Darth Editous

No, no. You get me all wrong. I'm not against updating the films. I like it. What I mean is of all the shots and mattes you could mess around with you choose exactly one of those that are least objectionable. And make it more objectionable to me with dodgy CG.

There, fixed that for you.

I'm sorry if it's not up to your standards, but my intention was to add a 3D effect to an existing matte painting and otherwise leave it exactly as is. I didn't want people reaching for the pause button because some new shiny shot has just leapt out at them, and judging by the original response (which was largely "what's changed?") I succeeded.

I'm not against the 3D effect either for that matter, if you find the time and effort to do it then kudos to you, but at least do it well.

I think I did. I don't think that:

the way it connects to the sail looks kinda like a cardboard cutout, if you'll excuse me.

DE

You guys are worse than George you know that?

+irony=

It could probably use with a different field of view, some lens distortion, 3D fog and something more three dimensional to connect it.

Hmm. Needs more dawg Rontos.

DE

PS If they ever get around to processing the damn thing: comparison shot

*cough* ;)

DE

PS Oops, crossed posts with ImpFighter!

So adding the words "on tatooine" to the end of that report would help that a lot. Now, even though they have no clue wtf mos eisley is maybe they heard of tatooine at least in passing.

ADigitalMan said:

Beautiful work!

See this post:

Announcement: WYSIWYG post editor temporarily disabled

I'm assuming that is the cause of the difficulties which occur when you quote posts which were created before the switch-off.

DE

I forgot about that - the green line is to remind me that the clip I'm viewing has been filtered. For now, try:

addborders(64,0,0,0)
# ... filter as before ...
crop(64,0,0,0)

ChainsawAsh said:

Ever heard of seamless branching?

That many lossless audio tracks might add up a bit, though.  And Blu-Rays are 25GB single-layer, 50GB dual-layer, not 100.

Also noticed top of Han's welding tool as he swings it up

Try the following (with the DLL in the AviSynth plugins folder):

converttoyuv32
yuv(0.9,0.9,-100,100, 0,0,0) # 90% saturation and shifted UV channels
convertbacktorgb32

converttoyuv32
yuv(0,0,0,0, 255,240,200) # adjusts colours so that beige becomes white
convertbacktorgb32

do you think you could post an example script of how it is used and what else needs to be loaded for it to work?

Which one?

In the meantime, what did GL have against this little green guy, huh?

DE

Wait a minute.  I agree that re-encoding is not necessary if LG is simply changing containers, but if he has changed the frame rate from 24 to 23.976 fps, surely it is necessary.

I wasn't suggesting he change the frame rate - the Samsung (and VLC) is picking up the wrong framerate, somehow, from the .m2ts. I'm hoping RipBot will return the wrongly set 48fps .m2ts to a 24fps .mkv, the same way it reset my 47.952fps .m2ts to a 23.976fps .mkv.

Whether or not the TV will actually play a 24fps .mkv is another matter, but I'd think it would.

DE

vaderios said:

Hmm, the Brighter version seems to add a very retro feeling. Perhaps we are used to heavier contrasts.

In the canyon shot pan, it looks a bit faded.

maybe its me but vader has some red tint in the cape? im not sure.

Otherwise i like the retroize approach :)

Still cant wait to see the new mattes

-Angel

I'm not sure what you mean about a retro feeling - bear in mind that the original DVD is far too dark, but does look reasonable on computer monitors.

The canyon shot is a bit faded, but then I think the original is oversaturated.

Vader's cape did have a red tint to it, but I've now rewritten the filter so it doesn't affect blacks so much.

Haven't done anything on the new mattes yet.

DE

anhlib.dll

"Messing" is all this is good for. Use at your own risk. There's no documentation (except that below) and it is full of bugs, it is very particular about the format of video sent to it, and makes many unwarranted assumptions which may not hold for your video. It is highly likely to crash if used in an unexpected way. The dll contains a lot of filters, not all of which I'll go into. The useful ones are probably:

badblue - removes blue caste, such as Star Destroyer engine glow

cyanide - removes cyan caste, takes a single weight parameter, 0.0-1.0

generic(1) - unpolishes R2

levellevel - takes a single parameter (0-255), boosts only brighter parts of video (useful for boosting dark explosions - try levellevel(240) on the Tantive IV explosion)

selectivecolour - takes 19 parameters and mimics Photoshop's selective colour filter. First 18 parameters (-1.0 to 1.0) divide into groups of three, representing Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow boosting for each of reds, yellows, greens, blues, cyans and magentas. Final parameter (false/true) mimics Photoshop's "Relative/absolute" checkbox.

converttoyuv32 - brightens video and converts to a new format, allowing the use of, and only of (other filters will go crazy)...

yuv - takes 7 parameters - the first two multiply U and V channels (0.0-1.0), the second two shift U and V (-511 to 511, I think). If the first four are 0, the third three define an RGB colour to be made white.

convertbacktorgb32 - must be used after converttoyuv32 and yuv filters to return the video to a viewable format.

DE

I should have quoted someone - it was for Lord Grievous who said:

Sigh, it still has the same problem. It plays fine on the PC and MediaInfo says the remuxed sample plays at 23.967p, but on my telly it's still sped up and no sound.

Remuxing to a .mkv without reencoding the audio should work in this case. For whatever reason there's something wrong with the container, or the TV's reading of it (I also have a Samsung TV and had this problem) which is causing the audio to go unplayed.

I didn't have to reencode either the audio or the video from my problematic .m2ts - I just had to put them both in a .mkv container and all was fixed.

DE

Here's a demo of a filter I've just created to take some of the polish off R2's blue shine (image also includes colour and brightness correction):

DE

I had a similar problem with an .m2ts which I was able to fix with RipBot264, which demuxed it and created an .mkv.

DE

Moth3r said:

Darth Editous said:

Merry Xmas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXYr22O-k2M

DE

Pretty good results DE.

Is that purely a result of your AviSynth filter, or is there some manual tweaking as well?

I can't remember exactly what or how many filters were in place when I made that clip. It was mostly global colour correction, along with a few selective filters to tone down R2's blue or the redness of the sand.

DE

Sky_ said:

Hi GUYS thanks for your compliments regarding that Intro thing I did.

 

anyway guys take a look

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/799355650/8d82ee7d22f5b238e15b8047ebc66ccb

You've got some blended fields there - you need to render at the same frame rate as your final encode (i.e. 25fps, not 30fps) for best results.

DE

Don't some DVD players/sound cards already have this kind of "virtualisation" for headphones? Binaural recordings are great, but I don't think they're of any real use with 5.1 mixes - it certainly won't make them sound any better.

I think the only way to make a decent binaural mix for a sci-fi movie would be in the computer, with completely separate sound elements with 3D positions.

DE

For instance, a TV series that runs at full 60fps will only play at 25, same with PAL on NTSC at 30.

Umm... huh? As Sorceror says, there aren't many DVD players which bother with standards conversion any more. I had one years ago, a Samsung, and while it was by no means clever, I'm pretty sure it did maintain the full frame rate (but only by dropping/duplicating fields).

DE

The only issue might be your TV, but I would imagine you won't have any problems.

That's what I thought, but someone over at doom9 told me we are still in the ridiculous situation of TVs made for the European market being able to take NTSC input, but most American TVs won't take PAL. YMMV.

DE

"Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold. No wait, put him up front. That's still carpooling, right?"

DE

I was equally eager when I was hunting down the PAL DVD-9.  The NTSC was made from the PAL, so the PAL has better picture quality.  I would imagine Obi-Wan has similar reasons.

PAL is inherently better quality in any case - 20% more pixels and no pulldown.

DE

This happens a few times during Empire Strikes Back.  The picture seems to stretch.

That's down to the camera focus changing. You don't see it in every film so I assume it's down to the kind of lens/aperture being used - you can see it in Goldeneye when they're demonstrating the helicopter.

I'm not sure from a quick look at the clip whether it can be completely fixed - I suspect some part of the picture will always be stretching relative to the rest.

DE