Doctor M

I thought Sepharih packed it in when he got a job doing real video editing.

Taolar, I never asked, will you be doing massive color correction on Superman Returns (like it needs)... or is it too early to even ask that.

A Kevin Smith web series?  How did I miss that.

Anyway, it ripped fine for me Rev.  Give me a PM.

(double post, sorry.  This site really needs a delete post option.)

RMC is usually a solid choice.  Isn't Camtasia just a screen recorder not a stream ripper?

Btw, I just noticed tonight that RMC has a format converter built in.  I've never tried it so I can't tell you how good it is.

Also, you may have more luck if you reinstall the previous (v9) of flash player.

Edit: I take it back.  That's no longer an issue.  v10 works fine.  Still it depends on the source you're ripping from.

RMC is usually a solid choice.  Isn't Camtasia just a screen recorder not a stream ripper?

Btw, I just noticed tonight that RMC has a format converter built in.  I've never tried it so I can't tell you how good it is.

Also, you may have more luck if you reinstall the previous (v9) of flash player.

Capturing flash: Replay Media Catcher.  Hands down the best.  They have a war going with Adobe.  Whenever they think they've blocked flash rippers, Replay quickly turns out an update.

As far as converting, I'm a do it yourself kind of guy.  FLV Extract, Avisynth and lots of assumefps and convertfps sort of things.

If you don't want to spend a lot of time on each clip, you can try Riva FLV Encoder http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3 or the very popular Total Video Converter: http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/

mod16 means that the dimensions of the video must be divisible by 16.

1080p is frequently encoded as 1088 for this reason (the last 8 lines being padding).

Don't have my laser player anymore (but still have my Star Wars discs for no good reason...)

Anyone want to take this on?

To answer my own question, the VHS of Saludos Amigos has the same copyright date as the Gold Edition DVD.

So unless someone has the 1995 laserdisc, this is one we're going to have to wait for Disney to fix.

Heh heh.  So I thought maybe something like TDecimate might do the job.  It gives the ability to open up the cycle size.  Typically you decimate 1 in 5 frames.  I set it to 6 in 30 to make up for the irregularity of the pattern.

No luck.  So I found a clip noticeably bad and counted frames... 90 of them.

Subtracting duplicates, the frame rate was 19 fps!!!

Crazy.  Maybe THAT'S why the movie hasn't been to DVD.

Tested official VHS (which definitely appears to be a different transfer) and I'm finding the same thing.

A B C D D A B B A B C D D A B C D E F F A B C C

And that's within the same scene w/o any camera cuts.

No rhyme or reason to the pattern. Using any sort of decimation makes the picture jerky as all heck.

Looks like it is staying interlaced. Ah well.

That color correction is a bit of a mixed bag.  The good ones look like you've cleaned sludge off the camera lens.  The bad ones look like you washed the color out of the scene.

Be mindful that the chase is taking place in a  jungle.  Light being filtered through the leaves shouldn't look like it's being cast by fluorescent lightbulbs.

@HeKS:  I really don't know why you're messing with that scene.  I never felt there was anything wrong with it.

Using Photoshop is a waste of time since it gets you no closer to actually editing the scene.  If you look, you can see changes in black levels/color between the wipe.  I don't know if that's in the original or your doing, but it needs to be fixed.

Finally: It is not a stretch for Indy to assume that someone who just robbed Area 51 (and made a right mess doing it), might have high-tailed it out of the neighborhood.

My guess is she's long gone too.  Don't get bogged down on the little things.

I don't think so.  It was telecined to 30fps just with fewer base frames.

The runtime is the same as the official tape as well.

I would think it could be a way to expand runtime (make fewer frames go farther).

It's almost like they trimmed a few minutes but wanted the runtime to be the same.  Hmm.  I may need to watch both versions side by side now.

For anyone following this, I was about ready to run a really slooow script to encode the capture I made.

I was disappointed to find out after running telecide that there are fewer than 24 unique frames a second.  Enough so that after decimate the picture is jittery.

This may actually look better interlaced.  Not ideal, but at least it will be smoother.

Someone needs to cap an HDTV broadcast of this somewhere.

You might be surprised, but ADM left the camp-fire scene in, but cut Willy's freek-out.

I was completely surprised when I saw it because I always found the scene mildly amusing.

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Let's have a TOD de-Willied and de-Shortrounded while we're at it!

You should take a look at ADM's Temple of Doom.  While not de-Willied, he stops her from being scream-y and annoying.

It's probably one of his best edits because of the subtlety and his reverence to the original material.

Saludos Amigos isn't widescreen AFAIK, so even a VHS rip might work for the missing scene.

Anyone know if the old tape release is intact?  I might be able to get my hands on that.

If you consider the Young Indiana Jones shows to be canonical, Indy had been calling himself Indy since we very first meet him as a child.

If from then up through Holy Grail he had been going by Indianna, it's inane to think he would suddenly decide it's time to change again.

@Molly - While I've gotten good at re-authoring an edited movie back into it's original menu system, I personally have no problem with movie-only DVDs.

Maybe it's from growing up with VHS tapes.  Besides, unless you have extras, a menu is just another hoop to jump through before you watch what you came for.

Um, I know it's on topic, but next time why don't you just post a link to a text file, HeKS.

Nope, still don't see it, but don't let me deter you.  It could be just because it's a bald white smooth shape.

Mind you what Crystal Skull REALLY needs is more CG work. ;)

What are you plans for it when you are done?

Good looking model... I'm not sure there's much resemblance though.

Post edited to reflect change.  (I still don't know what the change was on BatB.)

Didn't someone do Lion King as well?

Hmm. Well that clarifies things, but doesn't get me much closer to solving the problem.

Edit: Testing disc 2 (which is the one I was currently working with) and trimming the center channel to be largely dialog... I end up around -31db +/- 3db... which doesn't help if the loud passages are too loud even at -29db.

I think I'll stick with -28.  It should get my normal listening to around -27/-28 and keep the loudest from exceeding -31... I think.