Chewtobacca

Harmy said:The blog won't even load for me. It hasn't been working for a few days now. Anyone else have that problem?

I've not been able to log in for a while.

AntcuFaalb said: I believe he used Srestore.

Thanks.  I've used Srestore before.  It just occurred to me that the terminology I used was imprecise because I typed quickly without thinking.  I didn't mean that it was a classic field-blended NTSC-to-PAL conversion: I meant that every (or almost every) field is a blend of two fields -- "full field blended" might be a better way of putting it.

ww12345 said:

 

@chewtobacca: I believe it is from the same broadcast. The version I used as the "original" came from OldSkoolFan over on MySpleen.

Oh, I see.  I didn't realize that you weren't the one who recorded the broadcast in the first place.  Mine was recorded a while back and wasn't downloaded.  I don't think that it's likely to be of use to anyone though, because it's a bit of a mess.

That's good to hear, ww12345. :)

What did your script to get rid of the field blending look like?  The blends on my copy are quite bad, especially the odd fields, which generally speaking look far worse than the even fields.  I wonder if we taped the same broadcast.

I have a PAL 4:3 version of SotS from TV, but it's field blended.

Cinderella and BatB seem good to me too, Andrea, and I would dearly love to see a transfer of the Deluxe CAV of Pinocchio.  I saw a comparison of the BD, DVD and LD on a forum (I forget which) and the LD looked by far the best. My LD of Cinderella looks like this.

The clips look promising.  Keep up the good work. :-)

Awesome work! :)

Bingowings said:  I know Ady has had loads of hurdles to overcome but it has taken too long to maintain the same degree of enthusiasm that I had a couple of years ago.  Obviously I still wish him well and hope he overcomes all these obstacles...

I feel the same way.  I'm still interested in seeing the result, but have moved on a bit since ANH:R.

Harmy said:

So, guys, I was thinking, what would you think if I released v2.1 as AVCHD and MKV  now...  ...I really want the BD to be worthwhile content wise, and I just don't have the time to do that to my complete satisfaction just now

That sounds like a practical plan, Harmy.  Remuxing the MKV with tsmuxer is as easy as pie, and my suspicion is that the average person would forgo the menu and lossless audio to have 2.1 without a longer, indeterminate delay.  I suggest you release the MKV.

EDIT:  This might also take the pressure of releasing 2.1 (which I'd imagine you are feeling to some extent) off a bit.

AntcuFaalb said: True, but they were there during the theatrical run.

That's interesting, but I'm not sure that we can say with certainty that they were there for all prints.

AntcuFaalb said: Do you plan on re-inserting the infamous burn marks?

I hope not.  I can't stand those burn marks.  The JSC doesn't have them.

I can't remember if you have my e-mail address or not, negative1, but I'm definitely interested, so I'd appreciate a PM when you're ready to proceed.

captainsolo said:OT.com 2012 Convention: Disney HQ.

If not Disneyland...

SilverWook said: ...there is a precedent for a creator to step back while someone else takes the controls. The amount of input Gene actually had on the later Trek sequels has been debated in fan circles.

Yeah, it occurred to me that Gene's influence after TMP was still quite strong. 

I'm not sure exactly what to make of this news yet.

ADigitalMan said:

Would you like the brick I just crapped???

Wow!  ADM still posts here. :)

Does anyone still have the 14GB MKV of ESB? 

Well, this is the oldest post I've been able to recover.  It's 1217 days old.  Thank goodness for quirky NZB search engines and Giganews.

Indeed.  Thanks, Williarob.  I haven't heard these.

there's a few anomalies, and some scenes

which look different from every version out there,

including the technicolor.

 

we're starting to think the technicolor references

we've seen are not the final word on the colors at

this point.

That's interesting.  I look forward to seeing your new blog, negative1.

You_Too said:  If you know where you kept it, and haven't filled that harddrive completely with other stuff, there's a chance it's still there.

Thanks guys, but I have indeed copied other data to the drive.  Oh, well.  I guess it's one of those things.  I just like the colors and quality of that MKV.

Does anyone still have the 14GB MKV of ESB?  I have inadvertently deleted it. :(

msycamore said:. The battle against the red continues in the Jundland Wastes

Looks good to me.  If the result looked like that in terms of color, I would be very happy.

I don't know what caused that frame to go missing.  Maybe a decoding error?  I haven't seen anything like that with HCenc.  I always check my encodes against the original.

msycamore said:  So I'm a little torn, make a true preservation of the LD or try to make this transfer to look as good as possible.

I think you know my view already.  I'm in favor of the latter. :)

Had a similar problem in THX where the white void is yellow and red/pink at the same time, in RGB colorspace I believe it would've been an easy match but in YUV colorspace it's nearly impossible to correct. How the hell do you guys do it.

Why don't you convert to RGB to perform your color correction and then back for encoding?  The quality loss is minor, in my opinion, and more than worth it.

EDIT:  Your latest sample looks good to me.

YanniD said:If you already have the DVD9 version, why not keep it at that quality level?

There is no DVD-9.  He was talking about converting Harmy's HD version to DVD.  My DVD-5 is on a.b.starwars and (apparently) myspleen.

bkev said: How typical.

US BDs actually feature the original audio far more often than EU/UK ones.  I don't know whether the rumor about OHMSS is true.

I agree with the AF's conclusions.  The Goldeneye BD looks awful.

msycamore said:Yes, Chewie did a DVD of Arnie.d's raw X9 capture as I recall. I don't want to piss on his/their effort and Mallwalker's huge undertaking of uploading these, as I'm very grateful but the truth is that those captures doesn't accurately represent how those LD-transfers look, something clearly went wrong in the capture chain, they aren't smear-free at all, the colors are bleeding and there's a chroma shift that's nowhere to be seen on the actual LD's.

No urination is involved. :D  I agree, and after you found the problems with the captures I lost interest in doing anything with them, which is why I never bothered to encode SW.  That and I decided that your Technidisc looked better, in spite of the lobster faces.

The sample looks good.  How much color correction did you do?  It's fascinating that there's yet another pressing of the JSC ESB.