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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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- #230229
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- STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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- #230175
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So I take it your leaving in that horrid addition inculding the awful lines read by McDiarmid?
McDiarmid will appear on screen and say the lines, but what those lines might be...
Boba Fett's lines will be restored.
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- #229921
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- #229756
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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
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Being used to regular PAL I'm not sure if repeating fields would bug me or not without seeing an example. If you've already done some experimentation with this method could you upload a sample for us to see?
I encoded a short sequence and watched it back on my PC, and couldn't see any problem. Whether the same can be said while watching on a TV remains to be seen. At least this way it's only fields, and not full frames, that get repeated (which I believe was the case with the NTSC LDs).
Another option that could be good no matter what region you live in would be a true 24fps XviD or AVC copy based off your PAL video and with the NTSC audio slightly sped up to match. Currently I could only play such a file on my computer, but many others here may have no trouble (at least with the XviD version).
I encoded a short sequence and watched it back on my PC, and couldn't see any problem. Whether the same can be said while watching on a TV remains to be seen. At least this way it's only fields, and not full frames, that get repeated (which I believe was the case with the NTSC LDs).
Another option that could be good no matter what region you live in would be a true 24fps XviD or AVC copy based off your PAL video and with the NTSC audio slightly sped up to match. Currently I could only play such a file on my computer, but many others here may have no trouble (at least with the XviD version).
That's what the AVI Pizza-the-Hutt mentioned is (assuming it's the same one I torrented via Demonoid). It's only one-CD quality, and only stereo, but I used all the highest XVID parameters.
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- #229005
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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
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I thought I might also make a true speed (1 out of every 12 fields repeated) PAL version to get the audio at the right pitch - any interest?
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- STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Adding the Super Star Destroyer does raise the question of why it didn't fly in to kick the rebel's butts...
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- #227455
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I'd also love to see a screenshot of your replacement Alderaan projection!
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- #225957
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- ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
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Originally posted by: wmgan
I may be completely off the mark here, but I'm thinking that resizing analog video would not introduce ugly artefacts like resizing digital video would, since the resolution of analog video should be practically infinite
I may be completely off the mark here, but I'm thinking that resizing analog video would not introduce ugly artefacts like resizing digital video would, since the resolution of analog video should be practically infinite
Analogue video doesn't have a (horizontal) resolution like 720 pixels per line, but it still only has a finite amount of information, as does a photograph on film. You might not see digital artefacts like blocking when you zoom up an LD, but you will see dot crawl and colour bleeding and lower resolution (in the sense of having enough information to resolve objects, lines, etc).
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- #225424
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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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What is supposed to be different in the weather vane shot?
I almost posted an exagerrated version because it is fairly subtle. The top one, the original, is a 2D painting with a zoom. The bottom one is in pseudo-3D, giving the impression that the viewpoint is moving forward and down. It's most obvious at the top of the vane, where there's the most parallax motion.
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- #224694
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Are these edits color corrected?
Nope - aside from the fact that I'd probably go bonkers doing that, it would be a somewhat arbitrary task which wouldn't suit my scientific mind
That, and I've never had a massive problem with the colour on the DVDs.There are some points where I've corrected colours, but only when there was a clear mismatch - one shot of the attack clock in ANH was blue instead of green, and the viewscreen views of Admiral Ozell looked horrible in ESB, so I adjusted the colours at the same time as softening the edges:
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- #224684
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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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In the end I just built a slightly higher-res (810x486) version from the last frame and a stretched first frame from that sequence.There was no "lens" used - just a bit of guesswork and approximation. Each bit of the background is zoomed a different amount based on the sine of it's distance from center (multiplied by a different factor for left and right), plus a vertical shift to create the downward motion. The vane is zoomed with a linear function, which is equal to the background at the left and rises to the right, plus the same vertical shift. I was amazed it came out so well, and I think it vastly improves the shot of what was otherwise a very static painting.
The guys at LFL would probably look at that and think "wish we could have done that!"
They might wish they'd thought of it - they could definitely do it
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- #224628
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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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http://www.filefactory.com/?2f8f78
It's an XVID AVI, and it's a bit dark so you might need to crank up the brightness.
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- #224465
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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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The other shot is just getting a bit of an upgrade to make it look less like a painting...
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I've been working on the duel, particulary that one overhead shot where there are some fairly obvious matte lines, and flashes of light that don't extend over the matte painting. I'm also planning on adding a little bit of animated 3D CGI just to make the shot that bit more integrated.
I'm also planning on doing something clever with this shot:
Does anyone have a high res scan of this painting?
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- #217220
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- StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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- #216981
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- Info Wanted: has anyone done a VCD to DVD 'Star Wars Saga' preservation?
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I suppose from that point it would take nothing more than converting the mpeg file to mpeg-2
I'm pretty sure you don't even need to do that. MPEG-1 video is legal for DVD-Video, IIRC. It will need encoding to a lower bitrate if you want to get it all on a SL disc, however. If you did pass it through an MPEG-2 encoder, it could probably preserve all the visual data and lower the filesize - just set the bitrate to 8000kbps because it will never be able to reach that without padding.
What's the point? 95% of DVD players will play VCDs too.
I'm pretty sure you don't even need to do that. MPEG-1 video is legal for DVD-Video, IIRC. It will need encoding to a lower bitrate if you want to get it all on a SL disc, however. If you did pass it through an MPEG-2 encoder, it could probably preserve all the visual data and lower the filesize - just set the bitrate to 8000kbps because it will never be able to reach that without padding.
What's the point? 95% of DVD players will play VCDs too.
Just to have it all on one disc instead of 6.
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- #216618
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- #216576
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Are you looking for something like this:
Nope, more like the circular disc label you posted, but without the white circle in the middle (and possibly without a white outer circle).
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- #216090
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Are those labels full face? Any chance you could post versions without the white area masked out on the inside and outside?
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- ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
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Plasma and LCD have fixed pixels, that means 720x480 fixed pixels in NTSC countries
I was under the impression that Plasma/LCD panels had higher resolution than that (obviously the HD ones do, but SD too), and everything was scaled (it all gets horribly processed anyway). Could be wrong though.
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- #215474
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- ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
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Would love to have DL or SL copies of the new(?) editions.
There won't be a DL version. I've been very happy with the quality of TMPGEnc Express (the first edition was encoded using the old "free" TMPGEnc) and because there are no extras the bitrate isn't much lower than the official DVD. The other reason there's no DL version is that I'd rather have a disc without layer changes.
Thanks for hosting that image, Erik - could you post the links to the covers again, to save anyone trawling the thread?
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- #215308
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Is anyone still interested in PAL/NTSC DVD torrents?
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- #215306
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- .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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Originally posted by: boris
I don't think the pitch was increased for the PAL releases of SW, I believe they're pitch-corrected.
I had to resample the snippets I took from the NTSC SE LDs to match the PAL DVDs, so it was just a straight resample.
Can pitch-correction be done in such a way that it doesn't cause audio artefacts? I believe they may have tried it with recent UK broadcasts of Stargate SG1, and you can hear the glitches.
I just wanted to add the caveat that, in the case of PAL, 5.1 audio will be downsampled to stereo.
I would have thought that in the second case, PC software would always playback at 23.976fps - no-one's going to notice that 0.1% speed difference, and it would run into audio sync problems unless it resampled as above (only 7s over a two hour movie, but still).
This is true for Star Wars movies, and many other movies, but not all movies.
I don't think the pitch was increased for the PAL releases of SW, I believe they're pitch-corrected.
I had to resample the snippets I took from the NTSC SE LDs to match the PAL DVDs, so it was just a straight resample.
Can pitch-correction be done in such a way that it doesn't cause audio artefacts? I believe they may have tried it with recent UK broadcasts of Stargate SG1, and you can hear the glitches.
1) PAL ... PC software ... can play back at 24fps.
2) NTSC ... PC Software can play back at 24fps without the pulldown. Lower resolution.
2) NTSC ... PC Software can play back at 24fps without the pulldown. Lower resolution.
I just wanted to add the caveat that, in the case of PAL, 5.1 audio will be downsampled to stereo.
I would have thought that in the second case, PC software would always playback at 23.976fps - no-one's going to notice that 0.1% speed difference, and it would run into audio sync problems unless it resampled as above (only 7s over a two hour movie, but still).
This is true for Star Wars movies, and many other movies, but not all movies.
What movies would it not be the case for?
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