*Sorry, just noticed there was another post
Yep, I still have the tape, but didn’t have any plans to sell it anytime soon, wouldn’t even know what its value would be if I did.
Sadly the GDrive upload for this is currently having a Download quota exceeded message, so it can’t be downloaded right now, didn’t think it’d reach it that quick being via private message (or unless someone shared the link to a public place which I hope wasn’t the case). No idea how long it’s gonna do it for though, been a few days already. If it persists much longer, may have to look into Mega or somewhere else anyone can recommend for a reupload.
I think I may know someone who has it, saw them post a magnet link in a Reddit a month ago. Looks to be inactive though, DMed them in case they have it somewhere else.
PM sent, Eddie.
This edit aside from minor edits and changes, is the same as the Chronologically LOST edit that’s been around for a while, just rebuilt using the Blu-ray set. So this starts from the birth of Jacob & MiB to the Island events in 2007 and has the Flash-sideway events all together in an Epilogue set.
I’ve never watched Lost Chrono, only got told about it, it did differ from it, think it was supposed to be less literal Chronological wise, though the only major change I remember is that the time Desmond went back to after turning the key was placed between the 90s events rather than inbetween the key turn and sky turning purple in this edit.
Gonna be deleting the x264 version after New Years, so if you were (somehow) wanting it, just let me know.
I never had much luck with exporting 5.1 out of Premiere. When I was doing my Chronologically LOST HD remaster, I exported them out to 6 mono wavs and used Audacity to export them again to a 5.1 file.
Here’s the size difference between the original x264 and x265 versions:
The x265 release has been encoded at 5000kbps and audio is AAC 5.1 320kbps (compared to the 15000kbps and AC3 5.1 640kbps of the x264 release)
Looking at that and how the quality is near identical between both, also how the subtitles in the x264 containers aren’t the updated ones that have been added into the x265 one, I’m considering whether to keep the x264 version up and make just the x265 version available, no idea if there’d be anyone who would care that much to have the bigger release.
I’m gonna reply to all the past PMs with the updated link but feel free to PM me if you haven’t previously.
x265 update:
90 episodes have now been compressed, so only one more update till release.
x265 update:
80 episodes have now been compressed, still on track. Ideally a Christmas release would be the best but have to see if the rest can fit in before then.
x265 update:
70 episodes have now been compressed. Had to stop encoding for a few days but should still make it before end of year.
Yeah. Good thing too as I’ve had to halt it a few times when having another CPU-intensive thing running, didn’t think I would finish before the end of year. Wish I had a 2nd PC solely for rendering and other background things.
x265 update:
60 episodes have now been compressed. Looking at how its going now, I may be able to have all episodes compressed before the end of the year.
x265 update:
50 episodes have now been compressed, so I’m now halfway in it.
x265 update:
40 episodes have now been compressed.
I wondered that. I was logged out and password wasn’t working, went to get a reset email but didn’t get anything.
x265 update:
30 episodes have now been compressed.
Quick update on x265 release:
20 episodes have been compressed now, slowly getting shorter between each episode from all the 1 hour episodes being done first.
After thinking about it (I stopped it during the week to do some grinding in GTA:O), I’m gonna stick with Slow preset. I don’t want to rush the x265 release, just as long as there’s already a release available.
I could try changing the preset to Medium if that’d split the time in half or so, just don’t want the quality affected too much. I’ll have to try that with the next episode
I’ve compressed 10 episodes so far to x265, not going in order here, instead going from longest episodes to shortest. It’s taking roughly an episode per day with the preset I’m using so I’d say at least 3 months it’ll take to do all, but I’ll still update this every 10 episodes I do.
Results were a bit better using 10-bit Slow preset, so that should be good to use. Gonna take a while to do if I’m looking at over 15 hours per episode but the current release is fine for the meantime:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jBCB2SI6PYim1odxUNeuwuvsOa-hg1Zz
I’ve never had much luck when trying to use an encoding value, not wanting something either too small or too big, so I don’t mind targeting a bitrate. I’ll try 10-bit using same settings and see how it turns out. Also trying a slower encoder preset which from what I see will make it about 16-17 hours total for one of the 1 hour episodes, but doing a clip first to make sure.
Had a feeling it would. I did one episode yesterday to see what rendering times I’d be looking at. 5mbps seemed to be fine though it takes a hit on the grain and darker areas which wasn’t as bad as I expected, hopefully the difference between 12 and 10-bit isn’t that noticeable.
Doing some tests to see if I can do an x265 encode that’s roughly 1/3 the size, never done any x265 releases before so this’ll be new to me. There’s a slight quality loss from what I’m seeing but this’ll be more a space-friendly version while the current one is Blu-ray compliant. Also gives me a chance to mux in the updated subtitles with it.
Done a couple clips via Handbrake using H265 12-bit mode, not sure if being 12-bit has lower compatibility or more memory intensive to play but here’s how they look:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wgw8ieatb3DAhj1dPg7Aa04jB49sX88N
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19yPGJNnMXw4y6rbKlZbgxi-Xb2wU0jhX
Update: Finished episode 101, so the edits finished now. Also went through the subs again fixing minor quirks, though that’ll be in a separate folder as I’d have to remux 101 MKVs. lol
So feel free to PM if you’re interested.