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Jonno

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#1095879
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Info: 'The Star Wars Archive' - will myspleen accept them? (Released)
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Plastic Galaxy is older, but Elstree 1976 only became commercially available last November.

That it’s not for your own profit doesn’t alter the fact that you’d be harming the makers’ own opportunities to profit from their work (and before we get into daft comparisons, this isn’t Disney we’re talking about here: just an independent filmmaker with a small production company).

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#1095124
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Info: article on Empire Strikes Back audio/70mm Dolby mix
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yotsuya said:

So the 1993 mix found in DE, Faces, and GOUT would have been the first 5.0 mix released followed in 1997 by the 5.0 Cinema DTS and 5.1 Dolby Digital for the SE.

Are you suggesting that the 1993 mix was constructed with stereo surrounds? Because it certainly wasn’t (and couldn’t have been) presented that way - those releases were matrixed 4.0 PCM all the way.

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#1094347
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Need help making Despecialized Edition DVDs - MKVs
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What size are your iso files? If they’re around the 7-8GB mark, they’re AVCHD images, i.e. HD video designed to be burned to (and played from) a dual-layer DVD-R disc.

(The AVCHD format uses the same file structure as Blu-rays - hence the BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders - but at a size that means you don’t need a Blu-ray burner or disc. You do, however, need an AVCHD-compatible Blu-ray player to view the result).

That all being the case, your Superdrive should be able to burn those iso files to dual-layer blank DVDs. I don’t know Mac software, though - presumably Toast (or whatever) can open an iso to burn to disc? If it can do that, it doesn’t need to know what the actual content is - it’ll just burn those bits.

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#1085682
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RoboCop Laserdisc or DVD?
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Generally speaking, if a well-handled DVD transfer from the same source is available, it will look a great deal better than the equivalent laserdisc. Other opinions are available here, but IMO it’s especially true of the Criterion Robocop - a marvellous picture for a non-anamorphic transfer.

Soundwise, you do want the uncompressed PCM from the laserdisc. Terrific track.

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#1076766
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Alien 1979 - 35mm scan opportunity (a WIP)
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RU.08 said:

Check out the soundtracks in the photos - they all look like glorious mono… except the first one that looks to be stereo! We might end up with quite a funky soundtrack. 😄

Those look like stereo optical tracks to me - two stripes. They probably look like similar channels in those sections because they’re dialogue scenes, i.e. common information to be directed to the centre by the decoder.

I’m certainly not aware of the existence of a mono Alien mix, anyway…

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#1071377
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Need help making Despecialized Edition DVDs - MKVs
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Yes, that’s the folder structure for a Blu-ray (or AVCHD) disc.

The next step is to make sure both BDMV and CERTIFICATE are in a main folder (make one if you need to, e.g. ‘Star Wars DeEd’).

When you open ImgBurn, use the ‘Write files/folders to disc’ option. Then select that main folder to burn - ImgBurn will know from the structure that it’s meant to be a playable disc.

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#1071225
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Need help making Despecialized Edition DVDs - MKVs
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If you want to keep it HD, and use your Xbox One for playback, you’ll need to make a properly formatted Blu-ray or AVCHD disc.

Load the MKV into tsMuxeR and have it build you a Blu-ray or AVCHD folder, then burn that to a disc (BD-R or DL DVD-R respectively) with ImgBurn.

If you want to use your DVD player (and it doesn’t have MKV or AVCHD support) you’ll need to completely rebuild each film as a standard def DVD. Last I checked, ConvertXtoDVD was a decent all-in-one tool for doing that.

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#1069269
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The Random <em>Star Wars</em> Pics &amp; GIFs Thread
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The film could have just as easily featured a young man with prodigious force powers - they decided to make the character female.

The film could have just as easily featured an extended apprenticeship for Rey - they decided to give her prodigious force powers.

These decisions are unrelated, and attempts to conflate them just expose how hard it is for you to deal with the first one.

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#1068387
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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I guess you’ll see for yourself, but after they lose the armour, Luke keeps the belt over his desert gear. Presumably for the sole reason that he’d have a grappling hook to swing later, but you can justify it as the farmboy finding all the gadgets pretty neat. That said, Han keeps his too:

 photo han luke.jpg

Though it seems only Luke’s stormtrooper belt had the hook in the first place. Here’s the same guy before getting jumped:

 photo stormtrooper.jpg