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Laserschwert

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#254714
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254714/action/topic#254714
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Originally posted by: Darth Solo
Banthafodder! Must have deleted em by accident.

Empire
and Jedi.

What you planning to do with em?


I guess they just died because of inactivity... thanks for reposting (by the way, the Empire link is a little messed up).

I'm not yet sure what I'll do, I found them browsing the older pages of the thread and noticed I haven't downloaded them yet (you did some nice covers with them, by the way). I guess the first thing will be to fix some of the faces that look REALLY weird... like Han staring in two different directions on the SW-one... creepy!

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#248989
Topic
Preserving the "German" Original Trilogy (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248989/action/topic#248989
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Originally posted by: R2D2
The results of filtering were astounding clear, you can download the latest video here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/35146630/deutsches_intro.mpg.html
(mpeg2-file, 16:9, ac3 2.0 german audio, 100 MB)


Nice one... although it would be better to lock the starfield to the horizontal waving of the crawl. By using just a still of the starfield it kills the illusion a tiny bit (since the starfiled starts waving as soon as the crawls done). But other than that, very nice comp. The next thing would be to get rid of the ghosting on the Lucasfilm-Logo and the "Es war einmal..."-title, although this shouldn't be too hard to accomplish with some level-corrections and a desaturation afterwards. Oh, by the way, I think the Lucasfilm-logo was already in the correct aspect ratio, since it looks stretched when the clip is being scaled to 16:9.

Oh, and could you upload the other two crawls as well? I'm really itching on doing multi-angle crawled, anamorphic versions of the GOUTs.

Post
#248684
Topic
Rebel Assault II and, Jedi Knight Dark Forces II cutscenes
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248684/action/topic#248684
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Back when "Rebel Assault 2" came out I was so thrilled, because the game boasted with having "the first full motion Star Wars material shot since the movies", and I played the game like crazy since it looked really good, and especially in combination with John Williams' score this game really felt like "Star Wars". It was a lot easier to beat though then the first game, since aiming and shooting was as easy as "point and click", so no choppy mouse support as in the first game.

Today games like the "Rogue Squadron" series transported the "Rebel Assault" principles into realtime graphics, which of course is much more exciting than the pre-rendered flight paths of RA. Yet I still think both "Rebel Assault"-games were ground breaking... the first one of course a lot more then II.
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#245270
Topic
LEC games: X-Wing, TIE Fighter...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245270/action/topic#245270
Time
Back then I played both X-Wing and TIE Fighter excessively. The strange thing is, I played with many different controls, like the mouse, a game pad and a joystick. They all had their special feel, although the gamepad was somehow most comfortable. What bothered me was that the button to roll the ship gave a too abrupt switch... it would've been nicer if the control would have had some transition from steering to rolling.
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#245269
Topic
Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245269/action/topic#245269
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I tried TomsMoComp and it does fix the stairsteps partially. I'm not sure if it also kills some detail though.

Another (and muuuuch slower) filter for vertical interpolation is Sangnom, which removes the jaggies almost completely, but causes some artifacts in detail areas.

Unfortunately I am only working with the PAL version, which is already upscaled. If I'd have access to some (jaggy) clips from the NTSC version, I could check if there's a way to somehow recover those fields.
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#245250
Topic
Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245250/action/topic#245250
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Originally posted by: SamS
Originally posted by: Laserschwert
Originally posted by: SamS
Doctor M, from what I understand, TomsMoComp is only for video-based material.


The sad thing is, the new DVDs ARE based on video material.


How do you figure? Obviously they were shot on 24fps 35mm film, and any decent de-interlacer will recognize the flag sequence and properly reconstruct the 2:3 pulldown sequence to produce 60 field per second video (NTSC). A video based DVD would be something like a concert video shot with a 60 frames per second interlaced video camera.


I was talking about the DVD transfer being video-based, since the source for it was the D1-tape that were used for the laserdiscs. Obviously the pulldown wasn't realized as decent as it'd be possible, otherwise you wouldn't have the problem of deinterlacing-artifacts (which are obviously visible in certain scenes). And since some of these "stairsteps" are already visible on the Laserdiscs (I remember this problem being discussed in Zion's old transfer thread), they did already mess up when creating the D1-tape(s).