Harmy

Yeah, I'm confident that there will be more changes discovered. This project would never be finished if I wanted to do everything.

Anyway, I muxed the x264 stream to MKV and everything seems ok on my computer. I will test on my BD Player later today.

BTW. does anyone know how to extract chapters from a mpls file to something compatible with MKV?

That sounds great :-) I had an idea like that myself but I don't have the patience.

That's very good. I just finished rendering and will be checking out if everything's ok in the render, so everything should be ready soon on my side as well :-)

Don't worry, guys. This is the kind of thing I might have lft in even if I knew about it, so I sure as hell won't start rendering from scratch because of it.

Yep, it's definitely green in the IB Print. I'm not stopping anything though ;-)

Pass 2 13% speed 1.34fps. ETA 31 hrs. So far so good, although it makes me mad to think that it could have been done by now :-/

Yes, I have, it's surprisingly low, only around 400MB, but that was the same the first time around.

Anyway, pass 1 finished with average of 12fps (it did speed up a bit towards the end) and now pass 2 is up to 5.1% and going pretty well (currently 1.7fps) but it's slowing down steadily (it started out at over 2fps).

It's on 41% now and the speed got up to 9fps, so it says 3hrs left, but still it's very slow. And it uses the CPU fully now.

So now it's dropped to 7fps. I'm really pissed off.

Well, I idiotically didn't keep those. And the error was nothing to do with the script, don't worry - it was a mechanical problem.

And I wouldn't mind it not using the CPU fully if it went just as fast as the first time but it doesn't. And in the first pass it doesn't matter as much either, because it will only add an hour or so but if it's any indication for how fast the 2nd pass will be, that's the real problem.

Yeah, now the encode seems to be going slower from the beginning for some reason. Last time I had an average of 17.8fps for the 1st pass, starting on 19fps and now it's going at 13fps from the beginning and I restarted the computer before each encoding, so they should both have the exact same starting point. And it's not using the CPU to full capacity - only around 70% - WTF is up with that?

So, I just had an error and am starting the encoding from scratch. Fucking great :-/ I'm crying a little bit right now :-(

Just a progress report. Seems to be going fairly well.

To be honest, this is not as much about you waiting, as it is about me having my computer bogged down by encoding and unable to do anything else properly for so long. I mean, I wouldn't mind if I knew it was unavoidable but if it can encode that fast at first and then it slows down gradually, and if the same video with the same settings can take anywhere between 12hrs and 45minutes, it seems like there's something wrong somewhere.

So it's steadily slowing down, the ETA is already 32 hours and the encoding speed dropped to 1.30fps. I don't know why this always happens with all of my encodes. The encoding of one reel in Premiere usually started on ETA of about 2hrs and then it ended up taking 8 or sometimes 7 or sometimes 12. But then once I had an 18 minutes reel render in 45 minutes right after a two minute video from the same project, with the same settings in the same queue took 5hrs. I really don't understand this shit.

It's going pretty smoothly so far. You can't trust those estimated remaining times though, I've seen them change by several hours in either direction in a matter of a few minutes. Here for example, it said there were 29 hours left and hour ago, so we'll see :-)

I'm definitely using the faster settings. Check these out, they are comparisons between test encodes and the lossless source file:

Slow Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138305

Fast Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138306

Slow Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138307

Fast Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138308

Slow Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138309

Fast Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138311

Slow Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138314

Fast Settings: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138316

And the speed is almost double, meaning it would probably take 4-5 days on my computer with the slower settings.

I almost never turn my computer off anyway.

Today's the day of what? I'll only be starting the x264 encode today (and even that is a maybe) which will take at least two days and then I'll be putting together the soundfiles (maybe waiting for the 5.1 mix) then it will take ages to upload, so at best, it will be available in a week.

Right now I'm doing a final backup of everything (I would probably kill myself if I lost all the files now and they were all on one disc, so that was a definite possibility) and the project files and lossless despecialized shots and such weigh in at about 200GB (without the lossless source files from the BD and the final lossless renders, which together add another 300GB) so it's taking a while to copy to another disc.

So, is it ok to discuss any topic in this thread as long as I say at the end that I don't think it has anything to do with Star Wars? ;-)

So, latest news: I'll start rendering the last two reels (I divided the lossless file by reels) and then go and fix the last few little problems, so I should be ready to render the mkv by tomorrow evening :-)

Also, I've got a RS guy, so two places left ;-)

Well, I think it's a question of perception. I've watched ROTJ on VHS like a hundred times and now I know the stars were blue on the VHS I used to watch but if somebody asked me before I started paying closer attention to stuff like that, what colour they were I wouldn't have known and would probably have said they were white.

Actually, I think most ROTJ prints were LPP, so if stored properly, they shouldn't be faded at all (the one stored in the LoC for example apparently has beautifully preserved colours).  Empire unfortunately is a different story. I'm not sure how well preserved are the colours on Puggo's 16mm prints of ESB and ROTJ but those could in theory serve as a reference.

n00b said:

Harmy said:

Well, all the emails were sent, so if you were picked, you should know by now. I added imoortalseed to the list, so three places still left. Anyone wanting to take care of RS, perhaps someone with a paid account?

How about collecting all those links and publishing them at thePARADOX as  interchangeable download sources?

That's the plan :-)