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#250328
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Info: Hold onto your old Little Mermaid discs!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250328/action/topic#250328
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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.
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#250117
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Info: 'Song of the South' to be broadcast on BBC Two!!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250117/action/topic#250117
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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?
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#249384
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Fixing Chroma Artifacts?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249384/action/topic#249384
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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.
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#248801
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Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248801/action/topic#248801
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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).
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#248643
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Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248643/action/topic#248643
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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.
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#248220
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Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248220/action/topic#248220
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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?
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#247976
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Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247976/action/topic#247976
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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.
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#247480
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Another IVTC Question: PAL -> NTSC Back to PAL?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247480/action/topic#247480
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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.
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#247391
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Another IVTC Question: PAL -> NTSC Back to PAL?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247391/action/topic#247391
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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.
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#247038
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Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247038/action/topic#247038
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There are (few) click solutions for movie only conversions, but as yet nothing that can convert an entire DVD PAL <-> NTSC.

It's rumored that DVD-rb will tackle it once it is completely stable for the features that it has now.

You can always try the "patch method" http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=221928&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=ea22ae25d0863eeb478483b3128cab27
It's not 100% compatible (doesn't work on my DVD player), but many people have success with it.