MeBeJedi

For what it's worth. I am still willing to finish the X0 Project.

However, I've not heard anything from Zion on our private board since July 13th, and his last post here was August 6, 2008. Frankly, I'm a little concerned about him (as well as for myself, since he has one of my Def Col LDs!)

I'd make an offhand remark about how folks on this project tend to disappear, but I don't want to jinx myself...

thebutcher said:

Well, it didn't work: I tried to re-encode the M2V file to an AVI with VirtualDub, but 3 hours and 100 GB later, the picture of the new AVI is all jerky and squished....What is going on?

What happens when you play the AVI by itself? Is it squished in Media Player as well as in Vegas?

Which way is it squished? It could simply be that you made a non-anamorphic video from an anamorphic DVD.

If you can get the AVI into Vegas, you can adjust the height and width until the video has the appropriate ratio.

Check the framerate of the MPEG (Click on it in Project media, and look at the description at the bottom of the window. Adjust the Project Properties to the same framerate and see if that helps.

Otherwise, render it to an AVI in VirtualDubMod, and then import into Vegas. You can import MPEGs, but sometimes they play wonky.

I use Roxio DVDMAX to play DVD video, and there's a command to "Show Information" while playing. It gives real-time data rates, and lists the type of audio, even when switching streams.

Try using VDubMod instead.

Sounds like magnoliafan's version to me.

Did you register the AC3 plug-in yet?

[EDIT] Wait...I think I mis-read your question.

It should be under Project Properties, under the Audio tab, in the "Master Bus Mode" selection: Default is "Stereo", which can switch to "5.1 surround".

That being said, I'm still using v7. Has anything else in v8 been drastically changed?

Wow...no kidding. There it is (I just use VirtualDub for little stuff, or making animated Gifs.) I just now got done using Camastasia for another project I'm work on, but I'll have to try that someday.

Thanks. :)

Where is this screen capture command? I have V1.8.

I think that was on the shrink wrap on the outside, so it wouldn't be on the physical sleeve itself.

Correct. When I bought this LD on Half.com, it still had the original shrinkwrap, so I kept it like that and bought another one for playback purposes.

I don't remember that sticker on my VHS set either, but I definitely remember all the advertising - including television commercials - hyping it as "one last time" to get the original Star Wars etc.

I don't think the VHS set had it (either the THX or Faces set), but yes, there were many TV ads spouting that line at the time.

doesn't disney pull the exact same stunts but worse..

Well, they talk about movies going "back in the vault" for an unknown amount of time. The Platinum DVDs were supposed to be one release each year (right after my daughter's birthday, which is good timing), but I think they've been adding more Platinums (as well as swelling the ranks of the Golds and Silvers), especially since Eisner left.

Of course, now there's Blu-Ray, so expect to see more films coming out. I have it on good authority that Bug's Life is being redone for HD.

For instance, the scene where R2 gets zapped in the canyon was originally fairly brightly exposed, but on the THX it is dim, much darker than any telecine prior, as if it is much later in the day

It is definitely different from the same Japanese release, but I prefer it overall to the Def. Col. series.

what do you mean one last time? what about the GOUT discs?

He means this, which was on the packaging of the '95 laserdiscs.

Which is why so many people were surprised to see it later on DVD.

Toy Story 3, I believe, is coming. I, my wife, and kids (4,7) all enjoyed Wall-E.