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#245823
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Idea: Turning Catwoman into a Batman movie?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245823/action/topic#245823
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You could always try mixing it with footage of Batman Returns nixing footage of Pfeiffer (though maybe long shots could be kept, dunno). At least you'd get mentions of Catwoman.

You'd have Keaton as Batman, but I never thought he was that bad. That would also give you Keaton's first Batman movie to steal footage from as well.

So is anyone else wanting to see Keaton come back for a movie version of the comic The Dark Knight Returns?
He is now the same age as Batman is suppose to be in that comic. Now if we can only get Tim Burton back to direct...
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#245191
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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/245191/action/topic#245191
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Internal or on the fly upconversion is a weaker algorithm than a good PC pre-rendered method.
This is one of the reasons Citizen's trasnfer works well in HD.

Additionally, Lanczos being more than just line doubling actually finds edges, giving a slight sharpening and providing a very nice picture.

LanczosResize is an alternative to BicubicResize with high values of c about 0.6 ... 0.75 which produces quite strong sharpening. It usually offers better quality (fewer artifacts) and a sharp image.
Lanczos was created for AviSynth because it retained so much detail, more so even than BicubicResize(x,y,0,0.75). As you might know, the more detail a frame has, the more diffiult it is to compress it. This means that Lanczos is NOT suited for low bitrate video, the various Bicubic flavours are much better for this. If however you have enough bitrate then using Lanczos will give you a better picture, but in general I do not recommend using it for 1 CD rips because the bitrate is usually too low (there are exceptions of course).

Lanczos4Resize is closely related to LanczosResize (correct name: Lanczos3Resize). The latter uses 2*3=6 lobes and the former 2*4=8 lobes to do the resizing. The result is that Lanczos4Resize produces sharper images. Especially usefull when upsizing a clip.


As far as the artifacts, yeah, GreedyHMA is a bit complex, you'd just have to read through and do some trial and error. As far as TomsMoComp try this line:
TomsMoComp(-1,-1,1).Lanczos4Resize(720,480)

It will double the vertical resolution, filter the vertical lines and then resize it back down to DVD resolution.
I can't swear it'll work, but it'd be worth a try.

And to denoise I would give Deen().Undot() a try or just Deen() by itself. Temporal filters MIGHT cause ghosting, but at this point a little bit more should be hard to see.
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#245092
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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/245092/action/topic#245092
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Interlacing artifacts, hmmm.
GreedyHMA might allow you to do it if you can bypass it's attempts to do a pulldown, there is a vertical filter in it. Not all that familiar with it's ins and outs.

TomsMoComp might be worth a try too. http://home.comcast.net/~trbarry/downloads
Although it's for doing a pulldown as well, set it to: TomsMoComp(-1,-1,1)

These settings should cause the vertical size to double (instead of doing a pulldown) and perform slight vertical filtering to remove remnant artifacts. Afterwards you'll need to resize it to cut the vertical resolution in half again.
Sharpening is up to you.

Anyway, if you want to google around, you are looking for a "Verical Filter". It's what is commonly used to remove interlace artifacts.

Edit: If you aren't familiar, undot() removes small single frame dots (spatial filtering). Deen() (among others out there) is a temporal filter commonly used to remove heavy film grain. They are frequently used together, though I find undot to cause more troubles than deen.
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#245087
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<strong>The &quot;ADigitalMan Special Editions&quot; DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245087/action/topic#245087
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64.34.161.154
Here is a DNS Lookup of MySpleen.com:http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=myspleen.com&type=A

PeerGuardian lists it as: ServerBeach Emule Servers | P2P Fakes

Either add it to your custom allow list or pull up your history and you'll probably see it blocked a bunch. Right click and permanently allow.

Whenever I have trouble with a torrent site I always check for repeated hits to my BT port on PG2.
I'll then lookup the IP to find out if I'm blocking the server.
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#245077
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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/245077/action/topic#245077
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Not sure if it's in the free version or not:

The Pro version has "Dual Layer Target Size" in the 'Settings' menu.

Yes you still have to re-encode if you're trying to convert to anamorphic.
If your target size is DVD-9, DVDrb may not turn on the encoder because it feels there is enough space.
If that's the case then you have to go to the 'Mode' menu and select "Force Reencoding (For Filters)".
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#245002
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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/245002/action/topic#245002
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Chroma/Luma merging. I did try this myself (and failed) with the 2004 and 2006 DVDs. Figured to correct the '04 colors with the new disc.
If you were to resize/crop/shift appropriately you could come pretty close to aligning the frames.
You'd probably need a mac or some higher end PC software than I have (I was using avisynth).

Heck OCPMovie did something similar to align the 2004 DVD with a laser capture, a chroma/luma merge should be easier (and more forgiving).
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#244965
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<strong>The &quot;ADigitalMan Special Editions&quot; DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244965/action/topic#244965
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Just checked out ADM's SW2 torrent on myspleen.

Considering that only a few people have their port visible, I'd assume most (including the seeder) have their firewalls misconfigured for bittorrent.
That's probably why it's going so slowly.

I think BT needs to integrate something like Skype's ability to work through firewalls on it's own.
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#244711
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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/244711/action/topic#244711
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I will second OCPMovie's statement:
a hybrid of anamorphized (and cleaned up) GOUT video with all useful scenes from 2004 (color corrected) would get us our closest to an ideal disc.
You keep the 2.0 mix, add a mono track or even steal OCPM's Classic Edition blended tack.

I'd do it for a RtW V2.0 project but sadly I am slightly color blind and can't do color correction. Anyone willing to tackle this?

Lucas even gave us everything we need to own to legally have this edit in the new release by making us buy both discs...
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#244545
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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/244545/action/topic#244545
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For those wanting to still use DVD Rebuilder, the one guide I mentioned (advanced feature guide) shows you how to add avisynth filters in the process.

So you can still have it automated. Just type a couple lines like deen().undot().asharpen() or whatever filters you like and still have an anamorphic transfer in a few clicks. It's still much easier than manual.

(Believe it or not I am NOT associated with DVDrb and don't get paid by them )
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#243936
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First Impressions of the OOT ...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243936/action/topic#243936
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Sure the stripes are gone and other detail from the Lowery cleanup.
But the problem isn't the lack of a clean up, it's the lower lines of resolution in the source used.
A new anamorphic transfer would still have film grain but it would have even BETTER detail than the '04 DVD.
THAT'S what we are all bitching about.

I mean if he really wanted to screw us, he could have dubbed the DVD from a VHS tape.
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#243709
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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/243709/action/topic#243709
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Ok ok, I was overly optimistic. Beware if you are going to try auto conversion software for anamorphic.

I had (wrongly) assumed that at the minimum the black bars would be clear and all alien languages would be a forced subtitle track.
I don't know why I thought that for a moment, but I did.

If you use DVD-rb or whatever else, even if they correctly identify the black borders and remove them (since there is text burned in there), you won't have captions.

Anamorphic conversion is going to take much more work to convert, starting with a newly timed caption track.

Sigh.

Anyone know how X0 plans on handling the subtitles?
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#243697
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SW.com: &quot;First and ONLY TIme&quot;
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243697/action/topic#243697
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If I had a dollar for EVERYTIME it was the "Last Time Available ______" (insert format or ominous emphasizing adverb here word here).

Relax, it's not the last time on laserdisc (according to the THX set), last time on VHS (every release), last time in the world (paraphrase of the Faces DVD set), or last time to see (pick your release).

As long as there is a market, or someone waiting to raid GL's archives after his death and license to Criterion, these movies will persist.
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#243695
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Tune Into G4 This Afternoon...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243695/action/topic#243695
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Wow that was a terrible experience.
3 guests: Bill Hunt, who knows what he's talking about. theForce.net guy is an idiot who is asking for the worst transfer GL can make (guess he just wants people to laugh at him. Someone should tell him they already are). And the other guy, whoever he is, just wants chicken or something.

So what do they do? Cut off Bill Hunt whenever he starts talking. Sigh. Don't watch this if you are already angry.
Evidently we ASKED for a low quality laserdisc cut. No REALLY!

Even if it was only on G4 I though maybe our message would get out there, but Star Wars fans now look (more) like idiots.

Wait for an update on thedigitalbits site later today if you want more info.