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#256608
Topic
Paint Wars: A New Hope
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256608/action/topic#256608
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ZigFried: You will be much, much happier if you sort out how to make PNG your native format, rather than BMP. Right now, most of what you are storing on your hard drive is completely unnecessary!

Don't think of PNG as being "compressed"; think of it as being "efficient"! There is absolutely NO quality difference between BMP and PNG. Just that PNG is about 50 times smaller for the sort of images you're creating. You say that you've got about 140 MB on your drive as BMP. Well, as PNG, those images would look exactly the same, but take up only about 3 MB!

PNG is not like JPG, which makes your type of artwork look terrible when compressed. JPG is perfect for compressing photos, but it's not at all good for cartoon-like art like yours. PNG is good at storing your type of artwork.

I don't know what program you're using to create your images, but surely it can handle PNG as a native format? As I mentioned, even MS Paint in WinXP SP2 can use PNG in the same way it uses BMP. So it should be very easy to switch!

BTW, I showed your work to my wife, who isn't a big SW fan like I am, but who has nevertheless seen all six films. She laughed, and said your work is "really cute!" So you've got at least one fan outside the usual die-hards on this forum...

Keep up the excellent work!
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#256556
Topic
Paint Wars: A New Hope
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256556/action/topic#256556
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Originally posted by: ZigFried
I've drawn over 100 images! The folder I keep the drawings in is already over 140 MB!


The answer to that is PNG! The version of Microsoft's free Paint accessory that comes with Windows XP SP2 can save images as PNG. Same exact quality as BMP, but losslessly compressed to approximately 1/50th the original size...

Post
#256249
Topic
Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256249/action/topic#256249
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Originally posted by: s7en
Now this is more like it. Someones posted the original H264 version at alt.binaries.hdtv.repost

"Titel...............................: Star.Wars.Episode.4.Eine.Neue.Hoffnung.HDTV.1080i.H264.German.AC3.DL
Erscheinungsdatum...................: 1977
Format (MPEG 4,H.264/AVC)...........: MKV / Mpeg4 AVC
Codec...............................: H264
Formatinfos (Aufloesung/FPS/etc. )..: 1920x1080 interlaced / 25 FPS
Source..............................: 1080i H264 TS / AC3 German : PAL DVD
Soundformat.........................: AC3 Dolby Digital 5.1 / 2.0
Videobitrate........................: 12336 Kbps Average
Audiobitrate........................: 448 kbps
FSK.................................: 12
Sprachen............................: German / English
Untertitel..........................: -
Spieldauer..........................: 1H 59Min 37Sec"

And Karyudo's right about the filesize, this one's less than half size of the MPG2 recode version.


It looks like the point of this repost was to include German 5.1 audio from the DVD. For that, the poster's used MKV, which allows multiple audio tracks. Is that the only change -- packaging? In other words, is the video stream unaltered, just remuxed?

Post
#256161
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256161/action/topic#256161
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Originally posted by: netgurucr
Zion, MeBeJedi, and Laserman: Where is my money? I want it back in my PayPal account asap!


HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously, I think this is silly, asking for one's money back from a donation. If there were goods promised (and there weren't), then maybe. But a donation? Forget it.
Post
#255110
Topic
Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255110/action/topic#255110
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Originally posted by: Laserschwert
the way, make JPEGs, then the upload won't take that long ;-)


NOOOOO!!!

Whatever you do, do not -- I repeat: DO NOT -- make these things JPGs. The JPEG format was not designed for big blocks of solid colours, and will actually look worse and increase the size of the file over PNG.

PNG is lossless, but compressed, which will give you exactly what is put in (unlike JPG), and will be nice and small. Line art like yours will compress to a huge degree.

The best idea is to convert to PNG before uploading. For example, the title card graphic you posted is just 23kB as lossless PNG. It is impossible to create a JPG with that quality and that size. BMP is a terrible choice for uploading, because it is uncompressed. Each picture would probably be about a MB, I'd guess? Boo...



Post
#254734
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254734/action/topic#254734
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The people netgurucr should be demanding a refund from are the fine folks at LFL, who were happy to take money offa fans in 2004, 2005, and now 2006 for the same lame product, and who still haven't done anything better on the OUT than their 11-year-old LD transfer.

At least the X0 Project is doing good work, however slowly.
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#253793
Topic
Ghosting problem
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/253793/action/topic#253793
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Originally posted by: Byakko
Is the Pioneer LD-V8000 that good? How come it doesn't get more recommendations around here then?


Because most people assume newer=better. The LD-V8000 is an industrial player, so no fancy-ass frame stores, etc., and no digital NR. Its quality comes from its distinct lack of integrated circuits and digital futzing. Drawbacks include single side play only, weight (heavy), age (old) and looks (ugl... uh... 'industrial'). But a very nice picture. How do I know? 'Cause I have one. Want to buy it? I don't need it, now that I have a PAL/NTSC player instead.

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#253024
Topic
The Puggo Edition - webpage and screenshots (Super 8 transfers - Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/253024/action/topic#253024
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Originally posted by: THX
Please don't do what Karyudo said later (take frame-length chunks of audio out here and there).


I was thinking more about the ends of reels, etc., where there will inevitable differences in the number of frames. Don't worry: I wasn't advocating chopping audio out of musical cues, etc.!

Still, I'd rather have 1/24th of a second of near-silence missing, rather than some duplicated or blended frame inserted. Not ideal either way, but maybe better?

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#252978
Topic
The Puggo Edition - webpage and screenshots (Super 8 transfers - Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252978/action/topic#252978
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I would assume that since the source material was 24 fps, transferring to Super8 would have to be 24 fps. Otherwise it would be jerky as hell. I think many (all?) Super8 cameras might have been 18 fps, though.

As for editing and making MPEG-2, I'd be very careful to find out beforehand exactly what Vegas does in order to make DVD-spec video. Does it internally render 29.97 fps, and encode as such, or will it pass true 23.976 fps and let TMPEGEnc add flags?

I'm more a video than audio guy, so my vote would be to subtly tweak the audio to match the frame-accurate video. I think you open a whole new can of worms by trying to sync audio and video by duplicating film frames. In my opinion, you'd be better off to take frame-length chunks of audio out here and there, to match the video.

Also, keep in mind that 24 fps is not 23.976 fps is (probably) not 23.98 fps -- those differences right there may be enough to make the audio drift!
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#252899
Topic
The Puggo Edition - webpage and screenshots (Super 8 transfers - Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252899/action/topic#252899
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Pulldown's way easier than that: just make your AVI 23.976 fps, encode to DVD-spec MPEG-2 at that framerate, and then insert the pulldown flags (23.976 fps to 29.97 fps) with 'pulldown.exe' or some other flag-adding tool. Done!

If you're sending raw copies to people, I'd like to see the X0 Project get one before pretty much anyone else. I'd love to have one, but it'd be sorta useless in my hands...
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#252546
Topic
The originaltrilogy.com acronym buster
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252546/action/topic#252546
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Originally posted by: THX
Originally posted by: Karyudo
I'd agree that with acute accents, you'd get the "ay" sound going. But as written -- that is, without any accents -- then "seen" is right. Innit? I'm not sure I get the logic of applying French pronunciation to English spellings of words...


But on the face of it, it's not clear that "-cine" (no accents) is an English and not a French spelling. It's constructed like a French word, so for me the natural instinct (natural after four years of French in high school, that is) was to pronounce it like a French word. Lots of French words end in "e" with no accent, so there's no reason to assume it's been bastardized.

And if I did assume it had an English pronunciation? "Tel-schwa-sign". French pronunciation with a missing e-acute? "Tel-schwa-seen-ay".

Never in a million years would my first inclination be "tellisini", since that's just kooky. Correct, perhaps, but goofy as all hell. Who pronounces a final "ine" as "ini"?


schwa.


That's the sound the doors make on Star Trek, right??

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#252349
Topic
The originaltrilogy.com acronym buster
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252349/action/topic#252349
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TIK.

From what I've read, that's the very first word, in Proto Indo-European. All other words in all other PIE-based languages have that as a base. Things to note about that word:

1. short;
2. no "i" sound at the end.

Hence "tel-schwa-seen", as I've been saying...

(BTW, "tele" is also from Greek, meaning "distance". All the good compounds are from Greek or Latin...)