LeeThorogood

I am no expert but if I had to guess I would say it looks like you've only captured either the top or bottom field for each frame, that's why the images are half the proper height (240 instead of 480) it would also explain the jaggies/aliasing/tearing you are seeing. Or you have somehow captured at double the normal frame rate causing each field to become its own frame... :S Unfortunately I have no experience capturing using VDub or the capture card you have so I don't have any advice on how to fix this. :(

Hopefully someone else will be able to steer you in the right direction! ;)

Many Thanks msycamore. :)

Thanks for looking Moth3r. :)

When you say G-Forces median script do you mean this:

g-force said:

Interleave(source1,source2,source3)
Clense(reduceflicker=false)
SelectEvery(3,1)

I was wondering if anyone still had a copy of the TooT avisynth filter which they could upload for me? I have tried searching the web but all the links I found were dead. :(

Many Thanks in advance!

Lee

I agree with msycamore. If you do one recording where you set the video quality to high and audio to low and then do another but with the quality settings reversed then all you need to do is sync the two video tracks with each other and you can have the best quality video with the best quality audio. :D

The Aluminum Falcon said:

It comes out even earlier worldwide... I honestly don't know why US gets it 4 days later.

I wouldn't say I hate them as a complete package or individual movies (only TMP can be called a film ;)). I certainly don't like them as much as the OT. What I do HATE is Hayden Christiansen especially when he starts to whine and moan like a cry baby toddler!

If I had to pick I would guess I fit in the meh category.

I have to say I think he is right, the Prequels do enrich the OUT, but only because the Prequels are such rubbish films that they eclipse the faults of the OUT and just make you appreciate the OUT that much more!

Also lets do some maths. Mr. Newman says if you hate the prequels that means you hate 3/6 films in the box-set

OK so 3/6 is 50% which according to Mr. Newman means your only a blow-hard fan. :(

But wait! all of my box-sets only have 3 films (you know which ones!), and as I hate 0 of the films in those box-sets that's 0% hate and according to Mr. Newman 0% hate = die-hard fan!

With this in mind and considering how many box-sets of the OT I have, according to Mr. Newman I and allot of others here must be some kind of super die-hard fans! :D

:p to Mr. Newman.

The broadcast versions will always be sharper/more detailed as they were broadcast and captured in native PAL 16:9 (1024x576) where as DJs LD captures are coming from a letter-boxed NTSC 4:3 (640x480) source, which roughly speaking gives the broadcast versions ~37.5% more resolution. That said I was pleasantly surprised by the picture quality of DJs capture! There was some block like noise I could see but this may just be from the H.264 compression...?

As someone who has done a LD preservation of the 97SE myself I am curious to know what AviSynth filters you are using? :)

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

If Lucas hires someone to design something for him, and that person designs it as a term of his employment, then whether or not Lucas designed it, he owns the design.  I'm no fan of Lucas, but in this case I think he has every right to protect the designs that are so integral to his product line.

zombie84 said:

Ah, remember when new Star Wars video releases were exciting?

Anchorhead said:

see you auntie said:

This was directed by Anthony Hemingway in the same manner as Richard Marquand directed Jedi.

Unfortunately, that's true.  Here is an excerpt from an Entertainment Weekly article addressing that very issue.

Lucas, who is also producing and financing, needs reshoots and must do them himself. According to two sources close to the project, Hemingway was hoping to stay on for the redos, but was already committed to direct episodes of David Simon's New Orleans series Treme for HBO. (Lucas wasn't willing to wait.)

Lucasfilm confirms the directorial shift, which FirstShowing.net broke, but denies any conflict with Hemingway, saying <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Lucas and producer Rick McCallum will oversee the reshoot </span>— with Hemingway's approval

With Hemingway's approval.  Sure.

I was wondering if anyone has any recommended AviSynth commands to remove/reduce the amount of dot crawl and dropouts (horizontal black flecks) from a PAL LaserDisc capture?

For the droupouts I've tried using the DeScratch() filter and while I could get it to remove them it caused unwanted side effects where it misinterpreted detail lines for dropouts. Here is the command I was using:

TurnLeft().DeScratch(mindif=20,maxgap=30,maxwidth=1,minlen=20,maxlen=60,maxangle=0,blurlen=8,border=0,keep=0).TurnRight()

RemoveGrain(mode=0,modeU=2,modeV=2).
RemoveGrain(mode=0,modeU=2,modeV=2)
FFT3DFilter(sigma=3,sigma2=3*1.67,sigma3=3*3.3,sigma4=3*6.67,plane=3,bt=3,bw=16,bh=16,ow=8,oh=8,sharpen=0.3,smin=2-,smax=1000,wintype=2,kratio=1,measure=true,interlaced=false,degrid=1)

Anchorhead said:

I agree.  It's not about fixing mistakes at all.  The issue is that the Humdinger is just proof that Lucas treats his entire fan base the same - him first, them second.  Now the SE lovers are about to get the same treatment us OOT lovers received - the least amount of effort possible.  A previous release ported to new a format and then advertised as new release.  Shameful.

I hope you enjoy the Technicolor discs and find them worth the newsgroup subscription! ;) Just so you know I don't plan to re-author the '97SE DVDs but simply release a set of fixed audio files and instructions on how to apply the fixed audio to the DVD ISO files.

If you have the hard drive space you could download the '97SE DVDs now and then just download the audio fix files when I release them. Just a thought :)

Loconut said:

How do "you other Mac users" play it? Just by throwing the .m2ts into VLC?

DaiKamonohashi said:

Harmy said:

DaiKamonohashi said:

Hi there, first post and all that, hello!

 

I'm very excited to see this reconstruction but I've hit a small snag.  Every time I try and extract the .rar files, it gets right up to the very end and then asks me to "Please locate the file named sw-deed-part1.r00."  Has this happened to anyone else?  Help? D: 

That's weird. What are you using to unrar?

 

Stuffit Expander.  Is there something else I could try?  Or a different set of links?

I finished watching Jedi through and I am happy that there's nothing major I have missed. :D Following on from that I have started uploading the NTSC disc of Jedi to the newsgroup. The PAL disc should follow not long after. ;)

Looking Very Good Harmy! :D

Uploading now if its done before I go bed I will PM you the link otherwise I will PM you first thing in the morning. :)

Where is the best place to upload to?

Can I get a PM for the HD version please. :)

Okay it's looking good for Jedi I am about half way through watching the latest version and I am happy with it thus far! Once I am done I will post back to let you all know. Assuming I don't find any problems expect an upload early next week. :)

Guess what I'm watching right now. ;)

Chewtobacca said:

LeeThorogood said:

Most likely the GOUT disc for ESB has a darker picture then the GOUT disc of SW as I used the same colour settings for Empire as I did the revised SW disc. :)

Oh, I see!  The same color settings are being applied to each film.  Did you not adjust them between the first and second versions of SW though?  I seem to remember that you said something to that effect earlier on.  I can fully understand that you don't want to re-do it though.  Overall it looks great. :)