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#282513
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Remove Voice
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282513/action/topic#282513
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Yes, I've been kinda busy...sorry (and it's better to email me at originaltrilogy and yahoo dot com )

IIRC, VOBrator can separate the video and audio tracks quite well, but it's kinda technical. I've not used a wide range of programs - I find something that works and generally stick with that. If you have DVD-Lab, you can drop the VOB into that and it will separate the streams as well and quite easily. After that, Besweet will split the AC3 into 5 WAVs (I could never get it to make the .1 channel. Maybe that's changed since then.) After that, I edit in Vegas, and recombine them into a new AC3 file.

Vegas can edit MPEGs, but it's kinda slow. Better to render out to an AVI. If you're just cutting segments out, you can use Womble (ADigitalMan is the expert on that program. I've not used it at all.) Doom9 should have better directions than I can give.
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#282470
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Would you still watch SW without John William's brilliant score?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282470/action/topic#282470
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Well, considering that, when listening to the soundtrack, I can "see" in my mind's eye the corresponding scene from the film, I would probably have to go with "no". It's just not the same (This is another reason why I loved playing X-Wing...the music would adapt to the events of the game, "telling" me what was happening at any given moment.)

And I never saw Hoosiers....
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#282349
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Rocky Horror How-to help!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282349/action/topic#282349
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Are you using a particular video editor?

"first of all i need to know how to dgitally flip an entire movie horizontally, not just the video but the audio too."

The first part makes sense. I don't know about Premier, but Vegas makes this very simple. To my knowledge, audio can't be flipped "horizontally" (and I've been told music has no color either ), but it can be reversed. I had to do this for a church video where I needed Neo to land after flying. I found a scene where he takes off from the ground and reversed it. Luckily, the flying sounds sounded good in reverse, but if there's music or dialogue, it's going to get messed up.

"Secondly I need to know how to make a new video opening that includes clips from old movies,"

At this point (and forgive me if I'm wrong), I'm beginning to think you've not used a video editor very long, if at all. Most video editors are drag-and-drop in this regard. I'm not putting you down, but with the amount of stuff your project needs, you might need to make a reallllly good friend around here or pay someone to do this stuff for you - especially the cgi and rotoscoping.

"I also need to know how to make an entire movie black and white with the exception of one persons lips throughout the entire movie."

The B&W is easy, the lips can be a rather involved process. Like rotoscoping, it takes experimentation and experience to do something like this well.

"And lastly I need to know how to take a 1.66:1 aspect ratio dvd video and shift it up adding in a second video that I filmed underneath of it to create a 4:3 vdeo, I also need to know some rotoscoping fro this, thanx in advance everyone!"

Very easy. Again, it depends on which video you are working with. I take it there's no one who lives near you that knows this stuff?

[EDIT]

I made a quick XVID of the reversed Matrix footage. This is a compilation of different scenes put together to make a different video. There's actually two reversed scenes: Neo landing, and him taking off his glasses immediately afterwards. This was necessary because in the actual scene where he talks to Mr. Smith, he starts out not having glasses, and puts them on during the conversation. However in the prior landing scene, he lands with his glasses on. This little addition helps maintain continuity - at the expense of making Neo look like someone who can't just keep his damn glasses on.
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#282348
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Remove Voice
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282348/action/topic#282348
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Most dialogue is in the center channel, unless the scene requires otherwise, and effects tend to go to the side/rears unless, again, the scene requires otherwise. You want to use something like Besweet (free) to split up the AC3 file.

If a person's voice pans from center to, say, left front (due to walking or camera movement), then you'll have to take both tracks and combine them. If there are effects in the center channel with dialogue, you probably won't be able to to remove them entirely without affecting the voice (a gunshot, for example.) Normal human speech is generally between 20-20,000 Hz, so you need to set up your audio program to drop everything above and below that (think equalizer), and see what kind of results that gets you.
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#282267
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282267/action/topic#282267
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"Ok, if you want to be really pedantic about,"

You know, it could be said that we're being "pedantic" about all the details we are focusing on and effort we are putting into the X0 Project as well. If such behavior makes you uncomfortable, then you might want to find a less pedantic thread to post in.

"I don't understand why they would bother taking the time to inverse telecine when there is no technical reason to do so."

Well, I'll let someone else explain the necessity for doing so. I don't want to come across as being too pedantic.
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#282230
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282230/action/topic#282230
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" If video is stored on DVD in interlaced format (which it is), then I'd say it's fair to say that DVD is an inherently interlaced medium."

No, because DVD is not limited to interlaced video.

How Progressive Players Work

How The Information is Stored on Disc

It’s important to understand at the outset that DVDs are designed for interlaced displays. There’s a persistent myth that DVDs are inherently progressive, and all a DVD player needs to do to display a progressive signal is to grab the progressive frames off the disc and show them. This is not exactly true. First of all, a significant amount of DVD content was never progressive to begin with. Anything shot with a typical video camera, which includes many concerts, most supplementary documentaries, and many TV shows, is inherently interlaced. (Some consumer digital video cameras can shoot in progressive mode, and a handful of TV programs are shot in progressive, particularly sports events.) By comparison, content that was originally shot on film, or with a progressive TV camera, or created in a computer, is progressive from the get-go. But even for such content, there is no requirement that it be stored on the DVD progressively.

DVDs are based on MPEG-2 encoding, which allows for either progressive or interlaced sequences. However, very few discs use progressive sequences, because the players are specifically designed for interlaced output. Interestingly, while the sequences (i.e., the films and videos) are seldom stored progressive, there's nothing wrong with using individual progressive frames in an interlaced sequence. This may sound like a semantic distinction, but it’s not. If the sequence is progressive, then all sorts of rules kick into place which ensure that the material stays progressive from start to finish. Whereas if the sequence is interlaced, then there are fewer rules and no requirement to use progressive frames. The encoder can mix and match interlaced fields and progressive frames as long as each second of MPEG-2 data contains 60 fields, no more, no less (or 50 fields per second for PAL discs). The progressive frames, when they are used, are purely for compression efficiency, but the video is still interlaced as far as the MPEG decoder is concerned. - LINK


Satellite TV is component format video, yet very few DTV receivers have component video out. Most people use the S-Video, but this does not mean satellite TV is suddenly an "S-video format". You can't fault the system for the material being fed through it. DVD is capable of progressive video, it simply isn't used as such because, again, most TVs were interlaced when the format came out. It really comes down to changing a chip or two in the player. Too bad they weren't as forward-thinking about that as they were about anamorphic video.

This reminds me of the confusion with LD players with S-video out. Many people believe that the S-video out is better, but laserdisc is a composite video format. Whether or not the S-video looks better depends on the relative ability of the LD player's comb filter versus your television's comb filter (which, being newer, is generally better, thus the composite video of your LD player should be used.)

God, now I know why Lasersman hates NTSC.
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#282086
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282086/action/topic#282086
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"Lucas said in the '97 SE interview he had been toying with the idea of redoing the first film for quite a while. Only with then recent developments did he start to think it would be possible."

He did only want to change ANH, but Fox gave him money to fix up ESB and ROTJ and repackage the whole deal.
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#282037
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282037/action/topic#282037
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: LexX
Btw does X0 have Episode IV in the beginning?


Yes, since it is a transfer of the laserdisc. Before the GOUT we only had fan reproduced 1977 opening crawls.


We've tossed around the idea of putting in a generated crawl, either in addition to the regular crawl, or on a later, modified release.
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#281843
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What 30th Anniversary?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281843/action/topic#281843
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iF: It seems like every fall, there’s some kind of STAR WARS release on DVD. Any plans this fall for the 30th anniversary?

SANSWEET: We have no plans for any DVD releases in the near term.


I don't recall where I read it, but Sansweet will be conspicuously absent at some other larger conventions also, presumably to avoid being asked about this again.
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#281842
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Windows Vista
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281842/action/topic#281842
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I'll never buy it. Getting an operating system that prevents you from "breaking the law" is like buying a car that won't allow you to drive over 55mph. And for the good folks who don't use their computers for such nefarious means, all the double-checking going on with the OS is hobbling their normal usage. As is said about laws, you shouldn't legislate morality.