Chris Solo

Here's a little example of why this work is really important Harmy.  My dad and I have always had Star Wars.  It is just as big as watching football or baseball together, if not bigger.  I waited a long time to become a dad myself (I'm a ripe old 42).  My son is seven now.  My dad is visiting and he suggested the three of us watch Star Wars.  He was not aware of the Despcialized Editions and I really don't know why I haven't told him.  He is visiting because he is terminally ill.  I can't tell you how special it was to him for the three generations to see the film that he and I loved instead of the inferior SE.  He was totally amazed and impressed that a fan did this.  Of course he has his own copies now to take back home (shame on me for neglecting this) and my son and I have a memory that can't be erased the same way Sebastian Shaw was in ROTJ.  

The doc looks good.  I have to agree too that shots of you editing would be great.  I love the preservations like everyone else but to me the detail of how you got to the finished process is the ultimate special feature.  

Your ideas are outstanding.  I dont know how much i've wondered why the hell wasn't Beru Anakin's sister at least.  Why would Yoda and friends send Luke to live with the son and daughter in law of a man who happened to marry his grandmother.  Honestly, I think George must have been off his rocker writing the PT.  It could have been so much more believable as a tie-in to the OT.  It really pisses me off lol.  I vote for a kick starter, crowdfunded PT re-shoot.  Who's with me? :)

Thanks.  another question... Is there a search feature on the forum and I'm just too dense to see it? ;)

After reading through the post you linked to, I want to clarify, I'm actually talking about not just deinterlacing before capture, but converting to 720 or 1080/24p also prior to capture.  Looks like they are mainly discussing comb filters over there but I'll keep reading.

Anyone have any experience capturing LD and processing the signal on the way into the PC?  I ask because my main line experience has been owning a custom home theater design company since before the DVD days.  I've always employed external boxes, some ppl called them line doublers, to deinterlace, upscale, and process sources like LD and DVD to look good, relatively speaking, on large projection set ups.  i have on hand right now a Pioneer LD-S9 player, not the creme de la creme of LD imported players but a great player nevertheless.  Also have video processing from DVDO and Lumagen.  I'm going to do some testing soon using my LD-S9 and DVDO and Lumagen, looking for a good combo, into my MATROX MXO2 mini capture box.  I'll report my experience but would love to hear from anyone who has done similar.  

cheers

Without links... any hints on where to find this?  

Glad to help Harmy.  

Can I ask where you got the DTS HD MA track? thanks.

I just finished doing exactly this using the blurays.  Only issue aside from special edition changes is some scenes and colors not being exact representations of the theatrical releases of any of the films is the end sequence from Last a Crusade.  The credits begin to roll before the shot on the demo is set to end.  I working that out now.  I'll do another edit using Harmy's despecialized footage.  So far I have the 5.1 mix from the DVD release and I'm capturing the two channel from my laserdisc.  Honestly though, even with the special edition shots, it's really a great home theater demo.

Signed up just to post this.  It's not the most elegant way but if you can find player (br or DVD) with multi channel out, you can have more success.  I know i had a br player with discrete outputs so I could get uncompressed audio in my home theater.  Aldo, i have a background in audio production and have a multi channel audio input board in my production setup.  It would be time consuming to say the least but if a multi-channel out were used, each of the five channels could be captured real-time and recorded on their own separate tracks.  The dialog channel is more often than not just dialog.  Hope this helps and if it's been covered already just forgive me for being too lazy to read all three pages.  I have a session coming up. Sorry!

cheers

chrid