Doctor M

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Post: #141672
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/141672/action/topic#141672
Time: 27-Sep-2005 1:25 PM

I can't say that it's greedy. You have to expect that they'd sell significantly more of their movies if they were continuously available rather than the occasional "vault" thing.
Most people don't know when or if a film is going to be available (and won't care). They're more likely to buy what they see is available and not go digging for the vaulted titles on eBay and/or go nuts when they come out again (that's only a small percentage). I just think there some people there that haven't progressed from their old theatrical re-release cycle.

Translation: Old guys stuck to old ways, not greedy.

Post: #141558
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/141558/action/topic#141558
Time: 27-Sep-2005 1:27 AM

Observer, I strongly recommend you spend some time at videohelp.com. You will learn more there than you will ever need about video capture, editing, conversion, burning, formats, etc.

Post: #141157
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/141157/action/topic#141157
Time: 25-Sep-2005 6:24 PM

I think this PiF thing isn't working. I can't get anyone to help me out either.

Post: #140365
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/140365/action/topic#140365
Time: 23-Sep-2005 12:27 AM

Aladdin edit: cool.
I hate when every damn group tries to make press by bitching about something Disney's done.

What was your source of the unedited audio? VHS has the lyric change but not the dialog change. The audio CD is pristine for a good source of the opening song too. And from what you're saying I suppose the video is the Platinum DVD release.
It's a really nice transfer, they may have made "improvements" to the detail of the animation/backgrounds so when it was IMAX-sized it wouldn't look bad. All Disney Platinums are suppose to be visually altered in this way, but I can't remember if Aladdin made it to IMAX theaters since the Platinum series is now being rushed out so they can finish the planned releases before hi-def dvd's come out.

Anyone want to pay forward this one?

Btw, is the Life of Brian the Criterion deleted scenes edited back into the Criterion transfer?

Post: #139044
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139044/action/topic#139044
Time: 16-Sep-2005 10:01 PM

I was going to say the same thing as Laserman. After about 70-85% DVDShrink's on-the-fly compression is not nearly as good as a re-code with something like DVDRebuilder. There's a huge difference in quality at that point.

Instead of going for visual difference between your new SL and DL transfers try something like BitRate View. Get the average and peak q values of the elementary video streams (before authoring) for both the SL and DL encodes. That will give you a better reference as to the real difference between your two versions.

Laserdiscs, even PAL, are soft (up to 5mhz analog, thats like 544x576 digital resolution) and the q values end up quite low. That's why I re-coded Moth3r's to allow for PCM audio, there was minimal difference in quality if I had used a DD track and put the extra space towards the video.

Post: #138875
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138875/action/topic#138875
Time: 16-Sep-2005 2:58 AM

Hmm, it might be cheaper for you to buy a better DVD burner.

Post: #138793
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138793/action/topic#138793
Time: 15-Sep-2005 7:25 PM

Actually that would be Prawn on the Barbie. Shrimp is an American term...

Post: #138655
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138655/action/topic#138655
Time: 15-Sep-2005 12:45 AM

The black bars are only 54 for NTSC on your capture? How come the difference, is that because of the PAL source being cropped funny?

Now you've got me wondering if I should have resized my edition differently.

Btw, why would anyone bother to try to convert the Divx to DVD if you're already doing that yourself?

Post: #137805
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137805/action/topic#137805
Time: 9-Sep-2005 11:40 PM

You should use Sound Forge or Cool Edit to measure what the proper dialog normalization is for your audio.

This is a great Doom9 guide for properly encoding AC. Check out the 'Referencing Volume to a Known Level' section, it tells you all you need to know: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56020

Post: #137593
Topic: Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137593/action/topic#137593
Time: 9-Sep-2005 1:47 AM

Dark Gruson is exactly right. There is only one version of ESB and ANH was replaced with v1.1. Though technically there is no 1.0 since I didn't plan to screw up. :-)

Post: #137376
Topic: Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137376/action/topic#137376
Time: 7-Sep-2005 9:40 PM

LA Story EE: I'm scraping this project. The quality of the deleted Harry Zell scene (EP VHS tape) isn't that great, and a quick preview of it inserted at the appropriate place actually screws up the flow of the movie. Sad to see the scene out, but it was a good cut by Steve Martin. The other clip "a walk in L.A." has trailer music over it so it can't be reinserted.

RtW Star Wars: I did little brightness/contrast adjustment. In fact all I did was shift the white point about 4% or less. Just enough to make the whitest white truly white. There is little or no crushing, and a comparison of white levels in the X0 project screenshots shows them to be a pretty close match. Some detail may be lost (though I had trouble finding any real before/after evidence of it), but the white levels are more accurate. I felt this was a reasonable trade off.

Post: #137227
Topic: Idea: an actual 12-hour Star Wars movie... on HD-DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137227/action/topic#137227
Time: 7-Sep-2005 3:25 AM

Saving Private Ryan with rubber chickens: hell yes I'd buy that. I'd probably enjoy it more than the original.

It's funny reading through the thread I came to the same conclusion as Bongloads. I just want to outlive George Lucass so his estate can release the OT as a historical preservation edition or something.

Everytime I watch some interview with GL when he explains what he really wanted in the OT and how his changes improve things, I'm almost convinced that they're warranted.

And then I see how out of place some of it look in actual context, how CGI still looks CGI and just as fake as a muppet (maybe more fake), and I think about all the artists and SFX people that worked on the original whose work is lost and I start yelling at the TV.

I have tried many times to try to embrace the New Vision of Star Wars OT (even sat through the SE in theaters) and I just can't enjoy them.

Post: #137226
Topic: Info & Offer: dark_jedi DVD gift packs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137226/action/topic#137226
Time: 7-Sep-2005 3:12 AM

ErikStormtrooper was going to work on covers for my set, but some bad weather came his way so he has worse problems to deal with at the moment.
No other plans at the moment for art.

DJ, I appreciate your offer, but I'm fairly happy with my edition at the moment. I was just curious to see how yours looked for comparison (in truth I'd prefer a really good DC transfer to a so-so PAL source only because the PAL, even with higher rez, has more flaws.)

So again, would a sample clip be possible? I'm not terribly attached to my own work, the first set that beats mine will become my new favorite. I'd like to see if that will be yours.

Post: #137124
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137124/action/topic#137124
Time: 6-Sep-2005 11:36 PM

I think we all do. Seeing and working with Moth3r's gave a great taste as to how good a PAL capture can be.

Post: #136926
Topic: Info & Offer: dark_jedi DVD gift packs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/136926/action/topic#136926
Time: 6-Sep-2005 3:02 PM

I see the Ep 4 is up in both Pan/Scan and Lbx on MySpleen.
Is there a chance we could see a preview clip?

Post: #136664
Topic: Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/136664/action/topic#136664
Time: 5-Sep-2005 8:49 PM

Seems to be the case. Something (software or user) screwed up when making one change to ANH's audio after I had sat through the whole disc. I just assumed that what I fixed as all that changed, but that wasn't the case.

Empire needed no changes from the burn test that I previewed so that should be just fine.

Anyone out there find any other problems? (Say no please)

Post: #136147
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/136147/action/topic#136147
Time: 4-Sep-2005 3:16 AM

DVD chapters are an ass pain.

Like I mentioned before, for my set I used ChapterXtractor, ripped the chapter stops from Farsight's disc (with a correction factor for the start of the first chapter), imported the chapters into my authoring software and then just manually twiddled each chapter to get them closer to correct.

I did 81 stops for ANH and it took MUCH less time then it normally would.

Post: #134813
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134813/action/topic#134813
Time: 1-Sep-2005 1:50 PM

Chris Columbus - $10M + Percentage of Gross (yikes)
Mike Newell - $1M + squat

Heh, would you direct 2 movies for that price?
If I were MN I'd say screw it, crank the movie out fast and move on to the next project that will pay more just for having being attached to a HP film.

I predict crap. Sorry guys. I mean check out the guy's resume on IMDB. The whole budget went to actors and sfx with nothing left for a good director.
I'm not saying I'm going to skip it even if it gets bad reviews (heck I felt Prisoner of Azkaban was overrated and not as good as Chamber of Secrets), but I am keeping my expectations proportionally lowered.

Post: #134739
Topic: ~~~Segaflip's Newsgroup Posting List~~~
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134739/action/topic#134739
Time: 1-Sep-2005 1:23 AM

For those not following my thread on Reinventing the Wheel edition, there is a bad audio flaw in A New Hope.
It has been fixed and replacement discs ship tomorrow.
Hopefully Segaflip can find some time to repost.

Post: #134714
Topic: Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134714/action/topic#134714
Time: 31-Aug-2005 11:10 PM

New discs go out tomorrow (thursday). They are identified as v1.1 (the readme and SFV files on the disc are updated to reflect this).
Stoopid weird problem. I'm blaming the editing software

Also it would be too hard to actually have made that mistake intentionally.

So for those that didn't notice, the last 3/4 of ANH were dual channel mono. Bleech.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

New SFV files have been generated and can be found on the discs, in the post above, and in the first post of this thread.

Darth Mallwalker, please update your post above for the new SFV if you would...

Post: #134713
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134713/action/topic#134713
Time: 31-Aug-2005 10:56 PM

I'm more angry that the cut rate director they hired for HP4 figured he could do it in 1 film although everyone else involved (TPTB) told him to do 2 films.
I wish they'd stop cutting their director's budget on these things and hire people who know how to make movies. I fear the last few HP's are going to be terrible unless that's fixed.

Post: #134508
Topic: Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134508/action/topic#134508
Time: 31-Aug-2005 1:00 AM

Ok, I remember now. I also shifted one edit point before I re-authored.

The time mentioned above is the location of the OLD edit. For some reason every clip that followed was set to "Duplicate Left Channel".
I have no idea how you could accidently do that for like a dozen audio clips, but that is the case.
The "click/pop" at that point has also been repaired.

Generating a test disc now. New discs will probably go out Thursday.

I will definitely send replacements to all who received the first ones.
If I need to send additional discs to help fix this and speed up re-distribution, PM me.

Post: #134502
Topic: Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134502/action/topic#134502
Time: 31-Aug-2005 12:45 AM

Unfortunately I can confirm the problem.

I sat through the full disc originally, after I was done I added the chapter cuts and reauthored the disc.
Looks like something went wrong on the way, I'll have to get back to you on this. Looks like a v2 is in the future...

Post: #134322
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134322/action/topic#134322
Time: 30-Aug-2005 3:20 PM

No I see where you are going with it, and that's fine. It just seems pretty random since it's basically optimized for a not so common set-up.

You could of course just hold off a few months and do a true HD version with HD-DVD or BluRay.
Now that's something I could get behind.

Post: #134303
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134303/action/topic#134303
Time: 30-Aug-2005 2:07 PM

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish then with the Xvid version. It's not more portable (for distribution) than a DVD and it's quality won't be any better (or worse). You basically have just made a second DVD version that's largely standalone player incompatible.

A 2 CD Xvid version would have been a great idea for portability and quality.
I guess I'll just say 'whatever' and get your DVD version when that's out.