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#118697
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118697/action/topic#118697
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The eBay thing, I already left a positive feedback when I received it, however if they do neg me they're only 100% (32) after 6 months on eBay whilst I'm 100% (502) after 5.5 years on eBay and can always leave a followup reply to theirs and then complain to eBay about the excessive shipping charges & get SquareTrade on the case. I've decided to ignore their email and see what happens, replying to it without paying will probably make things worse no matter what's said in the email. Oops just noticed how badly this is going off topic.


Hmm not a bad idea on the monitor calibration service, just need to find 10 suckers... I found I installed some program ages ago called "Monitor Calibration Wizard" which adjusts the gamma based on a set of visual settings to adjust, might give it a whirl on both my machines at the same time and see if I can get them to show the same picture without any colour differences.
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#118647
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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...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118647/action/topic#118647
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Originally posted by: jabberdoo
I have a few DVDs of interest:

Howard the Duck

Garbage Pail Kids the movie


I have the HtD laserdisc and my pre-ordered DVD of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is in the post to me right now, it's getting released officially very soon: http://www.dvdsoon.com/show-title-details.xml?uid=221477 (never seen it before)


These are the laserdiscs I have of films not yet released on DVD, they're why I got into laserdiscs:

Cookie (1989)
Deep Red (1994)
Dream Machine (1990)
Dudes (1987)
Frog (1987)
Ghost Fever (1987)
Hamburger... The Motion Picture (1986)
Howard the Duck (1986)
Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight (1994) (Mandroid sequal)
Mandroid (1993)
Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
My Demon Lover (1987)
Out on a Limb (1992)
Pulse (1988)
Rad (1986)
Recruits (1986)
Robot Jox (1990) (subbed Jap version, apparently it's officially released somewhere now)
Sticky Fingers (1988)
TekWar: The Original Movie (1994)
The Chain Reaction (1980)
The Invisible Kid (1988)
The New Kids (1985)
The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988)
The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
The Wiz Kid (1989)
Willy/Milly (1986) aka Something Special
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#118599
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118599/action/topic#118599
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I'd like to go and buy that Spyder tomorrow but today hasn't been good to me, what I was hoping was going to be some video work coming in to make some decent money to get new/better equipment didn't happen and now I'm in an even worse mood because some pissant eBay seller wants an extra $5 after I paid an received the item, their reasoning? they forgot to set the invoice postage to $15 instead of the $10 they did set and I did pay. The postage label on the package was $1.60...


The colour difference between monitors/tv, I have a Sigma Hollywood+ hardware mpeg decoder card in each of my PC's (it was easier to buy a 2nd one for £9 instead of moving the single one over ) which I use for testing mpeg files and compiled DVDs on a proper tv before burning anything to disc, and even then I've been burning test clips to DVD-RW to test on different tvs. I'm pretty satisfied with the colour/brightness results I'm getting anyway, sometimes I think getting things like a Spyder is overkill as this is all just for fun and I won't be making any money from it when completed so why bother.
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#118549
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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...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118549/action/topic#118549
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Even the 2-disc Criterion Blade Runner has more grain than a silo during harvest season... I found it extremely difficult to get a good anamorphic image out of it, it was a really fine balance between a grainy picture and a smeary picture (temporal smoothing), I opted in favour of the grain.
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#118516
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.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118516/action/topic#118516
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Weird thing, I posted in the 2.35:1 black bars thread about how when viewing some of my 2.35:1 DVDs on a 4:3 screen there are grey bars, well my latest test there wasn't any grey bars it was all black, which is cool! I think I know why, what I was testing on was encoded to mpeg2 from DV, this time I'm encoding from mpeg2 from huffy...

As I'll be doing 3 flavours of the trilogy from my captured source, XviD, PAL and now NTSC I tried an anamorphic NTSC clip and it's looking very good (apart from the horrible 3:2 pulldown needed to view on an NTSC screen):

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/StarWarsLDtest10.jpg


edit: playing back cleaned up clips I've been noticing something's not quite right, the aspect ratio wasn't spot on, doing some measuring of pixels on the captured source it turns out I'm working with 2.293:1 footage not 2.35:1, just needed to increase the PAL anamorphic image by 10 pixels (NTSC by 8 pixels) and it now looks right
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#118451
Topic
<strong>The &quot;Farsight&quot; Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118451/action/topic#118451
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Most films on NTSC DVD are progressively encoded, no interlacing, to get the 23.976fps up to 29.97fps of NTSC the mpeg2 stream contains flags telling the player to repeat certain fields (3:2 pulldown), but if you play the video on your PC which is has a truly progressive output (your CRT or LCD monitor) the software player ignores the flags in the mpeg2 stream and plays it at 23.976fps.
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#118449
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118449/action/topic#118449
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I'm half wondering wether to spash out on a Spyder monitor colour calibrator or not, I bought my 2 PCs identical monitors, each has a Matrox agp gfx card (a G550 and a G450 eTV) but the colours between them are different even when the Matrox colour setup is at default and the monitor settings are identical, so I'm working on a combination of the two and my tv when doing DVD-RW test burns or outputting from my hardware mpeg2 decoder.

My laserdisc player doesn't have optical out, nor s-video but I'm getting very satisfactory results nevertheless.
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#118446
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118446/action/topic#118446
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Ah well if it's an old out-of-date version then ok; incorrect aspect ratio ("I'm crushing your head! I'm crushing your head!"), over saturated colours, looking slightly out-of-focus, too dark (black levels crushed) but apart from that the audio is good

Don't worry I'll probably get a roasting over the grain in my release when I'm finished, but the grain is there only because I'm not using any filters that do any sort of temporal smoothing, I'm getting excellent clarity from the PAL laserdiscs so much so that temporal smoothing isn't really needed.
A friend of mine has a decent £300 soundcard+breakout box setup which I'm planning on using to capture the audio from my definitive collection at 96khz, so that any noise reduction I apply to it will be done before converting down to 48khz for the PCM audio on the DVDs. I've decided to make my set dual-layer so will be able to afford the space PCM takes up, as well as the commentary audio, 5.1 upmixed audio and extras, just means distribution will be a little difficult but I'm mainly making this set for myself so...
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#118136
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3:2 on laserdisc question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118136/action/topic#118136
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Ok here's a spanner for the "3:2 pulldown on LD" works:

The definitive set and the Criterion Blade Runner are both 24fps film on NTSC CAV, which means when you play them back you get 29.97fps 3:2 pulldown footage, if I play them on my Pioneer CLD-D515 and press pause during playback I get a still picture because the discs are CAV, if I then advance or go back frame by frame there's no sign of any 3:2 pulldown...

Does anyone have an answer to that one? I asked on a laserdisc newsgroup but nobody bit.
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#118110
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3:2 on laserdisc question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118110/action/topic#118110
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The changing 3:2 pulldown setting throughout the film is unfortunately normal for film on NTSC laserdisc (and VHS), I have yet to find an NTSC film on laserdisc where I can apply a single setting that'll undo the a whole side, you have to manually go through the captured video finding out what sections need what undo settings to fully undo the 3:2 pulldown with no glitches (as you get with any automatic 3:2 pulldown filters)
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#118054
Topic
.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118054/action/topic#118054
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My French THX LD's arrived today! http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/ThisIsNotAnAvatarSoFuckOffHotlinkers.gif



I got the whole of ANH captured from my German set so now I can go and replace the German text with the English from the French LDs. I won't be going through the film scene-by-scene to see what colour/contrast levels need altering but will be using a single setting over the whole film and then watching it to see if there are any scenes that stand out too much and then fix those (I know there are a few).
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#117479
Topic
Worst SW DVD covers in the world
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117479/action/topic#117479
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In contrast to the excellent efforts people have been doing with their custom SW DVD covers, I thought a worst SW DVD covers in the world thread should exist to counter-balance everything (you know, good side, dark side etc. )

Don't spend more than 15 mins on an effort, do use all your editing skills even if you don't have any it'll probably help, this is an example of a commercially produced DVD cover that's absolutely terrible, Slipstream. EIV (Entertainment In Video) are notorious for producing terrible covers so if you know of any titles released by them have a look.


I'll start this non-competition with this terrible effort:

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/CrapWars.jpg
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#117451
Topic
.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117451/action/topic#117451
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Thanks for the explanations and link about the chroma subsampling in DV, I couldn't fully get my head round the difference between 4:2:0 and 4:1:1 etc. though.

£210 for the 3 different SW LD sets is a lot for me as I don't have any real income, my CLD-D515 LD player cost £80 and the Canopus ADVC-100 was bought new at £275 a few years ago but now they're going pretty cheap on eBay. But anyway this is fun


I tried doing a comparison between a single capture and a 5x merged capture, one half of the screen single cap the other 5x cap, visually I couldn't see any difference until I threw in a couple of sharpen filters at maximum and the single cap footage came out worse. When compressed with huffy, the 5x merged capture footage is almost 10% smaller than a single capture which also tells me the grain/inteference is being reduced throug multiple capturing, even if I can't see it
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#117316
Topic
.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117316/action/topic#117316
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Thanks for the compliement, I've spent over £200 on Star Wars laserdisc sets alone and am not intending to waste a single penny of it

I don't know why there's a difference between NTSC & PAL captures (how the DV is compressed? I never really looked into it that deeply), one thing I do know for sure is that the DV codec you use to decode the captured footage makes a helluva lot of difference on what quality you get out of your captures, Panasonic DV codec & especially the MainConcept DV codec add fake sharpness to their outputs, the Sony one ain't too hot either on retaining colours, the best one of the lot is Canopus' own one but there's a bug in the luma, reading a DV file directly into VirtualDub gives an incorrect contrast, blacks aren't true black and whites aren't true white.
There's a way round this by using AviSynth and using avisource() or directshowsource() to read the DV and then load the .avs into VirtualDub, however I'm using the luma 'bug' to my advantage by reading the DV files directly in and then altering the brightness/contrast afterwards so that way the black level isn't crushed as it seems to be with reading the DV through AviSynth.

How you read in the DV avi into VirtualDub also affects chroma blockiness, for example a still from a NTSC laserdisc:


Directly read into VirtualDub using the Canopus DV codec:
http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/WarningDV2.gif


Again using the Canopus DV codec, AviSynth script reading the file with DirectShowSource() and then VirtualDub reading that in:
http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/WarningDV3.gif


Again using the Canopus DV codec, AviSynth script reading the file with DirectShowSource(), VirtualDub reading that in, using internal chroma smoother filter on NTSC DV setting, then shifting the chroma 2 pixels to the left with another filter:
http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/WarningDV4.gif



Oh and lastly, directly read into VirtualDub using the Panasonic DV codec:
http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/WarningDV1.gif
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#117272
Topic
.: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117272/action/topic#117272
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Here's something you knowledgable lot can probably help me with, I decided to create 1024x436 XviD's from my set for my 1024x768 LCD projector so as you say the scaling/sharpening has already been pre-done to get the best image, but what are the specified HD resolutions? I've tried google searches but can't find any 'concrete' answers other than 720p and 1080i which I know refers to number of lines and progressive or interlaced.