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#72647
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72647/action/topic#72647
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"Just on another note, I watched my DE set on my home LD player and got about half a dozen sparklies in ANH, on the LD player at work there are *none*. So it looks like some players laser pickups are better at reading crappy areas on the disc than others."

Oh, absolutely. I just can't afford another one anytime soon. Other than that, this is a great player.

"Actually Avid Pro 4.5 has a great frame by frame correction tool that would be perfect for sparkle removal. It's a shame your set suffers from it so badly."

Well, my school laptop has XP, so I may throw it on there with some short snippets, just to see how well it works. Prior to AVID, I was planning on lining up two copies of the AVIs, and when I found a frame with a sparkle, I was going to "punch a hole" over it, and use the same spot from an adjacent frame on the second AVI to replace it. Do you know if AVID does anything like this? It sure would save me a lot of time, as programming the "holes" can be tedious, especially when a frame has 3-4 sparkles on it (I've seen a few while watching the first segment in slow motion. Damned if I don't know this film frame by frame now! )
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#72618
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<strong>The Odyssey Collection</strong> (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72618/action/topic#72618
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"What kind of filtering will mess up this info. (Hi-pass low-pass , general EQing)?"

Oh, nothing of that nature. The "surround coding", if you will, is based on the phase of the sound wave. It would take a pretty determined effort to screw up the audio - though I, for one, find the audio mix to be fine (my 5.1 soundtrack simply steered the various tracks to their respective speakers, though I did have to lower the volume on the rear channels.)

"In AE (as of right now) I plan on replacing the captured little black bars with 1-color black boxes to help the bit-rate issues they present."

Unnecessary. Simply crop them out from your initial video capture. The black bars have to be there in the final product in order to make a "legal" frame size, but your mastering program should be able to put them in for you. Anything you add on top of this would unnecessarily add to the overall bitrate. I used to do this in Vegas before I learned how to crop the files in Virtualdub. It will also reduce the filesize of your masters and AVIs.

"I'll output a monster interlaced 29.97 fps video.
This raw video will probably be 1 gig per minute if it is a lossless QT video using the component codec."

Actually, it'll be a monster 23.976+2-3 pulldown monster. (If you convert a 24fps directly to 29fps, you get stuttering video). It would be interesting to see how big your video ultimately is, since laserman and I both came up with 200GB captures with uncompressed RGB.

"Their compression scheme for lossless is awesome. This will allow me to easily archive all of my footage. Each movie should end up being roughly 60 gigs in the media 100 format. The downside to this is that this footage will require their card to be edited in the future."

That's about what I get with HuffyUV (actually, a bit less.)

"If I need to use some of the filtering you guys are using to remove halo/ghosting etc can those filters be ran on QT files?"

I'm unsure if AVISynth will work on QT files. Are you going to transcode your Media 100 files into QT/AVI files (and keeping the masters as M100)?
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#72561
Topic
<strong>The Odyssey Collection</strong> (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72561/action/topic#72561
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"So you encoded at 29.97 intially then used a IVTC program to alter the frame rate. Are you editing at 29.97 and coverting right before compression?"

No, no. The LD is encoded at 29.97. However, the material is filmed based, which means it started as 24 fps. 2-3 pulldown was used to create the 29.97 LD transfer, so you want to reverse this. LD players have to play at 29.97 (or 25 fps for PAL), but DVD players can do pulldown with 24fps sources. Since you will have fewer frames to encode, there's less work and more space.

"Lossless quality (roughly 300+k per frame)"

Do you know which codec you will use? HuffyUV has been great for me (thanks again, laserman. )

"Will try s-video & composite to determine best quality (I have noticed everyone saying composite is better)"

Again, it depends on your player and capture board, but chances are your board is better, so composite is the best bet (unless you have one of the few, rare top-end players.)

"I have an optical in & rca ins.
Once captured does the audio maintain it's surround features or is there somthing extra that needs doing?"

No, then it's up to your receiver to create the surround channels from the stereo soundtrack.

When I was using my camcorder with fire-wire pass-through capture, I was able to sync up my audio and video no problem. Now with a separate board, I've yet to figure out how to sync them up. Luckily, Sony Vegas lets me cut and paste wherever I want, so it's easy to line up my video and audio from separate captures. Also, when I capture video and audio separately, there's less CPU overhead, so I won't drop frames while capturing video. This is important, because if you drop a frame, it will ruin the IVTC process (or, at the very least, force you to do it manually, which is a slow pain-in-the-ass.).
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#72504
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72504/action/topic#72504
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LOL. I had a feeling you wouldn't like that answer. I was just going to be lazy and leave the TV as is, but I'll probably get bored and end up calibrating it anyways.

As for putting the signals on the DVD, that's not a horrible idea, but people would need a blue filter for the SMPTE screen (I was pleasantly surprised that my LD came with the original.)

BTW, speaking of being bored, I calibrated my new monitor, and therefore did a new capture. I'm not sure if it made the difference, but IVTCing is almost perfect now, so I don't have to do the rest manually. Now, I can focus on taking out the "sparkles".
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#72262
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72262/action/topic#72262
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"you can use a standard TV and run the composite out through the VCR first."

Very true. I do have a VCR connected to my computer already. It just would have been a good excuse to buy a new TV for my office, instead of using the crappy one I already have.

"If you calibrate the TV using video essentials it will still be good enough for a reference for gamma levels etc."

Actually, I was just going to adjust the TV by eyeball, so I can see how it looks on a "regular" set. If I used VE, it would be much darker than the TVs people would watch my DVD on. LOL!

" Too late - I've already sent it "

Now I'm being fought over? ROTF!
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#72174
Topic
***The MeBeJedi DVDs *** UPDATE! (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72174/action/topic#72174
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Naw, just the feedback one. That way, when this thread pops up, people will know it's me trying to say something important....

..like now:

I'm 1/3 of the way IVTCing Star Wars. I'll be home this week helping my wife watch our 5-month-old recover from heart surgery (from the way he's talking and playing, you'd never even guess it happened!), so I should be able to finish the other 2/3's pretty quickly. Watching the film at 1/20 speed can really take its toll - I try to do this work when everyone's asleep, but this slow playback puts me to sleep as well!

I'll say this much - SW and its music is much more ominous at this speed. Luke looked ready to go postal after finding his aunt and uncle. LOL!

One thing I have noticed is that I have a lot of glitches to fix on my second pass (visual marks and such). That could be a little more tedious, but at least I can do it all in Vegas, rather than jumping back and forth between Vegas and VirtualDub.

More updates as they happen.
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#72147
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***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72147/action/topic#72147
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"There is a PAL VOB for your reference as well."

That would explain why the audio sounded odd. Thanks for the copy (of everything, in fact. I was beginning to worry, but you came through! . )

"XP has far superior Dual Monitor Support also. It's really the only PC OS to use for video work.
If you don't hav XP, drop me a line."

Oh, I know XP has its advantages, but I just feel more comfortable with 2000 right now. That being said, my friend is donating his 1.8 Ghz P4 to me (we bought our computers at the same time, and he just got a new AMD 64-bit system), so I may put XP on that one instead. This will also allow me to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

And yes, I may need to "borrow" XP as well.

Oh, and I finally got the second monitor working well enough. Video tends to break up, but I can limit playback to my main monitor. Now I can run Vegas and VirtualDub side-by-side (for the manual IVTC) and run the video preview separate from Vegas. Actually, the card has a VGA and DVI out (as well as TV out...if I can find a TV with composite-in, I can compare monitor-vs.-tv without having to burn a rewriteable. Ain't technology great?!?), so I may try to hook up a third monitor as well. LOL!
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#72025
Topic
Star Wars OT ANH - PAL Laserdisc transfer (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72025/action/topic#72025
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"I was thinking for people with projection units, or those who simply prefer it on the picture."

How many of them do you think will set their curtains for a ratio other than (or smaller than) 16x9? Hell, most of them probably have the curtains set at 4x3 just to save some hastle.

And it doesn't make much sense to preserve the video, just to slap subtitles on it - not to mention the fact that it can make them harder to read.
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#71958
Topic
Star Wars OT ANH - PAL Laserdisc transfer (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71958/action/topic#71958
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"Oh, I also have a suggestion for you and all other bootleggers (Zion, MeBeJedi, this means YOU)"

Imagine that...

"- how about creating two seperate subtitle tracks, the default one will display the subtitles (for greedo/jabba) just below the picture, and the second one will display it on the picture."

Why bother? SW is 2.35:1. There are still black bars in a 16x9 conversion to place the subtitles in. Mine are just below the picture, so different ratios don't affect it.
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#71956
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71956/action/topic#71956
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"well I'm a bit worried that you're happier with good news #2..."

Give me some credit....at least I listed it second.

I also bought a second videocard, but 2000 is locking up when I use the second monitor. (I never had a problem with 98.)

Oh, and Derek is back home now. What a world we live in - when open-heart surgery can be done in a weekend. The wonder of it all.......

[EDIT] Wouldn't you know it - AVID requires XP.
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#71102
Topic
Info: holy smokes - starwarslegacy.com
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71102/action/topic#71102
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"The older style of "Macrovision" was I think called "Copygaurd" and is on VHS tapes, they may also be on Laserdiscs"

I'm not sure what you are doing, but every source on the Internet specifically states that LD does not and cannot use Macrovision.

4.7) Can laserdiscs have Macrovision?
Apparently no. First of all, it is technically difficult, because the region used by Macrovision is also used to hold control data for the laserdisc players. Secondly, because of backward compatibility, the laserdisc specs cannot be easily changed. Thirdly, as long as the laserdisc market stays as a niche market, the distributors will not pressure the manufacturers to change the specs. And if they did, the sales would surely drop.

No copy protection - Macrovision, copyguard, or whatever you want to call it, was ever put in laserdisc.
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#71077
Topic
Info: holy smokes - starwarslegacy.com
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71077/action/topic#71077
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"Actually laserdiscs may not have macrovision but they do have some kind of copy protection because if I hook my laserdisc player straight into my stand alone DVD recorder and try to record Star Wars (faces edition) the picture gets bright and then dim until I put a magical device between them to correct this. VHS tapes also do this, I think it is called copyguard. "

Macrovision is technically incompatible with laserdisc. It can't happen. There's something wrong with your setup.
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#71062
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Info: holy smokes - starwarslegacy.com
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71062/action/topic#71062
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...and for some reason, the two of you think that the fact that (Faid) just because everyone else wants to sell their copies or (DanielB) there's an error in his faq, that this means/proves/implies that he will sell copies of his versions also?

Keep dreaming, boys....and how about you two continue to discuss it amongst each other in PMs instead.

And no, I'm not his bodyguard, DanielB, I'm just getting tired of your whining.

"I was not attacking Mike"
"Still displays his total lack of knowledge for copyright law."

"Gosh, you'd think Americans would know more about their own laws then the rest of us."

Those are both petty personal attacks (as well as against Americans), and you damn well know it. I find it funny that you attack a faq that you hadn't even bothered to read to begin with, and completely ignored several instances where others have told you he isn't going to sell his versions. For some reason, you chose to gloss over your oversight by picking on mverta. If you have issues with him and his legal practice, how about you e-mail him instead, because it's a waste of time here.