Darth Editous

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Post: #124103
Topic: Info Wanted: Special Edition Screenshot Request
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124103/action/topic#124103
Time: 19-Jul-2005 6:49 AM

I thought they were just digital broadcasts in standard def, not HD?

DE

Post: #123032
Topic: 3:2 on laserdisc question
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/123032/action/topic#123032
Time: 14-Jul-2005 5:47 AM

Bit off-topic, but whenever I use AVISynth the result is always darker than the input. Anyone else noticed this, or found a way around it?

DE

Post: #122795
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122795/action/topic#122795
Time: 13-Jul-2005 7:38 AM

The list is at home but for now I'll post a few of the ones I can remember:

Stop the doors moving behind Chewbacca before they're supposed to.
Reframe the shot of the Wampa's arm because you can see the head and arm of the puppeteer (it's usually frame out by TV anyway but it needs fixing).
Possibly fix the window on Cloud City. It's a lot of work and there's enough cutting back and forth that it's not a completely obvious problem (you can almost believe they turn 90 degrees at the end of the corridor).
Put Boba Fett's voice back (an absolute must).
Possibly do something to the matte painting of the weather vane, like turning it into a 3D model and add some 3D movement. Fix various flashes of light that reveal the borders of the matte paintings.
Take out "Prepare my Star Destroyer..." etc.
Re-edit the Emperor scene so it's closer to the OT, but keeping Ian McDiarmid.
When Luke lightsabres the hatch open on the AT-AT, it's always looked a bit weird, as if his lightsabre passes through part of the body of the machine without damaging it.
Align R2's text on the X-Wing's display so it doesn't float around with respect to the display screen.

DE

Post: #122790
Topic: 3:2 on laserdisc question
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122790/action/topic#122790
Time: 13-Jul-2005 6:20 AM

Does a PAL/NTSC DVD player play PAL discs on NTSC displays at true speed or PAL speed?

I've only ever come across one standards-converting DVD player, and that only converted from NTSC to PAL by dropping every nth frame.

If there is a player than converts from PAL to NTSC (and I doubt there is), if it didn't stick to PAL speed it would have to decode and resample the audio.

I think it's InterVideo's DVD software that has a "PAL Truespeed" option - it slows PAL discs down to 24fps and resamples the audio, but this breaks the outputting of AC3/DTS on a SPDIF output.

DE

Post: #122580
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122580/action/topic#122580
Time: 12-Jul-2005 11:54 AM

No, in most cases I left the sabres as they are. The colours are all over the place in that scene anyway, really, though in hindsight I could have recoloured some of the shots.

DE

Post: #122547
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122547/action/topic#122547
Time: 12-Jul-2005 8:18 AM

WinMorph - it's free.

DE

Post: #122543
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122543/action/topic#122543
Time: 12-Jul-2005 7:14 AM

First of all I just wanted to say a big thank you to Darth Editous for all his hard work, it looks enough to drive anyone isane.

Indeed, and it's only thanks to the support of my talking pet squirrel Steven that I've kept hold of my marbles.

some obvious errors that the team in ILM didn't even pick up on

Every movie is full of mistakes that you don't normally notice. I just thought I'd fix them while I was doing the big stuff.

DE

Post: #122287
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122287/action/topic#122287
Time: 11-Jul-2005 7:41 AM

Plans, oh yes, there are plans. Unfortunately my list of things to do for ESB is almost as long as the one for ANH, so it's a bit daunting.

DE

Post: #121626
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121626/action/topic#121626
Time: 7-Jul-2005 8:26 PM

In case anyone else is downloading the JPEG on that link, note that the labels are different for the NTSC and PAL versions. One has a P serial number and one has an N serial number.

DE

Post: #121521
Topic: Star Wars on Discovery & Animal Planet - DVD Cover request, and more...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121521/action/topic#121521
Time: 7-Jul-2005 10:03 AM

electronic ignition getaway systems

I've heard of those. I think we call them "cars"

Post: #121511
Topic: Things you never noticed before in the films
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121511/action/topic#121511
Time: 7-Jul-2005 6:03 AM

The entire OT has a U rating in the UK (equivalent to G). I can't remember what ET got but it's probably a U as well. The box set of DVDs is a PG because of the bonus material, not the movies themselves.

Here's something I've noticed - when Ben is first telling Luke about what a great pilot his dad was, he leans back and says "And he was a good friend." Or does he? Every time I hear it now, I think he's actually saying " Anni was a good friend." I don't think an actor like Alec Guiness would drop his Ds for no good reason.

DE

Post: #121189
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121189/action/topic#121189
Time: 6-Jul-2005 8:40 AM

Editous, I'm serious when I say Lucasfilm should hire you.
And they should hire me as a charcter designer/script doctor.

Only if we get hammocks. Business hammocks.

DE

Post: #121181
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121181/action/topic#121181
Time: 6-Jul-2005 7:22 AM

Hopefully Lucas will get a copy and send you a check.

Hey, I'm not in it for the money. But George, if you're reading this, 5 figures, 'kay?

DE

Post: #121180
Topic: SW fonts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121180/action/topic#121180
Time: 6-Jul-2005 7:20 AM

Yup, I found AlternateGotNo3D was much closer than Franklin (I was trying to match the subs on the SE LDs). Franklin has round Os whereas Got has the straight-sided Os, like in the A NEW HOPE part of the crawl (I've since discovered that the crawl font is Univers, but GotNo3D is still a better match for the subs). Impact was also fairly close, and has the advantage that it comes with Windows.

I'm definitely not close to being an expert, but I presumed the DVD subtitles were just defined by the DVD player as my DVDs vary based on where I play them, on the computer they look woeful.

Subtitle streams are encoded as a series of stills, so they should look the same whatever you play them on. The most interesting use of subtitles is on the Ghostbusters commentary - enabling them puts an animated shadow of the commentators on top of the movie, a bit like MST3K.

DE

Post: #120884
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120884/action/topic#120884
Time: 5-Jul-2005 5:41 AM

That's all very mystifying... I would have thought that even if there were some erroneous bytes, Nero (or whatever) would just burn the disc anyway. Anyone else had this kind of trouble?

DE

Post: #120883
Topic: SW fonts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120883/action/topic#120883
Time: 5-Jul-2005 5:39 AM

Originally posted by: Obi-Wan Spicoli

Originally posted by: zion
Anyone know what font was used for the old school ROTJ logo?

Times New Roman.

I'd say it looks more like Garamond Bold, which even has the same dropped J, and is slightly fancier than TNR.

David

Post: #120823
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120823/action/topic#120823
Time: 4-Jul-2005 5:46 PM

The reason I ask is that in my investigations I've found that AC3 audio appears to be about 80ms (2 PAL frames) in advance of the video (even when Headac3e says there's 0ms delay).

Standalone DVD players seem to allow for this delay, but software DVD players don't. I've verified this by videoing the screen of my laptop and of my TV, both playing Star Wars, then looking at the waveforms of the captured audeo. With my standalone player and TV, the music began in the same frame as the words STAR WARS first appear, but on the laptop the sound started first.

What first tipped me off was watching my first test burns of my SE LD->DVD edit and noticing out-of-sync dialogue.

DE

Post: #120822
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120822/action/topic#120822
Time: 4-Jul-2005 5:40 PM

Are you copying from disc to disc or have you ripped it to hard drive first? It's unencrypted so you should be able to copy the VIDEO_TS folder to your hard drive then drag it into a Nero DVD-Video project.

DE

Post: #120564
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120564/action/topic#120564
Time: 3-Jul-2005 1:34 PM

ADM, did you have to do any resyncing (by eye/ear) during your edit? Or did you just make sure you took out the same amount of audio as video when you made a cut?

DE

Post: #120247
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120247/action/topic#120247
Time: 1-Jul-2005 1:08 PM

I think my recording software can make a PAL version if no-one can send you a PAL one, I will see tonight when I get home, PM me your address.

Please don't take offense, but I'd strongly advise against doing that. It would result in an inferior disc than a copy of the DE-ANH20050525P PAL disc - the video will have 1/4 less vertical resolution and it will have to be re-encoded (and the original encoding took 15 hours on a 3GHz P4 so it's high quality). The audio will have to be resampled and re-encoded too, and will probably be downmixed to stereo unless you have some very nice software.

DE

Post: #119991
Topic: Info: Any Interest In A Corrected 2004 DVD? (“Deliberate Creative Decisions” info)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119991/action/topic#119991
Time: 30-Jun-2005 7:42 PM

Since I last posted in this thread, I used my soundtrack CD to restore the music as the X-Wings dive at the Death Star. The music was still present in the rear channels, so those were used to line it all up. I constructed the center channel my mixing left and right. It came out great!

DE

Post: #119842
Topic: The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119842/action/topic#119842
Time: 30-Jun-2005 1:26 PM

It is possible that my AC3 will not mix with an "official" AC3 as Vegas exports 5.1 AC3 files at 448 instead of the standard 384.

The officials are 448kbps - at least the R2 ones are.

DE

Post: #119828
Topic: Superman II and Superman III extended (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119828/action/topic#119828
Time: 30-Jun-2005 11:47 AM

There was a time in the UK, that the only version of Superman 3 shown on TV was the extented version.

Last time I saw it on TV, I'm sure they cut out the line "...or a hairdryer?" after the supposedly dumb blonde recognises the circuit diagram as a computer. Anyone else remember that line or am I imagining it?

DE

Post: #119636
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119636/action/topic#119636
Time: 29-Jun-2005 6:31 PM

My edit has no menus. It auto-plays and the chapter points are in the same places as the official DVDs (except where scenes are cut, or in one case where a chapter point occured mid-scene, and was moved to the beginning of the next scene).

DE

Post: #118618
Topic: Encoding Help
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118618/action/topic#118618
Time: 26-Jun-2005 7:52 PM

I'd try unchecking inverse telecine, disabling 3:2 pulldown on playback, and rendering out the crawl at 29.97fps, and see if you still have the same problem. If not, then it's probably due to being incorrectly inverse telecined. I don't know how (or if it is at all) intelligent the TMGPEnc inverse telecine is - does it compare frames or fields to work out which one to drop, or does it just drop every fifth one regardless?

DE