Knightmessenger

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Post: #240530
Topic: Info: 'Song of the South' to be broadcast on BBC Two!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240530/action/topic#240530
Time: 1-Sep-2006 8:19 PM

Do you know how it compares to the laserdiscs or fan made dvd's.

Post: #240524
Topic: Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240524/action/topic#240524
Time: 1-Sep-2006 8:00 PM

Darth Editous, what do you mean by wobbly cuts on the '97 laserdisc?

Post: #240522
Topic: Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240522/action/topic#240522
Time: 1-Sep-2006 7:52 PM

What is meant by color space and lattitude issues? And how is it different on analog video? What is the HDR process that's used to get a better exposure?

Post: #240511
Topic: Where Does it Actually Say that the DVDs are *NOT* Anamorphic?!?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240511/action/topic#240511
Time: 1-Sep-2006 7:25 PM

To answer the thread title: On the back cover of the dvd's themselves. I'm actually surprised Lucasfilm would be so upfront about it. Someone who got the dvd's early posted photos of the cases. It says "4x3 Letterbox Format."

Post: #240500
Topic: Selectable crawl on new DVD? Or just the old one?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240500/action/topic#240500
Time: 1-Sep-2006 6:49 PM

Why should "rebel" in the second paragraph be capitalized. It doesn't start a sentence like the first paragraph and should not need to match, right?

Post: #239361
Topic: Episode IV: What Has Changed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239361/action/topic#239361
Time: 29-Aug-2006 2:17 AM

I almost got the feeling the person who wrote it wasn't an SE gusher and may have actually been glad to see the originals. Really well done. Does that fact Luke's green saber wasn't covered confirm it was a glitch?

Post: #239069
Topic: Where Does it Actually Say that the DVDs are *NOT* Anamorphic?!?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239069/action/topic#239069
Time: 28-Aug-2006 2:57 AM

I'm not sure about the menus. Certain dvd menus appear letterboxed on my computer screen but are 4:3 on a tv, even a widescreen one. Or is there something else you know about the menus.
What's sad is that it seems there are a lot of people at Lucasfilm who want the original films restored but "they must obey their master." Sansweet at the comic con basically admitted this when he said something about wanting to do something special for the fans (with what was to be individual releases of just the 2004 versions) and this is the most Lucas would permit.
The official site has screenshot comparisons of the '77/'04 versions. I know they're at a small size but the original screens look rather good against the new ones.

Post: #238803
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238803/action/topic#238803
Time: 27-Aug-2006 12:53 AM

"The Star Wars restoration process began with a 10-bit RGB high-definition scan of the original negatives. This data was then used by a team at Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic to work with George Lucas to do some significant color correction to the movies. This color-timed data was then transferred to Lowry Digital hard drives, to begin the massive clean-up effort."

So Lucas and ILM are to blame for the horrible colors. I guess Lowry did a good job removing scratches. But that is very stupid to do it that way. You get the highest quality scan, then you remove whatever picture flaws or dirt. The LAST thing to do is color correction. If you color correct a film covered in dirt, then wouldn't there be a risk of the color being oversaturated and unbalenced when the dirt is removed? Maybe that's what went wrong.
To see how Star Wars looked before THX, look at the official screenshots page for the Japanese Special Collection.
I hope the people who originally posted these shots don't mind me reposting them for comparison.

Film example
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X0 newsletter (Judge it not by its size but by color & contrast)

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Post: #238362
Topic: O-OT Star Wars "Bonus Disc" menus (www.starwars.com)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238362/action/topic#238362
Time: 25-Aug-2006 1:07 AM

I agree with the 4/10 video rating for '04. Resolution is only one factor of picture quality. I thought it was strange that the audio was rated so good, then I remembered the force fanfare is not missing on the French language track.

Post: #238184
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238184/action/topic#238184
Time: 24-Aug-2006 1:37 PM

No, I mean I had rendered the avi file with the slow motion and it had looked good. The "before" is a reference to the screenshot which is from a rendered final avi video file. I burned that video file to a dvd.
The screenshot labeled "resample disabled" shows how it originally looked, without any interpolation. When I rendered the video together, the slow motion clip turned out to look like the "before" screen. Watching the dvd, I was happy with how that looked. About a year later, the same rendering process made the final edited avi file look like the "after" screen. Watching slow motion clips rendered since then has looked a lot worse.

Post: #238035
Topic: Star Wars isn't the only one...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238035/action/topic#238035
Time: 24-Aug-2006 2:16 AM

I believe the only difference between 1.1 and 1.2 is with gameshark codes. Would someone be able to make a complete uncompressed audio file of the original Fire Temple music. They would have to capture from the gold cartridge (or a 1.0 grey) but it isn't hard at all to get the music isolated.

Go to a place where there aren't background sounds. (This can be done in the first room if you kill the bat enemies and look in the right direction)
Play the song of Storms (this will restart the music from the beginning after the rain stops)
Before the music restarts, switch to first person mode (This will prevent Link from adjusting his equipment)
Capture and you have an isolated track!!

Post: #238034
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238034/action/topic#238034
Time: 24-Aug-2006 2:00 AM

Well, watching it in motion, it looked fine to me at the "before" stage. Is there a way to give a computer a more powerful CPU? What's PATA and SATA with hard drives?

Post: #238009
Topic: Good comparison website
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238009/action/topic#238009
Time: 24-Aug-2006 12:55 AM

Luke's scream was actually a slightly raised pitch of Palpitine from Jedi. It has the exact same peaks, creshendos or whatever.

Post: #237999
Topic: O-OT Star Wars "Bonus Disc" menus (www.starwars.com)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237999/action/topic#237999
Time: 24-Aug-2006 12:33 AM

Someone should post the Rowman menus and these side by side.

"Hmmm, I wonder... Oh well."
-The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

Post: #237673
Topic: Tell imdb.com to separate their rating system for theatrical and altered versions of movies.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237673/action/topic#237673
Time: 23-Aug-2006 2:03 AM

The "alternate versions" link just has a description. There is no way to give seperate ratings for each version of a film. I think it's a great idea. I'd love to see how each version of "Legend" rates. I gave it an 8 because I was voting for the director's cut.

Just saw these
http://www.imdb.com/poll/results/2006-05-11
http://www.imdb.com/poll/results/2005-09-23
http://www.imdb.com/poll/results/2004-12-21

Two polls dealt with which order to see all Star Wars movies and they were landslides for different results.

Post: #237663
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237663/action/topic#237663
Time: 23-Aug-2006 1:10 AM

I believe it's less than half speed. It's not a round number as I just stretched the video as I saw fit. However, all the screencaps are at the same speed.

By the way, the problem I wrote about dropped frames, I think it's because some of the rough parts of the video are just too taxing on my computer's cpu. 90% of the time they occur at tape scratches or vcr edits with the fuzzy rainbow line. No drop if I record the tape to a dvd recorder, then capture from the dvd.

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Post: #237166
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237166/action/topic#237166
Time: 21-Aug-2006 3:15 AM

Lower field first. I believe deinterlace method is set to none. The thing is why is it interpolating more frames now (middle) than it was before (top)?

I've actually had that signature for a while. I first posted it under X0 logo design but I don't know how to make t-shirt designs. I guess it does leave the question, when will the EU book come out that lists what every clone order # does?

Post: #237031
Topic: Video Game Speed Runs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237031/action/topic#237031
Time: 20-Aug-2006 3:19 PM

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6250606584021098718&q=zelda&hl=en

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The person who did this (under 5 hours) has a website called "The Hylia." He used a gold cart so the music heard in the Fire Temple is the original, with the chanting.

Post: #237023
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237023/action/topic#237023
Time: 20-Aug-2006 2:09 PM

The interlacing is normal. But notice how the middle frame shows the player in more than two positions. That's why I put the other ones up for reference. I did try playing around with the interlace settings and that's actually when the trouble started. Don't know if their related though. The thing is the video is interlaced to begin with so encoding it progressive wouldn't help. I don't know how to properly de-interlace (not even those jpeg screencaps) and I've heard that it often makes the video worse unless you do it absolutely right.

Post: #237015
Topic: Info Wanted: Do I Have The Best OT Preservation DVDs out there?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237015/action/topic#237015
Time: 20-Aug-2006 1:54 PM

It's really personal preference. Some people don't want to combine the dvd unaltered footage with laserdisc, others don't mind. Personally, I wouldn't want something sourced from the dvd's at all because the colors and brightness levels are so screwed up, I don't think the original colors can be completely recovered.

Post: #237010
Topic: Been doing some thinking... OT box set
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237010/action/topic#237010
Time: 20-Aug-2006 1:47 PM

I've been thinking the exact same thing. So in one respect, I belive the September release will be the only way to get the original movies by themselves. To do something like restore the movies and compile a ton of other footage for new documentaries of all six films will take a lot of time. Lucas just wants to stop bootlegs for the time being. But then again, if he were to say "The original movies will be restored and included in a 2007 box set," no one would be complaining. Most would say take your time and get it right. I think Lucas is doing the same thing as Blade Runner, but not disclosing it. Then again the '97 BR dvd is anamorphic.

Post: #237006
Topic: Star Wars isn't the only one...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237006/action/topic#237006
Time: 20-Aug-2006 1:31 PM

I love the sound the guards make though. I have the official soundtrack and the Fire Temple music fades out early before the chanting. It is only 42 seconds when the other temple music play for nearly 2 minutes. I just wanted to use an SAT word: truncated or should I have said hackneyed.

Here's what's really weird. I wanted to capture the N64 game to my computer and the capture device picked up no video or audio signal. The gamecube has always captured normally. I recorded some of the N64 game to a vhs tape and then tried to capture the tape. That didn't work either, no a/v signal. What's up with that? Why can I capture from the gamecube but not the N64?

Post: #236985
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236985/action/topic#236985
Time: 20-Aug-2006 11:04 AM

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Although the first two shots are motion blurred, the second one looks a lot worse, especially in motion. The first one has a soft blur that looks natural for the slow motion but the second plays very jarring and garbled. These are from rendered avi files. The capture source is a vhs tape. As far as I know the vegas settings are the same so I don't know how the resampling got worse.

Post: #236983
Topic: Good capture card?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236983/action/topic#236983
Time: 20-Aug-2006 10:33 AM

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If this works, see if you can guess which video camera format I used for all but the last one (it's from a different video camera). All used an s-video cable.

Post: #236978
Topic: Star Wars film versions and best DVD sources
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236978/action/topic#236978
Time: 20-Aug-2006 9:26 AM

That beta tape looks like the colors from the '04 dvds.