Chewtobacca

necer accused u of nuthin just saying dats all

TV's Frink said:i prefer football in the groin as it haz football in the groin

omg lolz!

TV's Frink said:@chew

Bless u!

u really oughta get dat sorted its da season and al c a dr

TV's Frink said: chew bumin = bum lolz

u sed it

yeh but u sed bumin out so u dun it first

butt sluggo now bringz comfort and joi

Moth3r said:  And if I wanted to be really picky about 1980's authenticity, I could mention the URL for thx.com that appears at the end of the credits...

Now, even by ot.com standards, that's picky! :-D  I had similar thoughts about some of the faces, but assumed that some of the look was a byproduct of the color correction.  I'm fairly certain that the black crush is in the source.

I cannot believe that Moth3r has never seen the Special Editions.

Ah!  I see what you mean:  I just never thought of it that way.  :-)

Bingowings said:  In ANH he was all "That's not my idea of courage", "This plan isn't going to work" etc but come ESB he was "Never tell me the odds" so it seems a bit odd for Han to tell Luke that he is going to die on the planet he grew up on.

I always took "Never tell me the odds" as meaning "Don't tell me because it might put me off" --- a bit like when people say "Don't look down" to those with vertigo -- rather than as bravado.  Perhaps I interpreted it other than it was meant.  The line about Luke's dying where he grew up just struck me dry humor, but I can see why someone might not like the line.

 

Harrison isn't just given lousy lines in ROTJ but he really doesn't seem to care any more (a bit like George).

I think he cared, but had become disillusioned with the way the Star Wars saga was going.  I remember behind the scenes footage from Returning to Jedi that shows the actors discussing the line "Tell them" when the Ewoks are about to burn the heroes, and Ford is contributing ideas.  I think Ford likes to take an active part in films and finds it hard to engage when his ideas are not used. 

There is a deleted scene for Balderunner when Ford's voiceover sounds perfect.  The rest of the time he sounds bored.  I don't think he was trying to sabotage the voiceover: he just doesn't do well when his heart isn't in it.

Best of luck, FF!  I hope that you enjoy your study program. :-)

bkev said: Hope it doesn't mean the end of your Bond projects.

I hope so too.  I was also looking forward to seeing what FF would do with The Motion Picture.  Aside from his projects, I will miss FF's posts if he spends less time here.  Stick around, man.

Try the trial of DVD Lab Pro.   It is fully functional for thirty days, which should be more than enough time, and there is an excellent help section accessible through the progam and other useful guides on Mediachance's website.

Whoops!  I am sorry for my part in this, Moth3r.  I was just making a (weak) joke.

avoiding work usually :-)

TV's Frink said: rthink ill waste some time on otdotcom

One can waste time on otdotcom? :-O

Star Wars is the film I have watched the most.  I put it on quite often when I am working on my laptop, so that I can glance at it when I am bored.  I don't usually watch the whole film through: I just watch bits.  I find it very strange that I don't really tire of the film, but I don't.  I watch ESB often too, especially Adywan's big MKV of the 97 SE.

SilverWook said:

Damn, and I was already saddened over Leslie Nielsen's passing. :(

That's how I feel too.  Both will be missed.

Frink knows a flake when he hears one.

TV's Frink said:

@Chew Said I would wait for dinner.

...but I thought this was a Twitter feed...

TV's Frink said: Think I'll stretch for a bit.

You eat rabbit?

Darth Solo said: My thoughs are with you, and your family.

Mine are too.  I wish you all the best, PSYCHO_DAYV.

I too agree with what xhonzi posted.  It is sound common sense. 

I hadn't seen PSYCHO_DAYV's post in the other thread, so I had no idea about this.  Thanks for the heads up, Warb.

There seem to be commercial DVDs available -- unless these are rare episodes or something -- so you really should use those as your source.  Your AVI rips will have been resized, probably to different resolutions.  To convert them to MPEG-2, you will have to resize them to make them DVD compliant and to make them match each other.  This will involve learning a fair bit about resizing video and some of the basics of Avisynth.  Once you have done that, you can encode with HC Encoder, which is a free high-quality MPEG-2 encoder, and take your files into Womble to edit, if you are determined to edit in Womble.

Working from the DVDs would be easier.  Even then, editing in Womble is not as easy as it looks, if you want to do it properly.  You have to learrn to work round its bugs.

Really, Womble is designed to edit and smart render MPEG-2 files.  It isn't really very good at anything else.

Womble does not like editing anything other than MPEG-2 files.  That is more or less what I would expect to see.  I agree with ChainsawAsh: don't edit DivX or XviD, if that is what you have.  If you encode the files to MPEG-2, edit and smart render, you might achieve passable quality, but I would hate to resort to this.  Is the original source of your video unavailable?

You have my condolences, dark_jedi.  That's sad news.

ImperialFighter said: So I take it you've compared both the pre-'Quadrilogy' DVD version and 'Quadrilogy' DVD version against your Blu-ray version on the same equipment/settings to make this judgement then?

Yes; I have.  Put it this way: I tend to think that the colors are not as far from the original DVD as the quadrilogy disc.  Whether my "not as far" is near enough for you, I can't say.  I am really pleased with how the BD looks, but you'll just have to make up your own mind. :-)

I have now seen the Blu-ray of Alien, and I agree that it looks somewhere between the two previous DVD transfers, which seems like a good place for it to be.  ImperialFighter, I would recommend that you at least rent the Alien BD.   You might be pleasantly surprised.