DVD-BOY

It's tricky because blu-ray supports both 24fps and 23.976fps.  Most titles are 23.976 I think because there are some TV sets which don't like 'pure' 24fps.

I personally would go with Chainsaw Ash's view of making the video fit the audio rather than the other way around.

dark_jedi said:

schorman13 said:

I'm actually really good at programming menus.  I could do whatever you want.  I was actually planning on making my own menus for these once I was able to find them.

Can you do Blu-ray menu's to?

Hey DJ - Sent you a message.

Maclanachu said:

"Certainly the original release of "Sex and the City" Season 1" Dude! Hand in your man-card!

Hey I'm a shop browser, not an owner ok!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-City-Region-NTSC-Format/dp/B00005IBA0

Don't make me hit you with my handbag!!

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Oh wow. I live in the US. We sure get the bad end of the deal. Like most NTSC DVD players, my PS3 can only play NTSC. I really don't understand why it seems that a lot of PAL players can play NTSC but not much NTSC can play PAL. Maybe I need a UK PS3 now...

I believe the DVD Spec req PAL players to support NTSC, but not visa-versa.

You could say it was so Hollywood could release titles without the expense of Standards Conversion.

Certainly the original release of "Sex and the City" Season 1 and "An Evening With Kevin Smith" were Region 2 NTSC (same as Japan).

A similar thing has happened with Blu-ray - 50Hz playback is only mandatory in 50Hz territories, but 24p and 60Hz playback is available everywhere.

And yes, the US PS3 is just Sony being stupid.

I'm getting my demon fix, but is the DVD going up anywhere?

Great Job Jambe - caught the first few minutes of the first part on YouTube and it looks amazing.

DVD-BOY

Not forgetting:

"ZOMG!!11!!!  Star Wras!!"

:-P

"Looking for Star Wars"

"First, There Was Star Wars..."

"Hey! It's Star Wars!"

"Learn About Star Wars"

Thanks Moth3r, that's exactly what I want, and it looks like Adywan asked the same question and didn't get an answer!!

Time to drop him a PM :)

I'm looking for information on what font was used for the end credits, for "The Phantom Menace" in particular and the Star Wars Saga in general.

This got me thinking that it would be really useful to collate into one sticky a list of font references for posters, subtitles credits etc.

Just waiting for someone to point me in the direction of something that already exists!!

Thanks

DVD-BOY

digitalfreaknyc said:

 That's not low at all.  It's only an hour.

Really? Ok.  TBH I'm not up to speed on broadcast file sizes!

Looks like CtrlHD has posted an MPEG2 version on the newsgroups - comes in at about 6.4GB, which seems rather low.  Will try and download and report back.

digitalfreaknyc said:

 Of course.  That's why I'm recording it.

I have no idea how many people are able to burn blu-ray's though.

Just Checking ;)

As a 'Star Wars' related preservation, I would hope there's enough interest.  I can understand your reluctance to kick off such a huge torrent distribution on your own - in the UK we have a system heavily weighted on downloads over uploads (ADSL).

I know you have now interest in newsgroups, but would you consider sending copies of your blu-rays out to someone who could post them for you?

Thanks

DVD-BOY

digitalfreaknyc said:

I'm recording it in HD.

Hi Digitalfreaknyc,

Is this something you're planning to preserve?

DVD-BOY

How exactly does AutoMKV deal with the audio?

Speed-up / Slow-down of video is one thing, audio is something else!

Have you looked at FFMPEG:

http://www.itbroadcastanddigitalcinema.com/ffmpeg_howto.html

HTH

DVD-BOY

Is is just me, or does the DE face off have awful compression artifacts???

Thanks Zion - I wouldn't want your to bork your DVR, but anything you can do would be greatly appreciated.

DVD-BOY

You're probably right - I just figure it's a long time to wait, and what if it isn't???

:-)

Only just saw about this online:

http://www.starz.com/pressroom/ILM/

I was wondering if anyone captured this?  Was it shown in HD?

Thanks

DVD-BOY

xhonzi said:

That can't be it.  It has to be a conspiracy.  ;)  (<- wink)

Search your feelings, you know it to be tru(e) ;-P

SilverWook said:

Since many early Blu Ray titles have nice uncompressed PCM tracks, all these dueling audio codecs seem unnecessary.  But they had to find a way to make my less than five year old receiver obsolete didn't they? ;)

I can hear the difference between Dolby Digital and DTS on DVD, but hearing any subtle differences on Blu hasn't happened for me yet.

With regards to multi-channel PCM, I think one of the reasons it has been dropped as an option by most studios is that firstly it took up too much disc space (Stereo 24bit WAV is about 2Mbps, so 6 channel is about 6Mbps).  Also, in legacy AV receivers, you don't get a proper 5.1 track, just a Pro-Logic track, so studios still had to include something like a Dolby or DTS track on there anyway.

Maybe I've drunk too much coffee today but your entire post makes no sense.

What did this ex Dolby Constant say - does he know Desmond from Lost?

What's your point about the cost of the encoders?

I've never heard of a "Bit Bomb".

You do realise that Theatre Dolby is different technology to Dolby TruHD right?

I'm going to refuse to buy Star Wars on Blu-ray because it's AVC encoded rather than 35mm film.

Please send your thoughts to Lucasfilm - if you're quick they might read them out at Celebration V for a laugh.

Now, how does this clueless muppet filter work again...

A couple of points...

• DTS-HD Master Audio Suite costs £1,000
• Dolby Media Producer costs £7,000
• DTS-HD Master Audio Suite is Mac / PC
• Dolby Media Producer is Mac Only
• All Professional Blu-ray Authoring Software is PC Only
• Both Dolby TruHD and DTS-HD MA as lossless codecs, which compact the data more efficiently like a zip file.
• Because they are lossless they are VBR encodes, like video and only peak when required.
• DTS-HD has legacy DTS 'core' which is automatically decoded if the end user doesn't support DTS-HD MA.
• Dolby TruHD is two files - a .mlp and an ac3 file.
• Although 2 separate files, they are married on the disc into 1 stream, which then works like DTS-HD allegedly.  I've never done it, and I remember The Dark Knight defaulting to the lossy dolby ac3 file.
• I believe there used to be issues with Dolby TruHD and ScenaristBD authoring.  These have all been fixed now, but of course in the early days when everyone is making purchasing / house style decisions, it was a factor.  Looking back through emails, I can't find the specifics at present.

I don't give a flying wookie what a disc has on it, but as far as I'm aware what was shown in a cinema bears no relation to what is put on a home entertainment disc.

Don't forget that most titles get a different 'home entertainment' mix because the speaker configuration, size and distance is different to a multiplex. 

And do you know what they do once the mix is completed? They save out files (Broadcast Wavs, ProTools Sessions) or they lay the audio off to a DA-98 TASCAM tape, or if they want to put it with video, perhaps an HDCAM SR.  And then when the authoring house receives it, they capture it via SDI / AES.

Dolby and DTS are delivery products.

none said:

DVD-BOY wrote: The Storyline Approach that DVD Studio Pro refers to is more commonly known as 'playlists', whereby you can re-arrange your chapters into a new order without increasing space on the disc.

This is the process i'll be looking into.  Do you know how it differs then seamless branching?  or is it just a similar term and the differences are in how the programs sort it out.

none

Playlists have their content in one 'Master' track, and you can play back the chapters in different orders.  Seamless branching is closer to multi-angle, except your alternative angles are different lengths.

So your Storyline approach will look like this:

MF = Main Feature 'chapter', AD = Advert

MF1, MF2, MF3, MF4, MF5, MF6, AD1, AD2, AD3, AD4, AD5, AD6

So, just the Main Feature will be:

MF1, MF2, MF3, MF4, MF5, MF6

Main Feature and Adverts will be

MF1, MF2, MF3, AD1, AD2, AD3, MF4, MF5, AD4, AD5, AD6, MF6

With Seamless branching, each segment of your film would be a standalone piece, and you would stitch them together 'seamlessly' in the order you require.  With Playlists, they will only be seamless on the original timeline - when you insert the adverts, the disc will jump to the end of your movie to retrieve the adverts, then jump back to continue with the film.

The easiest way to look at Seamless Branching would be if you were trying to put multiple versions of ANH on 1 disc ala Bladerunner   EG:

START OF FILM UP UNTIL CANTINA
V1 - CLASSIC CANTINA AND ESCAPE FROM MOS EISLEY
V2 - SE CANTINA, SE JABBA, SE MOS EISLEY
REST OF FILM

You would want to Seamlessly change on the scene cut to alternative versions, which would be different lengths with different audio.

The opening crawls are examples of Seamless Multi-Angle.  The different languages for the crawl are seperate angles with the same audio tracks, and same durations, therefore the joins between the crawl and the beginning of the film are 'seamless'.

HTH - DVD-BOY

The best tool for seamless branching is Toshiba's Authoring System which isn't available to the general public.

The big issues are the layout and muxing of files on the disc.

The Storyline Approach that DVD Studio Pro refers to is more commonly known as 'playlists', whereby you can re-arrange your chapters into a new order without increasing space on the disc.

DVD-BOY