Chewtobacca

That guy really knows his lasers!

I must protest, Professor Frink.

Chewtobacca said:

You can tell a serious amount of thought went into that post.  Bravo!

ZAP!

cutnshut said:

 I've been reading the Op rules and dont think i would be contravening any articles by saying the following:

Its not the Gun's, Lazers or people that kill..... (drum roll).....

Triggers do......

You can tell a serious amount of thought went into that post.  Bravo!

Keep up the hard work, dark_jedi!  :-)  I am sure this will look great, and really appreciate all your effort. 

Really?  I knew lagarith was the best choice, but I didn't realize you could edit in Vegas in YV12!  If so, I might buy Vegas.  I thought Vega users converted to RGB. 

ABX is a more reliable indicator than simple bitrate? 

I wouldn't worry about several audio tracks hurting the video.  Even at an average of 6500 I doubt the video stream will be much more than 5.5 GB. 

448 kbps is massive overkill for a 2.0 mix.  That's a 5.1 bitrate.  320 kbps is pretty much transparent, and even then that's probably too much.  DD recommend 192, so I would probably encode 224, or maybe 256, to be safe.

I assume you mean XviD.  In which case, I would:

1. Rip the DVD with DVD Fab 7;
2. Use pgcdemux to pull out the video and audio streams;
3. Use ImagoMPEG muxer to mux video and audio;
4. Load the muxed mpg into AutoGK and choose preferred settings.  Let it do the rest.

Sutekh, search for Ewokgroomer's AVCHD of Episode VI in the usual place.

DVD Fab 7 (the freeware version of it) does a superb job.  I would highly recommend it.  (The old DVD Decrypter is outdated now.)

When you have ripped it to disc you can use pgcdemux (free) to pull out the video stream and other audio or subtitle streams you require. 

Regarding conversion, it depends on what you want to convert the video to.  :-)

ChainsawAsh said:

Hey, I grew up with the 85 stereo, I have nothing against it.

Of course not.  :-)  I did not mean to imply that at all.  I was just expressing that I would be disappointed if it were not included, if only as a separate extra track.  

ChainsawAsh said:

 I just feel that, what with the theatrical-recreated subtitles and the ability to, for the first time, have the honest-to-god ORIGINAL audio tracks for ALL 3 FILMS, that these discs should recreate the theatrical experience as much as possible.  Therefore, including home video-exclusive mixes seems to go against that purpose (in my opinion).

I respect your opinion, and agree that the original tracks should be included, but part of this project must surely be for those who wanted a decent DVD release of the pre-SE SW that they grew up with.  It would be a shame for the home video tracks not to be synced to these releases. 

I like the 85 stereo. :-( Perhaps you could follow mysycamore's advice about the theatrical mixes but put the other synced audio mixes in the DVD-ROM folder so people could mux them if they want to do so.

TV's Frink said:

^Love the user name :-)

I almost posted the same.   It's been a long time since I've seen that!

Jdownloader can be like that sometimes, Captain Caveman.  Let me know if you have further problems and I'll show a workaround.

PM sent. :-)

doubleofive said:

But seriously, I thought he did that for everyone. Sad really.

Yes; I really enjoy his reviews and respect his opinion.  He seems to give balanced judgments on controversial releases. 

Not a bad interview!  :-)  Thanks.

REIVAX appears to have burnt in French subs for the subtitled parts.

edited - It seems to be source material.  My fault for not searching first!  I'm curious about these DJ releases though.

That would be excellent, Knight.  Please send me a PM if you can arrange anything.

Darth Editous said:

ZackR said:

with a 121' screen

I'm gonna guess you mean 121", or that's one heck of a bonus room! ;)

 

lol Can we all come round to watch ESB:R when it's out?  There must be room for everyone if you have a screen that size.  :-)

Thank you for that, but when you said you'd post links I didn't think you meant it quite so literally.  It would probably better to say you have uploaded the files and have people PM you for links.

Are these the biggest encodes you have?  I think they are about the size of my AVI, though I only have one version.  I appreciate your efforts.

Thank you for that, knightboard. :-)

Careful, TV's Frink.  That's a custom DVD you're talking about.  I'd PM him. 

ator said:

Hello, all.  Thanks for having me. 

I didn't realize we had.  PM sent though.  :-D

That's interesting.  I have a really low quality AVI that I guess is something like Ell the Ewok's.  I'd be interested in a copy.