Darth Editous

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Join date: 23-Mar-2005
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Post: #262330
Topic: Idea: Uploading preservation projects to Google Video
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/262330/action/topic#262330
Time: 21-Dec-2006 5:00 AM

Google Video will probably take it down right quick if you post it. Save your time.

Unless... all your annotated images of the changes were done in MSPaint! I'm serious...

DE

Post: #261786
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261786/action/topic#261786
Time: 16-Dec-2006 7:40 PM

Hal, I will get around to making those clips available - I'm just still not sure what the best way to go about it is, or when I'll get around to it

Sorry once again for the delays - I know you're all looking forward to it, and I really really hope to have it out there next weekend.

DE

Post: #261517
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261517/action/topic#261517
Time: 14-Dec-2006 1:27 PM

Hows it coming along?

I've encoded the Xvid video, but I found some more info on DVD specs that tells me I should re-encode the PAL MPEG video I did last night. I've been a bit busy lately after being roped in to create a TV ad for work.

Unrelated question, What are your computer specs? (If you dont mind)

At work (which does all the encoding), 3.0GHz and 1Gb of RAM. At home, 1.0GHz and 1Gb of RAM (I like my ultraportable and there's nothing I want to upgrade to right now). All my Star Wars work is stored along with other stuff on a 300Gb external hard drive (with no backup!

).

DE

Post: #261051
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261051/action/topic#261051
Time: 11-Dec-2006 5:04 PM

Sorry guys, no wolfman in this edit...

DE, are you going to compile a list of extra fixes made in the V2 and V3 versions somewhere? Maybe add them below the list in your original post? That would be great!

I'll try, but I'm not sure I've kept a very accurate list. I can always compare it to insert files, although that wouldn't help for audio edits.

The second pass of the Xvid encode is at 90% as I type

Post: #260785
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260785/action/topic#260785
Time: 8-Dec-2006 3:28 PM

Good luck with the Xvid encode! Any word on the DVD releases?

They take a little longer - overnight encodes, like Xvid, but then there's chapters to mark and stuff. And I've just been pressed into producing another TV ad for work which I'll need to spend some time on. Xvid should definitely be done next weekend if not before, DVDs perhaps the one after that.

DE

Post: #260738
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260738/action/topic#260738
Time: 8-Dec-2006 4:49 AM

Another delay - there's something going wrong with my Xvid encode. I suspect it's AVISynth's Lanczos resize falling over on a particular frame, so I'll have to use the VDub filter instead.

DE

Post: #260598
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260598/action/topic#260598
Time: 7-Dec-2006 6:51 AM

Adywan, did you apply any overall brightness increase? I ask because I'm toying with the idea for my edit, but I don't want to ramp up the noisy dark areas and create posterisation.

DE

Post: #260592
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260592/action/topic#260592
Time: 7-Dec-2006 5:47 AM

Hmm... on the one hand the original DVD is way too dark, but on the other hand, adjusting the levels is going to bring up noise, cause posterisation, etc, so there's a good case to be made for leaving it as is and leaving it to people to adjust their sets. I suspect keeping the original levels will make encoding more efficient, too...

Edit: never mind, I figured out what was wrong with my levels boosting - it looks a lot nicer now so I'm going ahead with it. Spotted something else to correct though...

DE

Post: #260500
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260500/action/topic#260500
Time: 6-Dec-2006 4:02 PM

Is this version still going to be ready to download by the weekend?

I expect to have the Xvid version available, at least. Right now I'm just umming and ahhing about applying a global gamma correction of 1.5 to bring it all up to a decent brightness (it really helps bring the stars out too).

DE

Post: #260375
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260375/action/topic#260375
Time: 6-Dec-2006 7:32 AM

More changes:

• Replaced the washed out green Falcon that disappears into hyperspace
• Straightened the opening crawl
• Repaint of lasers (opening shot only)

DE

Post: #260032
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260032/action/topic#260032
Time: 4-Dec-2006 4:59 AM

DE: you didn't by any chance use the '97 sound mix for this version, did you?

Nope, sorry. It has its problems but I prefer the new mix. I haven't corrected the swapped music, because I can't tell the difference, but I have put back in the fanfare as the X-Wings dive on the Death Star, re-equalised lots of dialogue and other stuff. I have kept the new Krait Dragon call - the original sounds more like a Dewback and less like the kind of noise a human could make.

Cutting those six frames may speed it up just enough, however, I don't know if it would affect the sound mix (skip or jump).

I think that would make the shot too short.

DE

Post: #259988
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259988/action/topic#259988
Time: 3-Dec-2006 8:00 PM

I also use VLC Media player because this seems to play most things. Hope this helps

If I remember correctly, you don't the Xvid codec if you use VLC. It does its own internal decoding.

DE

Post: #259927
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259927/action/topic#259927
Time: 3-Dec-2006 2:44 PM

For your consideration:

http://rapidshare.com/files/5927183/greedo.avi.html

There's an extra frame of this single laser blast now, which makes it look a little slower, but also more deliberate. Han's an extra 33% mean!

DE

Post: #259757
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259757/action/topic#259757
Time: 2-Dec-2006 2:14 PM

You kick ass

Yes. Yes I do.

Post: #259746
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259746/action/topic#259746
Time: 2-Dec-2006 1:34 PM

Right, more changes:

• The subtitles have been moved higher into the picture, so they now lie on the 10% "text safe" line (within the frame of the movie - there isn't room underneath, and this way the DVD and Xvid editions can be made from the same source).
• Graphic equalization of Tarkin and Leia's dialogue before the destruction of Alderaan. I attempted this originally, but for some reason I couldn't make it work - I don't know why, it was easy (are you listening, George...?)
• I just couldn't resist this one - Greedo now frowns on his last line, as inspired by Adywan, but implemented by me. There are no other changes, as I feel anything else would just be eye candy, but this one change makes Greedo so more menacing, and is actually a very effective compromise to those who may feel Han is still a bit too cold-blooded - Greedo actually becomes a threat.
• Han only fires off one shot (it matches the audio and firing two looks a little lame).

These are in addition to the "manoeuvres" shot and the drifting stars before going into hyperspace, as mentioned earlier, and whatever else I've done but can't remember.

Sorry that this means another delay, but all 3 publicly available additions should be completed by next weekend. I'll be able to seed them at up to 2mbit, but only between about midnight and 8am GMT.

DE

Post: #259594
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259594/action/topic#259594
Time: 1-Dec-2006 12:48 PM

Adywan, I hope you agree that plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery because I think I'm going to have to do my own version of Greedo's final frown - it makes him so much more menacing! I'm not going as far as animating everyone else (it's all a bit too much for me!), but you've done an amazing job.

DE

Post: #259317
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259317/action/topic#259317
Time: 30-Nov-2006 11:46 AM

Ignore this post, I didn't do what I said I did after all.

DE

Post: #258598
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258598/action/topic#258598
Time: 27-Nov-2006 4:46 AM

Can we (ie losers like me who have a slow @rse connection) expect an Xvid option for d/l DE?

Yup. It'll be non-anamorphic, to fit on a single CD with stereo sound, running at 23.976fps.

Arnie.d, I've been meaning to make snippets available for people who want to use them in their edits, but I've yet to set up a decent way of getting them out there. I've also lost the emails from the other person who wanted some of my patches - if you're reading this, whoever you are (I've got a bad memory) email me again.

DE

Post: #258495
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258495/action/topic#258495
Time: 26-Nov-2006 8:58 AM

Originally posted by: Dantha Fodder

Two specific shots really annoy me.

It counts as being on the Tantive IV... The shot is way too green.

I guess it is a tiny bit green, but I don't think it's any worse than any of the other shots in that scene, so I'm not going to do it.

The other is the scene of the twin suns setting. In the original, the scene was more bright and didn't seem to be too late in the afternoon/evening.

You have a point about this one - I'm going to adjust the levels, very slightly.

v3 is almost ready to render! Some of the new changes are:

- Many more lightsabres repainted and coloured, including (almost?) all the shots aboard the Falcon and a number from the duel.
- The Falcon now manoeuvres a bit after Han boasts about his manoeuvres - similar to Adywan's change, but only altering the existing scene.
- The stars continue to drift just before the Falcon goes into Hyperspace.
- A burn mark that appears before Vader strikes a wall is removed.

I'm starting to lose track of everything I've done, and when I did it, so there may be other stuff I've forgotten about. And of course this includes all the changes I made for v2, which was only released as an Xvid AVI.

DE

Post: #258274
Topic: Need some info on Laserdisc players and AC3 RF
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258274/action/topic#258274
Time: 24-Nov-2006 5:07 AM

I got a demodulator from Ebay for £100 (~$60). I don't know if it matters to you, but no PAL discs have AC3.

DE

Post: #258202
Topic: ESB Dream sequence
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258202/action/topic#258202
Time: 23-Nov-2006 4:42 AM

It looks like it was shot at about 20fps, but the effect that counts is that every frame was tripled. I'd just triple every frame (SelectEvery(1,0,0,0) if you're using AVISynth

) to achieve the same effect.

David

Post: #257483
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/257483/action/topic#257483
Time: 19-Nov-2006 10:47 AM

So this is another unediting of the 2004 SE? Nice work! Would definitly seed this if there was a NTSC and a torrent aviliable!

There is a torrent, or at least there was. I can't remember if I put the PAL or NTSC version up though - probably PAL. There was also a 24fps XVID AVI floating around for a while too.

There will be PAL, NTSC and XVID versions of v3, and I will also create (but perhaps not distribute) a PAL "true speed" version. This will be interlaced, so it will only be suitable for watching on a CRT television.

DE

Post: #257462
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/257462/action/topic#257462
Time: 19-Nov-2006 6:33 AM

Ep V has it's own thread somewhere, but it's way down the list so I'm not surprised if you didn't find it! I've done a little more work on it this weekend.

EP IV (v3) still has one more shot to polish off (the Falcon actually some manoeuvres - an enhancement of the original shot rather than a new composite like in Adywan's), but now I'm torn between doing some colour correction, which I know so many people would like to see, and leaving it be, because the colours have never been a problem for me (except the saturation on Tatooine).

So what are people's biggest problems with the colours in Ep IV? The Tantive IV, obviously, and the first shots of Tatooine, but any other shots that you'd like to see corrected?

ADM, you sent me a PM but I don't have your email address any more. I'll think about it in my downtime, but I don't think it's something I can pull off.

DE

Post: #256522
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256522/action/topic#256522
Time: 13-Nov-2006 4:43 AM

whats the best way to get in touch with you then? Private message?

Actually, yeah, but leave me your email address so I can reply more easily. I'll try to remember to check my Hotmail more often.

DE

Post: #256423
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256423/action/topic#256423
Time: 12-Nov-2006 12:00 PM

No news I'm afraid, but just a note that if anyone's sent any email recently to my Hotmail address, I won't have received it. Stupid Microsoft stupidly deactiviated my stupid Hotmail stupid account just because I didn't login for a while. Bunch of stupids!

DE