ChainsawAsh

I'm looking for a good bitrate calculator for DVDs.  The problem with all the ones I've found so far is they don't do everything I need them to do.

What I need in a bitrate calculator (options-wise):

• Ability to set different audio types for different tracks (i.e., track 1 is PCM, track 2 is 2-channel AC3, track 3 is 5.1 channel AC3 - that sort of thing) - all the calculators I've found only support setting one type of audio, though some allow multiple tracks of the same type
• Ability to calculate bitrate with or without a DVD menu
• Ability to calculate bitrate of multiple video titles on a single DVD
• Ability to choose DVD-5 or DVD-9
• Ability to add subtitle tracks (though I don't know if they'd be big enough to matter)

If anyone knows of a bitrate calculator that will do these things, I'd be eternally grateful.

I don't really have many Christmas tradition movies.  Here's the best I can come up with:

Christmas Vacation (classic, of course)
A Christmas Story (so sick of this one, but it's ALWAYS ON around Christmas)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (dunno why, but it's always been a Christmas tradition with us)

New to the list this year:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas (not for everyone, but hilarious nonetheless)

Okay, another problem.

I got the AC3 file to work perfectly (and it sounds much better even on my computer than the old one), but I must have screwed up the subtitles in there.  I followed the directions EXACTLY as posted in the RAR file, and I ended up with "English 1" being forced subs, but for the entire movie, not just Watto's Huttese dialogue.  "English 2" is an empty subtitle track with nothing at all in it.

Which 2 from the demux should I use?  Which one is the Huttese subs (that are meant to be forced), and which one is the non-forced English subs for the whole movie?

Bingowings said:

He might end up with two monitors which could be very handy for editing.

Oh my God, yes it is.  This semester was the first semester I was allowed to work on the two-monitor workstations at school (as an Edit II student; in Edit I we had to use single-monitor workstations), and it makes everything much more streamlined and quicker.  Plop your timeline and source/record monitors in the right monitor, and all your bins and, well, anything else in the left monitor, and you're good to go.

If you aren't already (and if at all possible), I'd highly recommend going for the two-monitor setup, Ady.

Wasn't the name of that EU story actually called The Glove of Darth Vader, or am I remembering a different one?

--edit--

Nevermind, I got it to work.

I believe he's going to do the Jedi AVCHD once he's finished with Empire: Revisited, before starting on Jedi: Revisited.

I like the look, but it is far too narrow ...

I highly disagree.  The only title that should stay the same is The Phantom Menace (which, IMO, refers to the Sith as a whole, not Darth Maul specifically).  Attack of the Clones is such a laughably bad title to begin with that it just makes it that much easier to laugh at the movie as a whole, and Revenge of the Sith ... well ... what the hell are they getting revenge for?  Sure, it creates a nice little loop (Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith), but to me that's not clever, it's lazy.

What would work for me?

Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II The Clone Wars
Star Wars Episode III The Rise of an Empire
Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (I also dislike that subtitle, but I don't think anyone will ever change it)
Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi

Something like that.  I still am not sold on my own Episode III title, but that's the best I can do right now.

adywan said:

 i will most likely just be removing the At-St's from the only 2 shots we see them

I'm gonna throw my $0.02 here and say I think this is a bad idea.  I like the AT-STs on Hoth, and if adding more isn't possible, I would rather see this stay exactly as it has been since 1980.

That's just my opinion, though (obviously).

skyjedi2005 said:

Has there been any official announcement by Paramount or Lucasfilm on the Blu Ray releases?

No.

Doctor M said:

The problem with that is the ABC broadcast was 720p.  I would need to get a hold of the BD's (or recoded source since I don't have a BD drive) of the Theatrical and Extended cuts and then reconstruct the edit.

Also, since AFAIK there is still no NLE for HD content all cuts would have to be done in avisynth.  That was how I started and I was juggling a half dozen nested scripts with loads of trim+trim+trim...etc.

When Womble goes HD, I'll consider it. ;)

Final Cut, Premiere Pro, Avid, and Vegas all do HD.

Sometime down the road (read: when I have a shit-ton more money and time), when I have a Blu-Ray drive, I'll probably try to do this, if only because I'd really like these in the highest quality I possibly can.

I'd also need to figure out how to edit in 5.1, and how to keep the 5.1 lossless/uncompressed throughout, since releasing an edit in 1080p BD-25 while including nothing but 2.0 audio seems like a wasted opportunity.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Phantom-Menace-Theatrical-Version-NTSC-DVD-ADYWAN-NOW-AVAILABLE/topic/10615/

doubleofive said:

 

Too bad no one ever called them "Star Destroyers" in ANH.

 

Are you sure?  I seem to remember Han saying "Star Destroyer" when the Falcon was fleeing Tatooine.

And it's entirely possible that "Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival" was taken from a Tantive IV outtake that wasn't used.

I hate the line in its current ESB SE spot, but I've never thought it sounded like anyone but James Earl Jones.  I don't know where people are getting that idea.

Yep.  Rock's version is definitely the original.

Well, I looked again, and the OP's copy is definitely the original version, not the CGI replacement.  So if your version has the CGI replacement, but the rest is better quality, just swap that shot out with the one on rockps3avchd's version.

It'd be wonderful to have your extended cuts in 1080p - I was planning on getting the UE Blu-Rays of all the films (skipping out on the regular editions) to get the extended cuts in high-def, and if I had high-quality 1080p MKVs of your extended cuts I'd be set on that and can just get the regular Blu-Rays of the theatrical cuts.

Just a suggestion.  ;-)

I'm a PlayStation 3 owner, always been a PlayStation guy ever since the original, and I have to say - the 360 controller is the absolute best controller I've ever used, hands down.  The only flaw in its design is the horrible d-pad; if they replaced that with the PlayStation-style d-pad it would be perfect.

Found a comparison of the 1981 matte from the DVD (which was cleaned up anyway to remove the blue-screen halo around the car), and the new CG one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sFW8grQtU

I can't really tell from the posted screenshots which one is in this file.  It looks like the original, though.

English

Well, first, the problem with that is getting the "clean" opening, which the 2-hour "block" versions of the films don't provide for every episode.  That's why I want to get the "individual" airings, now that they're (apparently) showing them that way, too.

--edit--

Plus, I don't have access to cable right now (or any way to record anything at all off of TV), as I'm living in my dorm for the last two and a half weeks of the semester.  So I won't be able to do any recording until the last 2 weeks of the month, anyway.

I had entirely forgotten about this project!  I'll take a look when I get home after the semester's over, and I'll set it to record those episodes.  As long as I can get the title card at the beginning with a clean lower third for all 16 episodes, I should be able to do this project fairly easily.

The blue on the rank badges.  Nice catch.  That absolutely should be fixed.

The problem with the scene is that, when it was cut, the important dialogue was moved.  So the Greedo scene, originally simply meant to be a "Holy-shit-Han's-a-badass" scene now became an important exposition scene as well.

But when they added the Jabba scene back in, they didn't revert the Greedo scene back to its original dialogue.  "Even I get boarded sometimes.  Do you think I had a choice?" is in both scenes ... because the line in the Greedo scene is lifted directly from the Jabba scene.

So any fan edit that includes the Jabba scene really needs to "fix" the Greedo scene, which would just involve cutting the "Even I get boarded sometimes" line and re-doing the subtitles.

But then you run into the problem of, as "Something, something, something" said, Jabba not looking like Jabba.  He looks like a shitty CG Hutt that may be a distant cousin of Jabba's, at best.  The 1997 version didn't even look that good, and the 2004 version is still unacceptably shitty.

So, it's my personal opinion, based on those two facts and the fact that audiences for 20 years got along just fine with the Greedo scene and not the Jabba one, that the Jabba scene should stay out of Star Wars entirely.

2001: A Space Odyssey -> 2010.

A lot of people hate 2010, which saddens me.  It's a very good film with very good ideas, it's just so radically different from 2001 that people immediately compare the two, and, of course, 2010 is inferior.  But it's still a good film!