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#136851
Topic
.: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/136851/action/topic#136851
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Originally posted by: Grinder
How much extra work would it be to undo the 3:2 pulldown for an X0 PAL version?


That is Step One of any decent preservation project. If Laserman's talking about anything else but (e.g. colour, detail, etc.), then that's already done. There is no point in doing ANYTHING to a given cap until you've IVTC'ed. Even Dr. Gonzo's version of several years ago was IVTC'ed.

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#133769
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Help: looking for Cowclops v.2 DVD Covers? Summary thread?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/133769/action/topic#133769
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OK, it turns out Rikter has sent me the artwork directly by e-mail, so I've got everything now. Thanks, Rikter! And thanks bad_karma for offering.

Just for future reference, to download only certain parts of a torrent, first load the torrent, then get the file details up (how you do that is client-specific; I'm using Azureus). In Azureus, at least, you can then pick which files to fast-track, and which to not download at all. Pretty cool. Didn't know you could do that...
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#133762
Topic
Help: looking for Cowclops v.2 DVD Covers? Summary thread?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/133762/action/topic#133762
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Thanks, bad_karma!

My e-mail is in my .sig -- I'm sorta boycotting PM here, since there's that lame limit. Sort of a necessary boycott, actually, because I find myself constantly on the limit...

I do as little as possible with torrents, because I've never had great luck with them. But I'll see if I can't figure out how to grab just the files I want. Please don't let that stop you e-mailing, though! I'd rather get them twice than not at all.

Thanks again!
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#133653
Topic
Help: looking for Cowclops v.2 DVD Covers? Summary thread?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/133653/action/topic#133653
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There is no way I’m searching through 1326 posts on 54 pages with the el-crappo Search function on this board:

Are there any “official” covers for CC v.2? (If so, where are they?)

There was some talk in another thread about a month ago about putting a “summary post” at the beginning of a thread to keep all the up-to-date info in one place. For the most part, that apparently hasn’t happened. It certainly hasn’t happened in the huge "Definitive Collection DVD Covers " thread, where I would assume there are some good posts in along with the sometimes-off-topic chit-chat.

However, I am quite willing to let this thread become something like that: let me know what to rename this thread, and post a bunch of on-topic, relevant links, and I’ll try to keep this updated.

Or just let me know where the CC v.2 covers are, and let this puppy die.

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#133607
Topic
Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/133607/action/topic#133607
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I did some more work tonight:

- made thumbnails of all the scans (16)
- made a "spotting guide" to show how the scans go together
- burned a disc with the scans, thumbs, and guide for segaflip (will be in the mail tomorrow)
- burned a disc with the raw & processed AC-3 files for MeBeJedi
- packaged up the LDs and the AC-3 disc (will be in the mail tomorrow)

My part of the project is coming to an end. Hope you all will think I've done a good job. Also hope I'll qualify for a copy of the finished product!
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#132815
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Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132815/action/topic#132815
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I don't mind providing the scans -- several of you have asked, either with posts here or direct e-mail -- but I'm not in charge of this here project. Reverend Beastly started this thing and has been moving it along, so I think it's up to him whether scans get released into the wild -- especially directly from me.

Reading back over the thread, it seems pretty likely RB will approve. But I'd like to have it made explicit before sending anything anywhere.

Assuming he does approve, though, how you want this stuff sent? It's about 699MB. I'd rather not torrent it, and I have no experience with posting big-ass binaries to Usenet (no stranger to downloads of big-ass binaries, of course) nor any other download-this-huge-file system.

In fact, I'd be happiest sending out some CDs in the mail. I think I can probably knock off a few copies and stick 'em in envelopes faster than I can figure out PowerPost and wait for that to finish.

So, if you're interested in a copy, please send me some e-mail (click below) and let me know your address. Serious enquiries only, please! These files are not ready-to-print DVD covers; they're huge, overlapping raw scans. You will need to know a fair amount about Photoshop (I'd imagine layers, Gaussian blurring, resizing and cropping will be involved) and some time and effort will have to be invested to get them ready for DVD coverization.
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#132516
Topic
Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132516/action/topic#132516
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Done the scanning. I scanned the three-panel fold-out insert, plus the front and back of the box. I found that at 300dpi, I still got weird moire-induced banding. So I scanned everything at 400dpi. Way overkill, but whatever. I saved each of the 15 or so scans it took (lots of overlap, for easy stitching) as PNG files.

While I have a captive audience, let me remind you all once again that JPG is crap at things like white text on a black background; it was designed for photos, and photos are really the only thing JPG is good for. For anything else (text, solid colours, line art -- in other words, a lot of the stuff that ends up on a DVD cover) a compressed-but-lossless file format like PNG or TIF is much better. And, in some instances, a lossless format can actually be smaller than a lossless JPG of the same thing!

Anyway. Here is a tiny sample of one of the scans:
http://www3.telus.net/11811/forums/ot_fright_sample.jpg
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#131545
Topic
Info: PAL LBX: there's another one... a '78 UK release of a PAL LBX LD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/131545/action/topic#131545
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Originally posted by: Grinder
Originally posted by: Karyudo
Some of this is almost certainly moot. Any discs released earlier than the THX (Faces) trilogy are bound to sorta suck, video-wise. I mean, there are quite a few pre-Faces NTSC letterbox discs, and nobody's using those because they're just not as good as the later stuff.


I believe the Def. Col. is also pre-Faces... and nearly everyone uses that one.


The DC is of exactly the same vintage as Faces. The transfer is identical. If the master tape still existed, it'd probably have 'Definitive Collection / Faces Master Tape' written on it in Sharpie.

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#131395
Topic
Info: PAL LBX: there's another one... a '78 UK release of a PAL LBX LD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/131395/action/topic#131395
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Some of this is almost certainly moot. Any discs released earlier than the THX (Faces) trilogy are bound to sorta suck, video-wise. I mean, there are quite a few pre-Faces NTSC letterbox discs, and nobody's using those because they're just not as good as the later stuff.

Audio-wise, it of course doesn't matter if the video is fullscreen [sic] or widescreen.
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#130995
Topic
Info: The Frighteners - Signature Collection laserdisc preservation thread
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130995/action/topic#130995
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My brief progress report:

- all three sides of the film capped as DD-WAV and converted to AC-3
- no errors were reported in the conversion—yee-haw
- the doc isn't in AC-3, so I haven't capped it
- have yet to do some scans (I let my parents borrow my scanner for some eBay stuff...)
- everything should easily fit on a DVD-R