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Post: #223956
Topic: .-The Matrix Hacked-..:Completed:.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223956/action/topic#223956
Time: 2-Jul-2006 10:02 PM

NEED HELP.

I've been told that SFV files are dated and not appropriate to DVDs as a checksum method.
It was suggested PAR/PAR2 is better, but I have tried 2 piece of software and they all want to build recovery files not a checksum file.

Any suggestions on this?

Post: #222822
Topic: .-The Matrix Hacked-..:Completed:.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222822/action/topic#222822
Time: 28-Jun-2006 8:55 PM

Thank you very much for checking the movies.
I will be fixing the one frame in Reloaded. I suppose without further details I'm going to have to sit through a large chunk of Revolutions on slow to find the other frame CC mentioned.

Replacement discs will be sent when done.

Post: #222465
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222465/action/topic#222465
Time: 27-Jun-2006 3:26 PM

Large plug, heavy mallet. Yikes.
Maybe your computers were hacked?

Post: #222123
Topic: Until the end of the World: Director's Cut (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222123/action/topic#222123
Time: 27-Jun-2006 12:27 AM

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.

Post: #220441
Topic: Info: Harry Potter TV Edits?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220441/action/topic#220441
Time: 21-Jun-2006 12:24 AM

Oh, was there a problem? I thought these were good to go.

Post: #220439
Topic: Pirates of The Caribbean: Extended Edition - A Spence Edit (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220439/action/topic#220439
Time: 21-Jun-2006 12:23 AM

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.

Post: #220275
Topic: Info: Harry Potter TV Edits?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220275/action/topic#220275
Time: 20-Jun-2006 4:30 PM

So has anyone seen Rikter's discs yet? I'm curious about how they are and quality of the DL vs. SL.

Post: #220089
Topic: Pirates of The Caribbean: Extended Edition - A Spence Edit (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220089/action/topic#220089
Time: 19-Jun-2006 11:32 PM

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.

Post: #218972
Topic: Until the end of the World: Director's Cut (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218972/action/topic#218972
Time: 15-Jun-2006 9:58 PM

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.

Post: #218774
Topic: ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218774/action/topic#218774
Time: 15-Jun-2006 2:17 AM

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Post: #218200
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218200/action/topic#218200
Time: 13-Jun-2006 11:34 AM

Here I was excited and now it looks like yet another version in the works?

OCPM: I appreciate your fanatical devotion to this film, and yet I feel very sorry for you.

This movie really is cursed and has become a project without end for you as well.

Post: #218198
Topic: Idea & Info: a Dune Fan Edit thread...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218198/action/topic#218198
Time: 13-Jun-2006 11:31 AM

Check ADM's edits thread. He just produced one.

Post: #217761
Topic: ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217761/action/topic#217761
Time: 11-Jun-2006 12:53 AM

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.

Post: #215968
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215968/action/topic#215968
Time: 4-Jun-2006 12:46 AM

Don't forget that HD-DVD has 3-layer discs in the pipe and BR has 4-layer ones.

I'd say that'll be fine for awhile.

Post: #215927
Topic: .-The Matrix Hacked-..:Completed:.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215927/action/topic#215927
Time: 3-Jun-2006 9:25 PM

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.

Post: #215784
Topic: '13-30 Extraflirty' fan edit (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215784/action/topic#215784
Time: 3-Jun-2006 1:08 AM

My $.02: While DVD is the best for quality, for bandwidth reasons I don't randomly download every DVD edit I find.

Heck I first saw DeZionized as a Divx rip and it allowed me to decide if I really wanted to go for the full disc or not.

Divx is good for us lower bandwidth slops that want to sample before we dive all in.

Post: #215782
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215782/action/topic#215782
Time: 3-Jun-2006 12:51 AM

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.

Post: #215473
Topic: ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215473/action/topic#215473
Time: 1-Jun-2006 5:02 PM

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.

Post: #215470
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215470/action/topic#215470
Time: 1-Jun-2006 4:55 PM

I think any server nearby got snagged from the look of that.

They do say they'll have their servers up (in another country) in a few days.

Post: #215342
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215342/action/topic#215342
Time: 1-Jun-2006 1:09 PM

PC software (PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc) can play back at 24fps.

Where's that hidden setting?
Btw, software like Sony's SoundForge works well for speed and pitch shifting ("well" being relative). For a whole discussion check out the early part of the thread for my transfer. I had originally intended to just slow Mother's audio down, which of course wouldn't work, but all the technical ins-and-outs were brought up.

To be fair at least 23.976 is close. Until there's a true 24 fps home format it'll have to do.
If the lines of resolution bother you get an HD-DVD/BluRay Player.
Anyone with a tin ear can hear how bad 25 fps sped up audio is. Those extra lines of resolution mean squat in comparison.

Frankly I'd go so far as to say 99% of all film (for theatrical release) is shot at 24 fps regardless of country. The rare times you'll find true 25 fps film is when the destination is expected to be TV in a PAL country. Even the U.S. shoots it's TV at 24 fps instead of 30.

You do find the odd 30 fps shots in anime for smoothness but in those cases it's not 100% and you find hybrid framerate video which is a whole other discussion.

Post: #215338
Topic: ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215338/action/topic#215338
Time: 1-Jun-2006 12:58 PM

It's all a matter of what you expect from a DVD.

I have a lot of DVD's from the early release days and most of them were laserdisc masters re-used.
It's pretty much a hit or miss prospect. Sometimes it's pretty nice, sometimes it is foul and unwatchable.

Ever see John Wayne's the Quiet Man? The Anniversary laserdisc looked nice (for laserdisc), the DVD transfer from the same master is unwatchable because of grain that looks like a black snowstorm. Sometimes modern transfers from these laserdisc sources aren't a good thing.

In 90% of these cases the films are later re-released struck from a better quality source in anamorphic because it IS better and modern viewers find the older quality unacceptable. George Lucas has to expect that we would too.

Edit: Can someone clear something up for me? Are laserdisc masters a film source or some sort of analog magnetic tape? If it's still on film, can't they scan it at a higher resolution and digitally resize it to anamorphic like the rest of us do?

Post: #215187
Topic: ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215187/action/topic#215187
Time: 31-May-2006 9:38 PM

I do encourage you all to buy this release, or else you are liar too - because you've all said that you would buy the O-OT if released..

Sure, but did we expect the father of THX to just crap out a set of Original Trilogy when we said that?

Interesting about the whole format shift thing.
Recently Circuit City has announced a mp3 ripping service where they will convert your CD to mp3 for you. I wonder what the RIAA will have to say about that?

Post: #215186
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215186/action/topic#215186
Time: 31-May-2006 9:23 PM

Mininova.org and Demonoid.com are 2 biggies.

Post: #214791
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214791/action/topic#214791
Time: 30-May-2006 12:50 AM

How different is your Dune Workprint from the fanfiltration edit? Besides the better source material...

Post: #214578
Topic: Johnny Mnemonic Japan Cut <JM> Extended (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214578/action/topic#214578
Time: 29-May-2006 12:34 PM

I agree about the home movie footage cut out being good (and the fact that it's better paced).

It's just after the other when you see that he doubles himself, there appears to be no reason. Also there's lots of re-run voice-overs that don't shut up the whole time.
Both versions of that scene have strengths and weaknesses, but on the whole the Japan cut of the movie is far far superior.