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#74592
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/74592/action/topic#74592
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"When we have pixel based displays....."

You are telling me this when people are still buying black-&-white TVs? LOL. End of story, indeed...

"A chicken in every pot, and a scaler in every TV"

Besides, an anamorphic DVD mastered from the film will still have more visual information than a non-anamorphic DVD mastered from the film, so tell me - which would you rather scale from?

Now, whether or not HD-DVD uses "anamorphic" or a wider frame altogether remains to be seen - it's so up in the air it's not even funny. SD-DVD's gonna be around for quite some time.
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#74579
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/74579/action/topic#74579
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"Laserschwert is right about this, MBJ. The macro blocks will be bigger relative to the picture. The compression artifacts will not be bigger than any other 8x8 blocks, but all the blocks will be bigger.
Divide a 4:3, 720x480 frame into 8x8 blocks. That's the size of the macro blocks on your letterboxed version. Divide the picture only (mostly), 720x480 frame into 8x8 blocks. That's the macro block size of your anamorphic version."

Okay, I get what you are saying. Unfortunately, there is stll a problem. If one wants the anamorphic version, buy plays it on a 4x3 television, then even more resolution is being lost because the player is throwing away visual information to make it fit the screen. There's no point in throwing out buckets of visual information to "cover up" a few glitches (which, again, is why I am using Combustion 3, and also why I intend to master both versions.)

BTW, thank GOD for VirtualDubMod. I was going to give you a screenshot of my MPEG, because the whites in my Tantive flyover were being crushed in the MPEG, and I couldn't figure out why. However, in VDM, the whites were fine. After looking at my DVDMax settings, I changed it from "theater" mode to "original" mode, and the whites are fine now. I've been trying to fix this fucking problem for weeks! Argh!
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#74563
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/74563/action/topic#74563
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"because this resolution-boost is only fake. But still, an 8x8 pixels large compression artifact block appears bigger on a letterboxed image than it does on an anamorphic image. That's fact... at least mathematically."

Explain how this is so....any time you zoom in on a picture, you lose resolution. Because the source material for our SW DVDs is not the original film - we are essentially "zooming" in on the picture - whether it be by using the TV electronics or DVD mastering software. We are, in effect, attempting to fill in the empty space. What we know of as an anamorphic DVD (which is technically incorrect, but that's another debate completely) takes the original film source and squeezes it into the same frame space. There's a tremendous difference between stretching something out to fill in space (4x3 to anamorphic), and having to squeeze something into that same space (film to anamorphic).

And why would an 8x8 compression artifact of a visual glitch be any bigger or smaller than any other 8x8 block of visual information? Everything is being enlarged when you zoom in - errors and all. (This is why I don't intend to make either version, much less the anamorphic version, until I've corrected such visual errors, but Combustion is giving me problems. )

"Bit of a long post this....Sad to read you are ditching the anamorphic widescreen version"

Read carefully, I meant this only in regards to the MPEG samples - not for the final MPEG of the entire film. Sorry you had to type all that.

(BTW, are you the same BentMyWookie from TF.n?)

"MeBeJedi is bowing to the demands of both groups of people"

I bow to NO ONE - KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!!

"so even though I think the 16:9 is silly I say "great work".

Heck, it's not even work - I just change a few settings and recompile. It's really no big deal. So many people on the internet just don't get anamorphic anyways, and I figured have both versions would solve a lot of hassle. As much as people ohh and ahh about Dr. Gonzo's "anamorphic" version, his picture is VERY soft and lacks considerable color (though I believe the color is due to the version he used, as I have that same LD.)
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#74462
Topic
Help Wanted: missing 3P0 line wav required
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/74462/action/topic#74462
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"BTW. when people talk about PCM uncompressed sound, we're talking about the wav file aren't we? I mean pre AC3'ing in Bewsweet. considered better because its uncompressed."

Not necessarily. The DVD has a PCM and a DD soundtrack. When you extract a WAV from an AC3 file, the resulting PCM file is not identical to the PCM file already on the DVD.

DVD ---> PCM = pure uncompressed

DVD ---> AC3 ---> PCM = a truncated PCM file from the AC3 file, which uses lossy compression.

Just compare the file sizes and you'll see. There are some DVDs, like Young Guns, where the PCM soundtrack actually has better depth and "surroundness" than the AC3 soundtrack.
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#74423
Topic
***The "official" Screenshots feedback thread ***
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/74423/action/topic#74423
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"The Farsight transfer is very bright and fuzzy. The Definitive Collection ANH LaserDisc transfer is a bad one already so that could contribute to a poor LD to DVD transfer"

Not on your life - even my Def Col set isn't THAT bright. If anything, it's darker and more muted than my Faces set. Farsight really needs to adjust his capture parameters.

"Speaking of MeBeJedi... please PM me about screenshots. I would like to get updated shots from your latest ANH transfer if possible. The ones I have posted are from an earlier "screener" so when you are ready to share your latest creation please let me know."

I'll actually be posting some sample MPEGs, then you can take all the captures you like.
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#74415
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/74415/action/topic#74415
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From the other thread:

"Oh, and the benefit from making the anamorphic is a higher quality... I know, this has been denied by many people, but you should consider that any possible compression artifacts get squeezed together (or only stretched horizontally, as opposed to a zoomed letterboxed image), and become teeny-tiny... well, at least less visible."

Expanding to anamorphic makes any visual glitches larger along with the rest of the picture, and they are still going to be compressed in the image - thus being especially visible on the widescreen image that they are intended to be shown on.
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#74394
Topic
***The MeBeJedi DVDs *** UPDATE! (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/74394/action/topic#74394
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Well, I've had some technical difficulties with Combustion 3 (saving my changes), so until I get that hammered out, I'm going to create some small MPEGs of my current capture. I'm doing this for three reasons.

1) I don't think video captures really do the work justice.
2) I finally have DSL, so uploading's easy.
3) My new DSl account has 150 Mbs storage, so hosting them is easy.

This will be the straight video without corrections. Some of the scenes I plan on doing (or have done at this point.

1) Tantive/SD flyover
2) Obi-wan/Vader duel
3) Han/Gringo ( ) scene, with subtitles
4) Luke destroying the DS

I'm debating whether to make them anamorphic or not, since you would need to burn them to DVD and watch them on an HDTV to get any benefit from them. It's an easy thing to do, but I don't know if I have enough space to have two copies of each scene. At the very least, I'll do it for the Tantive/SD flyover.

If all goes well, they should be posted tonight.