Doctor M

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Post: #118522
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118522/action/topic#118522
Time: 26-Jun-2005 12:56 PM

So, which edit of Ep1 is everyone's favorite?
I've seen a couple and had mixed feelings.

I'm now getting ready (as soon as I fix my ratio elsewhere) to grab ADigitalMan's Vergence of the Force and I was curious what everyone's opinion was on it.

Btw, off topic I know, but has anyone seen the fan edit: Matrix deZIONized? It has me intrigued, and I'll definitely be adding that to my watch list.

Post: #118483
Topic: The "Farsight" Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118483/action/topic#118483
Time: 26-Jun-2005 3:24 AM

I suppose I stand corrected.
I was under the impression from most of the "conversion to DVD" guides out there that if your source is interlaced you do more damage to the quality by de-interlacing (which is never perfect) and generating a progressive DVD.
It is also unnecessary since the final output device will most likely be a television and therefore an interlaced device.
It is considered preferable to capture, and encode retaining the interlacing and to only use progressive if your source is true film (which a laserdisc is not).
I won't argue (although it does sound like I am) since you guys have done more of this than I have, but I find it hard to believe that so many guides (from reputable sources) are wrong.

Post: #118448
Topic: The "Farsight" Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118448/action/topic#118448
Time: 25-Jun-2005 11:08 PM

Now I'm confused. While I understand what you are saying, and it's damn cool, aren't DVD's by their nature interlaced (at least NTSC ones)? Hence the Bob/Weave filters in software based DVD players.

Or are you saying you took the Laserdisc, deinterlaced it to get the original frames and then reinterlaced it when encoding the dvd? If so, I'd love to see the AviSynth script you used.

Post: #118218
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118218/action/topic#118218
Time: 24-Jun-2005 10:36 PM

Heh, Laserman, you're going to need to use the Cowclops v2 for your screenshot comparisons now.

Post: #118122
Topic: ***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118122/action/topic#118122
Time: 24-Jun-2005 3:06 PM

I finally got it. I can help seed a torrent if someone will put it up on MySpleen.

Btw, it's a combination of several scenes totaling 2 minutes. PCM audio only.

Post: #118074
Topic: ***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118074/action/topic#118074
Time: 24-Jun-2005 1:43 PM

Wow, yousendit is dysfunctional. Anyone want to torrent this at myspleen?

Post: #117955
Topic: Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117955/action/topic#117955
Time: 23-Jun-2005 11:37 PM

I have been talking to someone who has generated a DVDr of his own from his laserdisc edition of Song of the South.
Can't say what the quality is or really much detail at all. He was going to start a divx torrent but I'm trying to convince him to torrent a DVD image.

It'll be posted on Demonoid.com in the next few days I believe. PM me if anyone wants details.

Post: #117952
Topic: VHS To DVD Problem
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117952/action/topic#117952
Time: 23-Jun-2005 11:28 PM

*cough* It's called Macrovision *cough*

Post: #117798
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117798/action/topic#117798
Time: 23-Jun-2005 2:26 PM

Is this from MeBeJedi's own capture and not the X0 project?

Post: #117795
Topic: The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117795/action/topic#117795
Time: 23-Jun-2005 1:52 PM

Ok CowC, I have to ask, I know there are heated debates over this, but why did you choose CCE over Procoder? Many argue that CCE produces excessive mosquito noise.

I ask because I'm getting ready to do my own (non-SW) project and I was ready to go with CCE. That was before I did more research on it.

For image priority are you referring to Quantizer Characterisitics?
Also what version of CCE?

Post: #117777
Topic: Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117777/action/topic#117777
Time: 23-Jun-2005 12:29 PM

Heh, I didn't notice you guys had moved to a new thread until you had already bought the Laserdisc. Damn you guys are moving fast on this.

Post: #117774
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117774/action/topic#117774
Time: 23-Jun-2005 12:24 PM

Quit bragging Moth3r or give us an NTSC version.

Post: #117656
Topic: Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117656/action/topic#117656
Time: 23-Jun-2005 12:02 AM

Slightly off topic here, but this is an off topic thread to start with.

I am planning, once I get my DVD burner to do a preservation of the mid-90's TV series VR5.

It had a single crappy VHS release that skipped an episode and had a different soundtrack (to save money).
I have OK vhs copies from their original broadcast (and the unaired episodes were sent to me from Canada). I'm going to take them to DVD for my own purposes either way, I just wondered if there are other's interested in these if it ever gets finished?

Post: #117651
Topic: The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117651/action/topic#117651
Time: 22-Jun-2005 11:55 PM

CC: Not familiar with image priority setting, what does that do?
Also did you use 3 pass?

Post: #117583
Topic: How to convert AVI to DVD files?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117583/action/topic#117583
Time: 22-Jun-2005 8:06 PM

My $.02 on DivxToDVD:

It appears to use a single pass constant quality compression for the video. The average bitrate of my final DVD was 3560kbps. This would be ok if you had a VHS source, but a good Divx is better than that.

It picked a 160kbps AC3 rate (2 channel source), which I probably would have gone a bit higher myself but not critical. Does anyone know if it uses a higher bitrate for 5.1? If not, that would be bad.

Ease: Fantastic, nothing really to do but pick the file and hit go. Probably one of the easiest I've ever seen.
Quality: Not bad, you ARE recompressing a file so you make allowances, but I probably would have favored a multipass encoding if the source was better.
Price: Good AC3 and MPG2 encoders can be really expensive for the good stuff. This is free (for now), you gotta love that.

Overall, if you're useless with this sort of thing I'd give it an A, if you know what you're doing and have no problems with "the long way" it's a C+.
It hasn't implemented joining multifile Divx, and it doesn't seem to be able to handle multiple audio streams, let alone subfiles.

Post: #117556
Topic: How to convert AVI to DVD files?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117556/action/topic#117556
Time: 22-Jun-2005 6:26 PM

Advanced of converting PAL->NTSC. (I'm using it to take Divx to DVD as well).

Much harder, but better quality:

1) Demux & convert audio (use software of choice, although BeSweet is popular and free there is a flaw in AC3 conversion that lowers the volume. No fix and this has been a problem for awhile.)
When converting, do NOT use Pal->NTSC, just convert the audio to change encoding.

2) Convert Avi -> DVD at correct NTSC resolution (720x480, etc). Leave the frame rate alone!
You now have PAL frame rate video, PAL rate audio, but NTSC resolution. I recommend AviSynth with CCE, but TMPGEnc is fine.

3) Use DGPulldown to convert from 25->29.97 frames. It takes MPEG2 video elementary streams, and applies pulldown flags to change it to a different legal MPEG2 frame rate. (Actually there is a somewhat confusing way of doing this directly in TMPGEnc.)

4) Author it. You will see little to no slow down in the film/audio. What it really is doing is changing it to 29.97 but it's really 24 fps NTSCFilm internally.

It's what I've been doing, but I'm a stickler.
I will try DivxtoDVD though, it comes from a great company (they make BlindWrite!).

Post: #116988
Topic: The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116988/action/topic#116988
Time: 21-Jun-2005 12:10 AM

These look better than the previously released screenshot, was that from an early stage before filtering or something?

Post: #116870
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116870/action/topic#116870
Time: 20-Jun-2005 5:04 PM

Ok, I've been following X0 and a bunch of threads here for awhile now.

What I would love to see is a comparison of the different versions that will be created from X0.
As I understand it there will be discs from MeBeJedi, Zion, and Laserman (?) all from the X0 capture.

What will the differences be and is it worth you all working separately from the same source instead of continuing to collarborate through to the finished product?

Post: #116804
Topic: .: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116804/action/topic#116804
Time: 20-Jun-2005 1:32 PM

But where is your unofficial screenshot site moth3r?

Post: #116803
Topic: The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116803/action/topic#116803
Time: 20-Jun-2005 1:29 PM

Cowclops really gets the last word, but that doesn't stop me from dropping my $.02.

What you all need to realize is that there are a multitiude of transfers out now. They all have their own names that most people didn't know until they knew it was the version they wanted.

Once CC v2 is out the old "TR47" one is pretty much going to fall by the way side. As long as people know that the edition to own is CC v2, it won't matter that it ever had any association with the previous TR47/CC v1. This is a stupid arguement.

Post: #116717
Topic: Help Wanted: re the Leia welding footage from ESB
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116717/action/topic#116717
Time: 20-Jun-2005 3:35 AM

Hey nobody here is flaming the X0 project. It is bloody amazing and I'm naturally impatient.

I will be lining up whenever MeBeJedi and Zion have their releases done, whenever that is.

In the mean time I want the best of what I can get. In my mind that is Farsight's discs.
If I can fix a few seconds of missing footage myself to make it better, so be it.

Post: #116686
Topic: .: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116686/action/topic#116686
Time: 19-Jun-2005 11:12 PM

I've come to this thread late, and I apologize if this has been resolved, but there seems to be occasional talk about an NTSC version of Moth3r's set, and how hard it would be.

Since I just did something similar lately, here's a proposed method if someone wants to try it:
1) Use DVD decrypter and make separate direct stream audio and video rips.
2) Use DVDPatcher on the video file to convert the header from 576 lines to 480.
3) Use DGPulldown to change the flags from 25 fps to 29.97 (it's actually 23.97 fps NTSCFilm internally)
4) Remux audio video.
5) Reauthor DVD (easy if you just want the movie and lots more work if you want to convert the menus too).

There will be no slow down as a result (DGPulldown is great), but your DVD player may need the ability to actually play PAL to some degree (at least video with 576 lines). Compatibility will probably vary.

Just thinking out loud.

Btw, some fantastic clarity to your DVD Moth3r.

Post: #116647
Topic: How to convert AVI to DVD files?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116647/action/topic#116647
Time: 19-Jun-2005 9:06 PM

Videohelp.com has a tool under their download section called AVI2DVD. Does video, sound and subs. You'll want to look up their guide for it since you will still need a separate MPG encoder.

Post: #116640
Topic: Help Wanted: re the Leia welding footage from ESB
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116640/action/topic#116640
Time: 19-Jun-2005 8:32 PM

Yeah there are many other transfers, but none I'm a fan of. To my eye Farsight still beats out the other versions.

I'm sure when XO versions finally come out that'll be great and I'll get them, but I'll be old and grey by then. (Not to knock the wonderful XO people, but progress seems slow).

Arnie: yeah I'd love get that footage from you. How big is the file? PM me.

Post: #116637
Topic: Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116637/action/topic#116637
Time: 19-Jun-2005 8:27 PM

I've seen copies of fan Harry Potter Extended Edition with DVD deleted footage added back in.
The problem is that the ABC showings have even more content than the deleted footage available, and transitional elements (and music cues) are missing making some of the edits a little hard compared to the ABC counterpart.

Yes I put a lot of effort into this, I sat and compared my vid tape of HP1 with an extended cut from the net. I also know for a fact that there was deleted scenes in HP2 on ABC that I've never seen anywhere else (including DVD deleted content).

What we really need is someone with digital cable/satellite and a TIVO willing to do a PDTV copy for everyone. Heck they broadcasted in HDTV with 5.1 sound!
I'm actually surprised that FoV, BT@Efnet, etc. never did these.