Darth Editous

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Post: #242554
Topic: Letterboxed to anamorphic video conversion
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242554/action/topic#242554
Time: 9-Sep-2006 8:27 PM

# the right dimensions will probably be something like 600x480

The image should keep its width (720) - you only want to resize in one dimension. The height should be increased by a factor of 1.333 (recurring), which, for NTSC, will probably mean a resize (after cropping) to approximately 720x360.

DE

Post: #241205
Topic: Info Wanted: Will the 2006 Japanese OUT look better than the 2006 US OUT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241205/action/topic#241205
Time: 4-Sep-2006 4:45 PM

Strictly speaking though, the data on the disc isn't NTSC, is it? It's an MPEG video file with a resolution and frame rate that matches NTSC. It's the circuitry in the DVD player that creates the NTSC video signal, so wouldn't the difference in levels be down to that and not a change in the data on the disc?

DE

Post: #240948
Topic: Info Wanted: What is generally considered the best fan preservation version of the OT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240948/action/topic#240948
Time: 3-Sep-2006 5:54 PM

This is very strange. Where did you get it from? Is it PAL or NTSC? Was there a JPEG in the root of the disc? Is the audio still 448kbps?

DE

Post: #240945
Topic: Split avi to audio/video?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240945/action/topic#240945
Time: 3-Sep-2006 5:48 PM

but you are changing the framerate as well (30fps to 24fps)

Not that I'm being pedantic, or anything, but it's 29.97fps to 23.976fps

Post: #240898
Topic: The Blob!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240898/action/topic#240898
Time: 3-Sep-2006 2:56 PM

Nothing was spilled on the film. That shot was made from multiple elements. You had the horizon which was a seperate element and the they comped it into the shot of Luke. When they did that it resulted into the blob.

But that blob's not present on every frame of those scenes, is it? Are those the first frames of those two shots? If so, maybe it's something to do with the way they film was originally spliced (there were all kinds of jumps and scrapes and rubbish on first or last frames that I cleaned out of my LD transfer, which weren't there when I got the 2004 DVDs to use as source).

DE

Post: #240897
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240897/action/topic#240897
Time: 3-Sep-2006 2:52 PM

They're soft subtitles. The exact position can differ from player to player.

Subtitles are stored as four-colour full screen images, so they should always appear in the same place on all players, which in this case will be bad if the subs are outside the 16:9 frame and people want to zoom to fill their wide screens (some TVs have a "subtitle" zoom for exactly this situation).

The best use of this facility I've seen was on the Ghostbusters DVD. There's a subtitle track which takes the form of an MST3K-style silhouette of the people doing the commentary

Post: #240869
Topic: Info Wanted: What is generally considered the best fan preservation version of the OT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240869/action/topic#240869
Time: 3-Sep-2006 10:05 AM

I am serious, unless I accidentally somehow transposed the entire channels. But AIUI, the music was right but the effects were wrong, so if I swapped the channels completely the music would be wrong... (or vice versa)

Maybe ADM fixed it, and you've got his hybrid?

DE

Post: #240759
Topic: Info Wanted: What is generally considered the best fan preservation version of the OT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240759/action/topic#240759
Time: 2-Sep-2006 10:11 PM

Fixed the swapped surrounds in the rear channels, too.

Did not!

Post: #240752
Topic: Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240752/action/topic#240752
Time: 2-Sep-2006 9:40 PM

Darth Editous, what do you mean by wobbly cuts on the '97 laserdisc?

At the end of a lot of scenes, two or three frames would wobble quite frantically, shifting up, stretching a bit, that sort of thing. I fixed a lot on my Laserdisc transfer but that problem has more or less gone away on the 2004 DVDs.

DE

Post: #239683
Topic: O-OT Star Wars "Bonus Disc" menus (www.starwars.com)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239683/action/topic#239683
Time: 30-Aug-2006 12:45 PM

Like the Star Wars menus, the animation at the beginning here looks like it's supposed to be a bad quality shot so as to not make the film itself look worse.

I thought it was just textured to make it look like it's part of the painting.

Not in relation to review discs, no... and what will they do? fire them? they're not employees of Lucasfilm!

No, but they can never send them anything for review ever again.

DE

Post: #239642
Topic: HELP: Avisynth/DGIndex Reassociating
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239642/action/topic#239642
Time: 30-Aug-2006 7:46 AM

The AVISynth version shouldn't be a problem. You can open the .d2v files in a text editor to update the paths to the actual video file, or just run the video files through DGIndex again to build a new .d2v file.

DE

Post: #239637
Topic: Letterbox ---> Anamorphic?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239637/action/topic#239637
Time: 30-Aug-2006 5:53 AM

Ues it. If he bought a good progressive scan player it will resize non-anamorphic to anamorphic.

Are there really players that do that? What's the player meant to do if the disc has a got a full frame picture - cut off the top and bottom? (ETA: duh, it would probably be switchable

Still, seems a bit pointless when TVs scale anyway)

Anyway, Hal's talking about editing, not viewing, so I assume he wants to cut already anamorphic video with currently non-anamorphic stuff.

DE

Post: #239635
Topic: Sending the SEs back
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239635/action/topic#239635
Time: 30-Aug-2006 5:36 AM

Maybe we could send all our SE discs to one of the more artistic forum members, who could make them into a sculpture of Han firing first

Post: #239634
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239634/action/topic#239634
Time: 30-Aug-2006 5:33 AM

Slowly getting there. I'm just moving some starfields before the jump to hyperspace, and then I might do something with that "I know a few manouevres" shot where the Falcon performs no manouevres whatsoever, though it will be an edit of the original shot, rather than a new composite from ESB like Adywan's.

There's also the light coming from R2's projector that is missing in one or two shots (though it never really bothered me) which is mentioned on the starwars.com changes list.

In answer to a question in my ESB thread, this will be available as PAL DVD, NTSC DVD, and 700mb XVID.

DE

Post: #239552
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239552/action/topic#239552
Time: 29-Aug-2006 8:18 PM

Not true if your watching on a pixel based tv (plasma or LCD).

Just to be clear, what's not true?

DE

Post: #239551
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239551/action/topic#239551
Time: 29-Aug-2006 8:16 PM

That is: Original File -> Wave Parser -> ffdshow -> wav dest -> file writer (.ac3)

ffdshow can now encode to AC3? My Google-bility is weak... where did you find the filter you've labelled as "ffdshow"?

Does anyone know how good ffdshow/ac3filter are at AC3 encoding compared to, say, just off the top of my head

Sonic Scenarist's AC3Enc?

DE

PS From what I've read encoding requires the newer, somewhat unstable version of AC3filter.

Post: #239494
Topic: Letterbox ---> Anamorphic?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239494/action/topic#239494
Time: 29-Aug-2006 3:34 PM

Do you have progressive scan? If not then you'll need to rip the discs and re-encode them.

What's he meant to do if he does have progressive scan?

I'd recommend using AVISynth with the mpeg2dec plugin (this allows you to use a .mpeg/.mpg/.m2v file as source for an AVISynth project). Then you can resize and crop in the same script. If you're lucky, your MPEG encoder will accept the AVISynth as input (TMPGenc Express does, for example), so you only reencode once.

I don't know about sharpening with DVDrebuilder, but you can sharpen with an AVISynth script. It's a very handy tool.

DE

Post: #239488
Topic: Idea: Any "fans" of Timbo's 'War of the Worlds' here?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239488/action/topic#239488
Time: 29-Aug-2006 3:21 PM

Just me? Come on, own up, no-one will judge you here...

Post: #239469
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239469/action/topic#239469
Time: 29-Aug-2006 1:53 PM

It may be that your TV is doing one of those "smart zooms" - stretching the picture out at the sides so it fills the screen (the black bars at top and bottom being part of the picture) but keeping everything almost right in the centre. The downside to this method is a bit of distortion and the loss of some picture at the top and bottom (not a problem in this case because it's black). I've never come across a DVD player that turns a 4:3 source into a 16:9 picture. TVs tend to use either the zoom mode you set, or proper widescreen if it receives the switching signal.

DE

Post: #239448
Topic: Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239448/action/topic#239448
Time: 29-Aug-2006 12:30 PM

- Changing of graphics during the Death Star Battle of the "aiming computer" displays

What did they change?

- they fixed the "jump cut" when 3PO and R2 are walking past the shooting stormtroopers at the beginning, when the explosion to the right is detonating
- they fixed the "jump cut" during the beginning of the movie when R2 unrolls his third leg, after Leia gave him the plans...

Are you sure you weren't watching my edition?

I had to fix both of those because the jump cut is still evident (there is no jump in the picture as a whole any more, but they didn't fix the hopping stormtroopers or the slight jump that was still left on R2 - and it wouldn't be something you could show with still pictures anyway).

There were all kinds of wobbly cuts present on my SE LDs which are almost entirely gone on the DVD.

There is still lots of film grain in the 2004SE

I know the word "lots" is subjective, but on most of my fixes I didn't add any grain to the patches and you really can't tell. Lately I've been adding noise (about 1%, and I'd say that's not lots) but only because I'm minutely analysing the fixes to check that they're good, or pasting such large areas that the lack of noise tells your brain there's something "wrong" with the picture, though it's not immediately obvious what.

DE

Post: #239440
Topic: Star Trek gets better treatment than Star Wars...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239440/action/topic#239440
Time: 29-Aug-2006 11:56 AM

What would be great is if they made the HD releases to seamlessly switch to the original effects shots if you were to choose a different "play" option from the menu!

They've been doing this for a while (on DVD, that is) for old (pre-2005 series) episodes of Doctor Who. Some of the nicest were when they replaced (optionally) the wobbly pie tins on strings with retro black and white CGI flying saucers

Some of the old video composites also get replaced permanently with steadier digital ones.

DE

Post: #239389
Topic: Where Does it Actually Say that the DVDs are *NOT* Anamorphic?!?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239389/action/topic#239389
Time: 29-Aug-2006 6:18 AM

I'm not sure about the menus. Certain dvd menus appear letterboxed on my computer screen but are 4:3 on a tv, even a widescreen one. Or is there something else you know about the menus.

Menus (and movies, but it's rarely used) have a flag that can make them appear 4:3 if the DVD player that is set up as 4:3, cutting off the left and right. I assume your computer is proclaiming itself to be a 16:9 display, and whatever DVD player you're using is set up for 4:3.

DE

Post: #239387
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239387/action/topic#239387
Time: 29-Aug-2006 5:58 AM

One thing that i have almost fixed is the timing of the title crawl. Not only does the Star Wars logo recede to fast on the english angle version, but is correct on the other languages (so easily fixed)

That's what mverta was doing - taking one of the other language's logos and putting it on the English crawl. But if you look closely, it's not the same logo. it has a much straighter top line on the ST of STAR. One of my fixes was retiming the original logo to the correct speed, so I can make that available to you as well as the other stuff.

I'm glad you mentioned it - I'd forgotten to include it in v3 of my edit!

DE

Post: #238754
Topic: Idea: Any "fans" of Timbo's 'War of the Worlds' here?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238754/action/topic#238754
Time: 26-Aug-2006 6:35 PM — Edited 9-Jul-2020 9:51 PM

In 2005 there were not one, not two, but three versions of War of the Worlds released. There was Spielberg’s blockbuster (which was great, although it might receive some attention from me in the future), a fairly poor TV movie, and the subject of this post, Timothy Hines’ period (though which period it actually is is anyone’s guess) version.

I’d heard it was bad. I couldn’t contain my morbid curiousity, so I ordered a copy from amazon.com (it’s not, and probably never will be, available outside of the US). To this day, I’ve only seen the first twenty minutes, but that was more than enough. Something must be done.

I’m not talking about a fan edit - it would need real fans for that to happen, and I can’t believe there are any. But it would be perfect for a certain treatment, and I was wondering if anyone else here might be interested in seeing something good come from something… well… other than good.

Post: #238752
Topic: Doctor Who: The Ten Doctors (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238752/action/topic#238752
Time: 26-Aug-2006 6:15 PM

My sources tell me the BBC has yet to actually broadcast Doctor Who in high def, so any anamorphic DVD (from broadcast) is artifical from the get go.

Anamorphic doesn't imply HD. The new series is broadcast anamorphically on satellite and Freeview, and in 14:9 on the analogue service.

On the subject of HD, I heard that Sony offered the BBC a free bunch of HD cameras specifically for Doctor Who, but the BBC turned them down. SFX costs would have been an issue, I'm sure, but it would have been nice.

DE