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Oh, I see.  I thought irn-bru meant a DVD release.  My mistake! 

Empire is not in the usual place.  As far as I know, it is still unavailable. 

irn-bru said:

TRUTH is always the best option.

Politeness does not compromise truth.

TV's Frink said:

...oh, I see what you did there.

If I had not, you would have! :-)

On a more serious note, this edit sounds promising.  I have been wanting to watch a good ROTJ edit for a while, but ROTJ edits seem thin on the ground.  Spence's did not receive encouraging reviews (and I had no great desire to see the Ewoks banished anyway); and ADM's was nice, but was not very extensive.

Possessed said:

I'll try to get one up tonight.

A preview would be nice too.

adywan said:

yes, MultiAVCHD is a brilliant free program. If you are worried about quality loss due to transcoding then i would suggest using 2 pass VHQ as the transcode settings. It does take a long time but the results are a lot better than 1 pass turbo. It takes me about 12 hours to do a 2 hour movie using this setting

Consider that fast!  My computer takes several whole days to use 2 pass VHQ.  The quality is better, but not actually by very much.  Dean, who developed the program, recommends and uses 1 pass turbo.

DarthBo said:

Why would you mount the image, copy the files, make a new image, and burn that?

Wouldn't it be easier (and better) to burn the original image?

Read post 8303.  Making an ISO is unnecessary though.  I would just burn the folders.

That is great news, dark_jedi.  Thank you for updating us on your progress. 

Moth3r, I agree with you that Virtualdub is more up-to-date; however, I still recommend VirtualDubMod to people.  The reason is that VirtualDub does not handle interlaced YV12 properly, whereas VirtualDubMod does.  If interlaced YV12 is imported into Virtualdub, the video will suffer from the chroma upsampling error.  This is not a problem with the method I outlined above, as the source has been made progressive by the time it enters the program, but I feel it is usually better to recommend VirtualDubMod to people who are new to this sort of thing, as it always avoids this problem. 

You should not receive that message.  It means that the ISO has been made without taking account of the layer break position.  I am not sure where you found this, but I do think there was a problem with some ISOs of ANH:R at some point.

I would download Virtual Clone Drive, mount the ISO and copy the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to your hard drive.  Then burn the folders with Imgburn and it should give the option to choose a layer break position, which of course you do.

There is no reason why the extracted file of any release should be different in size if downloaded by a different means, unless it has been tampered with.  Newsgroup collections frequently appear bigger owing to the presence of recovery records, but the fie size after extraction should be the same in all cases. 

I am baffled by this.  You'll have to find someone who is good with Macs.

You have told me that the md5 says your files are fine, so there shouldn't be a problem.  (I have to go now man.  Let me know how it turns out.  Sorry I couldn't be more help.) :-(

Yes; there are 38 parts excluding the md5.  A password error is often the result of a broken rar. 

PM sent.

I think it has more to do with whether the project is viewed as custom DVD or a fanedit.

For fanedit projects like ANH:R it is fine to mention the site, but not post links - to anything.   For custom DVDs, you can't even mention the name of the site. 

There are no problems of which I am aware.  I used to have the NTSC DVD-9 and played it without incident.  There was one problematic DVD-9 floating about at one point:  someone had unwisely unpacked the ISO and changed the layer break position; I cannot remember if that was PAL or NTSC.  Regardless, this version is not one that is currently uploaded in any of the usual places.  You should have no problems, TML. 

Doctor M said:

I didn't mean to imply ADM took the official extended version and improved on it.  I meant when ADM incorporated the deleted scenes, he just did a better job of it than they did. 

Fair enough! :-)

You're welcome.  :-)  Did you successfully import the AVI into Vegas?   I'm 99% sure it can't import YV12 Lagarith AVI.

What were the error messages for VirtualDubMod?  It really is better to use than VirtualDub MPEG-2, which I used to use.

Photograph your television.

Doctor M said:

On the down side, IIRC there are some continuity problems and sloppiness to the additions in the official cuts that ADM smoothed out.

I am pretty certain ADM's versions came out long before the official extended cuts and were removed from fanedit.org for that reason, but you are right that only the first two are out.  3 and 4 are coming soon though.

Do this.  You will need to have dgindex and Avisynth installed.

1.  Rip your DVD with DVD FAB 7 (free version)

2.  Pull out your required video and audio streams with Pgcdemux.

3. Load your MPEG-2 file into dgindex. 

Video --> field operation --->  Forced Film

Save as whatever.d2v

4.  Copy this script into notepad and save as whatever.avs

Loadplugin("Your_Directory\DGDecode.dll")
Mpeg2Source("Your_Directory\whatever.d2v")

The first line might be unnecessary.

5.  Open whatever.avs in Virtualdubmod.

Video --> Compression -->  Lagarith --> Configure --> YV12

This is if you want to stay in YV12.  You will probably want to change to RGB if Vegas cannot handle YV12 AVI and convert it internally.  As I said, I don't think it can.

(I check prevent upsampling when decoding if am creating YV12, but I don't think it is necessary.  You don't check it if you are creating RGB.)

Save as AVI and make sure fast recompress is checked if you kept the file in YV12.  Saving as normal recompress or full processing mode will trigger a conversion to RGB. 

There are other ways of doing this, but I find dgindex is the most reliable way to remove pulldown flags. 

Let me get this straight.  You want to make an AVI for editing, but are running your original MPEG through Vegas just to remove the pulldown.  There are far better ways to do that and make your AVI.

Is your source an NTSC DVD?

I think that's a conversion back to YUV, but there you go.  :-)

You should really remove pulldown before editing.  I take it your source is NTSC. 

Why are you going to Virtualdub, not why are you frameserving there? 

May I ask why you are frameserving to VirtualDub?

By the way, I am now almost certain that Vegas does require RGB for editing, so Lagarith's advantage over HuffYUV would be one of file size.

I would imagine not.  His extended editions of the other Harry Potter were taken off fanedit.org when the official extended editions were released.  I would imagine it is only a matter of time before an official extended edition of Harry Potter and the Half Blood prince is released, so there might not seem to be much point in working on something that might soon be superseded by an official release -  and a Blu-ray one at that.  

That's probably because they were posted 556/7 days ago.  Do you use a premium usenet provider?