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Post: #251223
Topic: Info: Hold onto your old Little Mermaid discs!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/251223/action/topic#251223
Time: 13-Oct-2006 6:28 PM — Edited 8-Jan-2009 11:09 AM

Ok, no-one is providing a definitive list of what needs to be done, or in fact even talking about doing this project...

My understanding is the last release has more mute colors, ringing artifacts and is non-anamorphic.
The new release is by and large improved on the above, yet has bad softening and artifacting (from poor digital clean up (They didn't use Lowry).)
Home Theater Forum has a great review: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/showthread.php?t=243216 Giving the video a 3/5 and the audio a 2.5/5.
None of the reviews I read take issue with the new colors, and you know, I really do like them.

Reviews uniformly thrash Little Mermaid's DEHT audio Mix as much as the prior DEHT mixes.

And of course we have this:
(Image missing)

What to do?

1) I suppose the ideal disc would use the sharper (but possibly more flawed) original DVD for the Luma channel (made anamorphic (and possibly properly digitally cleaned). Edit: As long as we're going for the ideal set, let's say we use the PAL DVD's Luma.
2) The new release for the Chroma channel.
3) The original 5.1 audio mix.
4) Bishop's got knee.
->Be aware vertical and horizontal lines will be lost because of different aspect ratios.

Will I be doing it? Sigh, I don't THINK so. Is anyone capable of doing this well?

Post: #251116
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/251116/action/topic#251116
Time: 13-Oct-2006 12:17 AM

Ok, I misunderstood your post then.

Post: #250924
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250924/action/topic#250924
Time: 12-Oct-2006 10:50 AM

What change(s) do you have in mind for Little Mermaid? Complaints on that thread are all over the board from audio mix to color changes.
Or are you going to do a simple knee replacement surgery.

Post: #250922
Topic: Song Of The South - many projects, much info & discussion thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250922/action/topic#250922
Time: 12-Oct-2006 10:49 AM

No one has been able to confirm this, but from what has been described of the BBC broadcast, it sounds possible a 24 -> 25 pulldown was used instead of a normal speedup.

Good news for those who hate the pitch shift, bad news for anyone who wants to restore the 24 frames to build a NTSC copy.

Post: #250642
Topic: Idea: The Quiet Man - laserdisc to DVD preservation?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250642/action/topic#250642
Time: 11-Oct-2006 1:56 AM — Edited 12-Aug-2020 2:08 PM

Looking at the DVD release of the Quiet Man today, I am again struck by the fact that it is terribly inferior to the Laserdisc edition (even though they’re suppose to be from the same source).

I’ve been toying with a clean up of the DVD (reducing some of the red blooming, chroma artifacts, etc.) and I still hate what I’m seeing.
Heck there’s even interlace artifacts in the thing.

I can’t imagine that there won’t be a restored release… eventually.
In the mean time has anyone kicking around the idea of a laserdisc preservation?

Post: #250331
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250331/action/topic#250331
Time: 8-Oct-2006 11:14 PM

I just sat threw Disney's re-altered rendition of the Little Mermaid and I'm once again annoyed.

Now more than ever... I'm looking for someone who can hook me up with ADM's restored Aladdin.

(ADM you should check out the Little Mermaid thread.)

Post: #250329
Topic: <strong>The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250329/action/topic#250329
Time: 8-Oct-2006 11:12 PM

oops ignore this.

Post: #250328
Topic: Info: Hold onto your old Little Mermaid discs!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250328/action/topic#250328
Time: 8-Oct-2006 11:05 PM

I just saw the Platinum Little Mermaid and dropped in to bitch about the "not a boner" thing too.

I noticed it RIGHT A FRICKIN' WAY. I think I'm more offended that Disney is spineless and doesn't care who complains or how insiginificant... they'll cave.

He's short, it's the guys KNEES!!! If you can't tell you're an idiot, not religious or puritanical. Now the poor guy is all straight legged and unnatural looking.

Whew, that said, someone needs to PM ADigitalMan and get him on this thread. He restored the changes in Aladdin, we could probably talk him into this.

Btw, what was redone in BatB? I know the extra scene is there, but that's optional with seamless branching.
Edit: Also, are the knees unaltered (and the audio mix) in the previous DVD release? I can get my hands on that if needed.

Post: #250117
Topic: Info: 'Song of the South' to be broadcast on BBC Two!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250117/action/topic#250117
Time: 6-Oct-2006 11:28 PM

Are we thinking that instead of doing a speed up they did a 24 -> 25 pulldown? That sounds fairly unique.

Is anyone trying to restore this to the original 24 frames? (Maybe an NTSC release.)

Edit:

volswagn: Maybe I misunderstood what you said. Your posted screenies are suppose to be the BBC broadcast? Why are there foreign language hardsubs?

Post: #250044
Topic: The Crow Edit (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250044/action/topic#250044
Time: 6-Oct-2006 3:43 PM

NFO was nice, but does anyone have a source for getting the workprint?

Heck I'd almost consider doing a reconstructed workprint myself it the parts are useful.

Post: #249654
Topic: Fixing Chroma Artifacts?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249654/action/topic#249654
Time: 4-Oct-2006 11:50 PM

You might want to PM OCPMovie. I know he's a Mac-y.

Post: #249511
Topic: Fixing Chroma Artifacts?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249511/action/topic#249511
Time: 4-Oct-2006 1:15 PM

Um, so wait, I got the problem right but the subsampling schemes reversed?

Post: #249508
Topic: Fixing Chroma Artifacts?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249508/action/topic#249508
Time: 4-Oct-2006 1:12 PM

Ok so now I'm curious. If it captures in 4:1:1 and DVD is 4:1:1 where are the subsampling artifacts coming from?

Are you capturing straight to mpeg2 or are you editing/filtering it and re-encoding it again?

Edit: So wait, are these screenshots a conversion to QT video?

Post: #249384
Topic: Fixing Chroma Artifacts?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249384/action/topic#249384
Time: 4-Oct-2006 12:25 AM

Sorry the pics are down. If you COULD see them my problem was a kaleidoscopic rainbow on fringes around edges.
What you have is, oh I have no idea. The funny thing is it looks like a digital artifact.

I'm going to take a stab at this. You are going from your Laserdisc player to the Canopus ADVC-300 into your Mac?
I see that the ADVC has a lot of image cleaning and stabilization features. Have (can?) you play with them?

The problem looks very similar to what you can see in Cowclops' version 1 SW release.
He captured the video to digital tape and then into a PC.
Along the way, the color space changed. The digital cam utilizes 4:2:0 and DVD is in 4:1:1. The result is the worst demoniator of 4:1:0 which causes banding in solid red and solid blue colors, a lot like what you're showing.

I don't know if that's what your ADVC is doing (I'd hope not), but I'm just saying that's what it LOOKS like.

Post: #249373
Topic: Fixing Chroma Artifacts?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249373/action/topic#249373
Time: 4-Oct-2006 12:09 AM

Post: #248851
Topic: Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248851/action/topic#248851
Time: 1-Oct-2006 12:21 AM

Sorry I had WinZip 10 set for maximum PPMd compression.

Here it is again with normal compression and as a self extracting file. That should cover most people.

http://rapidshare.de/files/35053338/Downrating_Audio_Guide.exe.html

Post: #248801
Topic: Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248801/action/topic#248801
Time: 30-Sep-2006 3:27 PM

Ok I upped a zip file containing the web doc and a folder of images for the guide: http://rapidshare.de/files/35010977/Downrating_Audio_Guide.zip.html

As I said before, I can't take full credit for the guide. The original had poor english (making it difficult to understand), and a few holes in the steps.
I just cleaned it up.

Anyway, it's original intent is to allow you to take a DVD, extract an audio track (usually PCM), re-encode the audio to DD and then add it back without any other changes to the DVD. It's pretty slick really.

My theory here is, if you go though this, but skip the audio re-encoding step (unless you want more compression on it), when you rebuild the disc, just add any additional audio tracks you were wanting (and leave out any you don't). Just make sure you know the order of the audio tracks because it will effect the audio selection menu.
You'd probably have to shrink/reencode the video to make it fit on a disc when you're done, but it'll get you a fully function disc with menus AND that mono track you want on there (or whatever).

Post: #248643
Topic: Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248643/action/topic#248643
Time: 29-Sep-2006 1:01 AM

I have previously written a guide (based on someone else's poorly constructed guide) on how to down rate an audio track.

Theoretically you could use the method to add/replace audio tracks on a full disc keeping the menus and disc structure intact.
You'd have to get your new audio track to sync before adding it of course, and you'd only have access through the 'audio' key on your remote (unless you replaced an existing track and can remember that say french is your mono). I suppose you could rebuild the menus too... but then you might as well just rebuild the whole disc.

If anyone is interested I'll upload the guide somewhere.

Post: #248478
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248478/action/topic#248478
Time: 28-Sep-2006 2:32 AM

You know all this smack talk would end, we could actually see a clip of this project rather than just a few screenshots.

Post: #248409
Topic: Firefly Pilot & Halloween II! in HD (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248409/action/topic#248409
Time: 27-Sep-2006 10:17 PM

Is that as in the unaired original pilot or the recut 2 hour midseason version?

Post: #248220
Topic: Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248220/action/topic#248220
Time: 27-Sep-2006 12:06 AM

Why would you rip, convert to divx and then back to DVD? Isn't that an extra step and make the final DVD look worse (which is the opposite of the reason why you'd convert to anamorphic)?

As far as the menus, you can do anything you want but it depends on how far you want to go. You could just remove the feature in question, the feature and the menu's ability to select it, you could remove the ability to scroll over it as an option, or you could completely redesign the menu leaving the option in question out.
The last being of course crazy and complicated.

ADM: I'm assuming when you converted you did it manually. Didn't the ripping software give you a delay number you could use when reauthoring the disc?

Post: #247976
Topic: Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247976/action/topic#247976
Time: 26-Sep-2006 3:01 AM

I'm not sure what you're asking.
Are you talking about actually removing the content and the option from the menu?

You are a sucker for punishment. Grab DVDReMake Pro. You can pretty much do anything you want to a DVD with it.
http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremake/index.php

Btw, you can make anamorphic Xvids if you have a Matroska wrapper instead of avi.
I never saw the point unless you didn't want to resize an anamorphic source.

Edit: Oh yeah, you can do it with an avi, but you have to specify the option in your codec to force 16x9 playback. .mkv automatically plays in widescreen if it's been flagged as such.

Post: #247740
Topic: Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247740/action/topic#247740
Time: 25-Sep-2006 2:01 AM

I can't be certain about DVDFab but I know DVD Decrypter only rips the Video_TS folder.
That means the Xbox demo, PC content, and even cover folders should be removed.
DVDFab should be the same. If you decided to add any of that later, it's not encrypted so you can just drag and drop it from the DVD to your PC.

Post: #247480
Topic: Another IVTC Question: PAL -> NTSC Back to PAL?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247480/action/topic#247480
Time: 23-Sep-2006 1:36 PM

I know I'm talking to myself, but if anyone else finds this thread with a similar question.
A great filter chain for this problem is:

bob
repal()

Repal is a nice plugin that is designed exactly for this sort of problem (a PAL source that has been interlaced to 29.97fps and you want to restore the original 25 frames). It takes the 60fps bob generates and calculates/keeps the original 25 out of it.

Post: #247391
Topic: Another IVTC Question: PAL -> NTSC Back to PAL?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247391/action/topic#247391
Time: 23-Sep-2006 12:56 AM

Hmm, found a couple threads.

What now has me confused is using Bob I end up with (about) 60 fps of unique frames. (No duplicates, stuttering, ghosting, nada).
I wouldn't think that is possible if it was a 25fps source. The runtime seems to be exactly the same between the original PAL and the NTSC. What the heck did they do?

Edit: Heh heh, playing around and used:
Bob()
selectevery(2,0)

I ended up with beautiful looking 29.97fps progressive video. No duplicate or interlaced frames.
Looks better than the original.