Harmy

It did it again!!! In the properties in multiAVCHD it definitely says

Video: V_Mpeg2

Resolution: 1920x1080p

and it says Scan type: progressive in MediaInfo in Media Player Classic and then the encoded m2ts file is still 1080i and in MediaInfo in MPC it says Scan type: MBAFF. Now tell me what I'm doing wrong, because I'm getting desperate, I did it exactly the same way with Jedi and it worked OK.

Yeah, my computer is a bit on the slow side :-) But it only took two days including the output from PD and and then I encoded once and found out that I set the bitrate unnecessarily low so I decided to encode again. But it does take about 6-8 hrs to encode with one pass turbo. I have Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz, 2.5 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3470 HyperMemory 256 MB (and up to 1024 with the use of spare RAM memory). Maybe I could somehow get the hardware acceleration to work with encoding but I can't figure it out.

Yeah, I did :-)

Sorry, I'm just a bit frustrated with the situation. And oops, I miss-spelled dumb in "I'm not dumb," so I guess I must be ;-)  :-D

Anyway, every cloud has a silver lining, so I used the opportunity to fix some details I had missed before. I outputed again using the exact same settings (a saved profile) and the file is progressive. Unfortunately, knowing that I'm gonna be reencoding I deleted the original file so there's no way to be 110% sure now. I'm encoding with multiAVCHD now and crossing my fingers for a progressive result :-)

Thanks, but it didn't really help, I'm not that dumb, I'm 100% sure that the 25GB Mpeg file I ouputed from Power Director was progressive (I checked in properties in MPC) and it didn't have the flicker (which I am almost certain was caused by the interlacing - it was the top and bottom line of where the black borders start, jumping one line up and down - maybe it was my computer showing the interlaced video incorrectly). But I definitelly fed multiAVCHD a progressive 1080p Mpeg and it spat out a 1080i m2ts. I may have switched something wrong somewhere in multiAVCHD but I kinda hoped you guys would be able to tell me what...

Kjuba said:

How I can download it?

PM sent

Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!!!!!!!

Exuse my language but I'm really pissed off. I just finished encoding (took about 2 days) and uploading (about 3 days) STAR WARS v2.0 just to play it again on my TV and notice a strange flicker at the edges of the picture and find out that for some reason multiAVCHD encoded INTERLACED!!! So I'll have to start over (just encoding and uploading) so it won't be available for like another five days!!! Also if someone could advice me on how to prevent multiAVCHD 4.1 from encoding interlaced again I would really appreciate it.

Yeah, on-line petitions are definitely largely believed to be useless, especially here at originaltrilogy.com ;-)

Soooo envious...

Wow, that's just hilarious :-D ROFL

Yeah, sure, I figured that out, thanks anyway :-)

OK, STAR WARS PDE v2.0 is finished.

I'm converting to AVCHD now and I hope to start uploading tmrw.

I fixed the framerate issues and I used a different way of upscaling the GOUT than for the first version and I think it looks a lot better (you can check for yourselves here, there are basically all the changes that I made in that video, exept for very minor stuff like trimming a few frames here and there). I didn't use any footage from ANH:R this time, just Ady's AVCHD and GOUT.

Then I can start working on TESB:PDE, it's funny how it all stared with Empire and in the end it will be the last to go :-)

OK, I got hairy_hen's approval. Furthermore I'll be adding the monomix restoration from Moth3r's LFL_PWNAGE DVD, so in SW PDE v2.0 there will be:

1977 English 70mm 5.1

1993 English 2.0

1977 English 1.0

Czech dub 2.0

OK, the fix is up. If I forgot to send the link to someone, plese PM me.

Oh, and here's another one of my creations that I wanted to share with you guys :-D

OK, here are instructions on how to remux the fixed audio that even my grandma could follow:

You'll need:
Deamon tools, TS muxer, ImgBurn (all are free)

Mount the original ISO with Deamon Tools (or something similar) and go to "My Computer." Right click the virtual BD disk called "ROTJ_PDE" and choose "Open". Go to "BDMV\STREAM" and you should see a file named "00000.m2ts".

Open tsMuxeR GUI and drag the "00000.m2ts" file into it.

In the column "Tracks" uncheck the 1st audio file (track 2).

Unrar the fixed audio (pass: harmy) and drag it to TS muxer too.
Highlight the new sound (track 5) and choose English in the column "Language" Then press "up" 3 times until the new audio is track 2.

In the column "output" choose "AVCHD disk" and hit "Start muxing".

When the muxing's finished, you'll end up with two folders: "BDMV" and "CERTIFICATE." You can burn them with ImgBurn. Here are detailed instructions on how to do that:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/burn_avchd_with_imgburn.cfm

I'm uploading the fix. The file is over 600MB in size (it's a 640 Kbps AC3) and my current upload speed is 90.3 KBytes/s so it will take some time.

Btw. Chewtobacca, did you burn it a watch it on a stand-alone player? I'm still not 100% sure how well compatible it is.

Thank you, Chewtobacca, that's encouraging. I'm actually glad I screwed up the framerate on STAR WARS as it gave me an opportunity to go back and make an overall better version (i hope). Also I'm home for holidays and all of my uni friends live quite far so I'm bored to tears and this project keeps me going. You guys will probably be my best friends for the next two months ;-)

The Jedi fix is finished, I will be uploading it as soon as the exporting's done and I test muxing it with the video.

Can I put the links here as it's just audio and custom made at that?

Also it seems that doing the 5.1 for STAR WARS v2.0 this way would prove even more difficult so I will be adding the 5.1 upmix of hairy_hen's Star Wars 1977 70mm sound mix recreation instead (if I get approval).

I will, now that I took a look at it I found out that the problem is that there is both the sound contained in the video plus the sound added for the mix playing at the same time in that scene and that's what makes it so loud and that this is not the only instance where this happened so I will definitely be fixing it.

No, I don't think that would work but don't worry, I'll give you detailed instructions on how to mux in the new audio.

Thanks for the feedback Chewtobacca.

DON'T STOP DOWNLOADING! Sorry guys, I'm not reuploading the whole thing again and the 5.1 sound was ment to be more of a little bonus anyway, there should be no such problem in the 2.0 as it is taken directly from GOUT.

I might just upload the fixed audio, so you can mux it in yourselves, it is quite easy with TS muxer.

STAR WARS PDE V2.0 is almost done. I'm currently working on a 5.1 sound and hopefully will be exporting the 1st workprint overnight.

OK, Jedi's finished and up on RS. I took the GOUT audio and adjusted the HD version to it.

I restored the original musical number, original Sarlacc and the original ending using GOUT and KGAR and did a little color correction including fixing the lightsabres. It is a DVD9 23.976 fps 1080p AVCHD. There are both 2.0 GOUT and adjusted 2004 5.1 soundtracks plus 2.0 Czech dub. PM me for the links if you're interested.

Here are some sample videos:

Lightsabres test and a splitscreen comparison

Musical Number

Sarlac (it's a bit different in the final version)

Ending celebration

OK, just to make it "official": I started working on STAR WARS PDE v2.0. I will be fixing the frame rate issues and hopefully increasing some other quality aspects. This time it will be a 23.976fps AVCHD. I will probably be using less (if any) Adywan's work this time to make it more of my own project. (exept ofcourse the AVCHD, Ady's color correction's awesome)

To Chewtobacca: Well, it did encode the 1080p video at 25fps when I chose PAL but I'll be doing these at 23.976 after all.

To snowtrooper: Thanks for the feedback. As I'm gonna be doing this again, I'm open to sugestions, what else would you change back?

That's interesting but a little bit off topic, maybe you should make a separate thread about it.

Back to the menus: There are some awesome new shots in those menus that would IMO be cool to use in ESB:R.