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#83237
Topic
.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83237/action/topic#83237
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"So does keeping the results of failed experiments, and things you know are obsolete but haven't had time to go back and fix."

I have 930 GBs (almost a TB,) and I'm going to need more if I want to finish the ESB and ROTJ X0 projects. In addition to the "failed projects" that you mentioned, I also have a buttload of home movies to finish putting on DVD, and some porn than accidentally made it's way to my hard drive (love those midgets! )

In time, I hope to purchase a 250 or better online in Australia, since it would be less than the price of buying one here and shipping it to Laserman.
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#83228
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83228/action/topic#83228
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Hardware:
Soyo P4S Dragon with onboard C-Media CMI8738 5.1 audio card with optical/coaxial in/out ***Update: now I have two***
2.8 Mhz Pentium 4 ***Update: now I have two***
Memorex DVD +/- X1
Maxtor hard drives (3 160's, 1 250, 1 200 ***Update***)
Dell 1025TM 17-inch flat-screen monitor
Viewsonic 15-inch monitor (12 years old!)
Pioneer CLD-701
Logitech Z-640 5.1 speakers
SBC/Yahoo DSL modem ***Update***
Linksys Wireless G router/switch ***Update***
IOGear PS/2/video/audio KVM switch (for controlling 2 computers with 1 keyboard/mouse/monitor/speakers.) ***Update***

Now I have a render farm.

Current specifications:

The current DVD will be 4x3. When it is complete, I will reformat it for 16x9.

Update: There will be a DVD-5 version and a DVD-9 version as well.

Update : I've sent a hard drive to Laserman, so that he can send me the ANH AVI transfer from the X0 LD player. These are raw uncompressed files from the best possible player we can get our hands on. As such, the corrections I had to make to my own transfer will no longer be necessary (at least, nowhere near to the same extent.) As much as it was good practice to clean up my transfer, it will now be deleted to make way for these newer AVIs. Once I receive the hard drive, it will be relatively easy to prep the files to fit into my existing DVD project. I'm on vacation this month, so it shouldn't be too hard to knock out ANH by February (no promises!)

After that, Laserman and I may have to slow things down a bit, as we have both spent tremendous amounts of cash, as well as wife-collateral, at this point. Bringing ESB and ROTJ to the US is going to require another large expenditure (and my wife doesn't even know about the most recent one yet), so please be patient. We want this as much as you do, but we've had to do a lot of heavy-lifting lately. You are more than welcome to bombard us with thanks and appreciation, and even monetary donations, not with PMs asking for time tables or "can I have a copy when you are done" (or why we are making our own version when others exist. ).

It's coming, and it'll happen, and you guys will be the first to know when it's ready. I promise you this.
Post
#83227
Topic
.: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83227/action/topic#83227
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"I don't see why -- the German DTV or Fox TS captures are far, far better."

True, but is there anyone out there that has all 3 films?

"For some reason (not by watching them) I thought the sides were cropped to fill a 16:9 screen."

Even if that's true, we have to be more concerned with what is in the middle at this point. There's not a whole lot left to us in terms of pristine quality materials.
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#83128
Topic
<strong>The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83128/action/topic#83128
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"Most of the reason the first versoin came out so good is because I tweaked the video as LITTLE as possible..."

Absolutely agreed with you on that point - I want the video as untouched as possible. I prefer frame-by-frame fixes over a "big paint brush" approach.

"that last time I used a Pioneer CLD-59 and a DV camcorder. Since then, I've figured out how to keep the video in sync with a cheap consumer TV capture card"

LOL. Me too. So many coincidences.

"If you apply heavy noise reduction, then of course you can compress the image more - you are effectively 'posterising' the image, so creating larger areas of block colour"

Which is why you didn't like my last transfer.

"zero sparkle artifacts"

Which I spent months removing from the first third of my transfer. God, am I looking forward to getting those X0 files.

"First off, these are LASERDISC copies.. they can only look as good as the source,"

uhm...color-correction?

"syncing a digital rip of the audio to the video would be far more of a pain in the ass and imperfect sync will be more of a bother"

It was tedious work, but Vegas makes this fairly painless. I was able to line up the audio under the video, and adjust the playback rate in small increments until they were synced. The best way was to copy the video and analog audio together so that they were already synced, and then overlay the digital audio onto the analog. Once they were in sync, I removed the analog audio.

"I now realize a PCM rip isn't quite the panacea I first thought.
LaserDisc PCM is sampled at the Red Book rate of 44.1kHz while DVD PCM is 48kHz,
so it would have to be re-sampled as you have stated above. Thanks for pointing that out."

I captured the digital PCM track (my soundcard has digital optical/coaxial input/outputs), and changed the rate digitally when I compiled the MPEG. I had this version on my DVD, as well as a 5.1 version derived from this recording.