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#77539
Topic
Help Wanted: need a huge favour from someone re SW '77 scene
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77539/action/topic#77539
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"could anyone be so good as to capture those frames from their source in it's pure uncorrected form and do it as a NTSC 720 x 480 avi in huffyuv yuy2 form codec."

Did you want me to put the speckles back in?

Here it is. Download it as soon as you can, and let me know when you are done. BTW, your pics didn't work, so I had to guess. Also, my AVI is cropped, so you'll have to pad it to 480.
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#77485
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77485/action/topic#77485
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The only SW LD's that had AC3 were the Special Editions and The Phantom Menace. The earlier SW LDs had only analog stereo, and later versions, including the Definitive Collection and Faces sets, have digital and analog stereo.

I used Graphedit to emulate a Pro-Logic II decoder and create a multi-channel WAV file, WinHex to edit the WAV, BeSweet to split the multi-channel WAV into 5 separate WAVs, and Vegas to align and create the master AC3 file.
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#77464
Topic
Dark Empire Collection - OT LD to DVD set (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77464/action/topic#77464
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"I noticed that Zions shot A had a bit more detail in the back of that stormtroopers belt but lost a bit in vaders face.
Is this a trade off or a result of the capture?"

Zion's capture was too dark, thus his blacks were crushed.

"& what is the deal with that slight ghosting around the right side of vaders face?"

Too much sharpness applied. Boundaries are made more distinctive, but gradients are lost. This creates a sharp drop between light and dark areas.
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#77441
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77441/action/topic#77441
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The compression, while it can affect the volume, isn't solely to blame. A lot of what is thrown away are sounds that are "masked" or covered up by louder sounds, as well as inaudible or unnecessary frequencies. Keep in mind, also, that I am splitting up what is essentially a 2-speaker soundtrack among 5 speakers. I could have cranked up the AC3 volume more, and dropped the PCM/commentary soundtracks to compensate, but I didn't do so at the time. Maybe next time.

DTS tracks aren't necessarily louder, but they often sound "fuller" because more audio information is kept.
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#77422
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77422/action/topic#77422
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I figured I'd go ahead and put this link in here as well, though it won't be here long. This is the same audio I intend to use for my final disc, but the video is an older transfer.

Here's a 40Mb zip with three scenes. It's saved as a DVD file, so you can load it in to your software DVD player and cycle between the 3 soundtracks (there's also some commentary). The AC3 is noticeably quieter than the PCM, but this is not unusual. If you don't have 5.1 playback, then there's no real point to downloading it.
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#77365
Topic
PCM to 5.1
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77365/action/topic#77365
Time
Exactly. The PCM file is a matrixed stereo file. This is why you don't hear dialogue in the rear speakers in Pro-logic mode (actually, you can hear it a tiny bit, because it's not a discrete-channel recording, but you would have to really strain to hear people talking.)

[EDIT]Make your downloads quick. That file won't be there for long.
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#77363
Topic
PCM to 5.1
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77363/action/topic#77363
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Agreed. Furthermore, DD 2.0 tends to sound much worse in DD mode, and generally needs to be decoded in Pro-Logic mode to sound decent. I figured I'd leapfrog over that and create a Pro-logic II soundtrack that could be stored and played back in 5.1 mode, especially since my receiver doesn't have Pro-logic II built in. Creating this soundtrack covered several bases at once for me. Plus, I wanted to see if I could do it.

"But you have to put it into perspective that the 5.1 mix takes up only about, say 10%, of the total disc space. So in reality there's not much gain."

Yes. 1.3 Gbs, versus 380 Mbs. And believe me, the video was maxed out as much as possible. I had less than 1% remaining on the DVD (I had to recompile a few times to get it perfect - which is tough, since it takes 20+ hours to compile each time.)
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#77331
Topic
PCM to 5.1
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77331/action/topic#77331
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I'm the one who did it. I used a program that simulated a Pro-Logoc II decoder, which extracts the center and surround information from a stereo source, much like a receiver would. It then saves each channel as a separate WAV file. These WAV files were fed into a Dolby Digital encoder, essentially storing the Pro-Logic information in AC3 form. It took months to research and perfect, but it sounds pretty good overall. Maybe I'll put up a short segment for people to listen to.

[EDIT] More specifically, the software simulated a Pro-Logic II reciever, which can give more of a "split surround" effect than regular Pro-Logic can. Technically, Pro-Logic II is specifically designed for stereo sources, but I figured what the hell.