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#266045
Topic
Quick womble question...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266045/action/topic#266045
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Is it regular Womble, or Womble DVD? Trying to save Ac3 or Wav?

I just tried, and regular Womble won't save AC3 from wav. If you're saving as PCM (Wav), then I guess it isn't the problem.

If you're on regular Womble and want AC3, maybe save the WAV separately, and run it through a freeware AC3 utility.


So then I tried Womble DVD - it saved AC3 from WAVs, and gaps didn't cause a problem, either.

But if the gaps are actually causing this problem, you could try putting an AC3 on the upper audio track, and mute that AC3 track.

What's the Kilohertz on the WAVs? I mixed 44.1 kHz & 48 kHz together, without a problem, in W-DVD. But maybe lower bitrates could mess it up?


Edit: bad grammer and a "senior moment" on kHz.
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#266036
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Info & Info Wanted: Star Trek Theatrical versions - question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266036/action/topic#266036
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@ZackR - The NTSC version is going up in a.b.dvd & a.b.multimedia startrek. The nzb is also in a.b.nzb. The PAL is next.

(People who's server doesn't carry a.b.dvd probably won't see the post at all. That shouldn't affect most people, so I went ahead and put it in both).

@ReverendBeastly - The PIFing & torrenting is waiting for me to send the discs to Dr. Gonzo and Faustus. And, well, I'm particularly slow about getting to the Post Office. But it's gonna happen.
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#265780
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Info & Info Wanted: Star Trek Theatrical versions - question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265780/action/topic#265780
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Good news: I recieved the NTSC and PAL TMP-Theatrical HD2DVD discs a week ago Friday! (And they look nice!)

Bad news: I haven't posted them to the newsgroups yet. (Hopefully tonight).


Sorry folks, my fault. So stop bugging CW about whether they've been posted. (It shouldn't be up to him to buy a plane ticket to come kick my butt).


Speaking of butt-kicking, that's what Life has been doing to me. (I keep foolishly assuming that it wont get any more time-consuming). Lately, whenever I finally do get the time to post here, I find that I'm too tired (and whatever ) to type coherently.

I've also been caught up in a mess of torrents, so I couldn't get them onto the newsgroups, anyway. That's mostly taken care of, now.

So I hope to start posting to the newsgroups tonight. (About damn time, huh?).


Oh damn, 24 is on tonight, that won't make it easy to concentrate. LOL.
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#265292
Topic
Colour matching for fan edits
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265292/action/topic#265292
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Alrighty then! Manually it is! <---- intentional smiley.

The unintentional smileys make it seem less threatening, at least.


Ok, all kidding aside, I wonder if I'll be able to make anything out of this? Daaaaang.

I looked over the .pdf file, and what Moth3r said, and it seems to be something I could eventually figure out.

Right now, I'm overtaxing my brain with too many proggies & problems at once. But I think I can get though the current project without it. I will probably need that kind of power in the future.


Keep it coming, maybe I'll wrap my mind around it one of these days.


Matlab isn't that expensive for a student, which I'm not. Once I tried "student" it wouldn't let me see commercial or government (which I'm not, either). I hope I can afford the commercial one. But I wish they had one for fan-editor.

An Avisynth version would be awesome!
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#264782
Topic
24 The Game - Cut Scenes Fan Edit (by daveytod) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264782/action/topic#264782
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@kaine23 - Thanks for seeding!

@lordjedi - that'd rule!

@Cassius76 - I've cranked up from 10 to 20 kBs, for now (after temporarily giving up on paying back an older torrent that no one else wants right now). Not sure when I'll have to cut back to nothing. But with Kaine23 seeding, it's flying, right now. I think that's you at 63.3%.


Keep in mind, folks, that this is a PAL disc, and wont play on many NTSC set-top players. But, of course, it plays fine on the computer.
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#264772
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Info: A note about Spence Edits
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264772/action/topic#264772
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I feel your pain, Spence. I refuse to put up new torrents, for those same reasons. But I like to revive dead torrents, and most people hit & run. (Hurray for those few who pay it back, especially those who pay more than their share).

I'm glad you've worked out ways to get 'em out there.

I hesitate to pay for rapidshare, since I'm already paying for newsgroups. But I'll get copies of some of your stuff in the near future, and, if you don't mind, I'll post them on the newsgroups.
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#264758
Topic
24 The Game - Cut Scenes Fan Edit (by daveytod) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264758/action/topic#264758
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Originally posted by: Cassius76
I have promised to seed. Sorry that Torrents are a sore subject here.

Sorry, man, nothing like that. My fault. I was trying to be lighthearted. I'm not a big torrent fan, and I like to bitch about everything.

I know you'll seed, but I was expecting more seeds, by now, a lot of people have completed.

I will make sure you get this. I might have to slow down to a crawl, because I've got something to post to the newsgroups, soon.


@Klokwerk: Cool! I missed that cover, before. Nice one!
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#264743
Topic
24 The Game - Cut Scenes Fan Edit (by daveytod) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264743/action/topic#264743
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And that's why I make it a policy not to create new torrents.


@kaine: Got 'cher PM. Back at'cha. Go ahead and seed, their clients will reject any bad data.


@Cassius76: My cable modem got fell asleep on the job. While I can sympathise, I've got a computer to run. Punched its reset to no avail. So I witheld its power for a minute, and it finally got back to work.

I see you and two other downloaders. Any seeds, yet, besides me? Sigh. That's another reason I don't like torrents. :-\ I might post this bad boy to the newsgroups, for my fellow torrent-haters.
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#263989
Topic
24 The Game - Cut Scenes Fan Edit (by daveytod) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/263989/action/topic#263989
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Yer welcome.


Hey folks, go ahead and jump in.

Torrentspy and Torrentbox are lying (gee, what a shock. ). I'm seeding, and connected to 5 people at the moment.


Torrentbox seems to have removed it from their search, last night (their search had it for a while, then seemed to lose it). I can't give you the direct link to TBox, because of the rules. But Torrentspy still has it - search: "24 - The Missing Day".

I had to stop for a few hours, last night, for technical reasons, but I've been there for over 11 hours, since. (Someone else was seeding during that time, so it was cool).

The most complete person there is 38.4%, so anyone with more would help.
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#263821
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DVD burner problems
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/263821/action/topic#263821
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Same problem on two drives sounds like a driver problem.

What operating system do you have? Do you have Nero? Is your LG an external? Did you update your motherboard utilities before that started? Those can screw up burners, on random systems - If you're running Microsoft, you'd switch to their drive controller drivers.

If you have Nero, you can check out your system with Nero Tools. If not, and your OS is compatible with Nero, then I'm positive that you can get the Nero tools on a free download somewhere, or you might have something analagous with your own burner software.

You could check your ASPI layer with ASPICheck. If I recall, there are alternative drivers for external...

My memory isn't very clear on these topics, and I won't have a chance to search out specifics. But CD Freaks forum is the best place to look for answers.
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#263472
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I know this mabe be a stupid question----
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/263472/action/topic#263472
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LOL!


Actually, +R has one compatability advantage - you can set the booktype to "DVD-ROM". Some settop players won't play a disc that has "DVD-R" coded in. (Probably just some old, cranky ones).

I think you need a utility to tell the drive to put that in there, though. CdFreaks forum would be the place to find it. But if your drive was rebadged, it might be difficult to find out the true manufacturer.
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#263318
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How to extract BTM lost scenes?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/263318/action/topic#263318
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Originally posted by: Johnboy3434However, there seems to be a DivX watermark stuck to the bottom-right corner of said scene. Is there something I have to buy to make that go away, or is it attached to the original file? It's going to look (even more) tacky on my fan-edit DVDs.

I've never run into the problem, so I don't know. It might just be on playback:
Configuration setting
Register with divx
I don't know if the 2nd link costs you money.

If it's burned into the video, there are different logo removers that may or may not do a very clean job.
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#263115
Topic
Quick question--
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/263115/action/topic#263115
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If it's re-encoding video, before it burns, then that seems like a reasonable time frame.


If it's a straight burn of data, or a prepared Video_TS or image, then something's horribly wrong.

That's more than 6 times slower than a 1X burn of data, if I recall.

You could check your hardware & driver situation with Nero Tools. Could be the ASPI layer (if I recall there are other things than ASPI for external drives). Could be the controller driver. Who knows what.

CdFreaks forum is the place to go for techical answers. (Use their broken search function before posting).
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#263037
Topic
Progressive / Interlaced, field order?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/263037/action/topic#263037
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I might get something wrong, here, or omit something... I've tried to weed out the duplicated explanations, but probably didn't get them all.

And this might not answer any of your questions. But just to make sure we're talking about the same things...

It gets messy, because "Interlaced" has different meanings. So does "Telecine", and "Progressive".

It depends on whether you're talking about the video itself, or the playback.

Progressive can mean progressive playback - fields faked into frames, for instance. Or film played 24 fps on a computer screen, but the screen is refreshed more often than 24 fps. LCD could also play 24 fps progressively, maybe Plasma. I imagine Progressive could be applied to just popping a frame up there, instead of one row at a time, or mean drawing the frame top, to bottom, without going by fields.

Or progressive can mean progressive video. such as film stored as frames of film, without extra fields. Or it can mean interlaced videocamera footage. Or it can mean CGI done at 25 fps (PAL) or 30 fps (NTSC). Basically it means not-interlaced. (Though vidcam footage is interlaced, it's stored and flagged as frames, not sure about tff/bff). But its still played interlaced on interlace sets. Perhaps its best to say Progressive video means you aren't storing deliberatly-duplicated fields.


Interlaced sets draw the odd lines of the picture first (top field), then the even. The idea is that if picture was drawn, on a picture tube, by a beam lighting up phospor-dots, a frame at a time, at 25 fps, or 30 fps, you would see a heinous flicker. So you draw odd & even separately. That's one definition of "interlaced".

Videocamera footage is recorded one field at a time, 60 times per second, and that's also called "interlaced". And so is "hard-interlaced" or "telecined" material where extra fields have been added to the video - to boost 24 fps up to 25 fps or 30 fps. The hard-interlaced video can be videotape, laserdisc, or broadcast. Sometimes, it may be added, inefficiently, to dvd-video or computer-video. (Hard-telecine can be left in a staticy preservation dvd, also).

Dvd video normally has pulldown flags set to indicate the fields to be duplicated, instead of wasting space on duplicated fields encoded into the video.


A DVD player plays interlaced to interlace sets. It looks at the video as one scanline per row. There are as many rows as will be output to the set, of course. The top-field-first or bottom-field-first flag tells it how those rows correspond to playback.


In Pal-land, it will play 24-fps film fast - at 25 fps. Or it will play material that's recorded on camcorder at 50 fields per second. Or it can play an extra field per half-second. Or play a funky source (that's another subject, below). Always played interlaced, to interlace sets, though.


In NTSC-Land, and interlace sets, it will :

1) Output a 30-fps film source one field at a time.

2) Output 60-field-per-second camcorder footage. (Recorded one field at a time).

3) Output the 24-fps film, but also make duplicate fields into extra frames, to bring up the framerate to 30 fps.

In order to do #3, it needs "pulldown flags", to tell it when to duplicate.

4) Output "hard-telecined" material, where the extra fields are encoded into the video, at 30 fps.

5) Output any mix of that stuff. Then there would pulldown flags, and progressive flags, if I'm not mistaken.


I believe the pulldown & progressive flags can be added by your editor, if you chose, or else you can add them with a utility like dgpulldown.


"Telecined" basically refers to scanning film into an analog master, or directly to broadcast form. In NTSC-land, the telecine process automatically adds hard-pulldown, which is the duplicate fields, right in there. The "hard-pulldown" footage is also called "telecined" or "hard-telecined" or "hard-interlaced". (Recordings or cappings from NTSC broadcasts of film will have that hard-telecine from the broadcast). Nowadays they usually scan it straight into digital, without the hard telecine, unless its going straight out to broadcast.

In PAL, telecine is just scanned straight in. Or they can add an extra field every second, to bump the framerate up toe 25 fps. Or it's made from an NTSC-Telecined master then has the "telecine" (hard pulldown) removed by "inverse telecine", which loses the duplicate fields, or they "deinterlace - they either throw away fields, or blend them together, without regard to uniqueness or duplication. They'll aslo deinterlace NTSC camorder footage, or 30-fps CGI.

That can make a royal mess if you want to bring it back to NTSC. The extra field per half-second is easier to fix.

Also there can be phase shift errors, that I don't understand well enough to explain.


If you are starting with hard-telecined material, its usually best to remove the telecine (IVTC or "Reverse Telecine"). Funky-Pal, well, can become an advanced subject...
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#262814
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How to extract BTM lost scenes?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/262814/action/topic#262814
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Caught me in an assumption. Interesting, sounds like they didn't want the files floating around everywhere. Probably all stored in a flat-file. if it's not encrypted you might be able to search out the files and clip them out, assuming they aren't some bizzare codec. You might end up having to capture the screen with something like Techsmith Snagit (payware). You'd be converting the video anyway, you could capture it to a lossless codec, like huffyuv.Huffyuv .

Anyway, if there's a better answer, this'd be the place.
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#262804
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Progressive / Interlaced, field order?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/262804/action/topic#262804
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Well, ya got me confused.

Dvds need to be playable to interlaced sets, so even though they are stored as solid frames, the hardware will think of them as if they were two interlaced fields stored together, sortof. Which is kinda confusing.

1) Uhhhhh....

2) Computer monitors are normally run progressive. So, you'd want to playing both fields as one frame. And your player cooperativly does that. But you'd still be going one line at a time. Playing the wrong field first means that line 2 goes at the top, line 1 below that, 4, 3, 6...

So that part actually makes sense to me.

3) That's weird.

I don't get the scrambled picture. I would think maybe ripping them and fixing GOP errors, like in ADM's editing guide might fix it. But you say changing it in Premier worked. I don't know if you need to fix GOP errors if you convert VOBs in TMPGEnc, anyway.

Are you usually working in NTSC? Maybe that's the difference. NTSC generates extra frames-per-second by duplicating fields. That takes 24 fps and fakes the framerate up to 30, that makes little pauses. Pal just speeds it up from 24 fps to 25 fps. (Both methods suck). But if you normally watch & work in NTSC, you wouldn't really notice that.

Hmmm... Maybe top field first is the wrong setting in TMPGEnc, and Premier is fixing it? But that still doesn't explain #3, unless, like I say, you're used to NTSC.

On the other hand, are you sure your PAL source doesn't have interlacing in it? Sometimes happens if they convert from NTSC to PAL. (It shouldn't be that way, anymore, ever, but it still happens). I'm about to go look up a thing that'd tell you. I'll get back to you in a day or two (or...), if no one comes along with better answers.

Hope I'm not wasting your time, in the meanwhile.

You did say "any information", right?
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#262799
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Anyone Hi8 Experts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/262799/action/topic#262799
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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
The reason why I was interested in video essentials on vhs was because I would want to compare vcr's in their playback. Some of my videos only exist on 2nd generation vhs tape so I want the best possible quality. Lately I see that someone on the video help forums has posted the JVC SR-W5U is the best vcr ever made. The Panasonic AG-1980 is also highly regarded.

I am not sure about using the time base corrector, is it easy to switch off on those machines if I want? I'm afraid of permanently introducing side effects from "correcting" tape playback (similar to the DVNR on the Star Wars THX laserdiscs). I'd feel a lot safer doing noise reduction in post. Besides, I've captured a section of Hi8 video with the camera's TBC on and off. I used an s-video connection for both but this part of the tape was recorded in the camera's LP mode.

I think it looks better without TBC as the colors look even more washed out.
And I was only interested in deinterlacing still images like the ones above for display purpose. At this point I'm content to have the video stay interlaced. Even something that could resize the image vertically to half size but keep the full horizontal resolution would be good.


If it's one of the best, it should have a switch to shut off signal processing, but keep the TBC. The TBC is to get every row starting on the same column. Without one, each line starts in a random place (within a short range), fuzzing things up. Yeah, you wouldn't want the hardware pretending to clean up your signal.

A TBC wont help a 2nd-generation tape, though. The damage is already done.


I remember an old version of Corel would let you pick a field, then it'd enlarge horizontally. It looked like crap. I haven't looked for the option, since, so I don't know. Don't remember what it was called, probably something to do with deinterlace or remove interlace, or field-something. It might've possibly helped if it would let you resize it yourself, but it insisted on automatic.


On deinterlacing video, I was thinking about doing a temporary copy and picking the frames out of that. I think you'd want to double the framerate, then each field would become a pretty-good looking frame. The deinterlacer's job would be to invent a new matching field, by tracking the previous and following fields, and making a new one that lined up with the current field. Now, I don't know, because its meant to look good in motion, but I'm pretty sure it would look a lot better than a simple resize.

Wish I could tell ya more.