.

I just checked up on Vol. 2, and you're right, there are some editing differences.  However, it's not censorship so much as it's just edited slightly differently, so I'd just use the US DVD of Vol. 2.  It'll (hopefully) solve a lot of your headaches, which really aren't worth it if the content is almost identical.

Yeah, the ladies don't really like the hard fucking.  You feel like you're givin' 'em some extra juice, but they're not into that.

Or maybe they are, though, they're into that.  You know what the test is?  You just say, "Get on top, honey.  You do what you like."  And sometimes she'll be fuckin' you really hard!  It's like, "Wait, you like that?  You like that?  Slow down, I'm gonna spurt - AHH!  Oh, sorry.  You shouldn't have fucked me so hard."

TV's Frink said:

ibleedspeed said:

as you can see in the first line of my post i own kill bill vol 1 and 2 what difference does it make what country they are from?

 

If it doesn't matter which country they are from, why did you need to rip the Japanese one?

Because the Japanese version of Volume 1 is uncensored, whereas the US version is censored (black-and-white House of Blue Leaves fight & shorter, less violent O-Ren anime sequence).  I see no problem with him using the Japanese source to get the uncensored version, especially since he owns the US release.

Also, ibleedspeed - the US and Japanese Volume 2 are 100% identical (no US censorship like Volume 1), so try using your US Volume 2 DVD instead.  That might solve your problem right there.

Bingowings said:

It's always better to use a lower point size for the typeface and then kern it to fit than distorting the text as a field (if possible) as it preserves the dimensions of the typeface.

But the point is we don't want to preserve the dimensions of the typeface.

Ooh, didn't see her there, too.  Man, I have no idea how this is going to pan out, but I'm fucking excited.

It seems like there's something up with the interlaced source.  What source are you using exactly?  Retail DVD, rental DVD, or a downloaded copy?

The font itself isn't thicker.

Here's what I did to make that image:

I took yours, used the rectangle selection tool to select "THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR," cut it out of that layer, pasted it onto a new one, then used Edit>Transform>Scale to change the size.  You can stretch it to be taller or shorter, wider or slimmer that way.

What I'd do is take a screencap of the "KILL BILL" from the DVD (without the "Vol. 1") at full 720x480 size (saved as a TIFF or PNG, and not as a JPG), bring it into Photoshop, add the new text (the process I described above can be done to a text layer as well, not just an image layer), put it where you want it, flatten the image, save it, then import it back into your video editing program and match it up to the real logo, adding fade-in/fade-out as necessary to get it to match.

Agreed.  I like Eccleston and all, but I absolutely adore McGann.  He's fantastic in the audios.

Speaking of which, I just finished part 1 of Zagreus.  It's definitely different, but I quite like it so far.  Not sure why so many people hate it so much ... though I might find out in the next 2 "episodes."

Oh, and I've seen the new trailer, and ...

SPOILERS FOR SERIES 6 OF DOCTOR WHO BELOW!!!

... was that Rory in 9/10's console room?!  WhhhaaaAAAAA?

No, you can change the height without changing the width (or vice versa).  For instance, I whipped this up in Photoshop real quick-like:

I second uTorrent.  Best bittorrent client by far, with minimal set up required.

Yeah, the codecs used on ANH-R's DVD-5 and DVD-9 releases are absolutely no different than the codecs used on any commercially released DVD, so the idea that Sony doesn't support the codecs is just ridiculous.

I'd say it's likely a bad burn - are you using Memorex media, by chance?

That sounds right to me, but I don't know much about Windows programs, so I can't help you much beyond that.

Are you using the PAL or NTSC DVD, and what region is your player?

I think the new font is better, but the words shouldn't be nearly as thin and tall, and the font size should be small enough to fit under "Bill."

Just my $0.02.