Darth Editous

70K on District 9 Ultimatum (mind you thats a dedicated srt file without menu links and stuff)

.srts are plaintext. Subtitles on a DVD are stored as four-colour (presumably at least RLE compressed) bitmaps. Rough guess, 2k a frame, let's say average 10 frames a minute, 120 minutes... ~2mb per language.

Im working on the Welsh language and the Backstroke of the west subs straight away ;-P

Look you now, Obi-wan, I'm the master now, see? There's lovely.

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I've not been following this thread, but on the back of the cover it seems to say "before the DTS" - what does DTS mean in this context?

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Siliconmaster482 said:

Well, isn't selling fan edits illegal? Can't you just point the authorities in his direction, without worrying about your own stuff because you don't sell it? Or is that a chance nobody wants to take?

Ehhh... devil's Emperor's advocate here, but isn't just distributing a fan edit illegal? Let's be honest, we've only got the moral high ground on this one because George keeps screwing us over.

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Merry Xmas:

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

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EyeShotFirst said:

And ESB is why Kershner should have directed ... the prequels.

Now we just need to decide who should have written 'em. And who should have played Anakin. Oh and maybe Padme. As long as Ric Olie stays.

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...but you can't blame Canada for that Yoda abomination!

But we can blame you for Brian Adams ;)

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Granted, the EP1 puppet was definitely not an accurate replica of the ESB Yoda, but at least he still looked REAL - he looked like he was a living, breathing creature

I disagree - he looked like a muppet. There's a certain exaggeration to Sesame Street, etc, that ESB Yoda just didn't have. TPM Yoda looks like a South Park Canadian, with his flappy head and beady eyes ;) (no offence to any Canadians, but that movie was pretty funny).

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Hey this is off topic

Yes, a whole 4 episodes off-topic!

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Of the pre-prequels (Butlerian Jihad), the prequels ("House...") and the sequels, the only ones I'd even remotely suggest you bother with are the prequels. And even then... meh.

Maybe I'm not being entirely fair - some of the ideas in the KJA/BH books aren't half bad. They're just poorly executed when you consider what came before.

Hey, that sounds familiar...

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Oh, gotcha - yeah, I guess I might be able to do something utilising physical props, though that does seem like it might lead down a "spending money" route ;)

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DE you gonna share this filter?

Maybe, but it's not doing anything that AviSynth's coloryuv doesn't do. I just like to work in RGB32, so I wrote a filter that takes 32-bit RGBA and turns it into 12-bit Y+10 bit U+10 bit V, then another that can do the coloryuv stuff on that, then another that transforms it back to RGB32 (sounds horrendous but it's lossless if you do no operations, so I think I'm okay). In theory this gives 16x the luma resolution than converting to YUV and operating on that.

The previous filter, cyanide, which I'm still going to use as well, is pretty much just a subset of what my experimental selectivecolour filter can do.

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With Adywan currently looking for people with Rebel Pilot outfits could you pool your resources

Heh, what resources?

and try to get some replacements for the helmets of 'Blue Squadron'?

I'd rather adjust the existing shot - I may be able to do something, if only to make the helmets not look quite so spiffy.

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Just finished a new AviSynth filter (ignore the horizontal stripes):

1. Original

2. Brightened (final)

3. Recoloured (rough demo)

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Look carefully, and you'll see there is a shower of sparks on the doorframe next to Han, suggesting the blaster shots were originally meant to be deflected. It's a quick cut though, so perhaps they decided against it in editing.

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I know what I want for Xmas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MFOduNUE8U&feature=related

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Octorox said:

ummm....Maybe it's because the metal is gray? I don't see why it would be blue, honestly? Have you ever thought the color of the metal is gray and the light is neutral toned? It's not necessarily fluorescent light, honestly if the scene is perfectly white balanced the metal SHOULD be gray. I find blue metal for more strange.

You're right that the colours on the DVD are awful, but unless everything in a space is neutrally coloured, and the lights are all identical, nothing will be perfectly grey. Light bounces around all the over the place (moon landing deniers, I'm talking to you! ;) ) It's often an incredibly subtle effect, but when it's gone your brain knows - there's something about that pic that just makes me squint.

Edit: Radiosity! That's the word I'm looking for:

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Yeah, glad to hear the great news about your mum!

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Sumguy21 said:

Angel, have you applied the sharpening to  a video sequence yet?

There's only so much sharpening one could, or should, do to video. The DVDs are already pretty much as sharp as DVDs should be - a lot of TVs sharpen by default, as can some players. Your compression/quality ratio will also take a nosedive.

Here's some stills from Adywan's own ANH Revisited to show just how much better still the color could be.

"Better" is always a little subjective, but yikes! I find the DVD/ANH:R to be 10%-20% oversaturated already, though that's mostly because it's also too dark.

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captainsolo said:

This is great news. I've never heard the 97 LD 5.1 track, but wanted to for years. Thanks for all the hard work!

If you or anyone else wants them, PM me.

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Windows Player.  I didn't have this issues until I installed Windows 7.

And the other three questions? :) I was going somewhere, they weren't just random...

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It's not missing or out of snyc, but it's an ear splitting pitch.

What are you playing it with? Have you tried it with VLC? And just to double check, the audio is present and recognisably Star Wars, just squealy? And other AVIs are fine?

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Also, the time Han spent frozen in carbonite is logical because he was near death.  Had he been frozen for 3 years, he surely would have been dead.

[citation needed!] ;)

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Could I make a request for vertically stacked comparison images? I've only got 1280 pixels! :(

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Who else wants these? PM me.

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Adywan couldn't of messed with such a famous opening scene like that. I think the cue is perfect the way it is and is one of a couple things in these movies that can't be changed no matter how good the idea. Adding music wouldn't be necessary considering how well known that scene is.

Totally agree on this one. Putting the march in ANH will detract from it's use in ESB, when Vader becomes a lot more menacing as his motives come to the fore.

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