Citizen

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Join date: 17-May-2005
Last activity: 15-Sep-2006
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Post: #126178
Topic: STAR WARS: the alt.binaries.starwars thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/126178/action/topic#126178
Time: 28-Jul-2005 7:03 PM

Originally posted by: Laserman
One of the best examples I have seen of taking really poor quality video and what can be done with it - my Mum was wrong, it appears that sometimes you can polish a turd - Well Zion can anyway.

I discovered his secret:

http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/TurdPolish.jpg

Hopefully in about a week I'll have a single-layer NTSC version of my ANH completed but I don't have a fast enough connection to torrent seed or binary post so will need some help.

Post: #125935
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/125935/action/topic#125935
Time: 27-Jul-2005 11:27 PM

Uhh pass, never really keep track of the temp numbers when it gets hot, cursing at the heat and vegatating in front of the tv is how I cope

It's cooled down a lot the past few days (raining right now) so I'm starting to be able to think straight and have gotten stuck back into my trilogy.

I've cleared enough off my drives to do ANH PAL DVD, 2.5 hours ago I set my computer to filter the captured footage into a huffy avi (estimated size 35gb) to then mpeg2 encode, just have to wait 30+ hours for the process to complete...

So far I think my ANH test DVD is as good, if not better than Moth3r's ANH. Because I'm not using any temporal smoothing/filtering, the noise/grain in the picture remains fairly constant but also lower than Moth3r's because of the 5x sampling, tried to use as little smoothing as possible because too much removal starts destroying the picture detail.

Post: #125412
Topic: DVD Covers (Eps. I,II,III, V & VI)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/125412/action/topic#125412
Time: 25-Jul-2005 6:55 PM

Because my to-be transfer of the OT will have a more 'natural' film like look rather than an over-sharpened image I thought I'd go for something unique with the covers, I just whipped this test image up in about 5 mins:

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/StarWarsBarkCover1.jpg

Anyone know what kind of trees are in the Endor forest? would be neat to get a high res photo of the bark of one of those to use for the covers, you know, for 'authenticity'

Post: #125260
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/125260/action/topic#125260
Time: 24-Jul-2005 8:56 PM

A couple of things have pressed the pause button on my project, firstly the weather, I hate this hot weather because it wipes me out and everything just seems like too much effort (I'd really not cope if I lived in a hot climate), and more importantly I need to scrape up about £150 for a couple of replacement harddrives, the two 120gb's I have just aren't enough and need to replace them with two 250gb's or higher.

As a test I did however re-encode the 4.7gb XviD avi down to a PAL DVD and even though it's from an XviD it still looks great, took it round to a friend's house to see what it was like on his 42" plasma and I'm very happy with the results, another friend who was there commented on how it looked more film-like natural as opposed to the sharpness of a 'proper' DVD which was great to hear because that's what I've been aiming for all along.

Post: #125193
Topic: STAR WARS: the alt.binaries.starwars thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/125193/action/topic#125193
Time: 24-Jul-2005 11:20 AM

Originally posted by: Laserman
Your avatar's name has given me a visual image I really didn't want, but now can't get out of my head...

*cough* (very, very rude, don't click it!)

Post: #125129
Topic: Help Wanted: for a Blade Runner & THX-1138 preservation
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/125129/action/topic#125129
Time: 23-Jul-2005 9:11 PM

Quick note on Criterion CAV Blade Runner LDs, the first layer change happens in the middle of a scene which you'll have to colour correct one half of that scene to match the other half or you won't get a seamless layer change removal.

Post: #124890
Topic: Info: The 'complete' OT feedback thread. Put all the star wars glitches & fixes in here.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124890/action/topic#124890
Time: 22-Jul-2005 5:05 PM

Good call on the fixes classification list.

The PAL THX LDs (both German & French) have burn marks in the first scene you see the droids in ANH:

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/StarWarsBurnMark1.jpg

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/StarWarsBurnMark2.jpg

I haven't investigated removing marks such as these because if I start I'll either give up fairly quickly because I'd be searching through the films frame-by-frame, or I'd get so stuck into it that I'd go through and fix any blemish I could find and it would take me a year on each film

Post: #124235
Topic: Info: The 'complete' OT feedback thread. Put all the star wars glitches & fixes in here.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124235/action/topic#124235
Time: 19-Jul-2005 9:17 PM

What about the square matts round the ships during dogfight scenes, can those be erased?

One scene where bad matting stood out on ANH is this, one of the good guys biting the dust in the trench:

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/StarWarsMatting.jpg

Another matting glitch I've noticed in ROTJ is when the rebel scum are captured and taken outside the shield's power building, there's a walker in the background in the trees and it's a nice shade of green.

Post: #124112
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124112/action/topic#124112
Time: 19-Jul-2005 10:06 AM

Originally posted by: Yocke
You'd think there's not a big enough difference between all these versions to warrant a new download for each one.

So far all the NTSC versions have been from the NTSC laserdiscs, wait till you see an NTSC version created from the PAL laserdiscs...

Post: #124105
Topic: Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124105/action/topic#124105
Time: 19-Jul-2005 7:34 AM

Take your pick, both are 4:3 ('fullscreen' is such a misused description because if you have a widescreen tv then 16:9 is your 'fullscreen') because that's probably what the source is.

NTSC region 1 DVD: http://www.dvdpacific.com/item.asp?ID=76709
PAL region 4 DVD: http://www.devoteddvd.com.au/shop/product_info.php?products_id=681

A lot of films are shot on 4:3 footage and then cropped to 16:9, which is why companies (MGM in particular) release DVDs with 4:3 on one side of the disc and 16:9 on the other, the 16:9 is the theatrically correct aspect ratio but the 4:3 shows more picture.
I just got the region 1 DVD of Freaked aka Hideos Mutant Freekz and it's been cropped from 4:3, my German 4:3 release shows more picture, further more they (Anchor Bay) royally stuffed up the R1 release by burning in the 3:2 pulldown, it looks terrible on a PC!

Post: #123893
Topic: Info: The 'complete' OT feedback thread. Put all the star wars glitches & fixes in here.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/123893/action/topic#123893
Time: 18-Jul-2005 10:15 AM

The title of this thread and the first description of it's purpose had me confused somewhat, wouldn't something like "OT laserdisc video glitches, what/where/when" be more appropriate?

Post: #123791
Topic: Need help w/ an unusual SW logo
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/123791/action/topic#123791
Time: 18-Jul-2005 1:19 AM

boba feta, instead of trying to find the right font I just nabbed the "STAR WARS" text from another poster

Played a little more, looks a little better but too tired to work on it further:

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/ANH-Filled2.gif

Post: #123752
Topic: Need help w/ an unusual SW logo
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/123752/action/topic#123752
Time: 17-Jul-2005 9:50 PM

Something like this?

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/ANH-Filled.gif

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/ANH-Blank.gif

Best I could do with the low resolution image provided, I blew it up 4x & traced it:

Post: #123126
Topic: 3:2 on laserdisc question
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/123126/action/topic#123126
Time: 14-Jul-2005 6:51 PM

Originally posted by: Mavimao
The simple answer would be that they slow it down to 24fps and then do a pulldown....

Let's google.

I'm thinking along the lines of a real-world test, putting a PAL film disc in my portable DVD player and switching the output to NTSC, capturing the output on my PC and seeing if fields are repeated or blurred to turn 25p into 29.97i.

Post: #122794
Topic: 3:2 on laserdisc question
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122794/action/topic#122794
Time: 13-Jul-2005 6:55 AM

My portable DVD player has a switch on the back saying "PAL* *NTSC" so I can output any DVD as PAL or NTSC without having to go into the player's settings and restart the disc like my standalone player, it doesn't slowdown or speedup films but does do on-the-fly framerate conversion which is pretty good (I've seen terrible results on some expensive non-budget players).

Post: #122789
Topic: 3:2 on laserdisc question
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122789/action/topic#122789
Time: 13-Jul-2005 6:16 AM

Originally posted by: THX
Does a PAL/NTSC DVD player play PAL discs on NTSC displays at true speed or PAL speed?

PAL speed. The only 'DVD player' I know of that can play PAL DVDs at true speed is the latest WinDVD, it has an option called "PAL truspeed", using this means you have the added benefit of the higher PAL resolution coupled with the correct playback speed.

Post: #122321
Topic: A word to the Myspleeners.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122321/action/topic#122321
Time: 11-Jul-2005 12:52 PM

Originally posted by: Metallaxis
I am not sure if this should work, but I would give it a try:
I think that if you had a partition with Win 2k/XP installed, and booted with it just once, so that you could burn the image file, then you shouldn't experience any problems, even if the image file was stored in a FAT32 formatted partition.

I don't think it'll work because you can't have a file larger than 4gb on a FAT32 partition.

I don't run any virus checkers/blockers on a permanent basis on this W98 machine and I've only been hit rogue programs 3 times in the past 4 years (I'm very careful what sites I visit, what links I click and what files I run), never lost any data to them just a few hours restoring the Windows directory from a backup & running anti-spyware programs.

Post: #122319
Topic: .: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122319/action/topic#122319
Time: 11-Jul-2005 12:45 PM

Yes, CoolEdit was the first program I tried to do timestretching whilst preserving pitch, from what I can tell it does it by breaking up the audio into small pieces and overlaps them, certain notes 'warble' due to the frequency of the overlapping pieces. It's not something you immediately notice but once you do the music is ruined, my first try doing pitch preservation was on a Blade Runner LD rip, ruining Vangelis' music in this way is a no no in my books.

Post: #122288
Topic: A word to the Myspleeners.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122288/action/topic#122288
Time: 11-Jul-2005 7:53 AM

W98/ME cannot read/write files larger than 4gb, on this W98 machine if I try and read a bigger than 4gb file on my W2k machine through the network, W98 crashes.

Post: #122278
Topic: .: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122278/action/topic#122278
Time: 11-Jul-2005 5:30 AM

Originally posted by: DarkGruson
I just wish the audio was from a LD instead of VHS.

My PAL transfer set will use the audio from the Definitive LD's, putting PCM audio & a Pro-LogicII 5.1 upmix tracks on the DVDs.

I tried checking the audio between the definitive LD's and Moth3r's ESB at the same time, apart from the playbacks speed I can't tell the difference between the two, going to have to try getting a sample of each and bunging them into an audio editer on my PC to do a better test.
I've looked into timestretching the audio for PAL DVD but none of the programs I tried could do it with any competance, speech sounded fine but certain notes in orchestral type music didn't sound right which would ruin some of the SW music.

Post: #122136
Topic: .: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122136/action/topic#122136
Time: 10-Jul-2005 7:05 AM

Moth3r, the audio source for ESB, VHS? the pitch seems true instead of the 4.096% higher you get when resampling NTSC film audio up to PAL speed.

Post: #121815
Topic: .: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121815/action/topic#121815
Time: 8-Jul-2005 1:38 PM

What newsgroup binary downloaders are everyone using? I've never tried to download something so large off usenet yet, my ISP gives me access to one of the major newsgroup services but only 10gb/month and any extra I have to pay for.

Post: #121566
Topic: Help Wanted: a bitmap of the original green 'Lucasfilm Limited' logo?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121566/action/topic#121566
Time: 7-Jul-2005 4:15 PM

Even the Lucasfilm Limited logo I took from the Caravan of Courage/Ewok Adventure DVD 'bounces', but it's one of the clearest versions out there.

Post: #121166
Topic: Info Wanted: Definitive Collection versus Faces - which is better and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121166/action/topic#121166
Time: 6-Jul-2005 2:58 AM

Something I've asked before in the PAL vs NTSC thread but no one has answered yet, does the NTSC faces collection suffer the same jagged edges on near horizonal lines/sharp edges like the definitive collection does?

Post: #121143
Topic: Help Wanted: a bitmap of the original green 'Lucasfilm Limited' logo?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121143/action/topic#121143
Time: 6-Jul-2005 12:20 AM

Originally posted by: Darth Simon
Citizen, I love your sig, thats classic

Thanks, I had to severely cut the size down to be a sig image, here's the original, which I used a frame from my XviD version of ANH and upped the gamma slightly.