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#230911
Topic
Interlace problem with Vegas 6.0d
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230911/action/topic#230911
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It could be a number of things. First of all, the project properties might be set to "Interlaced" instead of "Progressive" (Field Order=Progessive, and below that, Deinterlace Method=None - Load the Project into Vegas and click ALT+ENTER to check) , or you could be rendering the video with the "Interlaced" box clicked. What type of video are you rendering to? MPEG? WMV?
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#230904
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The "original crawl" on the new DVD is NOT the original crawl! Screenshot inside!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230904/action/topic#230904
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"You really hate me don't you MeBeJedi? LOL"

I'm sure knowing as much would certainly please you to no end. Of course, if we want to see who really hates who:

"just plain speculation and general Lucas hate-mongering."

"It's the forum members here who are flat-out lying about the September release, not LucasFilm, Fox or George Lucas."

Yeah, you won't see me going to boards where I hate the overall mindset of the members, and arguing continuously with them. That's a whole level of hatred I don't care to get myself involved in. Have fun, though.

"With this little bit of info, and the word about the transfer quality, I'm starting to seriously wonder if they're not just packaging the editdroid rips.

Seriously. I mean, these could straight up be the Editdroid rips for the quality and the amount of effort LFL is putting into this. I'm sure I could sucker some people into betting me money. I mean, I know I'm probably way wrong, but it's close enough that it doesn't make a difference. Editdroid team essentially pulled off Lucasfilm's release of the Original Trilogy onto DVD about 5 years ago.

Except they managed to fit in seamless branching doctored opening scroll AND an isolated score. LFL couldn't even do that.

Wow. It's like they set out to find EVERY worst case scenario possible, and then lived up to them all."


This actually makes some sense, since the "Editdroid" system was created by LFL, and I know those guys were not happy to see their version get out in the public. Perhaps this was an "in-house fan edit" that LFL is now taking into their own hands, and attempting to make some money off of. Lord knows how much people have been willing to pay for LD-sourced transfers. Why wouldn't LFL want to make some money off of this, especially since the hard work is already done?

"1. The Empire of Dreams crawl is not genuine, but is a digitally recreated crawl done with the same starfield used on the 2004 DVD (and apparently the OUT DVD).
2. The Empire of Dreams crawl is genuine, and the original starfield was used on the 2004 DVD. This would mean that the '93 starfield is not the original."


I think the EoD crawl, at the very least, is film-based, because my crawl was created and timed by superimposing my version over that one. The EoD crawl jumps as film would, whereas my digital version rises very smoothly. In my mind, just the "film wiggle", itself, makes it look better than mine.

I'll try to find it, and post it online for comparison.

[EDIT]

Here's the link.
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#230902
Topic
Anyone got the original 'theatrical' release of TPM or AOTC?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230902/action/topic#230902
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I know that Rikter has the TPM LD, but it appears the screenshot was already acquired.

"This is another scene that slows the pacing of the film, although it does allow for some nice visual effects shots. It also gives Jar Jar another couple of lines of dialogue…"

Figures on both counts....

"In this instance, the extended dialogue actually goes some way to explaining the ease with which Padmé forgives Anakin’s crimes."

LOL....yet another instance where anything that could help make sense of the story is cut. Thank God we got a longer taxi and pod-race sequence, though.
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#230896
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getting rid of "halos"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230896/action/topic#230896
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" The thing that really confuses me though, is that turning the sharpness setting up actually makes the halos get better!? of course, to make the halos completely disappear, you have to turn the sharpness up so high that the picture looks like crap & all fine detail is gone. Another interesting bit about the sharpness feature is that turning it down too low (below about 35 or 30 on a scale of 100) actually makes anything look like "double vision". i.e."

What you are referring to is SVM, or Scan Velocity Modulation. It is your TV attempting to create a more detailed picture by lightening the lights and darkening the darks at the border - a type of "edge enhancement". Unfortunately, this creates the "halo" effect that you refer to. Ironically, on most TVs, turning the sharpness all the way down usually turns SVM off. I've never heard of it being the opposite, as you have tried.

What model TV do you have? There's a chance, albeit a small one, that you might have a separate "SVM" switch that allows you to turn it off without affecting the regular sharpness control.
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#229412
Topic
The "original crawl" on the new DVD is NOT the original crawl! Screenshot inside!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229412/action/topic#229412
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If I'm not mistaken the original crawl was done on a mechanical rig that spooled the crawl in front of the camera and then was composited onto the star field. I noticed that because of the close camera shot the original crawl had slight lens distortion at the edges, perhaps thats the reason for a digital crawl.

The text was laid on the floor, and the camera was moved lengthwise from top to bottom.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v625/mebejedi/ILMcrawlscan.jpg

The only real reason for a digital crawl is because it's digital, and easier than going into the vaults. Besides, with no new SW DVD labels to photoshop, might as well use that already-bought photoshop program to make this.

"1. how do you know the empire of dreams has the original version? 2. How do you know that there weren't 3 slightly differently formatted crawls for the 3 theatrical versions?"

Now you're just making shit up. Until you know otherwise, your musings are mute.

"The ANH crawl was composited onto the same star background as the pre-ANH crawl, this is plainly obvious. "

After every single other element is clearly changed, you assume the starfield is precisely the same one? That's funny.
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#228054
Topic
mp3 player recommendations
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228054/action/topic#228054
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My friend has an Ipod (mini, I think), and his beef is that you have to sync up the player with the same computer. He had his player all loaded, and tried to add some more songs from another computer, and wiped the memory.

This is probably the kin of player I'd like to get. Very similar to the one I have now, and 5GB. That should be more than enough for me. (I almost filled the 2GB chip, but that was with the CDs I had on hand, and at the highest WMA bitrate as well.)
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#228049
Topic
mp3 player recommendations
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228049/action/topic#228049
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I have an old Rio that can take SD cards up to 1GB (I tried a 2GB card, but can't trick it to work beyond 1 GB.) I like it because it's small, lightweight, has a great black rubber encasement, and is easy to read. I've only recently started using it (my wife got it as a birthday present several years ago.) I also like it because the storage medium is solid state. I don't want a spinning hard drive in my MP3 player.

Anyways, the reason I started using it is because when I got a new stereo for my motorhome, I wanted to make sure it had two things: a way to connect an XM receiver, and a line-in for the MP3 player. As things went, the XM radio had more than enough music choices to listen to, so I've not used the MP3 player a whole lot. It also plays MP3/WMA CDs, so I have a lot of choices of what kind of music I can play, and how I play it. It sure made my drive to Kentucky a whole helluva lot easier than it was 5 years ago (the old stereo only played tapes, and the brand-new 6-CD changer I had installed for that trip had the shock-reduction springs set for a horizontal installation, and the changer was mounted vertically, making it unplayable on most highways. I didn't figure this out until a few years later. )

Anyways, enough about me. I do have a slightly tangental question though:

Creative Zen Nano-Plus 1GB -- Black : "The 1 GB model's flash memory can store up to 500 songs (WMA-encoding, 64 kbps)."

Which format/kbps rate do the folks in this thread prefer, and why?
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#228048
Topic
Editing movies ruled illegal
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228048/action/topic#228048
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"When I heard the first 'bleep' I was shocked, and argued with the customer services clerk at Walmart until she finally caved to my 'but I'm an ignorant foreigner' pleas and gave me my money back. I told her 'where I come from we don't edit our artists'. "

There was actually a "beep"?!? LOL! Couldn't they have done something a little less distracting, like reversing that particular section of the audio? How retarded. Do they still do this?