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#78080
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/78080/action/topic#78080
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Wow...maybe I should just give up altogether? Heaven forbid i should make each frame as presentable as possible. Hell, there are hundreds of glitchs in the transfer that aren't readily "visible", yet I went and fixed them for a better overall picture. I guess I should put those back too? Not only that, but I should probably go back and put in some film grain.

And let's not even think about adjusting the brightness/contrast, etc. If we can't get it exactly to the "original theatrical print", then why bother, right?!?

"I will be fixing the white saber shots in my version."

As will I.
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#78050
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Dark Empire Collection - OT LD to DVD set (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/78050/action/topic#78050
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"Is there someway to deal with this with a during the capture process?"

Yes, but it's not a good idea to attempt to compensate for bad video during the capture process, because if you over-compensate, you are stuck with it. A calibrated capture gives you a much better base to work on, and video-editing software allows you to make any non-permanent change to test various settings.
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#78043
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Thought on de-SE'ing the DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/78043/action/topic#78043
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Actually, with the Combustion software, I could "undo" what Lucas did, which essentially was cutting and pasting Han in a difference section of the frame. It would be quite easy, in fact. The benefit would be that such a fix would use the high-quality (although generally miscolored) video of the DVD. In Vegas, I can overlay the DVD video onto the LD video, to make sure Han is sitting precisely where he belongs (and yes, as Laserman can attest to, Greedo's shot can be edited out as well. )

I'll have to borrow my father-in-law's DVDs and try it out.
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#78009
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PCM to 5.1
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/78009/action/topic#78009
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seeing as mebe created a 5.1 some time ago from his captured PCM track, I thought I'd ask the obvious.

how did you seperate the captured stereo PCM into the seperate dolby channels? particularly for the center dialogue channel? was this done using vegas or something?

I ask because I think splicing and mixing the new 5.1DVD ac3 in relation to the original stuff might be too much work, but it doesn't mean I can't pinch elements of it. however if we can take the PCM, and turn it into at least a reasonable surround track AC3 with a seperate dialogue centre channel that would be a big improvement."

2.0 to 5.1 Pro-logic.

Vegas was used simply to recombine the 5 WAVs into an AC3 file.

Here's a test I did, taking the Jaws AC3 file and panning some of the sounds from one speaker to another. It's subtle, but it's there (again, unless you have a 5.1 system, don't bother.)

I was working on a similar file, where all the speakers rotated around in circles, but I apparently never finished it, and deleted the files. Maybe I'll redo it tonight. It was pretty cool at the time.
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#77959
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***The "official" Screenshots feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77959/action/topic#77959
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"but if the brightness/contrast were set wrong when the capture was recorded, it won't truly represent the source laserdisc. If you play the disc itself on a properly calibrated TV, are these lines visible then? Some adjustment may be required to get a good "grey scale" - if the contrast is set too high then you lose the division between very light grey and white."

Agreed. If your own equipment isn't calibrated, then there's no telling how it's going to look on other people's displays. That being said, most other people's displays aren't calibrated either, but in that case, they can't blame the bad picture on you.
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#77958
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77958/action/topic#77958
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Actually, that's the extent to which I'm going on them (and yes, you found every single one. Here's a cookie http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/cookie-ch.jpg )

As you can see from a frame-by-frame viewing, the "blade" changes color and shape quite often. The first pic you found (the bottom of the above list), was the only one that is a composite of several parts (and the worst quality, in my opinion). The others are simple cut&paste jobs which were resized and rotated to match the outline of the original blade. The last three pics suffered from the "Obi-wan" syndrome, where the tip was lit, but the unlit shaft was visible, so I tried to cover the shaft as much as possible.

Anyways, it's hardly noticeable at regular play speed (since they are only a frame in duration), but I may go ahead and leave them as such. I was just wondering if I was going to get a "Purist" backlash (is DanielB reading this? ), but since the fixes involved original lightsaber effects, it didn't seem like such a bad idea to me. (I intend to do this for Obi-wan's and Vader's lightsabers as well.)
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#77913
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77913/action/topic#77913
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No

There are five "fixes". I'll post the specific frames later this evening, after people have had a chance to look it over.

In other news, I just found out that Vegas has been recreating the actual 2-3 pulldown in the MPEG stream, rather than just setting the 2-3 flags. This means that my MPEG has been 29.976, versus 23.976. When I encoded this lightsaber sequence using both methods, there was a 3 Mb difference for an 18 second segment. That's a pretty big difference when spread out over the entire film.

Long story short, I can safely lower the compression level of my MPEG, without increasing the size.
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#77905
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77905/action/topic#77905
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"But I can promise you that "close the blast door" will NOT be in my version."

I would like to hear the original line, but it sounds like the DVD version doesn't sound very good (out of place), kinda like C3PO's "tractor beam" line.

"I considered adding the lightsaber extend/retracts at the stop frames (which I've adjusted for position), but at this time, I'm leaving them as it is. As a rule, I try to do as little as I possibly can, and if it still bothers me a month later, then I'll go back. The lightsaber extends are in the "we'll look at it again later" category."

That would be interesting. I may have to try that myself. While we're on the topic of lightsabers, can you see where I "fixed" the lightsabers in this sequence?. It was just an experiment, and I curious to see what people think about it.
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#77902
Topic
PCM to 5.1
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77902/action/topic#77902
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Graphedit: to act as the Pro-Logic II decoder and create a multichannel WAV
Hexedit: to adjust the hexadecimal values in the WAV
BeSweet: to split the WAV into 6 separate WAV files (L,R,C,SL,SR, although LFE effects were merged into the other 5 WAVs)
Vegas: to compile the 5 WAVs into an AC3 file

Certainly not your typical "5.1 LD remix".
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#77628
Topic
Dark Empire Collection - OT LD to DVD set (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77628/action/topic#77628
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"I'm more than disappointed in this process. Deinterlacing is presenting noticeable image distortion especially if the frame has horizontal lines. So far, I used every filter available and a host of software packages with almost every adjustment imaginable & I'm not pleased with the results. In my opinion, Blending is a poor method for handling deinterlacing. On the other hand, interpolation doesn't do that go of a job either. So far I have found no method to reproduce the quality the MSU filter "SEEMS" to be getting. Of course, you can't get theirs for a year??"

According to everything I've read, this is pretty much par for the course. I'd rather leave the film interlaced, than introduce video artifacts. Considering the work I'm doing cleaning the film frame by frame, the last thing I want to do is gunk up the picture with unnecessary garbage.

"Use Virtualdub: Frame Rate:IVTC adaptive.
**This seems to remove a large amount of the interlaced frames (their removal is base on them being duplicate frames)
**My source is showing 2 of every 5 frames is interlaced ( I assume this is standard for telecined video)"

If you know the pattern, then don't use adaptive - it tends to lose the cadence occasionally. Go to manual, and start with a setting of 0. Do a direct stream copy and watch the picture. If you see artifacts, then go back and try a setting of 1, and so on. When you get the right number, there will be no artifacts. Let it keep working until it's finished.

Sometimes, as is the case with the LDs, the cadence will change. Simply fast forward through the video until you see artifacts again, and repeat the procedure from this point on. Later on, you can cut the videos at the appropriate points, and then append the good segments together. My masters have ZERO IVTC artifacts using this method.

Looks like Zion's is similar to my method. I was just too lazy to look for the P frame. You can see almost immediately if you got the right cadence or not anyways. Off the top of my head, I remember a cadence change between the time Luke talks to Han and then talks to Leia on Yavin IV before the battle.