Grinder

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Join date: 29-Jun-2005
Last activity: 12-Dec-2012
Posts: 223

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Post: #182205
Topic: ~French Coffret Trilogie LD to DVD transfer~ (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/182205/action/topic#182205
Time: 16-Feb-2006 7:29 AM

I found one that came pretty close. Look at my ANH DVD. I can send you the font if you like it.

Post: #181785
Topic: questions about cropping/audio/bitrates
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/181785/action/topic#181785
Time: 15-Feb-2006 6:39 AM

On a standard TV "anamorphic or not" really isn't an issue. In theory you may lose quality, but if you have a decent DVD player it's not noticeable.

Post: #181776
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/181776/action/topic#181776
Time: 15-Feb-2006 6:12 AM

The week after next week I'm free, then I'll have plenty of time to do ROTJ. So in about two weeks it'll be done.

P.S. This is a professor of a friend of mine who studies physics, somehow he bares an incredible resemblence to...

http://www.ru.nl/contents/pages/30438/adriaan.jpg

Post: #174483
Topic: STAR WARS: the alt.binaries.starwars thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174483/action/topic#174483
Time: 30-Jan-2006 2:11 PM

TESB is currently being uploaded to a.b.starwars, look for "Grinder's Star Wars Original Trilogy - Episode V". I have a new payserver account, so the post will be 100% complete this time. Enjoy!

Post: #174479
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174479/action/topic#174479
Time: 30-Jan-2006 2:08 PM

Alright, I'm glad they arrived, I was starting to get a bit worried. And it's good to know I'm not the only one enjoying the subtitles. To everyone else: TESB is currently being uploaded to a.b.starwars, look for "Grinder's Star Wars Original Trilogy - Episode V". I have a new payserver account, so the post will be 100% complete this time. Enjoy! And let's hear some reactions.

Post: #173356
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/173356/action/topic#173356
Time: 26-Jan-2006 6:22 PM

Alright, after a week of exams and drilling teeth from 9 in the morning to 10 in the evening, I finally have some free time to finish TESB! I'm 99,9% sure I'll be uploading by saturday. It turned out damn well (if I may say so myself).

Post: #171720
Topic: SIX fantastic brand new preservation projects..... (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171720/action/topic#171720
Time: 20-Jan-2006 10:37 AM

Looks very nice, this set definitely have the prettiest artwork of all. Care to trade it for one of my sets?

Post: #171713
Topic: Help Wanted: Requesting a big favour from a French speaker
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171713/action/topic#171713
Time: 20-Jan-2006 10:19 AM

About the saturation fluctuations:

http://www.student.kun.nl/tomdriessen/luke.JPG

There's just 1 second between the shots: first you see Luke (first pic), then Yoda, then Luke again (second pic), Yoda again, and Luke again (third pic).

Post: #171710
Topic: Help Wanted: Requesting a big favour from a French speaker
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171710/action/topic#171710
Time: 20-Jan-2006 9:43 AM

Those discs are practically the same as the normal French THX discs, but there are differences. On the normal French set the shot of Luke's speeder in front of Ben's house is a low res still, on your set it's ok (the wipe is still missing though). Arnie.d can tell you more about it.
Try to get a (Pioneer) 2950, 925, 909 or 919. The 2950 is considered the best PAL player, but it is a twelve year old machine. The 925 is supposed to be nearly as good, but is two years younger. The 909 and 919 are the youngest two high-end Pioneer models for the PAL market, from '98 and '99 respectively (they also play DVD). They're technically identical, except the 919 can play DTS sound from DVD's, and the 909 can't. They both read DTS from LD. If your main goal is to transfer some stuff I'd get a 2950, but when you get one nowadays it usually needs some professional cleaning at least. If you want a player for regular use, I'd get a young player: a 909 or 919. I have both a 909 and a 2950, if you want to see what the quality difference is like I can send you a clip. It isn't much.

EDIT: You should be able to get each of these players for about 200 euros.

Post: #171476
Topic: Help Wanted: Requesting a big favour from a French speaker
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171476/action/topic#171476
Time: 19-Jan-2006 1:56 PM

I find it very weird he gives all three the same ranking. I'm working on TESB now, and I think it really is not as good as ANH. The latter is only undersaturated, and too dark. On TESB the temporal smoothing is much worse, it is oversaturated at some points, undersaturated at others: saturation, brightness and contrast fluctuate as hell.

EDIT: And a lot more line drops.

What do you think?

Post: #170742
Topic: SIX fantastic brand new preservation projects..... (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170742/action/topic#170742
Time: 16-Jan-2006 1:33 PM

Finally something is being posted

Keep 'em coming! Do you have some more specs, such as, who captured it and how?

EDIT: Very good quality, looks just as if the tape was new.

Post: #170384
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170384/action/topic#170384
Time: 15-Jan-2006 4:48 AM

TESB has been practically done for a week or so, but I still have to do some finishing up. I'll finish it as soon as possible, but at the moment I'm pretty busy studying for a couple of exams that are coming up... Coming to your galaxy this month!

Post: #168929
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168929/action/topic#168929
Time: 9-Jan-2006 1:54 PM

Check this ugly frame in TESB, what the hell happened here...

http://www.student.kun.nl/tomdriessen/ugly.JPG

Post: #168437
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168437/action/topic#168437
Time: 7-Jan-2006 7:34 AM

Hey Russ, you got it complete! So the repost worked...

About the scratches: I've hated those ever since I first saw them (in my case, on Moth3r's release). So I decided they should be fixed. The original plan was to extract those two frames, fix them in Photoshop, and re-insert them. But before I went through all that hassle, I checked if I could just as well ditch the two frames. And to my surprise you don't notice that at all, mostly due to the wild camera movement in that shot. That entire shot needed some serious enhancement btw: the saturation/brightness/contast is totally off, I don't know what they've done over at THX: the NTSC releases don't have that. Anyway, I fixed that too, so now it matches up with the other Tantive shots.

Post: #168081
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168081/action/topic#168081
Time: 5-Jan-2006 9:06 PM

Thanks for the flowers Moth3r! And for putting the screens up. Remember everyone, during playback this look different than on a screenshot

About the subtitles: I ripped them from the official DVD, did some minor edits on the English ones ("spice mines of Kessel" instead of "Kessel spice mines" for instance). But I had to improve the Dutch ones quite a bit, I really wasn't satisfied with the original ones. I did leave the original translation "Death Star" > "Ster des Doods" however. "Doodster" is a bit childish I think. The same as I would say "I will kill you dead!", you'll know what I mean, but it doesn't really sound impressive, does it? I prefer English subs anyway.

Post: #168004
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168004/action/topic#168004
Time: 5-Jan-2006 1:34 PM

I'm reposting under the name "REPOST Grinder's Star Wars Original Trilogy - Episode IV" and was too lazy to rename all the files by hand, so I made new rars and pars, but from exactly the same files, exactly the same way. So in theory it should work. You could give it a try.

Post: #167974
Topic: Grinder's PAL widescreen project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167974/action/topic#167974
Time: 5-Jan-2006 10:32 AM

Posting 10% (299 blocks) extra PAR2, and will start a complete repost after that. Using a friend of mine's payserver now.

Post: #167954
Topic: STAR WARS: the alt.binaries.starwars thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167954/action/topic#167954
Time: 5-Jan-2006 8:00 AM

There sure has gone something wrong with the upload, probably due to my server nova.planet.nl, because all posts I have ever done were always 99% complete. I downloaded it myself, and I was only 216 blocks short, but could fix it with the 261 complete PAR2 blocks. It's very weird, even binsearch.info says it's 100% complete. I was planning on posting an extra 10% PAR2, but 1500 blocks, thats 50%!!! Let me know if more people are missing over 500 blocks, I may have to repost the whole damn thing.

Posting 10% (299 blocks) extra PAR2, and will start a complete repost after that. Using a friend of mine's payserver now.

Post: #167953
Topic: ~French Coffret Trilogie LD to DVD transfer~ (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167953/action/topic#167953
Time: 5-Jan-2006 7:38 AM

Then we'll have to ask arnie.d to double check. My TESB and ROTJ were still sealed when I got them btw, so if the dropouts are caused by dust or something on the disc, those won't have them.

Post: #167942
Topic: ~French Coffret Trilogie LD to DVD transfer~ (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167942/action/topic#167942
Time: 5-Jan-2006 5:47 AM

I have it too. So your 925 does it, arnie.d's 2950 does it, my 909 does it. And arnie.d stated the drops are in the same spots on two different sets. It must be the discs themselves.

Post: #167827
Topic: SIX fantastic brand new preservation projects..... (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167827/action/topic#167827
Time: 4-Jan-2006 5:31 PM

One thing I'm still planning on is checking out a pre-THX PAL widescreen version. Curious how it looks. It's a good idea to transfer all the PAL releases aswell, but the problem is that LD's themselves will be pretty much useless. I think replacing all English dialogue with French, German or Spanish is worse than any of the changes Lucas made! So you'd have to put another soundtrack under them at least. And they're much harder to come by than the NTSC releases.

Post: #167793
Topic: Adding subtitles on DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167793/action/topic#167793
Time: 4-Jan-2006 4:09 PM

I'd say, rip the subs from the official DVD, and modify them. That way the timecodes are almost right, synching them up at about 10 spots will do the trick. On doom9.net there's a guide for SubRip, in URUSoft Subtitle Workshop you can edit them and synch them up to the movie, which you can rip with this program. And finally I'd use Adobe Encore for the mastering.

Post: #167787
Topic: Re-editing the score
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167787/action/topic#167787
Time: 4-Jan-2006 3:55 PM

I use this.

Post: #167776
Topic: STAR WARS: the alt.binaries.starwars thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167776/action/topic#167776
Time: 4-Jan-2006 3:03 PM

Originally posted by: russs15
...on a computer monitor!!

NOW WHAT DID I TELL YOU!!!

Just kidding, thanks. I hope everyone will say that

Dammit! I downloaded part034.rar, and it is incomplete indeed. But I have 29 of the 32 blocks. This is weird, I have posted several things in the past, and I never had to repost anything. Also Yenc, Binsearch.info, and my agent say it's 100% complete... I'll download it myself as soon as the post is finished, and create extra PAR2 files, and repost the broken rars.

Post: #167762
Topic: Citizen's Aspect Ratio Calculator Tool for your browser
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167762/action/topic#167762
Time: 4-Jan-2006 1:32 PM

I just noticed we were doing the same thing, only I was creating an anamorphic image, original black bars included. Which is something you don't want to do, I know now. 324*1.33=432 and 432*1.33=576 you see? We were just thinking in different directions.

I don't apply the same script on the whole movie btw, because of the vertical shifts. My DVD versions don't have them.