Chewtobacca

It is, however, stressed enough.  The vein in the temple should be visible though, so it can throb whenever someone goes off topic.  Perhaps someone has an animated GIF of that?

TV's Frink said: EDIT: Oh, the cat drinking the beer and changing channels?  That's along the same lines as popcorn, so sure, I could see that.

Yes; his cat seems to have issues, so perhaps it was just too close to home.

TV's Frink said:

Also, he bitched about DTS in another thread yesterday and I made fun of him there too, so maybe that's the reason.  Darned if I can't find the right thread, however.

I missed that.

TV's Frink said:

Haha, J T34 is ignoring me now.

Really?  That surprises me.  Perhaps the cat picture you posted upset him.

TV's Frink said:

JediTray said:

Of course I have and I'm a fan.  I didn't see an answer in the technobabble.

Sorry, I thought you were responding to Chewtobacca.

So did I at first!  Thanks, anyway, Frink. :-)

Moth3r, I love your new avatar, by the way. It seems fitting somehow!

Jedi Temple34 said:

For me it’s a big deal it’s a vintage iconic Dolby film mix and Fox knows this and Lucasfilm Skywalker sound, knows this to be true, they obviously don’t give a hoot they’d sooner grab the money from the sales.  To each of our own, in ways STAR WARS visual images is religious to some and others it would be sound mix.

I understand what you mean about the vintage mixes, and quite a few people around here might agree with you about small differences in the audio mix being as important to them as small changes in the video.  For me, unless Luke says "Blast it, Biggs" rather than "Blast it, Wedge" in ANH it is not quite the same.  Stupid, but true!

With the surround sound, I do not think you would notice that much of a difference if it were encoded to Dolby Digital or DTS, as long as the mix that was being encoded was the same.  By the way, is it confirmed that the Star Wars Blu-rays will be 5.1 not 7.1?

Regarding Raise the Titanic, it does seem hard to find Dolby Digital 5.1.   There is a German Dolby Digital 5.1 track, but only English 2.0 on most releases.  If I can find a 5.1 mix, I shall let you know.

JediTray said: I didn't see an answer in the technobabble.

The answer to your question is that caligulathegod is looking though his files to see if he still has them, but even if he does it will probably be a while before a fix becomes available. :-)

 

Jedi Temple34 said:If this was HD-DVD it would be mandatory to use Dolby True-HD

 

Well, not quite mandatory for Dolby TrueHD itself, as many HD DVDs did not use it, but I agree that if HD DVD were still about the Star Wars discs would probably have at least a Dolby Digital Plus track.  Still, Blu-ray and DTS-HD MA are here to stay, and much as it would be nice to have older audio mixes on discs we shall both have to become used to it. Come on, Jedi Temple34, it is not that bad! :-)

If it really is just simple frame-by-frame editing, nothing fancy, then Womble is your tool.  It can smart render the result without quality loss and without a lengthy re-encoding. 

Womble has a fully functional 30-day free trial, which should be enough time to complete your project.   Follow adigitalman's guide, which is in this sub-forum.

http://www.womble.com/download/index.html

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/ADigitalMans-Guide-to-MPEG2-AC3-Editing/topic/3444/

Aw!  :-(  I protest!  I did not spy that new rule.

It does take the fun out of hiding words, do you not think, Frink? :-(

Sluggo said:

A B C said:

SLUG - HOST

... (He can't read me anyway!)

Guess again, Frenchie!

Now that I think of it...

Guess again, Frenchie!

FrogSpawnofSatan

timdiggerm said:

Excuse me, there is the what? I'm pretty decent at the whole internet thing, having been on the web since it was called the web back in 1998, computer science degree, etc, and I have no idea how to access "the newsgroup". Very few people use those things anymore; torrent is where it's at, when it comes to distribution.

The newsgroup - our "usual place" - is alt.binaries.starwars.  Quite a few people use it and other newsgroups besides.  There is a thread somewhere, arguing the merits of torrents, rapidshare and newgroups, so I will not get into that debate, but as many can download from it as wish to, however big the community grows.

edited - I see vbangle beat me to it.

Baronlando said:

Are there any shots from the original Apocalypse that aren't in Redux?

I do not think so, unless you take into account the different versions of the end credits.

zombie84 said:

I'd be fine with a fully remastered original interpositive in high definition with the theatrical audio, as Blade Runner did.

Yes; that would be fine by me too.

zombie84 said: I'm curious as to where the new Apocalypse Now theatrical cut transfer will come from.

I have been wondering the same thing...

timdiggerm said:

This is one of the biggest problems with this site : The current project distribution model basically relies on it being a small community, and the community's not going to get bigger without a way for just anyone to come here and download at least some kind of sample of why the Lucasfilm releases suck.

I see your point, but there is the newsgroup.  All Adywan's AVCHD releases are there, and anyone can find them and download them however big the community becomes.

Mike O said:

There's yet to be a movie that involves a Blu-Ray double-dip that I know about.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

I think you are probably right, about the Star Wars Blu-rays though.  The latest GOUT restorations look set to be excellent though, Adywan's restoration of ESB looks good, so I would not lose hope!  :-)

Noooooo!!!

Bingowings said: the boobtube cops.

That is a disturbing image!

It is nice to have the video back though.

Homer loves pies!

Sluggo said:

Audio Format Zealot

 DTStrogen Dominance

SKot said:In the early ROTJ trailers, Luke's lightsaber was not green...it was blue.  It was colored green later.

That is an interesting can of worms, but if Nerfherder's earlier quotation can be relied upon, and I think it can, and this was cut from the final cut during post production, then the trailers might well have been completed before then.  There is that shot in the ESB trailer with Artoo during the escape from Cloud City that did not have the laser blast effects added in, which shows that that trailer was made before all the effects were complete.  In the ROTJ lightsaber scene the effects are present, so perhaps the ROTJ trailer had already been made. 

Sluggo said: I've always imagined you as Jim Warbler.

 I thought he just liked birding.

TV's Frink said:

Oh, and I'd like to watch the show too, please...

Don't let us down, J T34!

 It is starting soon!  I know it is -- any minute now...

adywan said:

It's just been announced that the Blu-Ray box set will be 5.1 DTS-MA audio only, with no Dolby soundtrack

Somebody is not going to be happy....

edited - Sluggo beat me to it!

I do not ultimately care greatly which is used (although I prefer Dolby TrueHD as it usually takes up less space on the disc that could be used for other features) but I hate the fact that many modern releases only seem to have 5.1 mixes.  I would love to have original mono and stereo soundtracks included more often.  There is a real nostalgia value attached to listening to them for me.  I am not just talking about SW here, just in general.

ChainsawAsh said:

Well, your argument was that the never-before-released deleted scenes were likely to be presented in SD because the trilogy has been released on DVD before.

No; it was not.

caligulathegod said:  Since I was working with spectral analysis, I was also able to spot pops and other errors and fix those, too.  Needless to say, it's very tedious work. 

It sounds it!  Thank you for explaining.  Spectral analysis, eh?  Sounds like something out of Star Trek! :D

TV's Frink said:

I'll bet the prequel deleted scenes are in HD!!!

*runs away*

LOL!  You could well be right. :-)