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#224643
Topic
.-The Matrix Hacked-..:Completed:.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224643/action/topic#224643
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Ok, DarthMallwalker put me onto some nice freeware called JSummer that can do MD5, SHA-160 and SHA-256.

I'm upgrading the checksum of the DVDs to SHA-256.

Unless I hear from the 3 MIA QC'ers I'm not planning on making further changes.

Obviously only 2 of the original QC'ers will get replacement discs (both labeled version 2.0).
I do have a couple other volunteers for distribution so things should work out fine.

I'm cautiously optimistic that this project may be finished sometime this... um year.
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#222123
Topic
Until the end of the World: Director's Cut (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222123/action/topic#222123
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ThatCleverShark, you are talking about "Dream Island", a 58-minute featurette shot in Tokyo by Sean Naughton, who had worked with Wenders on the HD sequences in Until the End of the World expanding on some of the ideas from the movie.
It was present on the Japanese Laserdisc. I don't know if it's ever show up anywhere else.

I'd be curious to see that too.
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#220439
Topic
Pirates of The Caribbean: Extended Edition - A Spence Edit (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220439/action/topic#220439
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I complained to Womble about their encoder and suggested if they couldn't improve it to at least allow external encoders. No luck there.

I finally settled on using VirtualDubMod (it can load mpeg files) for simple croping, filtering and resizing (I'm lazy) and frameserving to CCE.
For any crossfades or transitions I used avisynth and again took that to CCE.

Just make sure your framerates match. That is if your main movie still has 24 -> 30 pulldown flags make sure you add flags to your re-encoded clips before going back to Womble with them.
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#220089
Topic
Pirates of The Caribbean: Extended Edition - A Spence Edit (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220089/action/topic#220089
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I would STRONGLY recommend against using Womble like that. Whenever you use it's filters or fades it re-encodes the video in very poor quality.

Test it before committing to it, you may need to re-encode with avisynth or virtualdubmod prior to importing those clips into Womble.

My Matrix edits took much longer because I didn't realize how bad Womble's mpeg encoder was when I started and I had to go back and redo a lot of work.
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#218972
Topic
Until the end of the World: Director's Cut (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218972/action/topic#218972
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Won't you need VHS copies of the other cuts in order to reconstruct them from the extended DVD material? At least I thought that's what you were planning.

Btw, when you convert to NTSC, absolutely do a slow down to 23.976 with the video and audio (not 25 fps with 29.97 flags). Surprisingly, for all the music in that film they didn't bother to pitch shift it when the sped it up.
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#217761
Topic
ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217761/action/topic#217761
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The thing is, you'd still be better off ripping the DVD, cropping the black bars, re-coding as anamorphic, and burning a backup (DVD Rebuilder has an automatic setting for that).

The quality is still likely to be superior to a laserdisc release made into anamorphic. Heck while you're at it you could add filters, twiddle the color, brightness or whatever you like.
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#215927
Topic
.-The Matrix Hacked-..:Completed:.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215927/action/topic#215927
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Thanks for the input:

>Extra frame at the end of the council meeting where Naobi volunteers to search for the N (I can't spell it).

Wow, good eyes. I missed that.

>Sped up/skipping/something like that in the staircase fight with the Frenchman's goons, right before they jump off the balcony.

Can you be more specific? I just don't see it with all the speed changes that are intentional. I'm assuming it was something weird that happened. Did you watch on a PC or a standalone player?

>Extra frame after the closeup of Mafune during a cutaway from the Zion battle (you can see Kid for a split second).

Again can you be more specific as to what action was taking place or any dialog?

As far as the transition to white screens: I only added one (in Revolutions). The others were already there (though I did do one in Reloaded, but only so my cut matched their transition on the other side).

I agree some edits could be better, but I just don't have the skill for it.
Reloaded I'm thrilled with and feel it's far superior to the original.
Revolutions while better in principle (and story) is not it's all. Your idea was a possibility (in fact I shuffle cards with scenes and tried a bunch of scenarios along the way). The thing is I wanted Neo and Trinity alive and together at the end. I like the Hollywood Happy Ending and went to any length to make that happen. The coma section would have been better if I was able to rotoscope bandages on Neo's eyes and cuts/scratches on the other characters, but the answer to that is NOOOOOooooo.

I will fix the technical bugs though, I'm again trying to get ahold of "The Watcher" for the line to use at the end of the Bane/Neo fight. (If anyone has this movie and can send my just a small clip that would be awesome).

Hopefully I'll get some more input soon so I can make repairs and resend replacement discs.
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#215782
Topic
.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215782/action/topic#215782
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Yup it looks like HD-DVD (as well as BluRay) will use regional codes like DVDs.

I think we are really looking at Beta vs VHS all over again.
Not just that you have 2 formats, but Beta was always considered superior, it just didn't win.

HD-DVD will win as well. The tech in BluRay is better, but it's also a much more expensive hardware and software solution. (It's also cheaper for the software manufacturers (using existing equipment), so smaller houses (including porn) are more likely to turn out HD-DVD than BluRay).
Most people will never notice a audio/video quality difference so they'll buy for price.
If more people can afford HD-DVD, more people will buy it, more adopters = winner. Sad but true.

Back on subject, if you want a best of both worlds Star Wars, get Citizen's Xvid edition. I'm assuming he has it at as pure film 24fps at high resolutions.
Then you don't have to worry about what format wins the war, or PAL/NTSC. (I'm sure we will see DivX chips in future HD/BR players anyway).

Edit: Btw, Boris, I think you're tone deaf. I've heard several recent PAL DVD's. Guess what, Pitch Shifting really ISN'T that common (or my sampling was skewed). If you want details drop your DVD in your PC, grab a VOB file and load it into GSpot software. It'll tell you the frame rate and pulldown.
The extra lines would be great to have, I will agree, but DVDs look pretty good for 480 lines (and anamorphic helps hedge the line-equation a bit). While more lines would be better, it's NOT better at the expense of sound quality.
Also your films being 4% faster are paced differently than the director intended.
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#215473
Topic
ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215473/action/topic#215473
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Criterion has (quietly) gone through it's back catalog and retransfered most of their older releases as new anamorphics.

Most of what was letterbox laserdisc master material originally is now 16x9 (although the packaging on many of their titles doesn't reveal this except in the small technical info at the bottom).


I would guess the DVNR was done digitally by computer, sooo... wait I don't know a thing about the process. Is it some sort of telecining where the film is taken directly to a digital video camera or is it processed by computer?
Ok I'll shut up now, if the tapes were digital the DVNR could have been done before or after I suppose.