CompMovieGuy

It doesnt have a logo :P

Im leaving town for the weekend

Improved artwork has been made and will be included when project is finished

I ran some tests and they came back good, it looks like these scripts are good to go.

The trailer is complete, it comes in at 60MBs @ 5500kbps CCE 6pass+VAF (90 seconds). The end 10 seconds looks terrible since its from VHS but everything is sync'd up and I didnt have to mess with anything, its a 1 to 1 copy of how the original trailer was

Once the encoding is finished, the authoring will take me a few to several hours to make sure everything is 100% how I want it to be
Once that is done, I will touch up the artwork again, so a few hours on that

The delogo looks good, its not perfect and it never will be but it seems like the best it will be, better than I previously thought and is only noticeable on fast-paced scenes where artifacts on the capture were present (nothing can be done for that), thanks goes to Moth3r for his input on this
The flickering on the 2 that was previously discussed and that was seen by some people has been for the most part eliminated

Encoding/syncing the main feature will take anywhere from 4 days to two weeks depending on if CCE will work with me and output the size I want and how many trys it will take to get it right.

Output will only be DVD5, DVD9 is unnecessary

I finished the trailer script tonight, only took me several hours, frame by frame (not scene by scene), complete overhaul and many values adjusted to be frame perfect.

Next on the list is some test runs to make sure the scripts are good to go
~60MBs for the trailer
~3MBs for the menus
~5MBs for the DVD_ROM
~4410MBs for the feature

Ill probably do the trailer first (also my wording was a bit misleading last post, the trailer was reconstructed from the HD source with the same delogo as the main feature, but the end of the trailer was taken from a wide VHS, as Im not going to reproduce that part from scratch)

Preservation is now dead because of the WAC disc

Preservation is now dead because of the WAC disc

Preservation is now dead because of the WAC disc

Yes, 3 weeks or earlier, its a hard deadline

I had to reinstall all the software back on the PC since I never did since I reformatted
I finished the script for the movie
Ill work on the trailer script tonight, I have most the values written down but I have to go back and double check and make sure they match up, this 90 second trailer is probably going to take me several hours just to get the precision right, the end quality of it wont be great since Im not going to reproduce it from scratch, the source will be a wide VHS capture

Then Ill have to run a few trials to make sure the script looks right and probably a full trial script encode, then Ill have to run it for real and hope the size doesnt become an issue since the final encode will probably take a few days, thus why Im saying 3 weeks

If everything goes 100% without problems or hiccups, it could be 1 week, but this is typically never the case

@ SoulAssassin

First, if you read anything, I had released a few encodes to some people on this board. YES, real life caught up with me, I dont have as much time as I once did. But to say that nothing has been done is just plain wrong. I had made an encode and sent it to a few people with the delogo done, it has since been improved. The delogo filter is tricky along with the inverse telecine and chroma and all that stuff.

People like you dont make it easier, and seeing that you joined today just to post this one comment after trolling for a entire year just shows how inconsiderate you are

Also, some of my motivation toward this has been lacking because of the current tread of movies getting DVD releases. Almost all of the movies I have capped and encoded and made DVDs out of have been released on DVD now thru the WAC and other companies offerings. Thus if I put this work in and then a couple months later it gets released to DVD (like some other movies I did) it seems kinda moot

@ everyone else besides a$$hole

3 weeks, HARD deadline

Sweet!

Looks like my copy is going to be obsolete now, wonder if they used a different master than the HDTV one or if its the same

Cant wait to see

To update since many people are wondering and sending PMs, which Ill answer here

No the project is not dead, and No the project is not finished.
Yes I have the menus done and Yes I have a beta script written.

Why is this taking so long when I said it would be done by Christmas?
Well, I thought I would have got the menus sooner than I did and I would be able to complete it before Christmas but this was not the case, and now in the new year, time is limited. I have been preoccupied with moving and some other obstacles that have came up. I dont get a chance to even check the site every day like I used to be able to and I have been busy with many house hold chores and re-organizing things/moving, on top of work.

This project has been on my mind, its just finding the time to do it....and since this new DVD doesnt use the same script as the last one that means I have to re-write it, even tho I can use the old one as a base starting point
Just for those interested, the trailer alone is over 100 lines long, which is longer than Gspots script.....and I have to go thru the entire movie again to find those points just so they will match up in the trailer

Once life gives me some time, which may be sooner than later, when I get all this shit in my house situated and moved and put away, then Im going to get back to it
All the files are on my main drive, nothing has been lost, I just need the hours to go thru the files and write the final script

I have different OSs on different computers
Desktop with Windows 7
Desktop with Windows XP and 98se
Desktop with Amiga 4.1
Laptop with OSX 10.6.1
Laptop with Windows XP

There is no one perfect OS, you can pretty much do what you want to someway on every OS, some OSs do things better than others, some make it easier than others, and some have more problems than others

That being said, I prefer to browse the net on OSX, torrent on Windows, usenet on both, video stuff on Windows, game on XP and 98se, and just have fun on Amiga

I have no interest in Linux and reading thru tons of forums to get my wireless to work, compiling kernals, talk about distos, take 6 months out to learn a distro just to move on to another distro, or here about how everyone on Linux is an uber leet nerd or whatever

Thanks Moth

Sorry I didnt answer the colorspace question, I was just occupied with showing the menus screens I must have overlooked it. Moth is right, that was the problem.

As for the intro with the red/violet skies, I dont plan on altering it. The reason for this is because I dont know for sure if its supposed to be like that or not. I dont have the LD to compare but the on VHS the color scheme seems to be very similar to what is on the HD broadcast, so Im guessing it was intended to be this way as it does represent the transition from night to dawn accurately and I would assume it was how it was filmed.

Obviously we would only know this for sure if an official DVD would be released

Hey guys,

I got the completed menus, here is what they will look like, I will also be adding a sound clip from the soundtrack to the main

Im still hopeing I can get everything done by Christmas, but it will be close, if not hopefully by New Years everything will be done

No thread about it yet, but Im diggin the new layout....seems cleaner and alittle easier to navigate

Thanks OT staff

Doctor M said:

I can't vouch for the quality.  I'm told the discs in this collection tend to be 29.97i, but it seems to be anamorphic.

Given the information the posted on the site, compared to the other Warner Archives I have and the information posted on the site about them, I would say it is anamorphic and interlaced.

That being said, using a decent standalone with a good hardware deinterlacer, the output video quality should be pretty good, but I cant say for sure as I dont have the DVD.

I would also like anyone who has this DVD to comment on the quality

v2.0 FINAL is now complete and is being confirmed

• v2.0 FINAL (11/17/09)
-Corrected colorspace/chroma bug
-Added covers to DVD_ROM folder with updated NFO
-Added soundtrack music to main menu
-Changed button colors in menu
-Changed chapter points to be more relevant
-Increased size of chapter buttons

Can check out the wiki for more information
http://originaltrilogy.com/fan-edits/fan-project-details.cfm/Preservations/title/If-Looks-Could-Kill-1991-v2-0-FINAL/project/295/category/5/

lol

Yea I kinda figured that but are you using the NTSC DVD or a PAL DVD? Because the PAL DVD is suppose to have superior PQ while the NTSC DVD has the superior sound

Quick question:
What source are you using for this project?

Some images I have in threads, I resized using the sites built in resize and when the site got re-vamped it seems all the images reverted back to the original sizes.

Now when I try to change them back to smaller sizes on the site, for easier viewing in threads, the site wont take the resize and just keeps the original size.

Just a small bug I guess

Im planning on a v2.0 of this DVD, details are on the fanedits wiki
http://originaltrilogy.com/fan-edits/fan-project-details.cfm/Preservations/title/Rad-1986/project/294/category/5/

The new DVD will include
Completely new menus
Reworked script with improved delogo
Fixed colorspace/chroma bug

and it will still include
Tristar intro with music and no logo


I anticipate this to be the final version until some retail source comes out (if ever) and hopefully be done before Christmas

C3PX said:

I really can't think which I'd dislike more, having to watch Episode II again, or having to watch an entire football game... both would be extremely uncomfortable experiences for me.

Yea I know what you mean, I find soccer to be EXTREMELY dull  ;)

Saw this on Rome is Burning as his final burn but I couldnt find that clip so instead this is the clip from his radio show which is less funny but uses the same jokes
Take it with a grain of salt, its meant to be humorous not blasphemous
For someone who is bashing Star Wars he sure does know alot about it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysfaTFAB6Ao&feature=player_embedded

Agreed, its a bad idea, leave the editing to the Mods

I second this, Ive also noticed this and was always like "dooh gotta find a post"